Operator · Advisor · Investor
Nearly 20 years across Apple, Oracle, TikTok, Polygon, and a portfolio of venture-backed companies — at the commercial frontier of categories still being defined.
I do my best work when a technology is proven enough to matter but early enough that the commercial playbook is still being written. The product may be real, but the market around it is still taking shape — the buyer isn't fully defined, the business model is evolving, and the path to distribution and revenue still has to be built.
That has happened inside some of the world's largest technology companies and at early-stage ventures. At Apple, I helped build the platform partnerships and programmatic marketplace around its advertising business. At Drawbridge and Oracle, I commercialized machine-learning and enterprise-data products through licensing, distribution, and strategic platform relationships. At TikTok, I launched a new industry business that generated more than $50 million in its first year.
At Polygon, I built a global business-development organization and helped financial institutions move from exploring blockchain to deploying it — leading landmark engagements with Franklin Templeton and JPMorgan. More recently, my work across Republic and ProfitR, Zero Hash, and Booze Ventures has spanned tokenized credit, financial infrastructure, AI data, distributed compute, and developer platforms.
The common thread is commercialization. I get deep into the product and technical architecture, then build the market around it — from positioning and partnerships to distribution, sales, and revenue. I've carried revenue, built teams and pipelines, negotiated first-of-kind agreements, and helped turn emerging technologies into businesses that can scale.
Today, I'm especially interested in AI infrastructure, programmable finance, and other emerging technology platforms where technical fluency, product judgment, and commercial execution all matter.
Led the partnership that extended the Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund — the first U.S.-registered mutual fund to use a public blockchain for transaction processing and share-ownership records — to Polygon. Took the engagement from use-case development through production launch.
Helped bring JPMorgan's first live DeFi cross-currency transaction on a public blockchain to Polygon under the Monetary Authority of Singapore's Project Guardian, alongside DBS, SBI Digital, and Temasek.
Franklin Templeton ↗ MAS Project Guardian ↗ JPMorgan ↗Through Booze Ventures, I invest in and advise a small number of early-stage companies developing new infrastructure, platforms, and business models across AI, data, distributed compute, and financial technology — during the period when the technology is ready but the commercial model is still being defined.
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Open to conversations about executive operating roles, select advisory work, and investments across AI infrastructure, programmable finance, and other emerging technology platforms.
Most useful when the product is complex, the market is still forming, and the company needs someone who can connect technical possibility to customers, partnerships, and revenue.