Product leader with fintech and adtech background, ex-Google, ex-Microsoft. Co-founded and sold a software company to Thomson Reuters for $30M, grew an AI consulting practice from 0 to >$1Bn in 4 years. 20-year AI veteran, winner of three medals in model-building competitions. In a prior life, was a top-performing hedge fund portfolio manager.

I live near NYC with my wife and two daughters. I’m an avid reader, runner and tennis player, an amateur piano player and a retired chess player.

Key skills

● Executive: Business strategy, product strategy, product management, product design (design thinking) from initial concept through launch and scale, monetization and research commercialization, product architecture, service management (infrastructure), operations managing, six sigma, management consulting.

● Domain: Commercial banking, investment banking, card, real estate finance, planning and forecasting, insurance, fintech, online advertising (adtech), cloud, software as a service. Asset management: Quantitative finance, valuation, portfolio construction, trading, forecasting, monte-carlo simulation, pricing and risk models (VAR/ CVAR), performance attribution and decomposition, financial modeling, equity analysis, fundamental analysis.

● AI/ML: Data science, machine learning with R / Python, Neural networks with TensorFlow/Keras, PyTorch , natural language processing (NLP) with large language models (LLMs), OpenAI, ChatGPT. ONNX Runtime, HuggingFace Transformers, foundation models, hardware accelerators.

● Data: SQL query optimization. Spark. Data lifecycle: architecture, governance, enrichment, evaluation, mining. Report automation.

● web3: Blockchain, smart contract development, Decentralized Finance (DeFi), Ethereum, ERC20, web3.js, Moralis.