Hi, Iām Brandon.
Early field research circa ~1995
Iām a strategy and finance professional based in Los Angeles, focused on the business side of themed entertainment, cultural attractions, location-based experiences, and experience-driven real estate.
Before turning my attention more directly to experiential work, I spent over a decade in corporate development, investment banking, and private credit, helping companies, investors, and executives evaluate growth opportunities, acquisitions, markets, operating models, and investment decisions.
The through-line in my work has always been translation: taking ambiguous ideas, messy markets, creative ambition, or incomplete information and turning them into a clearer decision.
Today, Iām applying that skillset to experiences: how they are conceived, financed, built, operated, monetized, and made durable.
About Me
I help translate ambitious experiential ideas into structured decisions: market logic, feasibility, phasing, commercial strategy, operating assumptions, and investment narratives. My background spans corporate development, investment banking, and private credit, with work across media, software, consumer, services, and location-based businesses. Iām especially interested in the space between creative ambition and real-world achievability.
Relevant background
Corporate development & strategy at BuildOps
Sell-side and buy-side M&A advisory at Houlihan Lokey and Petsky Prunier / Canaccord Genuity
Principal / private credit investing at Ares Management
Notre Dame BBA, Accounting and English
Purdue Certificate in Themed Entertainment Design
Per Cap industry analysis
Where Iām useful
Early concept feasibility + phasing
Business model framing
Market sizing
Sponsor/development strategy
Investment narrative
Operator economics
Diligence support
Current focus
Themed entertainment
Location-based entertainment
Cultural attractions + museums
Immersive experiences
Experience-driven mixed-use districts
Adaptive reuse
IP-driven experiential