Advisor to the Founder/CEO

Seed & Series A fund with primarily ex-Uber LPs -- investing across aviation, deep-tech, consumer, and more.

Selected portfolio across aviation, bits & atoms, consumer, fintech, and more:Aviation, Defense, and Robotics:Archer Aviation (passenger eVTOL, NYSE: ACHR)Anduril (Lockheed Martin of the 21st century)Aero (first-class only private jets)FLYR Labs (Palantir for airlines & hospitality)Elroy Air (electric cargo drones)Regent Craft (all-electric seagliders)Odys Aviation (regional, hybrid VTOL)Varda Industries (space factories)SkySelect (airline maintenance automation)Whisper Aero (ultra-quiet propulsion for everything from jets to drones to HVAC)Shield AI (aircraft autonomy for DoD)Aerodome (drone as first responder)Hadrian (software-defined aerospace factories)Bits & Atoms:Cape (security-first MVNO)Athena (AI-powered assistants)Eight Sleep (Peloton for sleep)SkyFi (on-demand, near realtime satellite imagery)Culdesac (car-less cities)UpSmith (skilled workforce development)Kinetic Automation (Genius Bar for AVs)Assembly OSM (digital twins for real estate)Unit (banking as a service)Levels (personalized metabolic health)Atomic Machines (reinventing fabrication)Evolv Technology (AI-powered human security) - NASDAQ: EVLVCommodityAI (shipping/logistics mgmt)EdgeTrace (real-world video understanding)Paradigm (AI automation)Consumer & Creator:True Medicine (revolutionizing HSA/FSAs)Laws of Motion (AI-driven fit tech)JOKR (15-min grocery delivery)Airlift (fast delivery in Pakistan)Neverland (Chewy for plants)Anomalie (custom wedding dresses) - acquired by David's BridalArcane (AI-powered Roblox)Fintech:Pasito (reinventing employee benefits)Hardfin (BNPL for capital equipment)Runway Financial (business financials)Check (next gen payroll infrastructure)Unit (credit cards as a service)Laminate (credit card issuing on-demand)

Advisor to the Founders & CEO

Advisor to the CEO

Advisor to the Founder/CEO

Advisor to the Founder/CEO

Advised clients in digital product management, aviation, and urban air mobility

Raised $4M from top investors to build something new in the consumer social space with an incredible team. Launched to strong reception, sold the company to leading NASDAQ-listed media & technology co in Apr 2022 and served as acquirer’s Chief Product Officer & President, Digital.

Co-founded Uber Elevate (uber.com/air), Uber's urban aviation division, and spun off / sold the unit to Joby Aviation in 2020. Jointly authored the Elevate Whitepaper (uber.com/elevate.pdf) in 2015 together with Uber's CPO and a small team of industry advisors. The Elevate team grew to 100+ since its founding, with a mission to build Uber Air: an aerial ridesharing service launching in 2023 within the Uber platform utilizing fleets of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft across Dallas, LA, and Melbourne.Co-created our Uber Copter product (launched June 2019 in NYC), Uber's first multimodal product, including an 8-minute helicopter flight between Manhattan and JFK airportCo-created Uber Eats drone delivery initiative (San Diego)

- Launched the redesigned Rider App in Q3'2016, with a focus on the pickup experience, as well as emerging markets- Invented Uber Beacon (uber.com/beacon), Uber's first scaled hardware product, and launched to 300k+ drivers globally. Managed project from conception through mass production, certification, and distribution, working with numerous vendors and contract manufacturers throughout.

- Owned numerous driver-facing features across India, China, and Southeast Asia- Created UberDOST, app-supported third-party affiliate network for driver-partners, today accounting for up to 1/3 of our new driver supply in over a dozen emerging markets

Management consultant in McKinsey's Silicon Valley Office, advising TMT clients on growth strategy, M&A, digital distribution, and new product entry. Clients included a Hollywood film studio, a distressed payments OEM, a F500 tech company's Retail division, UK-based BLE beacon manufacturer, a global hotel chain, a primary US cable company, a major US airline, and a global data storage company's Asia business.

Bitcast.io was a community-driven marketplace for vocational content. Raised seed funding and served content to over 10,000 users

Chachii was an online labor marketplace (a la TaskRabbit) for India, headquartered in Mumbai. We employed hundreds of contractors and grew to thousands of customers across India.

Product for Content & Curators team - built v2 of the YouTube Editor (youtube.com/editor)

PlayReady DRM technology for use by partners including Netflix, Comcast, and Sky to enable streaming media on Xbox, PC, iOS, and Android.

Microsoft Lync (Office Communicator at the time). Worked with engineering team to design and prototype several cross-platform extensibility features for PC and VOIP handsets.

Worked on a classified program to improve our nation's foreign threat detection capabilities.

NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - worked alongside the Integrated Assembly Team Lead for the Upper Stage of the Ares I to develop a comprehensive product indenture for CAD designs.