Eight years of building companies and media from nothing — product, brand, capital, and team. Three threads: technology, media, and the constant work of investing in home.
Since 2018 I've run West Village Ventures, the platform from which I found, own, and operate my companies and the home for my work investing in Central Pennsylvania. Earlier in my career I worked closely with institutional private capital — across family offices and wealth-management practices — learning firsthand how sophisticated capital sources, diligences, and deploys. I've helped raise over $30 million for companies across my first decade in business. That financial fluency, paired with founder discipline, is what I bring to everything WVV touches.
A branding & marketing agency built to help businesses, institutions, and individuals elevate their digital presence, brand narrative, and reach — brand identity, video production, animation, influencer marketing, and PR, working with names across fashion, sports, media, and entertainment.
Branding · Video · PRA consumer travel app built to be the first true one-stop shop for travel — instant, curated recommendations across 500+ destinations for where to stay, eat, shop, and spend your time. Recognized by Forbes, The Washington Post, the Webby Awards, and the W3 Awards. Where I learned to carry a venture from concept to a live product in the market.
See the press →A guided-fasting platform built to help Christians answer the call to fast. Jesus said "when you fast," not "if" — yet most believers were never taught how. The MVP is live today, with a full v1 launching by the end of summer 2026. Built the way I built Brevity: product, brand, and community from the ground up.
whenyoufast.com →The constant thread beneath it all: an eight-year, ongoing commitment to the prosperity of Huntingdon County, Raystown Lake, and Central Pennsylvania — building relationships across landowners, businesses, and civic leaders to help the region I grew up in flourish.
Read the why →These threads were never parallel careers. They were a single accumulating capacity. Founding and operating Brevity taught me to build a company from nothing — product, brand, capital formation, and team. The institutional capital work gave me financial fluency. The years of work at home taught me patience with land and people. None of those pieces, on their own, would have made the next thing possible. Together, they made it inevitable.
Brevity — a one-stop shop for travel
"Not just existing — thriving. That end-to-end founder discipline is the operating muscle I bring to everything." John O'Korn