About
Hard tech companies fail for two reasons: the physics doesn’t work, or the team can’t execute.I invest in the founders solving the first, and help them solve the second.As a Partner at Space Capital, I bring:- High-Conviction Capital: Investing in the Space Economy and Hard Tech. - Team Architecture: Designing/hiring the org you need 18 months from now.If you are building the impossible, let’s talk.Views are my own.
Experience
Principal
Space Capital · Greater New York City Area
Board Observer
Board Observer
Lunar Outpost · Golden, Colorado, United States
Head of Platform
Acumen · Greater New York City Area
Acumen was a $250M early-stage venture firm investing across East Africa, South Asia, and Latin America during my tenure. I supported the investment process and delivered targeted support to 50 companies through turnaround, growth, and exit. This included managing follow-on investments, identifying intervention areas critical to company growth, launching CEO and manager leadership programs, and building strategic relationships from AlphaSights to Bain. Some of the companies I worked with were in agtech, distributed energy, and mobile payments. I also worked with the firm's partners and LPAC to manage the first institutional fund towards exits at the end of its lifecycle.
Operations Manager and Interim Cfo
Gulu Agricultural Development Company · Northern Uganda
As an Acumen portfolio company, I worked with Gulu Agricultural Development Company, helping scale the business. My initial focus was running their buying operations across the Kigum, Lamwo and Agago districts where we purchased, bulked and exported 2,000 metric tons of sesame. I then focused on the accounting and finance operations, grant writing, partnership development and technology implementation to build operational capacity and train up key hires to scale the business.
Summer Fellow
Start Up! India provided a range of non-financial expertise to civil society organizations to strengthen their organizations, processes and strategies for impact measurement. My engagement included design and execution of an impact accelerator demand assessment, construction of a financial modeling toolkit for angel and incubation clients and support with client projects across rural healthcare, migrant banking and education.
Education
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Econometrics, Economics, Entrepreneurship, International Business
The University of Kansas
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), International Finance
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