The through-line across my career has been curiosity about what happens when technology and product take on really hard problems in the real world. Venture turned out to be the closest seat to those people, and each chapter that led me here shapes how I show up for founders today.

After grad school, I began working in a university research environment, where I got a front-row seat to cutting-edge work in robotics, medicine, and computer vision. That early exposure to breakthrough technology set my career's North Star: backing the founders pushing the world forward.

From there, I joined MicroVentures, a fintech startup making private market investing more accessible. It was my first hands-on experience in the startup trenches and where I sharpened my operating skills and developed a fascination with venture.

That fascination turned into a career. For three years before joining Bonfire, I was on the investment team at Struck Capital, an early-stage fund in LA, where I worked closely with seed-stage founders across vertical SaaS, commerce, GTM tech, and enterprise hardware. Those partnerships only deepened my appreciation for early-stage building and the relentless founders who make it happen. 

At Bonfire, the thread I keep pulling on is companies and teams applying AI in many of the largest, but most under-digitized industries, like finance, industrials, construction, manufacturing, energy, and beyond. I attribute this interest to my experience prior to entering into venture capital, namely seeing products solve genuinely hard problems within complex, regulated domains with massive stakes. I think that AI, in particular, makes many of these markets, that were technology laggards, now within reach for founders willing to roll up their sleeves and build companies that actually move the needle. 

Backing teams like that is a real privilege, and I take it seriously. I think their trust is earned, not assumed, and I try to earn mine by being a consistent presence, doing the work with them, and hopefully, over time, becoming their first call when they need to think something through.

I hold both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Duke University (Go Blue Devils!) and now call Los Angeles home. Outside of work, you'll find me staying active, reading, or cheering on my favorite teams. Earlier in life, I was a competitive tennis player—with a few wins over opponents who went on to become Grand Slam champions and Olympic medalists.