ABOUT MYLES

Hello! Thanks for flying in!

I am a passionate community-led marketing and communications professional. I build brands and their communities by connecting people, ideas, and innovation—and by creating unique experiences that result in increased brand love, exposure, partnerships, and deal flow.

Until recently, I led one of the most exciting and fulfilling projects of my career: as Pivotal's Head of Community Marketing, I helped introduce the Helix—the first personal electric aircraft available on the market. The Helix is like no other aircraft on Earth. As an ultralight craft, it weighs less than 350 pounds, takes off and lands vertically using eight fully redundant electric motors, and cruises at speeds over 60 mph for about 20 minutes. No runway. No pilot’s license. Just joy. It’s a smile-maker—leaving its pilots in awe and not wanting to come down.

At Pivotal, I created fantastic flying events and community-driven programs to bring the future of aviation to the public while helping invent a new category: affordable personal aircraft anyone can fly. I led national tour activations, pop-up flight simulator sessions, beach landings, backyard demos, and collaborations with communities large and small—from polo fields to open houses. Securing landing zones (LZs) was a fun career turn I didn't expect. Each event was an invitation to experience something entirely new and magical. It was community marketing at its highest altitude.

How’d I get here?

I’m a veteran marketer with deep roots in community building, event creation and production, integrated storytelling, and bottom-up flywheel wizardry. I’ve supported hundreds of startups and launched a few of my own. I founded SF New Tech, San Francisco’s largest and longest-running tech showcase. I created FoodBytes, now the global center of innovation in food. I helped launch Meetup as one of its founding fathers and early leaders in communications and public affairs. I was invited to the White House under Obama to help shape innovation community policy.

I believe “go-to-community” (GTC) is a winning go-to-market strategy—and I live it.

At Pivotal, the hustle was real, from strategy to execution. While scouting LZs to host flight demos, I’d stack AI tools with Google Maps, overlay them with airspace charts, and zero in on promising open spaces. Then I’d track down landowners using property apps, sometimes even booking Airbnbs that served double duty as flight ops bases and team housing. It was part tech, part human, and all about finding creative, scrappy ways to make the future of flight visible — anywhere we could.

That same ethos shaped a past project I loved: It's In the Air — an exclusive hiking community I created to connect high-achievers in tech, business, and creative fields. It paired beautiful outdoor settings with curated group dynamics, powered by an AI-driven concept I called Smart Hikes. These hikes matched participants based on shared interests, personalities, and purpose to spark serendipitous conversations and creative breakthroughs on the trail. While the project itself has wrapped, the framework lives on in my toolkit—a working model of what I call Applied Serendipity: intentionally engineering unexpected, high-value human connection.

On the personal front ... I live in Marin County, California with my wonderful wife, two incredible teenagers, and a bulky-pulke rescue pittie named Twyla. I love cooking creative slow-food meals. Currently garlic, lemon, dijon, and EVOO are my best friends in the kitchen; and tomatoes, onions, and cilantro are jealous. I am an avid photographer and not-too-avid writer. I love building new-fangled things from nothing. You can usually find me hiking around the green or scorched-earth hills of Northern California, sitting on the beach, or wiping poison oak off the dog. I once had a floating office that was literally anchored out in the middle of the San Francisco Bay.

I'm a music nut. Spotify likes to feed me Americana indie jamband folk roots acoustic artists, probably because of my killer Nugget Bucket playlist. If I can hit a Phish show or five, I will. I'm not a musician but I can play a really mean steering wheel.

I have a very special place in my heart for Block Island. Block Island is the smallest town in the smallest state. It's where I learned my way around the kitchen. And it's where I LOVE to take photos. Check out MyBlockIsland.us. As an experiment, my daughter Summer and I launched Block Island Pillows, a fun online store with pillows made from images from my old Block Island postcard collection, and are learning a ton! I also recorded a soundtrack there and it's streaming everywhere - check it out: Block Island Soundtrack: Volumes 1-4!

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• NorCal Explorer
• Island Photographer
• Hiker
• Husband
• Dad
• Domestic Line Cook
• Bad Surfer
• Jam Patrol
• 1.0 (Not a Wook!)