From the Farm to the World And Back to What Matters
My story begins where all great Nebraska stories do — on a farm, working alongside family, learning lessons that no classroom could ever teach.
Growing up on our family farm, I learned early that integrity wasn’t optional. When you give your word to a neighbor, you keep it. When the work needs doing, you do it. When the harvest comes in short, you figure it out together. My parents didn’t just preach these values. They lived them every single day.
Those lessons stuck with me.
From Promise to Practice
At the University of Nebraska, I was honored to be named a Truman Scholar, awarded to just 60 college students nationwide who show promise for public service leadership. It planted a seed that public service might be part of my future.
From Nebraska, my journey took me to intern for a member of the British House of Commons, then Georgetown Law, and later the London Business School, where I earned a Master in Finance. But here’s what I learned. Collecting credentials means nothing if you don’t put them to work. So I did. I built things, real things, in the real world.
As a partner at the international consulting firm Arthur Andersen, I solved complex problems for businesses across continents. Then I did something most consultants never dare. I put my own skin in the game and founded The Windsor Knot and grew it into a chain of 45 menswear stores throughout Russia. It required me to navigate a foreign market, build teams across cultures, and negotiate with businessmen who played by very different rules.
Later, as CEO of KeyWorld Investments, a company listed on the AIM division of the London Stock Exchange, I operated at the highest levels of international finance, managing capital, making decisions, and delivering results when failure wasn’t an option.
Solving Problems that Matter
But my entrepreneurial drive was never about personal wealth. It was about solving problems that mattered.
That’s what led me to found Foogal, a health platform designed to tackle one of America’s most urgent but overlooked crises, metabolic syndrome. Foogal helps people prevent and manage conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and fatty liver disease through real food and nutrition, reducing sugar intake, increasing fiber consumption, and switching to nutrient-rich whole foods. It’s healthcare that empowers people to take control of their own health, not bureaucracy that keeps them dependent on a broken system.
Through it all, the international boardrooms, the high-stakes negotiations, the successes and setbacks, I never forgot what my parents taught me on our Nebraska farm. The common sense that built America. The integrity that made your word worth something. The understanding that real leadership means serving others, and not yourself. Now, I’m bringing that same problem-solving approach back home, not because I need a title and not because I want power, but because Washington has lost touch with everything Nebraska stands for.
The Kind of Senator Nebraska Deserves
I’m not running to be another politician who talks a good game and then disappears into the machinery of Washington. I’m running to be a Senator who shows up, does the work, and keeps his word. The kind who answers to Nebraska families, not special interests. The kind who measures success not by how many bills have his name on them, but by whether your life got better, whether your kids have more opportunity, whether America is stronger and freer than when he started. I want to be the kind of Senator my parents would be proud of, someone who never forgets where he came from or who he works for.