Spearhead capital raising initiatives, structure strategic investments, oversee legal affairs, and manage tax filings to commercialize intellectual property portfolio in industrial robotics and artificial intelligence housed at Carnegie Mellon University. Successfully secured numerous investments from private and publicly traded corporations, as well as venture capital firms, establishing an initial valuation of nearly $100 million. Additionally, serve as co-founder and acting CFO for two Carnegie Foundry portfolio companies currently engaged in active funding rounds.

Freespace Robotics developed the next generation of Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS). Spun out of the Robotics and AI Venture Studio, Carnegie Foundry, the company engineered an AS/RS system with the density of a cube and the speed of a shuttle system. The new design is hyper space efficient, high-speed, and adaptable to any size, shape, and temperature environment.

Board member and finance support for Carnegie Foundry portfolio company focused primarily on fraud prevention. VoxEQ develops proprietary AI models to determine speaker demographic information from a speaker’s voice. Work on financial strategy and oversight, capital planning, strategic partnerships, and investor relations.

Founding executive in start-up charitable organization formed to invest in nation’s poorest zip code. Closed over $11 million in real estate acquisitions and raised approximately $100 million of capital to redevelop central business district of Erie, Pennsylvania. Significant operational and deal work experience, including financial modeling, structured finance, fund management and use of tax credits and incentives, including national recognition for investment in Federal Opportunity Zones. Diverse real estate and development experience, including construction and marketing of 126 apartment units, 100,000 square feet of commercial space, including a grocery store, food hall and a 312-space parking garage.

Act as general counsel for business and non-profit organizations. Experience overseeing transactions involving acquisitions, dispositions and mergers of business entities, business entity selection and the formation and succession of closely-held business entities.

Member of the business, tax and estate planning practice groups.

Senior associate in the mergers & acquisitions tax practice. Performed tax due diligence assistance services, tax structuring of domestic and cross-border acquisitions and drafted tax opinions to support various transactions and corporate deductions.