About Chris

I'm a post-exit entrepreneur, General Partner at Traction Capital, and someone who's spent the last year learning how much we don't teach people about building real relationships.

In 2006, I started Modern Automotive Performance out of a bedroom closet with no real plan beyond figuring it out as I went. By 2011, we'd hit #403 on the Inc. 500 list with an 845% three-year growth rate. By 2020, we were doing $44M in revenue with about 80 people. I sold the company at the end of that year and spent the next 15 months helping with the transition.

In 2022, I joined Traction Capital as a General Partner. I work with portfolio companies as a Strategic Growth Partner, facilitating the kind of strategic planning sessions that help founders move from chaos to some version of clarity. I use a lot of what I learned the hard way at MAP, the systems and frameworks that actually made a difference when things got messy.

I'm a member of Entrepreneurs' Organization, where I served as chapter president and continue to coach early-stage founders through their Accelerator program.

I've been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, and Minnesota Business talking about entrepreneurship, eCommerce, and what it actually takes to scale.