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California, United States

Founded Tuatara Advisory to support the techno-economics of climatetech companies to provide conviction public- and private-sector investors. From first principles analysis to factory audits, we pull together technology and economics to provide integrated insights missing from traditional Independent Engineer and market reports. Clients include TPG, Apollo, US DOE, M&G, and New System Ventures.

Founded Tuatara Dev Cap to provide capital and operating support to project developers building climate positive infrastructure. Uses of dev cap include site control, FEL & FEED studies, debt & tax equity preparation, legal to negotiate feedstock & offtake agreements, permitting, and G&A for the development team. Tuatara does not fund technology development.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Acquired by Paragon Insurance Holdings

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

New Energy Risk accelerates the deployment of impactful technologies that addresses a global challenge by shouldering the technology performance risk for novel projects, allowing them to unlock financing and get to market.

New York City, Us

Provided technical and project development expertise focused on engineered carbon removal (direct air capture (DAC), biochar, BECCS, BiCRs).

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

· Conducted 200+ stakeholder interviews over 12 months to inform concept and programming for Carbontech Labs, the first and only startup accelerator focused on the carbon-waste-to-value sector· Led fundraising and donor relations for multi-year $9.75M public-private partnership involving bi-partisan partners to fund accelerator and provide pre-seed equity investment to graduating startups· Personally recruited 90+ member Advisory Network including corporates, institutional investors, functional and technical specialists, and government stakeholders· Delivered 15 conference and keynote presentations and numerous print media interviews· Published 6 blogs posts (most in the organization) demonstrating thought leadership in carbontech· Developed and executed startup recruiting plan that attracted 90+ applications· Researched market intelligence whitepapers on the carbontech market size, startup landscape, and available product landscape.· Hired and managed program team, including a full-time co-director and two consultants· Provided technical assistance to Carbon180’s policy team, including drafting model guidance for Department of Treasury and authorship on National Petroleum Council’s study on carbon captureCarbon180 was formerly Center for Carbon Removal.

San Diego, California, Us

4th employee in seed-stage, pre-product IoT hardware startup contributing to both technology development (85%) and customer discovery (15%)- Tool design: Design, fabricate, integrate with LabView, and test custom deposition equipment for porous thin films.- Instrument development: Design, fabricate, integrate with LabView, and test one-of-its-kind porosimetry instrument for porous thin films instrument for characterizing porous thin films at liquid nitrogen temperatures.- Cleanroom processing: used PECVD and ALD to modify commercial substrates for prototypes, then characterized them with ellipsometry.- High-throughput computer simulation: identified, wrote a proposal, and won an award of computing time at the National Energy Research Scientific Computer Center (NERSC) at Berkeley Lab, a government supercomputing center. Recruited, hired, and co-managed an intern who led the development of scripts to manage the high-throughput simulations.- Customer discovery: conducted six interviews with industry experts and possible users to identify which product features were most valued and why. Findings resulted in shifted focus of technology development.- Product development: Collaboratively drafted technical product development roadmap to identify key milestones and resource needs.- Grant writing: Contributed to writing both technical and business plan content of three SBIR proposals (DOE & NSF)

Munich, De

Siemens Technology-to-Business (TTB) forms strategic partnerships with startups that can accelerate Siemen's innovation cycles through non-equity mechanisms. Core emphasis was on Big Data and IoT platforms with smaller efforts in industrial robotics, cybersecurity, and smart grid. Created funnels with hundreds of startups then actively engaged several dozen for further conversations. Worked with in-house technical experts, operating units, and startups to identify best fits between startup's technology and Siemens' needs.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Science (Ms), Mechanical Engineering

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

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