About Me

The person behind the pitch

I grew up in Reno, Nevada — one of five kids in a blended family, surrounded by the Sierra Nevada, Lake Tahoe, and the kind of outdoors that teaches you to figure things out on your own. I played volleyball for years — high school and a club team in Northern California — before trading the court for a work schedule that started at 15: first a paint-your-own pottery studio, then a preschool classroom to pay my way through college at UNR — where I majored in Political Science and minored in Cultural Anthropology — with a stint as a certified ski and snowboard technician up at Tahoe mixed in.

In college, I interned for a U.S. Senator while moonlighting as a paralegal and private bookkeeper for litigators and individuals navigating the healthcare system. I presented research on "The Effect of Institutional Characteristics of Public Support for National Legislatures" at the Western Political Science Association conference in Hollywood. I was also in a sorority. The range started early.

That through-line — learning fast, translating between worlds, doing the work nobody else wants to do — carried me from the Senate floor to Melinda French Gates' office to Wall Street to leading the AI transformation at a boutique investment bank. I don't hand off specs to a dev team — I build the dashboards, write the training content, design the MCP integrations, and stand up the governance frameworks myself. The conviction comes from being in the weeds, not above them. I'm a lifelong learner: every new chapter has been an excuse to go deep on something I didn't know yet, and that curiosity is what makes me good at what I do. What drives me isn't the technology itself. It's the moment someone goes from skeptical to "wait, this changes everything." I've watched that happen 900 times at Perella Weinberg, and it never gets old.

Finance was the proving ground, not the ceiling — the adoption problem I solved there is the one every high-stakes domain is now facing, and the one the companies building these models need to understand from the customer's side.

I may live in New York now, but nature is still a huge part of my life, with the best parts of my week spent in the parks with Farley, my 80-pound goldendoodle. When I'm not walking him, I'm reading, researching, spending time with friends, thinking about what the world will look like in five years, and browsing real estate upstate for a little country cottage with a bit of land.