Founder & CEO, EightAI
I build and deploy production AI inside companies.
I've raised the capital, built the teams, and shipped the products. Now I want to own one hard problem inside a great company — all the way down.
At EightAI I build LLM and agent systems on regulated healthcare data — running the credentialing and insurance-claims work behind 500+ providers, used every day by non-technical operations teams. Zero to production in under six months. Before that: two-time VC-backed founder, principal at a $300M technology fund, and internet equity analyst at J.P. Morgan. I work best where AI actually has to ship and hold up in production.
01 · Building
Production AI, in daily use
Founder & CEO of EightAI — LLM and agent systems I built hands-on (React, Firebase, GCP) on regulated healthcare data handled under BAAs, used by non-technical operations teams managing 500+ providers. Zero to production in under six months.
02 · Founding & investing
Two-time founder, former VC
Built two VC-backed AI and data companies from zero — leading an 18-person team across three countries — and invested across 40+ companies as a venture principal, seed to pre-IPO.
03 · Public markets
Internet equity analyst
Covered the US internet sector on J.P. Morgan's Institutional Investor–ranked team, through the Facebook, Twitter, and Alibaba IPO cycle.
Track record
Analyst. Investor. Founder. Operator.
Nearly twenty years across Wall Street research, venture capital, and company-building — the same judgment, applied from every seat at the table.
2011 – 2014
J.P. Morgan — Equity Research, U.S. Internet
Named author on 13 published reports initiating coverage — Facebook, Twitter, and Zynga among them — on an Institutional Investor–ranked team, through the Facebook, Twitter, and Alibaba IPO cycle.
13 initiations
2014 – 2018
CNTP — Principal, $300M technology fund
Principal on a 40+ company portfolio from seed to pre-IPO — Fiverr (IPO), Deep Instinct, vArmour — co-investing alongside Bessemer, Accel, NEA, and Coatue across enterprise SaaS, consumer internet, and deep tech.
40+ investments
2019 – 2023
Ludis Analytics — Co-founder, COO & CFO
Scaled a VC-backed data-science platform to 11 enterprise customers — NBA teams, NCAA programs, Cricket Australia — raising $5M and leading an 18-person team across three countries. Still a Board Director.
$5M raised · 18-person team
2023 – Present
EightAI — Founder & CEO
Built and shipped production LLM agents on regulated healthcare data for 500+ providers — operated daily by non-technical teams, taken from zero to production in under six months. VC-backed by TransLink.
500+ providers
Earlier: equity research at Nomura, Oppenheimer, and Kaufman Bros. (2007–2011) · Northwestern University, Economics · Phillips Exeter Academy
The seat I keep choosing
From the board narrative to the calendar — and accountable for everything in between.
The range from CEO to minute detail is the career I've built. I've been the trusted #2 by choice — and it's the work I do best.
Lead associate to an Institutional Investor–ranked analyst at J.P. Morgan. Right hand to five general partners at a $300M fund. Cofounder, COO, and CFO to my CEO. I go from setting the board narrative to fixing the calendar to sitting in user-feedback sessions to shipping product features.
I've owned the whole arc — the capital, the team, the product, the P&L — so I have nothing to prove by owning it again. What I want now is to put that judgment behind one principal and one hard problem. This is the seat I'm choosing, not the one I'm settling for.
Based in San Francisco. Available to work with companies anywhere.
Get in touch.
I'm looking at AI deployment leadership, chief of staff, and senior strategy roles — anywhere a hard problem needs an owner. If that's your company, reach out.