
The Navy veteran and veteran inspector has spent his career looking for flaws that ordinary eyes miss. His larger project is harder: turning shop-floor knowledge into systems, and overlooked people into the next generation of aerospace talent.
In 2014, two Cape Girardeau residents talked the city out of demolishing a downtown building and started southeast Missouri's first tech incubator inside it. A decade later, Codefi trains AI workers, builds startups as a co-founder, and pulls venture capital into places the coasts forget.