Advising ATARC on Artificial Intelligence, Data Policy, and Federal Government adoption of Generative AI. The Charter of ATARC is to address emerging technology challenges, foster innovation, and facilitate the adoption of new technologies in government and industry.ATARC provides a collaborative forum between government, industry, and academic leaders to resolve emerging technology challenges. Alongside public forums, ATARC introduces innovative technology to the Federal government, providing agencies with crucial market research opportunities.ATARC’s core goal is to drive technological innovation and foster a working environment where public and private sectors can come together to solve complex challenges. ATARC’s events, white papers, research initiatives, Working Groups, and more are all designed to provide valuable insights and create a platform for open dialogue. Through this, ATARC serves as a trusted Federal advisor that serves as a catalyst for change in government.

Leading AI for an innovative Fintech SaaS. Current Projects: AI Grant Matching Application: Architecture for matching SMBs to Federal, State, and Private grants incorporating Microsoft Azure, OpenAI, and various open source models. Employs deep web scraping, government database training, function calling, and advanced knowledge management including RAG and RAPTOR. SmartGrants AI: Complete AI B2B SaaS Grant Application platform. System allows enterprises to discover, draft, and apply to grants reducing friction and time to funding by up to 80%. Includes a custom frontier AI architecture, AI proposal drafting, user management, segmented knowledge bases, and subscription billing.Product is in live beta with a scheduled release of Dec. 2024.

We are building the application layer to the Information Age. We deploy frontier AI solutions for government ​and enterprise to meet the ​needs of the future head-on.DeepInvent™ IP Acceleration Engine: We are developing an AI Innovation Engine based on a brain-inspired architecture that can reason and independently innovate. System employs model blending, RAG and RAPTOR vectorization, up to the minute scientific literature research and patent synthesis, 3D spatial knowledge graphs, and whitespace cluster analysis to generate new IP for organizations aiming to guide their research and development efforts while protecting the resulting IP. Patent Evaluation Engine: Developed an AI Patent Reviewer designed to comprehensively evaluate existing and proposed IP. Generative Personality Engine: Developed and brought to market a model to create high psychological fidelity personality clones of human subjects and developed an architecture to ingest these data and deliver a realistic multi-modal interactive character to users.

AI powered payment processing for SMBs. Recruited and developed exceptional executives and advisors to bring payment processing solutions to high RAR businesses in underserved sectors. Leveraging native banking rails in Asia and the Americas, I enabled our teams to implement checkout flows that significantly boosted conversion rates while minimizing fraud and risk. Payminto drives millions of dollars in incremental growth for clients every year.

Flowly (YC S21) is an AI-based VR app that manages chronic pain and stress. Flowly has been studied in NIH-backed clinical trials that show an average 40% reduction in opioid usage. Helped with growth and fundraising.

Co-Founded and oversaw product, talent management, organizational development, and marketing for cognitive enhancement and cognitive protective products. Marcus recruited and cultivated top advisor and team relationships including the SVP of External Innovation at Pfizer. Halcyon worked with top scientists, psychologists and health professionals around the world to translate scientific and technological advances into innovative nootropic products.

Fintech for IRAs. Served as CMO and oversaw business development strategy. iTrustCapital is the leading IRA provider for tax advantaged, high growth investment vehicles in Roth IRAs.

One of the first Augmented Reality companies ever to reach the consumer market. Raised $20 Million. Broke the crowdfunding sales record in our category selling $5.4M in product. Filed 19 patents starting in 2012. Facilitated the sale of the company in 2016. Recruited top advisors, engineers, investors, and executive talent.

Oversaw Succession Planning for $4B business. Assisted with people due diligence for M&A, IP council.

Wayne State University, Industrial Psychology, Data ScienceMunich University, Visiting Researcher 2009-2010, Cognitive Neuroscience

One of ten Americans chartered by the Humboldt Foundation to advance science diplomacy initiatives between Germany and the United States. My work focused on leveraging transformational leadership in a foreign policy context to support innovation.

Assisted research hosted at the Human Factors Interdisciplinary Research in Simulation and Transportation Program (HUMANFIRST), University of Minnesota. 
• Worked with Dr. John Bloomfield to investigate the effects of driver fatigue and sleep deprivation in truck drivers. • Operated an advanced immersive driving simulator to gather human factors data on driver attention and performance.