I was born in Pittsburgh, but grew up across three countries over seventeen years - the US, Mexico and Venezuela. Raised by doctors, curiosity was always rewarded, and I got hooked early on understanding how people think and how things work, from Nordic mythology to marine biology. Economics and finance eventually won out over law school, and a Master's at the University of Edinburgh brought a real shift: I didn't want a role, I wanted to build something.

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I became the third employee at a London startup building a MiFID II data solution - seven years, intern to Head of Data Analytics. I lived the realities of building from scratch: product-market fit, a seed round, pivoting fast - once spending two years on a machine learning platform only to scrap it when the market wasn't ready. That built real empathy for founders. Later, as an investor at Aramco Ventures focused on industrial technologies, I found depth hiding in sectors most people wrote off as boring. When Adara told me, "there are a lot of opinions, but we want people who can bring facts," I knew I'd found my place.

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