Strategy & Innovation Executive
Special Situations · New Ventures
Point me at a hard problem. I turn high-stakes ambiguity into elegant, durable systems where capital, culture, and conscience meet.
Uber #7 · Tree Burial · $4B Master Plan · Frontier AI
I step into complexity, cut through the noise, and craft coherence that feels both innovative and inevitable.
As Uber’s seventh employee I launched the NYC market, built the early team, hit a $4M run rate in three months, and helped shape the global expansion playbook.
First hire on a team turning 29 acres of decommissioned San Francisco waterfront into a $4B mixed-use neighborhood; fastest-entitled master plan in city history.
Carbon-negative deathcare option that plants people as trees, turning burial demand into perpetually protected forests. 45,000 trees planted; 1B+ media impressions.
Built nationwide charter-bus marketplace. Raised $3.7M from General Catalyst & Allen & Company; platform still processes ~$35M in transactions annually, 14 years later.
Nearly $2 trillion in philanthropic capital sits idle in DAFs and foundations; Catalytic Pledge redirects toward impact-driven, for-profit companies at venture speed.
AI orchestration studio architecting agentic workflows and the connective layers that convert scattered tools into dependable, real-world execution.
From launching Uber NYC to planting people as trees, a talk on ethical entrepreneurship, design thinking, and building bold missions that actually last.
Featured talk at SXSW weaving personal story, Transcend’s origin, and a vision for reforesting the planet by rewriting our relationship with death.
Coverage in Forbes, CNN, Fast Company, WIRED, and others on our carbon-negative Tree Burial™ alternative that reimagines deathcare as climate infrastructure.
Have a category-defining problem? I’m your fixer.Currently exploring senior in-house roles
across strategy,
innovation, product,
and C-suite special projects.
