My passion for technology and communications started at age 10, thanks to my Brooklyn neighbor, Mr. Gray, who worked at Zenith Corp. His shortwave radios let us tune into broadcasts from all over the world. Hearing voices from the Amazon jungle while sitting in a Brooklyn living room was magic. But I didn’t just want to listen—I wanted to talk.By 13, I became one of the youngest amateur radio operators in New York, connecting with people from nearly every continent. At Columbia University, I worked with some of the earliest IBM PCs and saw the rise of local area networks. Just like with radios, I dreamed of using these networks to share information globally.Fast forward to today: everything is connected—exciting, but also risky. My passion shifted to cybersecurity to help people safely leverage the internet’s power.Now, after 30+ years in the field, I’m focused on giving back—advising cybersecurity and AI startups to succeed and make the world a safer, better place.