experience
VP of Operations
New York, NY • Founding Team
Joined the founding team to build electronics manufacturing and operations from scratch. Standing up a factory, managing supply chain and vendor relationships, building automation systems, and improving the customer purchasing experience.
CEO and Founder
Breadboard (Acquired by EETech)
New York, NY
Founded AI-driven electronics supply-chain platform, facilitating $500M+ in component transactions, saving clients 3–5% on spend and increasing their revenue ~15% through accelerated quoting and procurement
Raised $4.2M in VC funding; negotiated and closed acquisition by EETech in July 2025
Built key innovations including LLM-powered supplier negotiations, OCR-based data extraction for BOMs, RFQs, and POs, and linear programming algorithms for optimizing supplier allocations
Full-stack founder: handled sales, product design, engineering, finance, operations, and customer onboarding; grew to 60+ enterprise manufacturers in under 3 years
VP of Product → VP of Commercial Strategy
H1 (First Employee)
New York, NY
Joined pre-revenue as first employee; led product development and established product-market fit for a platform profiling every doctor globally, enabling life sciences companies to engage top healthcare providers
Transitioned post-PMF to build and scale commercial operations, launching sales engineering, customer success, implementation, and consulting teams
Helped scale from zero revenue to $30M+ ARR, raised over $200M in funding, and grew the team from 1 to 400+ employees
Product Engineer
dv01 (Acquired)
New York, NY
Built analytics platform used by leading hedge funds and investors to manage portfolios totaling over $4T in asset-backed securities
Co-founder and CTO
ResearchConnection (Acquired)
New York, NY
Co-founded in college; launched a searchable research platform adopted by 25 universities, connecting 50,000 researchers and 20,000 students; secured $500K funding and exited via Gates and Kauffman Foundations
Data Engineer
Brooklyn, NY
Built Microscope, an internal tool for searching and replaying user sessions based on any criteria—location, spend, behavior, and more. Used across product research, customer service, and bug fixing. Worked with Spark/Scala, Elasticsearch, PHP, and Vertica
education
Binghamton University
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science
The Frisch School
High School
elsewhere
I've been on a few podcasts and in some articles talking about supply chains, electronics, and building Breadboard:
EETech acquires Breadboard — press release, Jul 2025
PCB Chat on supply chain management — podcast, Oct 2024
Frisch Entrepreneurship Guest Lecture — Sep 2024
Interview on building Breadboard — video podcast, Sep 2024
Hardware to Save a Planet on Breadboard — podcast, Jul 2024
Breadboard raises $1M seed round — Yahoo Finance, Nov 2022
Discussion on supply chain challenges — video podcast, Sep 2022
Interview on electronics manufacturing — video podcast, Aug 2022
H1 Insights raises $12.9 million — AI Journ, Apr 2020
Launching ResearchConnection at Binghamton — Binghamton University Newspaper, Nov 2014