I am an investor who is passionate in the areas of food & agricultural tech, PropTech, health & wellness, circular-economic, and exploration techs (space, ocean, and remote places) and AI Research (LLM) and AI hardware infrastructure and application ecosystems, . My primary interest is in co-investment and syndication deals with leading funds that invest from pre-seed to Series A.

I am a strong believer in human potential, regardless of socio-economic and physical background, and I encourage anyone I meet during my journey to reach their potential (such as by getting people to live a healthy and active lifestyle or by personally practicing self-conscious sustainability), as well as a strong proponent that AI can help the world for the better and that we all will benefit from upskilling, reskilling, & outskilling.

Beside being an investor, I am also an operator and builder with a focus on strategy & transformation and corporate development roles across both publicly traded and PE-backed portfolio companies across the CPG, industrial, logistics, services, and technology sectors. I tend to enjoy roles that require strategic development in an unstructured environment, then have a bias toward actions to execute plans and finally build & establish structure to stabilize the environment.

Before my business career, I served as a Teach For America teacher and as a public policy fellow at the South Carolina Policy Council/Charles Koch Institute. Being a high-school math teacher through Teach for America and transforming my students from uninterested in math to exceeding the standard curriculum growth is still considered the toughest job I ever had.

Outside of being an investor and operator, I am a polar explorer and alpinist who scales some of the tallest mountains and polar remote places in the world. As a resident member of The Explorers’ Club, I am involved in the club's Next Generation Explorers Network (NGEN) and part of the club's Famous Firsts Annual Fund to advocate the ideal of explorations that advance field research, scientific exploration, and resource sustainability. I also have a competitive triathlete background and have competed as a member of Team USA Triathlon in ITU World Championship Age Group races from 2016 to 2022. I completed 23 full Ironman triathlons and competed for the Ironman World Championship at Kona, Hawaii, in 2022.

I am also a member of the Milken Institute's Young Leaders Circle, the Committee of 100's Next Gen Leader and the Aspen Institute Socrates Program Fellow