Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Remote

• Contributor at Forbes, specializing in digital assets. I provide in-depth analysis and insights on the evolving landscape of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, helping to inform and engage readers on these transformative topics.

Jul 2024 – Jan 2025 · 6 mos

• As a columnist at CoinDesk, I write op-ed pieces focusing on the latest trends and developments in cryptocurrency and blockchain. My articles cover the evolution of venture capital in crypto, regulatory impacts, and the future of decentralized finance. I aim to provide clear, accurate, and engaging insights to inform and provoke thought within the crypto community.

Jan 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · Remote

• The CryptoFund is a pooled fund of bitcoin and ether. It is a part of UNICEF's Innovation Fund, with the distinction that investments made through the CryptoFund are denominated in crypto. By sharing the public records of crypto transfers, the CryptoFund aspires to create visibility for the donor and the public, adding a layer of transparent accounting to the donation and investment processes. The CryptoFund is a prototype fund for UNICEF to explore the use of digital currencies, and what it means to operate in a digitally-financed future.

Jan 2024 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Morph is pioneering the next evolution of blockchain technology, making it more accessible, scalable, and user-friendly for everyday applications. With our modular architecture, we’re redefining how blockchain integrates into real-world use cases—balancing security, efficiency, and usability to bring mass adoption closer than ever.
• Since launch, we’ve successfully raised $20 million to accelerate our vision, partnering with top investors who believe in the need for a consumer-first blockchain experience.

Oct 2023 – Apr 2024 · 6 mos

• The fellowship program aims to make Web3 universally easy to use, access, and build on. Over 12 weeks, we'll support 15 early-stage startups virtually and IRL, harnessing the power of MetaMask SDK, MetaMask Snaps, and Linea.

Jun 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos

• This research initiative, jointly launched by the World Economic Forum and the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, explores the future of global fintech.

Nov 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

May 2023 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos

• As an Venture Partner at Foresight Ventures, I leverage my expertise to support an innovative blockchain-centric firm managing a diverse range of funds exceeding $400 million in total AUM. I contribute strategic advice to the portfolio companies, fostering their growth within a dynamic ecosystem. The team comprises industry veterans from leading firms like Sequoia Capital and Google. Some of the portfolio's success, include trailblazers like Everyrealm, Matrixport, and Zebec.

May 2023 – Jun 2023 · 1 mo

• 'Build The Block' is the first crypto-themed entrepreneurial competitive reality show and marks Binance's foray into Metaverse-oriented reality shows. The seven-episode show will premiere on May 12 and will be available for viewers to watch on Binance Live and its official YouTube account. The selected startups were picked from a pool of 900 candidates.
• "'Build The Block' is Binance's latest innovative experiment – to create the industry's first metaverse investment competition. This initiative has attracted a large number of Web3 entrepreneurs and builders to participate and showcase their projects.

Apr 2023 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr

Feb 2023 – Dec 2023 · 10 mos

• Headed a social impact Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), distributing over $50 million in grants, creating $29 billion in global financial impact.
• Led fundraising activities, securing tens of millions of dollars for global projects.
• Participated in the World Economic Forum's Crypto Sustainability Coalition and the Future of Global Fintech research initiative.
• Led UNICEF's first experiment in quadratic funding.
• Developed and executed Coinbase's policy maker education initiative in collaboration with Zora and Nouns DAO.
• Forged partnerships with leading web3 companies such as Uniswap, Optimism, Protocol Labs, Binance, OKX, BitGet, Gnosis, zkSync, and others.

Aug 2022 – Mar 2023 · 7 mos

• Gitcoin has been funding a wide range of open-source public goods, distributing over $50 million in grants to builders internationally, many of whom have gone on to create some of the most impactful companies in the web3 ecosystem, including Plasma Group (now Optimism), Prysm, Uniswap, xDAI (now Gnosis Chain), and Yearn Finance.

May 2022 – Jul 2022 · 2 mos

• Assisted on raise for Grants Round(GR)14 with a total $4.9m distributed to over 1250 grantees. $3.2m was from funders including Coinbase, Polygon, Yearn, AAVE, Anoma, and Pleasr. And $1.7 came from over 44,000 individual contributors who made over 600,000 total contributions.

Jan 2022 – Apr 2022 · 3 mos

• Selected from 2200+ applicants and 500+ interviews for a part-time web3 learning + collaborative building fellowship. Learning & building with friends.

Feb 2023 – Jan 2024 · 11 mos · Remote

• Mentor to the Crypto Packaged Goods accelerator program

Apr 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Category Lead for Trading in DAO
• Weekly contributor to the FWB tl;dr

May 2021 – Sep 2021 · 4 mos · New York, United States

• LDV is an early stage venture fund focused on imaging, machine perception, and innovative businesses enabled by advances in machine perception.

Feb 2021 – Dec 2021 · 10 mos

• Fully launched web3 crowdfunding platform built for creatives. Raised $1.25m through a token sale and went through the Polakstarter launchpad.

Oct 2020 – Dec 2020 · 2 mos

• The On Deck Fellowship is an invite-only 10-week program, designed to bring the very best talent from across the On Deck network together to connect over a series of digital gatherings, expert workshops, 1:1 introductions, and more.

Sep 2020 – Jan 2021 · 4 mos

• Aglet is a location based mobile game best described as Pokemon Go meets a virtual Foot Locker. The team is a remote first and fully distributed team across New York, Los Angeles, Germany, United Kingdom, Poland, Australia, and New Zealand.
• Since launch the company has acquired a sizable user base. It's been featured in Forbes, Tech Crunch, Business Insider, Vogue Business, and High Snobiety. It also raised a $1.8m seed round from notable investors such as Lakestar Ventures, Forecast Ventures, Index Ventures, and angels such as Andre Iguodala

Mar 2020 – Sep 2020 · 6 mos

Aug 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater New York City Area

• Based out of New York City, Unanimous Games is a full service eSports company bridging the gap between the esports industry and the entertainment world. Our mission is to give an amplified voice to an underrepresented community of gaming enthusiasts (casual & avid). Not only are we providing an elevated gaming experience on the front end, our aim is to provide every gamer within our ecosystem the opportunity to explore the business of esports on the back end as well.

Feb 2016 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr · Greater New York City Area

• At Blasé we believe we believe emerging technology has the potential to reach audiences in ways that have not been explored. But to do that we need to bridge the gap between humans and technology. Creating powerful engagement requires thinking about the user each step of the way.
• We offer full-suite desktop, responsive, and app design, as well as development services. Our process runs the gamut start to finish: from content strategy, through experience and user face design, and into development.
• Our approach is far from typical, but at the end of the day we love to build great products that people love.
• Notable clients: Kanye West, Rae Sremmurd, Teyana Taylor, Bryson Tiller, Dreamville Records, Bishop Briggs, Kamaiyah
• Established and led sales to $240,000 revenue over a 12-month period through sales and business development efforts.
• Delivered web and mobile apps covered in Vogue, Forbes, NBC, People, Allure, Huffington Post, Billboard, and The Fader
• by working with client, design team, development team through launch.
• Cumulative user base of different apps over 5.2 million.
• Created products for multi-platinum recording artists Kanye West, Rae Sremmurd, Bryson Tiller, and Teyana Taylor

Sep 2014 – Mar 2015 · 6 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Born and bred in the heart of New York City and supported by some of the best business leaders on the planet, KATALYST offers a portal into the world of technology & innovation through special events and integrated marketing campaigns with the world's leading media, technology and entertainment brands.
• Notable event: Carmelo Anthony, then of the New York Knicks — 8-time NBA All-Star and co-founder of Melo7 Tech Partners — joined forces with MADE Fashion Week, KATALYST LIVE, Intel and Accenture to launch FAST A/W15, a unique showcase that brought the forefront emerging technologies, key collaborators and innovations defining the future of fashion, sports and technology.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 · 6 yrs · Greater New York City Area

• Medici Consulting Group is a boutique Marketing, Branding, and PR firm. We guide startups and artists with advice on how to achieve future goals, and provide direction to create effective strategies for growth. Medici uses expertise, industry experience, and analysis to help clients identify ways to increase revenue/market share. Overall, our main goal is to improve competitive advantage and to overall increase the value of businesses that we interact with.
• Our work has appeared in our been mentioned by Newsweek, The Washington Post, Daily Dot, Complex, Hip Hop Wired, VH1, BET, HipHopDX, Yahoo News, XXL, Revolt, VladTV, In Flex We Trust, The front page of Hip Hop Heads on Reddit, Hot New Hip Hop, All Hip Hop, Vibe, WatchLoud, Enstarz, Byron Crawford, The Boombox, Music Times, The Examiner, MicChronicles, TheyBF, ADW News, FM Hip Hop, Design & Trend, The Urban Twist, UpRoxx, Selectic Magazine, Bluntiq, Black Sports Entertainment, RapFav, Chicago Defender, BuzzWars, Rap Wave, Hollywood Unlocked, Staydown HQ, 804 Street Media, Rap Genius, StufflyPeopleLike, Radio Facts, 24 Urban, Locker Dome, WhatsTheAction, HipHop Enquirer, OVO Forums, Foxy99, The Urban Daily, and more.

Jan 2014 – Feb 2014 · 1 mo · Greater New York City Area

• When you understand the blockchain and grasp the enormous potential that it possesses, an obvious opportunity presents itself. Marrying top brands in the entertainment industry with this powerful new technology is somewhat similar to owning a domain name in the early days of the internet. When the web was just taking off, domain names presented entertainers with the ability to harness the information flow surrounding their brand. Digital currency will prove to trump the value of the internet for brands as the protocol offers a completely new way to monetize their time in the spotlight. This is what birthed the idea of the alt-coin, Kim Coindashian.
• The success of the company was short lived as we received a cease and desist letter that forced us to shut down before we wanted to for fear of legal repercussions.

Apr 2013 – Jul 2017 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Contributing writer with the Huffington Post.

Apr 2013 – May 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Boston Area

• Co-founder at Outlet, an Angel-backed startup. It's a service that allowed users to license their User Generated Content to the media in terms of photos and videos.
• Spearheaded $250,000 in angel funding and over 50,000 app downloads
• Project managed outsourced design and mobile and web development teams with $20,000/month budget.
• Featured in Boston Herald, Boston Globe, Metro Boston, Boston Magazine, and Bostinno, Boston Business Journal, and
• Boston.com and winner of 2013 Young Entrepreneur Initiative through French Foreign Ministry

May 2012 – May 2013 · 1 yr · Greater Boston Area

• AbVitro is a next-generation antibody discovery platform focused on discovery of human-derived antibodies that are otherwise intractable using existing approaches. Based on the technology developed at the George Church laboratory of Harvard Medical School, we use proprietary Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies to gain insights into the biology that underlies physiological and pathological adaptive immune responses and discover human Ab therapeutic candidates.
• Technology development for next-generation human genome sequencing.
• Directing day-to-day operations of internationally recognized scientists for antibody sequencing.
• Responsible for writing and maintaining protocols used by entire lab and designing studies for junior staff scientists.

Aug 2011 – May 2012 · 9 mos · Greater Boston Area

• Rolony Based Sequencing
• Principal Investigator: George Church
• Mentor: Frederic Vigneault
• Location: Harvard Medical School Wyss Institute
• Description: Technology development: Next-gen sequencing, DNA synthesis, Metabolic engineering, Automation.

Jun 2010 – May 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Boston Area

• The Major Histocompatability Complex in the Anolis Lizard
• Principal Investigator: Scott Edwards
• Mentor: Ricardo Godinez
• Location: Harvard University
• Department: Evolutionary Biology
• Description: Characterizing the MHC of the anolis lizard, and studying its evolution in order to reconstruct the MHC of ancestral amniotes.

Dec 2009 – Sep 2010 · 9 mos · Greater Boston Area

• Industrial Experience; Employee of a start-up clinical molecular diagnostics company based on next-generation sequencing technology aimed at multiplex pathogen detection

Dec 2009 – Aug 2010 · 8 mos · Greater Boston Area

• Pathogen Detection
• Principal Investigator: Dr. George Church
• Mentor: Dr. Adeyemi Adesokan
• Department: Genetics
• Skills: Polymerase Chain Reaction (quantitative and Semi-quantitative), gel electrophoresis, multiplex PCR
• Description: Working with Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology that makes reading DNA fast, cheap and widely accessible. Using that technology to develop a way to quickly, precisely, and cost effectively detect pathogens.

May 2009 – Mar 2010 · 10 mos

• BU EMS is a service offered by Boston University for the fitness and recreation center, athletic events, concerts and any other events held by the university. My duty was to be an on hand emergency medical technician in the event of any unforeseen unfortunate events. The roles and responsibilities were no different than that of any EMT. Also, I was an instructor for teaching the lab portion of classes which entailed going over different scenarios as well as teaching the practical techniques to students (CPR, splinting and spinal immobilization skills, patient assessment, vital signs, trauma management, medical management and airway management). I learned to be more comfortable in a clinical setting, and as opposed to observing, I was also able to put the skills and knowledge I had amassed into practice. With each new patient I was able to further solidify what I had been taught. Laboratory instruction was good because I was able to continuously brush up on skills that can be easy to forget, and learned to be more comfortable in a setting where the focus of attention was myself.

Dec 2008 – May 2012 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Provided administrative backup
• Helped visitors;
• Visited patients or transported various items, medical records, lab work, or drugs.

Sep 2008 – Sep 2012 · 4 yrs

• Duties vary depending on what is needed at the time.

Jul 2008 – May 2012 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Greater Boston Area

• The members of the Boston Medical Reserve Corps are called upon to help the City of Boston in public health emergencies and large special events such as the Fourth of July and the Boston Marathon. Operating under the Boston Public Health Commission, the Boston MRC maintains a team of both medical and non-medical volunteers to ensure that all Bostonians, especially the most vulnerable, are prepared and have access to the help they need during a public health emergency.

Jun 2008 – Nov 2009 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Sex differentiation in mammals
• Mentor: Dr. Kenn Albrecht
• Location: Boston University School of Medicine
• Department: Medicine/Genetics
• Skills: Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (quantitative and semi-quantitative), Whole-mount in situ hybridization, nanodrop, gel electrophoresis, cDNA synthesis, in vitro transcription, restriction digest
• Description: In the Albrecht Lab, I studied mouse gonad organogenesis. I analyzed gene expression patterns during embryonic development using RT-PCR and RNA in situ hybridization. We were particularly interested in genes with sex-specific or dynamic expression patterns, suggesting important roles in testis or ovary development.