He co-founded the Responsible Innovation Founders Summit, which has drawn 700+ tech leaders including founders backed by YC, General Catalyst, and Sequoia, and published the Responsible Innovation Primer for Founders, based on 100+ interviews with tech and civil society leaders.

He led efforts to grow Flatiron Precollege to a 60-person team across 13 cities, with 10x year-over-year revenue growth and teacher-training programs rated 100 NPS. He spent nearly a decade building tech education and economic mobility programs in under-invested neighborhoods.

He previously served on the boards of the Centre for Social Innovation and the Bronx Academy for Software Engineering.

He holds degrees in physics and political science from MIT, where he was a Burchard Humanities Scholar.

A hopeless thalassophile, he continues paddling into heavy surf and complex systems, perhaps irrationally believing technology can still serve the public good, and that one day he will be spat out of a proper five-second barrel. Until then, he is prepared to take the tumbles.