Hi, I’m Brandon.

Early field research circa ~1995

I’m 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, I’m 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. I’m 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 I’m 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