Founder of Cite, LLC

Joe graduated from Hart County High School in North Georgia and was not accepted to the University of Georgia.  He took his talents to Carrollton where he attended the University of West Georgia for one quarter before being placed on academic probation.  After his second quarter, the school politely asked him to leave.

Joe then became a full-time missionary with the Appalachian Service Project, with whom he coordinated volunteers for housing construction and presented project options to a board for approval.  For a year, Joe coordinated weekly volunteers helping hundreds of families improve their housing situation.

From 2001 to 2009, Joe lived in Alabama and perfected his sales skills while becoming obsessed with finance.  He then accepted a job with Forge Consulting as a settlement planner.  While at Forge, Joe helped protect and preserve Government benefits on large personal injury and wrongful death cases and provided financial advice to clients that needed help ensuring their settlements lasted.  He also completed executive courses at University of Notre Dame and University of Texas A&M and earned professional credentials in Settlement Planning and Structured Annuities while becoming a licensed insurance agent in all 50 states.

In addition to his love for service and helping his clients achieve their goals, Joe has always been fascinated with technology.  While working in the legal vertical, Joe felt that many of the court reporting and trial support companies were not evolving with the times.  Based on this observation, he spent 18 months learning absolutely everything about the industry and eventually opened Cite with his dear friend, Jeff Snider, in 2017.

Less than three years after Cite’s founding, the nation shut down due to COVID-19, and Joe’s technology knowledge set Cite up for success as he began to teach attorneys the best way to handle exhibits in virtual depositions. Within two months of the nation shutting down, Joe was doing webinars for groups of fifty plus attorneys at a time while providing accredited continuing education credits with the Alabama State Bar.  Since April of 2020, Joe has spoken about and presented on utilizing technology in depositions, "Cloud storage and exhibits", and "Technology in Trials”.  Cite also has a viral YouTube video of him bringing himself coffee.

Joe has become a serial entrepreneur with ownership in three different companies, but his biggest passion is the charity he helped create – Here 2 Give. The charity feeds people in the Montgomery area who are not able to feed themselves and/or their families.