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

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

Over the past decade, I have helped develop the Render Network into the leading decentralized GPU compute 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. Works created on the network have been featured at the world’s biggest venues, including: MSG Sphere, Artechouse NYC, Coachella, Solana Breakpoint, The Super Bowl, UEFA Champions League, and The Grammy Awards.


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

Featured Articles

World’s Most Innovative Companies, Harvard Business Review, Hacker News #1 Article

Notable Productions

The Archive (50M+ views), The Last Goodbye (Tribeca Film Festival), and produced immersive productions with leading brands like:
Gucci, The New York Times, Disney, Discovery, MoMA, and more.

Presentations

Motion Plus Design, Blackrock Digital Assets Group, UC Berkeley, RenderCon, Disney.

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, Prometheus, Venice, OpenLedger, Fuse Energy, Fogo, Kite AI, W.AI, Pin AI, Aggregata, Dialect, Anoma, Talus, Popcorn, Reppo, and Privateer.






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


The MIT Sloan School of Management (MBA 2015 – Entrepreneurship and Innovation). At MIT, I focused on digital economics, developed a number of hackathon winning ventures, collaborated at the MIT Media Lab’s Civic Media Group, was a co-president of the Media and Entertainment Club, was a TA for leading economists like 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 explored emerging networked global security challenges have been presented at leading universities around the world, accompanied by articles published in journals like Cultural Politics (Duke).

Graduated from The Rogue Film School masterclass with Werner Herzog, Voluteer Ski Patroller at Mount Baldy (National Ski Patrol), Hurricane Sandy Relief, Habitat for Humanity, vintage cameras and film hobbyist, follow research in complex systems, AI, and continental philosophy.