Technology · Markets · Society

Building businesses.Rethinking markets.Exploring what’s next.

Technology executive and independent thinker at the intersection of artificial intelligence, digital assets and the future of economic infrastructure.

Research

Original thinking for a changing world.

AI is moving from answering questions to doing things. As software starts to buy, sell and settle on our behalf, markets need new foundations: identity, authority, trust and payment.

My papers explore how those foundations could work, and what they mean for the people and businesses who will use them.

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Perspective

“We are moving from software that assists to agents that participate. That changes everything about how markets work.”

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About

Complicated technology, made useful.

I’m a founder, operator and product leader with more than two decades of experience across financial services, software, SaaS, AI, fintech, crypto and startups.

Most of my career has been spent turning emerging technology into products people can use, businesses that scale and operating models that work in the real world.

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