Bio

The beginning of my career was spent tackling the biggest, most innovative project I could find: space exploration. I worked on satellites, space first aid, mars rovers, and rockets. Space exploration is inspiring and creates lots of valuable technology for Earth-based people. I had incredible experiences that I’ll never forget. I learned the power of narrative storytelling and messaging of hope that work in climate desperately needs.

My interest in working on climate change went from a hobby to an obsession. I left SpaceX to found Impossible Aerospace and prove to the world that it was possible to eliminate carbon emissions from aircraft today. This was my first jumping-off point into the world of startups and learning whether a capitalism-first, technology organization was the right container to bring about the change needed in our future.

Impossible taught me the value of government policy to bring about societal change when we were involved with several lobbying and policy efforts related to electric aviation. I explored that interest in policy experience further through the Lincoln Network’s Policy Hackers Fellowship.

After Impossible, I was the first employee at Bedrock Ocean Exploration: a public benefit corporation developing autonomous underwater vehicles to map the ocean floor. In addition to some really cool software I got to write, I also got the chance to explore the concept of a public benefit corp. and whether that aligned with my interests in climate.

I love serving as a resource and mentor to startups and I got the chance to mentor more than 50 climate startups while building Third Derivative, a next-generation accelerator for climate innovation. I learned a ton about different startups, but more importantly to me, I got to learn about how a non-profit in climate operates.

I left Third Derivative to spend some focused time working on Ribbit Network, set it up formally as a 501(c)(3), and plan out the future for that project. I’ve supported myself as an independent contractor/consultant for the past several years doing various projects and helping out various teams, mostly related to climate.