I am a serial optimist, entrepreneur, and engineer from Boston. 250 days a year, my businesses take me around the world to over thirty countries across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. When I am not on the road, I split my time between New York City, Amsterdam, and rural Costa Rica.
At 11, I found my life’s passion, an infinite paintbrush: technology. For three years, I taught myself to assemble computers and program before working at MIT’s Precision Engineering Research Group (PERG, lovingly dubbed Pergatory). During my time there, I helped develop low-power, low-cost audio analysis technology to protect honeybees in India. Through this research, I learned computational signal processing, which laid the foundation for my career as an engineer. I attended Phillips Exeter Academy and learned to love writing, physics, socializing, and nuclear chemistry. I spent 2014–2016 studying applied signal processing: gravitational waves and laser interferometry. The Exeter education and the freedom to pursue these subjects equipped me to start work early.
While still in school, I worked as a founding employee at startups innovating in collectibles (Restocks), pharmaceutical research (TetraScience), and stratified demography (StratoDem). Through these early experiences, I saw the full gamut of company building: failure, success, and acquisition (with a few stock options along the way). I got my first taste of entrepreneurship through building and directing the Project for Better Journalism, a non-profit supported by the Harvard Innovation Lab, which provided free journalism education and tools to over 50 Title I high schools in the US.
After four years at Exeter, I began building businesses: one in cloud operating systems (failed; in hindsight, LLMs were what I needed) followed by another in financial services, where I became the youngest President of a Trust Company in Nevada (acquired by Equity Trust). Along the way, I’m grateful to have raised over $50M in venture capital from some of the most brilliant people in the world.
Today, I am the Founder and CEO of Meridian, providing real-time global payments networking to financial institutions. Our growing list of partners includes J.P. Morgan, T-Mobile, Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), GCash, and more. Meridian is backed by Europe’s largest private equity firm, EQT, and US-based hedge funds, Point72 and Lyrical. I also co-founded WatchCheck, a company transforming luxury servicing, in partnership with some of the most iconic brands in luxury, including Sotheby’s. I invest in water, energy, land, technology, and luxury through my fund, Iridium Summer.
I believe that by putting great people and software together, we can create vastly more equitable access to essential services. My work combines technology and human systems, building businesses to expand the world’s abundance.
In my free time, you can find me biking along the Amstel, running along the Rhine, sculling on the Charles, or skiing down Lone Mountain. I’m a competent sailor. I’ve never stopped tinkering with code or hardware, particularly networking infrastructure. I’m always seeking new places, unusual experiences, great photos, and books with insights into economic history and exceptional storytelling. One day, I hope to teach, passing on the gifts from my journey to those who inhabit the house of tomorrow. I care deeply about protecting the environment, improving the world, and bringing more kindness to those in it.