I'm a tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Ascend Digital. With nearly 20 years of experience as a digital marketer, I work on staying ahead of the ever-changing digital trends and strategies to help accelerate growth for clients.

I got involved in digital marketing in 2003. I followed and learned from early digital marketing pioneers such as Rand Fishkin and Larry Kim. In 2005 I created my first startup, VG Auctions, one of the top ranked online auction sites at the time for buying and selling virtual gaming assets.

I served in the United States Air Force from 2003-2007 and then moved to Houston where I assisted local companies with their digital marketing efforts while in school. I helped businesses improve their digital outreach by helping owners move their marketing efforts in-house from 3rd party companies.

Over the next several years, I created two other online startups that became acquired. In 2016, I started Ascend Digital, an Austin-based digital marketing company using AI, machine learning and predictive analytics that promotes honest digital marketing. We provide real-time data and transperancy to clients, an anomaly among today's digital marketing companies. We found our clients get just as excited about data as we do. Ascend is the parent company of ClickFire and PAX Interactive. ClickFire specializes in B2B digital marketing of branding, oil and gas, law and health care companies. PAX Interactive is a performance digital marketing company using predictive forecasting and behavioral targeting to promote membership and subscription sales within the insurance, entertainment and media subscription industries.

I am married to Kristie Canow, co-founder of Ascend Digital, and we have four children.