Grant is a global entrepreneur, angel investor, and business accelerator.  He is listed among the 50 most influential people in Orange County, CA.  Grant is involved in 59 start-ups, serving as a board member or advisor in a quarter of those.  He is an active leader in the Tech Coast Angels – America’s most active angel investing group.  He was President of their Orange County chapter and is now Chairman of the whole network.  He is also part of Wharton Angels and is an Expert-in-Residence at UC Irvine. One of the companies in which Grant is active, Buy It Installed, Inc., convinced Grant in 2017 to move from Chairman to CEO.  The 75-person Irvine, CA based company uses artificial empathy to automate the installed-sales process, allowing any manufacturer or retailer to bundle national installation at the point of sale. Alongside SoCal private equity, Grant develops real estate locally and in Eastern Europe.  He also does impact investing via roles in clean-tech and education projects in Africa, South America and SE Asia.  A big fan of giving back, Grant pours time into catalyzing the entrepreneurial ecosystem locally and in the developing world.  He can also be found in leadership roles in his church and in local politics.

​He was raised in California but left to study at Penn/Wharton and then to live 19 years in Europe. He has some amazing stories to tell about ‘nation building’ in Albania – catalytic roles in rebuilding that nation’s spiritual and commercial foundations after half a century under communism.  Along the way he added an MA in Intercultural Studies at Fuller. Grant returned with his wife and 3 kids to Orange County, CA in 2010.  

Grant, the Chairman of the prestigious Tech Coast Angels, is involved in 59 start-ups, serving as a board member or formal advisor in 15 of those.  He is also CEO of one of those companies, Buy It Installed, Inc, which uses artificial empathy to automate the installed-sales process, allowing any manufacturer or retailer to bundle national installation at the point of sale.  Alongside SoCal startups, Grant also does real estate development locally and in Eastern Europe, and clean-tech and education projects globally.  Grant pours time into catalyzing the entrepreneurial ecosystem locally and in the developing world, and can be found in leadership roles in his church and in local politics.  He returned to CA in 2010 after studies at Wharton followed by 19 years in Europe.  Grant is on the OC50 list of top influencers in Orange County, CA.