About

I began my career at JPMorgan Chase underwriting commercial credit for middle-market companies ($20M–$500M in revenue), working directly with CEOs, founders, business owners, and private equity sponsors on financing, risk, and capital structure decisions. That experience required consistent communication in executive-level, high-stakes environments and provided a grounded understanding of how companies actually operate—how cash flow, execution, management teams, employees, and capital allocation drive real outcomes.

While at JPMorgan, I started paying close attention to Ethereum, decentralized finance (DeFi), and blockchain as a whole. Seeing financial primitives like lending, exchanges, and settlement implemented directly in code, peer-to-peer—meant real implications for the industry I was working in—I wanted to understand exactly how this worked. Through Consensys Academy, I learned about Ethereum, Smart Contracts, Blockchain, Crypto Payments, and built a decentralized "Cragislist-like" marketplace on Ethereum testnet, which gave me a real understanding of smart contracts, decentralization, and how these protocols actually work.

That habit—going deep on disruptive technology to understand what's real and what it means for business—carried into Artificial Intelligence (AI). As these tools, like ChatGPT, became more capable, I built AI-enabled applications to understand firsthand what they could actually do. That hands-on work shaped how I evaluate AI for business workflows, products, competitive dynamics, organizational readiness, and more.

To bring it all together, I extended my learning into hardware—building an autonomous drone, based on open-source PX4 Autopilot, to understand how intelligence, hardware control, and software come together in physical systems. Same instinct: go deep enough to know what's real and what's hype, and see how systems work end-to-end.

Taken together, my background spans finance, blockchain, AI, robotics, software development, and systems integration. I'm looking to bring that combination—analytical rigor, technical fluency, and a builder's intuition—into a strategic role focused on complex, high-stakes problems at the intersection of business and technology.