Built and managed
multi-million dollar businesses.
Before he could drive.
before a driver's license.
Appointed Chief Financial Officer of Topher Straus Fine Art at fourteen — one of the youngest CFOs of a multi-million dollar company in United States history. For three years he ran financial planning, budgeting, P&L reporting, and accounts payable and receivable for a fine art business generating multi-million dollars annually.
His financial models guided pricing, collection valuations, and negotiations with high-net-worth collectors and institutional buyers. He didn’t inherit the role. He ran it.
given, not kept.
As Philanthropy Director at Topher Straus Fine Art, Oliver directed a quarter-million dollars to more than fifteen nonprofit organizations in arts, education, and community development — across Colorado and nationally.
The program ran for three years on deliberate, relationship-based giving rather than one-time checks. He also volunteers operations support with B Golden Food Bank across the Denver metro.
of software that runs itself.
In 2025, contracted as a software engineer for a confidential defense-technology company building autonomous systems. He contributed to a drone-based aerial mapping and reconnaissance platform processing real-time sensor feeds, spatial telemetry, and autonomous flight-path data — and developed components of a UAV mission-planning pipeline alongside senior engineers, under NDA and security protocols.
Heoperateslikehe'sbeendoingthisforthirtyyears.Thenyourememberhe'ssixteen.