Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · On-site

Oct 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

May 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Chicago, IL

• Lead AI, Crypto infrastructure investments and R&D initiatives for Jump
• Select Investments include: Mercor, Positron, Flapping Airplanes, Solana, Sui, Aptos, Phantom, Figure (IPO), Sei, Securitize, Backpack, Bitnomial, ZeroHash, Certora, P2P, 0x, Curv, Bitso, CoinDCX, BitGo (IPO), Asymmetric Research, Bitpanda

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2022 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Dec 2021 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Dec 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

Jun 2020 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs

Mar 2020 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs

Nov 2019 – Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Jul 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 2 mos

Dec 2018 – Present · 7 yrs 3 mos

Jul 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Jul 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

May 2018 – Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Jun 2017 – Sep 2021 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Jun 2017 – Jan 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Apr 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 11 mos

Apr 2016 – Jul 2021 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Mar 2016 – Dec 2021 · 5 yrs 9 mos

Oct 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 5 mos · Greater Chicago Area

• Lead Investments in Tech Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Intelligent Software, Decentralized Networks and Fintech
• Enterprise Infrastructure:
• Prompt Security (Gen AI and Agentic Security) - exited to SentinelOne
• LayerX Security (Enterprise Browser Security)
• TrueFoundry (Cloud-native PaaS to deploy ML / LLM applications)
• Siemplify (Security Orchestration and Automation)- exited to Google
• Cloud Conformity (Cloud Compliance and Security) - exited to Trend Micro
• Enso Security (Application Security Posture Management) - exited to Snyk
• Curv (MPC based Custody Infrastructure) - exited to PayPal
• Bitgo (Regulated Custodian Infrastructure for Digital Assets) - IPO'ed
• Flashpoint Intel (Deep & Dark Web Threat Intel) - exited to Audax
• Shipa (Application discovery and operations for Kubernetes) - exited to Mirantis
• RiskSense (Predictive Vulnerability Management) - exited to Avanti
• Global Illumination (Consumer facing AI Infra) - exited to OpenAI
• Rescale (High Performance Computing on Cloud)
• Ironscales (AI-powered email security)
• Foretellix (Verification Platform for Autonomous Vehicles)
• Prophecy (Low-code data transformation)
• Certora (Smart Contract Security Platform)
• NowSecure (Mobile Application Security)
• Aperio (Data Quality Infrastructure for Industrial companies)
• Sight Machine (Industrial Big Data Infrastructure)
• Application Software:
• LogicGate (GRC Workflow Automation)
• LinkSquares (AI powered Contract Analytics)
• Indico (Intelligent Process Automation)
• Osano (Data Privacy Software)
• Cypago (Cloud GRC Automation)
• Benchprep (Learning Management System)
• Fintech:
• TRM (Cross chain analytics and CryptoCompliance)
• CoinDCX (Leading Indian Crypto Exchange)
• Bitpanda (Leading European Crypto Exchange)
• Paradigm (Institutional Liquidity Platform)
• 3Commas (Leading Retail trading & Automation platform)
• CoinList (Leading digital asset origination platform)
• Eventus (Trade Surveillance Platform)
• OnJuno (Digital Banking Platform)

Oct 2013 – Oct 2015 · 2 yrs · Chicago / Greater New York City area

• Head of Global Marketing & Business Operations - Ideel
• February 2014 - October 2015
• Lead Marketing & Operations (Data Science/Analytics, Creative and Studio) teams for fashion e-Commerce division of Groupon
• Responsible for Revenue Management & Capabilities Building function across logistics, merchandising & planning
• Build Data Science, Business Intelligence & Analytics team and infrastructure to drive adoption of a data-centric culture across all company functions, identifying key insights from data, and building large-scale data products
• Head of Relevance Strategy, Groupon
• October 2013 - March 2014
• Product Management for Mobile experience – relevance, personalization, and search
• Instrumental in helping design real-time relevance – optimize user mobile experience by targeting them with most relevant deals on the go

Apr 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Chicago / Greater New York City Area

• Partner with great entrepreneurs to build game-changing companies
• Investing in healthcare services, managed care, consumer tech, payment / financial services & data-driven solutions
• Lightbank is a venture capital fund that invests in disruptive technologies and has 60+ companies in the portfolio. Lightbank partners have started 9 companies, invested in 60 companies and created over $10bn in equity value. Few notable companies are - Groupon, Innerworkings, MediaOcean, Echo Logistics, Belly, Contently, Benchprep, Udemy, Sproutsocial, Locu, Centzy, Frank & Oak, Qwiki.

Aug 2010 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Responsible for executing M&A and corporate finance transactions for private-equity & strategic clients

Sep 2009 – Sep 2010 · 1 yr · Greater Chicago area

• Founding team member of a disruptive education technology startup during my business school.
• BenchPrep (formerly Watermelon Express) is a cross-platform solution that allows students to buy educational and test prep content from leading publishers on any device (iPhone, iPad, Android, Desktop and Web) and seamlessly study across all devices. BenchPrep is ventured funded by NEA, Revolution Ventures & Lightbank.
• Won Chicago Booth New venture Challenge, voted top 5 startups of the Midwest and selected as one of the most innovative companies in education technology space at Venture Capital in Education conference in 2010
• Focused on: Publisher partnerships, customer acquisition, product development

Mar 2008 – Sep 2008 · 6 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Growth Equity Investments in India, Cross-Border Investments in US. Covered TMT, Financial Services and Healthcare sectors

Jul 2004 – Mar 2008 · 3 yrs 8 mos · New York / London

• Managed algorithmic trading of US Treasury and Agency markets and Lehman’s electronic trading book, identified various relative value arbitrage opportunities in the U.S. Treasury market, analyzed idiosyncratic risk exposure and developed hedge strategies, and developed data mining and modeling tools in Matlab to improve Lehman’s hit rate.
• Product Development - Coded and managed algorithmic trading products that traded ~$1bn daily notional over eTrading platforms
• Interest Rate Structuring for Investment Banking clients

Jan 2002 – Aug 2003 · 1 yr 7 mos · Paris Area, France

• September 2002 - August 2003
• Worked with A3 team (High Performance Computing group) on the design and
• development of a unified representation and polyhedral loop Nest transformation
• framework for ORC compiler called WRaP-IT. This involved unification of compiler
• optimization algorithms using Polyhedral Model (Linear Programming based),
• Polyhedral translation and code generation.
• January 2002 - August 2002
• Worked with CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) designing expert systems using Artificial Intelligence genetic algorithms.
• ARDECO (http://liris.cnrs.fr/Documents/Liris-598.pdf) has been an interdisciplinary project involving researchers from cognitive ergonomics and artificial intelligence. It aimed at studying the processes of experience reusing in design, in order to provide an efficient computer assistant for it. It has been funded by the French National Center for Scientific Research, and by the industrial partner Dassault Syst`emes.