diff --git a/metaphor/common/event_util.py b/metaphor/common/event_util.py
index ed0e3530..bafb187e 100644
--- a/metaphor/common/event_util.py
+++ b/metaphor/common/event_util.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import json
 import logging
 from importlib import resources
-from typing import Union
+from typing import Optional, Union
 
 from jsonschema import ValidationError
 from jsonschema.validators import validator_for
@@ -80,14 +80,14 @@ def build_event(entity: ENTITY_TYPES):
         else:
             raise TypeError(f"invalid entity type {type(entity)}")
 
-    def validate_message(self, message: dict) -> bool:
+    def validate_message(self, message: dict) -> Optional[dict]:
         """Validate message against json schema"""
         try:
             self._validator.validate(message)
         except ValidationError as e:
             logger.error(f"MCE validation error: {e}. Message: {message}")
-            return False
-        return True
+            return None
+        return message
 
     @staticmethod
     def clean_nones(value):
diff --git a/metaphor/common/sink.py b/metaphor/common/sink.py
index 94e6a3d2..859ca2cf 100644
--- a/metaphor/common/sink.py
+++ b/metaphor/common/sink.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import logging
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
+from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
 from typing import Generator, List
 
 from metaphor.models.metadata_change_event import MetadataChangeEvent
@@ -19,7 +20,12 @@ def sink(self, events: List[MetadataChangeEvent]) -> bool:
         records = [event_util.trim_event(e) for e in events]
 
         logger.info("validating MCE records")
-        valid_records = [r for r in records if event_util.validate_message(r)]
+        with ThreadPoolExecutor() as tpe:
+            valid_records = [
+                r
+                for r in tpe.map(event_util.validate_message, records)
+                if r is not None
+            ]
 
         if len(valid_records) == 0:
             return False
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 3f632aff..0dc31c73 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "metaphor-connectors"
-version = "0.13.61"
+version = "0.13.62"
 license = "Apache-2.0"
 description = "A collection of Python-based 'connectors' that extract metadata from various sources to ingest into the Metaphor app."
 authors = ["Metaphor <dev@metaphor.io>"]