I was finished being a CEO.

I grew up in Detroit, the youngest of six kids in a 900-square-foot brick bungalow. My dad was a finish carpenter. My mom stayed home and somehow managed the six of us. I went to Detroit public schools through eighth grade and opened my first computer store when I was 21.

Technology has fascinated me for as long as I can remember.

I eventually founded CBI, a cybersecurity company I spent the next three decades building. At our peak, about 150 people helped organizations understand their cybersecurity risk, figure out where they needed to go, and then do the hard work of getting there.

CBI was acquired by Converge Technology Solutions. After the acquisition, I helped bring together several additional cybersecurity businesses and led Converge’s global cybersecurity organization.

Then I left.

It wasn’t because I had stopped loving the work. I had simply reached the point where I knew I didn’t want to run another large company. I had spent most of my adult life with the responsibility that comes with being the person ultimately accountable — travel, 3 a.m. calls, employees, customers, problems and the feeling that you’re never completely off.

I was ready to give up the job.

I wasn’t remotely ready to give up technology.

If anything, the opposite happened.

The emergence of AI has reminded me just how much I love understanding new technology, experimenting with it and building things with it. I can lose an entire day figuring out how something works and then another figuring out what else I can make it do.

That curiosity is increasingly where I want to spend the next chapter of my life.

Wish Egan Investments is part of that chapter.

I’m learning to become an investor. I don’t pretend that three decades of building companies automatically makes someone great at allocating capital. But those years did teach me a great deal about people, leadership, technology, trust and execution.

I’ve watched exceptional leaders succeed, move on to something new, surround themselves with talented people again, and succeed again. I’ve also seen promising ideas fail when leadership or execution wasn’t there.

That experience shapes how I invest.

I’m particularly interested in transformative technologies and the people building them. I want to understand what they’re doing, ask difficult questions, learn from people who know more than I do, and invest with conviction when the people and opportunity make sense.

I don’t want to run their companies.

I do want to be useful.

Wish Egan was the baseball field where I grew up playing in Detroit.

Long before there was a company with the name, there was simply a kid at Wish Egan Park who loved baseball, technology, competition and figuring things out.

The place has always meant something to me.

Naming this next chapter after it felt right.

Today I live in Franklin, Tennessee with my wife and family. Detroit remains a big part of who I am. I coached high school football in Michigan for more than 15 years, remain hopelessly devoted to Detroit sports, and still believe there are few things more revealing than watching a group of people prepare, compete and try to accomplish something difficult together.