About

I confess to being a weird combination of engineer, business executive, entrepreneur and baseball coach.  To this day, I still practice all these professions, with a little less engineer and a little more baseball in recent years.

Before I deleted my personal Twitter account, my tagline was “Can read a spray chart and a balance sheet. 1 part Executive, 1 part entrepreneur, 2 parts geek and 3 parts baseball coach. Too many parts??” A social media marketing firm thought this tagline was good and published it in a book 8 years ago.  Suddenly there were 100’s of Twitter accounts with the same tagline.  I like to think it was copy-cats, but reality was that it was Russian bots.  100’s of fake Twitter accounts to every real one sounds about right.

I decided to start DiamondTechie after visiting the ABCA Convention in January 2022 and suddenly realizing that I have either coached, worked with, bought from or had serious conversations with what seemed like 1/2 of the exhibitors and 1/5 of the attendees.  I have been involved in baseball since 2001,  co-founded the Gamers Baseball program in St. Louis in 2007, have worked with start-ups since 2010 and specifically with Stadia Ventures since 2016.  A baseball nerd with a Harvard MBA.  Go figure.  I prefer dugouts over boardrooms, but probably perform better in boardrooms.  Less stressful.

Given my background and engagement at the intersection of baseball and technology, DiamondTechie is a natural next step.  My goal is to bring some insight, structure and business thought to the fast moving world of baseball technology.  Thoughtful curation is the goal.