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California, United States

San Francisco, California, US

Woven is an AI travel partner in private Beta that helps you discover, plan, and experience perfectly tailored travel in one app. By fusing beautiful, user-centric design with the latest advancements in agent architectures and LLMs, Woven replaces dozens of websites and self-serve transactions with quick, personalized recommendations – like a guidebook.

London, England, GB

As a member of the Founders Pledge community, I have committed to leveraging my success for good. Founders Pledge is an initiative enabling philanthropy amongst founders and investors through data-driven donation, education and transformative relationships between business and charity.

San Francisco, CA, US

Candidate Labs is a modern search firm built like the technology companies we serve. We excel where legacy search firms struggle by combining data, technology and human ingenuity to find and place hires with a better bi-directional fit, faster. The firm was voted #1 search firm on G2 and has placed hundreds of impactful hires at top-tier, venture-backed.

San Francisco, California, US

I lead a small team of scouts making pre-seed and seed investments into companies building frontier tech and companies in the YC community. We've currently made over two dozen investments into companies in AR, Autonomous Vehicles, BioTech, Consumer, Enterprise Software, Legal, HR, Real Estate, and Security.

San Francisco, California, US

I worked closely with Signalfire for 18 months as I evaluated different companies to potentially start, with the firm providing resources around market research, competitive intelligence, and early hiring, ultimately culminating in my founding of Candidate Labs. I also collaborated with the firm’s investment team on potential investments, especially in the.

Arlington, Virginia, US

Having been a part of AUVSI since competing in an AUVSI student competition in 2004, I was asked to join the Board of Directors to support of the organization’s evolution towards a focus on commercial use cases along with defense. I served on the board for 4 years, supported the organization’s Advocacy, Education, and Market Growth initiatives and served.

Took time to rest, catch up with family and friends, fly, read, and learn some new skills after spending 6 years heads-down starting a company.Highlights included: - A week fishing in Alaska - Flying a small plane (SR-22T) across the US to visit 14 cities in 14 days - Learning to kiteboard in the Dominican Republic and Lake Silvaplana in Switzerland.

San Francisco, California, US

Served on Airware's Board of Directors along with John Chambers, Martin Casado (A16Z), Chris Dixon (A16Z), Mike Abbott (KPCB), and Yvonne Wassenaar.

San Francisco, California, US

Founded and served for 6 years as CEO of Airware, a company that pioneered the commercial drone industry. Airware’s end-to-end technology & services platform ingested data from drones and leveraged machine learning and human-in-the loop data augmentation to deliver high-quality data products to enterprise clients in Insurance, Mining, Quarrying, and.

With the goal of supporting the most promising commercial drone businesses around the world, Airware launched the Commercial Drone Fund. The fund invested in companies developing technologies critical to scaling the use of drones across a variety of commercial applications.

Boulder City, NV, US

Flew the Dehavilland Twin Otter (a 19 passenger twin turboprop) as a commercial Part-135 pilot, regularly conducting eight flights a day between Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon as well as scenic tours over the Grand Canyon.

Led the development of all electronics and embedded software for heated motorcycle grips sold under the AME Grips brand as well as white labeled by Harley Davidson. Saw the designs from concepts on paper napkins through formal design, validation, test, production, warranty/returns, and design improvements over several generations of the products. Both.

Arlington, VA, US

Worked on the development and flight testing of the A160T Hummingbird, a 6,500 lb fully-autonomous helicopter that broke the world record for longest endurance helicopter flight. Contributed to simulation of rotor dynamics, development of autonomous auto-rotation profiles, system identification and characterization, flight control law development, and.

Bs, Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

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