I take hardtech companies from working technology to commercial deployment.
I co-founded Universal Hydrogen as COO and built the operating infrastructure that took the company from 4 cofounders to 100+ employees, and helped raise ~$100M across Seed, Series A and Series B. At Range Energy I was the first commercial hire. I ran the company’s fundraise, signed its first major fleet orders, and sourced Thermo King as our channel partner across the Americas. Most recently I was COO of OXMAN, brought on to structure the studio’s operations for scale and spin-out, and to run portfolio operations across its ventures.
Before that I was founding executive director of UT Advanced Projects at United Technologies. I built a new organization reporting to the CTO, owned a $40M annual operating budget, and ran portfolio operations across new-technology programs including the Pratt & Whitney and Collins hybrid-electric flight demonstrator. Earlier I led Airbus’s Transpose modular cabin program and was the first hire on Google’s Project Ara. At Airbus, United Technologies and OXMAN my work was venture building: incubating new businesses and building spin-out pathways through to executable term sheets.
Stanford mechatronics engineer with 8 patents and a Kellogg MBA. Today I advise venture-backed hardtech and applied-AI companies on new business lines and go-to-market, and I’m always glad to talk with teams building in hardtech. My work has been featured in TODAY, WIRED, The Verge, Bloomberg and Fast Company.