I could never put into words how much these two men have meant to me personally and professionally.

Without their openness to guiding me early in my career, I would probably be doing something else for a living.

I miss them both.

You may have seen this on my emails and if you were too shy to ask, know that I simply shortened “A rising tide lifts all boats”.

It’s a good reminder to me that we’re in this together and that we should do our best to make the world a better place.

“I am human, therefore nothing that is human is alien to me".

Terence wrote this in 163 BCE.

The first time I heard this it struck a chord inside me and I immediately fell in love with it.

A fantastic quote from Lyndon B. Johnson that I taped to a wall in the office I shared with Frank.

Through all of our disagreements, we had a great deal of respect for each other and that led to real growth.

I do my best to be as transparent as possible but there plenty of things that even I do not grasp fully. For those, I lean on a network experts that I have come to trust through years of engaging with them.