Artist, Advocate and Advisor  President & Founder of Gallery 119 Inc,  and a semi-retired Managing Director for Accenture, a $45B global management consulting, technology, and digital services company. He has been a professional artist and curator for over 25 years, and has chaired several non-profit boards focused on social services and healthcare issues – specifically cancer, disabilities, and suicide. His work is informed from over 40 years as a long-term survivor of a rare pediatric cancer (Ewing’s Sarcoma), and his bachelor’s degree in Art History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2021, he became a member of the board of directors for Intermedia Projects, a global art-science nonprofit, and joined the board of advisors of Legacy Concierge, a cyber-security startup company.