I'm a product guy that likes working on (fast) moving things. I’ve spent time Fortune 50 boardrooms, Silicon Valley startup garages, and university lecture halls, and feel equally at home in all environments. I've successfully built high-performing teams and led strategic initiatives that capitalize on the best elements of these diverse environments, and view my role as "enabler-in-chief" – I help individuals and teams achieve ambitious goals by blocking and tackling unnecessary distractions.
I am Chief Product Officer for Range Energy – a company decarbonizing commercial trucking through propulsion-assisted electric trailers. Prior to this I was the founding Chief Operating Officer for Universal Hydrogen – a hydrogen aircraft and logistics company – and led the company’s strategy and product organizations as we grew from a team of 4 to a team of 100+.
In my corporate life, I built and scaled United Technologies’ first cross-business unit technology projects organization as Executive Director of Advanced Projects. We rapidly piloted ambitious and disruptive processes and product demonstrators – including Project 804, an industry-first hybrid-electric propulsion effort –, and drove culture change across the enterprise. I also was an early executive at Airbus’s Silicon Valley office where I led Transpose – a program completely rethinking the way aircraft cabins are experienced by passengers, built by manufacturers, and monetized by airlines. For this project I built a full-scale airplane cabin in a San Jose office park where we conducted simulated flights and engineering testing.
I began my career at the intersection of consumer-research and the maker movement. I co-founded the maker education initiative SparkTruck at Stanford’s d.school which brought hands-on exploration to standardized test-driven classrooms, led the MAKEwithMOTO research pilot at Motorola which brought mass customization tools to staid consumer tech products, and developed a variety of physical and digital retail experiences for Google’s early forays into smartphone manufacturing. I also led consumer experience and marketing at Knit Health, a startup focusing on pediatric health feedback through passive biometrics.
I completed my undergraduate and Master’s degrees in product design and mechanical engineering at Stanford University, and held a lecturer appointment at the storied d.school. I also received an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
I spend my free time creatively convincing myself to try new things, absorbing trivia from academic journals, and paging through library books.