I am a serial optimist, entrepreneur, and engineer from Boston, Massachusetts. For 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 spend my time between New York City, Amsterdam, and rural Costa Rica.
At 11, I found my life’s passion: the infinite paintbrush of technology. For three years, I taught myself to assemble computers and program before interning at MIT. During my time at Alex Slocum’s mechanical engineering lab, Precision Engineering Research Group (PERG, lovingly dubbed Pergatory), I worked on applied audio analysis to protect honeybees in India. I attended Phillips Exeter Academy and learned to love writing, physics, socializing, and nuclear chemistry. I spent 2014–2016 studying gravitational waves and laser interferometry.
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 501(c)(3) supported by Teach for America and the Harvard Innovation Lab, which provided free journalism education to over 50 Title I high schools in the US.
After four years at Exeter, I began building businesses: one in cloud software (failed; in hindsight, the missing ingredient was an LLM) followed by another in financial services, where I became the youngest President of a Trust Company in Nevada (acquired). 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, finance, and culture 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 the face of 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. I care deeply about protecting the environment, improving the world, and bringing more kindness to those in it.