His experiences include leading product for a Series B, VC-backed fin-tech company with 10 figures of assets under management, campaign managing a 2020 NYC mayoral election where the candidate polled into top 10, leading Meta’s core ads’ business integrity product and policy across the family of apps (Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, Whatsapp), and extensive pro-bon technology & policy advising for nonprofits including Trickle Up, UNICEFUSA, U.S. Department of Defense, Leadership Now Project, along with being a teaching assistant for 400 students in 9 graduate courses at Columbia Business School and Columbia SIPA. He serves as one of the youngest board of directors for Bronx Arts Ensemble (5 million assets under management), Jericho Project (100 million assets under management), and PIPS Education Fund (helped organization get acquired), and numerous more from his financial and management experiences.
He is a published researcher cited in international education books along with his research backed by the NIH, and has advanced DEI corporate equity through his findings on group dynamic homogeneity versus heterogeneity in business outcomes at Columbia Business School; held 15 leadership roles at the University of Pittsburgh, including co-founding two social justice student organizations and a food insecurity program at Pittsburgh Public Middle & High-School providing nutritious food to 500 low-income students every day for 2 years, and worked 13 years at his family restaurant since the age of 13 and into college where he now is the executive chairman leading the company into the web3, crypto, & saas software vertical space with 7 figure arr. He serves on the Board of Advisors for the University of Pittsburgh Honors College and Door Dash. His entrepreneurial interests and expertise lie in the web3, consumer, gen-z, U.S-China relations, and technology space.
He holds a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University as one of the youngest policy graduates where he triple specialized in Technology Media, East Asia and Management, and double concentrated in Urban & Social Policy and Economic & Political Development where he was awarded the highest accolade across the university — the 2020 Campbell Award — and a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Philosophy (masters) from the University of Pittsburgh Honors College where he quadrupled majored in Economics, Business Administration Management, Psychology, and Political Science & Government, with Summa Cum Laude and Magna Cum Laude honors along with 33 other accolades. He withdrew from the Ed.M program at Harvard University after raising a million dollars from Lightbank VC as a sole founder for his start-up Subscribe Store, which was acquired by Toast.