My focus has been developing ventures at the convergence of digital media, blockchain, spatial computing, and AI – creating new forms of human expression and more efficient digital economies using emerging media technologies and networked coordination mechanisms.

Brown University (AB History)
The MIT Sloan School of Management (MBA 2015)

Over the past decade, I’ve helped develop the Render Network into the leading decentralized GPU computing protocol, responsible for growth and strategy; organizing events like RenderCon; incubating immersive and AI uses; leading partnerships at the cutting edge of 3D graphics, spatial computing, and world models.

Featured Work: Artechouse NYC, MSG Sphere, Coachella, Solana Breakpoint, Super Bowl, Champions League Finals

Marketing and Growth for OTOY and OctaneRender, the industry’s first and fastest unbiased GPU render engine, overseeing partnerships, community programs, event marketing, social media, evangelist campaigns, investment materials, product releases, and company presentations.

News Features: FastCompany World’s Most Innovative Companies, Harvard Business Review, Hacker News #1

Notable Productions: The Archive (50M+ views), The Last Goodbye (Tribeca Film Festival), Gucci, New York Times, Disney, Discovery, and MoMA

Presentations: Motion Plus Design, Blackrock Digital Assets Group, UC Berkeley, and more.

Following a curiosity about emerging forms of media, I am an avid digital art collector focused on early generative and AI art, and am an active early stage investor in the web 3, blockchain, and decentralized AI ecosystem.

Early Stage Investments: Ethos Network, N1, Pi Squared, Space Computer, Fluent, Irys, OpenGradient, Limitless, Towns Protocol, OpenLedger, Fuse Energy, Fogo, KiteAI, W.AI, PinAI, Aggregata, Dialect, Anoma, Talus, Popcorn.




Brown University (AB History), research and teaching assistant at The Watson School for International and Public Affairs – Global Security and Global Media programs, Brown Daily Herald, directed feature documentary films.

The MIT Sloan School of Management (MBA 2015) Entrepreneurship and Innovation track, where I focused on digital economics, developed a number of hackathon winning ventures, collaborated at the MIT Media Lab, Co-President of the Media and Entertainment Club, was a TA for leading economists including Simon Johnson, winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, and played on the MIT Men’s Ice Hockey team. 

Ventures focused on new approaches to recommendation engines and peer-to-peer blogging network based on hypercard principles, and I was a Co-President of the Media and Entertainment Club, Co-Organizer of MIT Hacking Arts, as well as a leader in the MIT Space Club, where a highlight was organizing a sold out event with leading Astrophysicists and Planetary Science researchers around the film Interstellar. 

With James Der Derian, I directed and produced a number of feature documentary films presented at film festivals and think tanks, including: Hot Docs, DOK Leipzig, CPH:Dox, RAND Corp, Frontline Club, The Naval War College. Films exploring emerging networked global security challenges have been presented at leading universities around the world, accompanied by articles published in journals like Cultural Politics (Duke).

Took Rogue Film School masterclass with Werner Herzog, Voluteer Ski Patroller with National Ski Patrol Mount Baldy, Hurricane Sandy Relief, Habitat for Humanity, passionate about vintage cameras and film techniques, follow research in complex systems, emergence, and continental philosophy.