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Founded VC firm to pioneer the earliest stage of startup investing in the least risky way, given my 12 year track record of identifying high potential student entrepreneurs before they have their idea, watching them over time, and helping them get funded by top tier investors like YC.

Seattle, WA, US

Designed and deployed curation system to find high potential university entrepreneurs across 200 universities in the US, and mentoring them to gain traction with startups to be funded by top tier early stage investors.

Charlottesville, Virginia, US

Taught 266 students in-person in 5 course sections with lectures, case discussions, & interactive experiences.

Buffalo, NY, US

Leading the product vision, strategy and roadmap for Fret Zealot, from conception to launch of consumer-facing features- Ensuring voice of customer is a strong part of all feature development, mainly through customer interviews and translating feedback into product features** Winner of DNA Paris UI/UX Design Award 2023.- Managing artist relationships.

San Francisco, California, US

• Mobile gaming application. Created business model, designed pitch deck, fundraised, assembled advisors, spearheaded user experience design.
• Created and verified business model to achieve initial 1k downloads
• Coordinated user testing and interviews to provide and deliver best product experience
• Pitched and accepted into Y Combinator and Lighthouse Labs accelerator programs.

Charlottesville, VA, US

• Coached students actively pursuing technology entrepreneurship projects, amplified and scaled programs cultivating entrepreneurial mindset through entrepreneurial culture, designed strategy and fundraising efforts.
• Guided 30 students to be full-time founders upon graduation through guidance on human-centered design process
• Coached 3x 1st places in ACC InVenture Prize & 3x Collegiate Inventors Competition finalists
• Presented to 8 international conferences on experience designs and theory frameworks for supporting student founders
• Consulted with 10 other universities to use design process and proprietary methods to support student entrepreneurs

Charlottesville, VA, US

• Converted my consulting into full-time role. Developed, tracked, and externally presented metrics demonstrating success of experimental programming; created a pipeline of programs to endow students with entrepreneurial.
• Created an interactive experience pipeline and metrics to drive sustained long-term student entrepreneurial action
• Counseled and coached 300+ students pursuing entrepreneurial projects
• Constructed and led entrepreneurship fellowship, 23 Creative Problem Solving workshops, 11 teambuilding sessions, 2 full 3-credit courses: Creativity for Invention and De-Risking Entrepreneurship

Charlottesville, VA, US

• Assessed the landscape of student entrepreneurship at the university; provided recommendations for strategic direction of new programs in supporting technology entrepreneurship.
• Identified unmet programming needs for student entrepreneurs by generating leads for and conducting in-field qualitative research with 513 entrepreneurial students using stakeholder interviews and co-creation
• Designed and tested 15 types of student entrepreneur programming alongside multidisciplinary design teams

• A syndication platform that publishes latest updates of student entrepreneurs at all universities in the same place, not just those institutions with great publicity.
• Developed a platform on which student entrepreneurs’ small achievements inspire other students
• Created and oversaw the hiring pipeline for new writers and the content management process
• Managed a team of 15 writers to deliver regular and engaging content
• Published over 300 articles highlighting student entrepreneurs globally

Charlottesville, Virginia, US

• Developed the core technology of genetically-engineered bacteriophage for detection of E. coli O157; spearheaded project management. Secured $270,000 in funding.
• Designed, constructed, and tested proof-of-concept for genetically engineered low-resource bacterial detection device
• Developed, conducted, synthesized in-field qualitative research and expert interviews through NSF I-Corps

Charlottesville, VA, US

• Formed 12 interdisciplinary UVA student teams in biotechnology entrepreneurship
• Designed & led two 6-week workshops for 75 students for the UVA Entrepreneurship Cup; our teams earned 40% of the $100,000 offered, including 1st and 3rd place, out of 132 total teams
• Coached student teams weekly—four of these students are now UVA’s recent flagship technology entrepreneurs: Contraline, AgroSpheres, InMEDBio, and Scaphold

Master Of Business Administration, Full-Time Mba Program (Concentrations In Entrepreneurship & Business Analytics)

B.S. With High Honors, Biomedical Engineering

Biology, English, And French

High School, International Baccalaureate Diploma