Capacity Architect · Entrepreneur · Strategist · Writer · Music creator
Given much. Built from scratch.
I’ve sat with world leaders to talk strategy and deals, and I’ve sat with people in the middle of spiritual crisis. I’ve audited billion-dollar funds and built a company from an apartment. Every stage taught me the same thing: capacity matters more than flash.
01 The record
Here’s what I bring to the table.
I don’t lead with this in conversation. But you’re deciding who to trust with your next chapter, and you deserve the whole picture.
Education & distinction
- Columbia Business School MBA · Dean’s List · Heffernan Memorial Award for Service & Leadership
- USC B.S. Accounting, cum laude · Presidential Scholar · Renaissance Scholar
- Minor in professional communication, USC Annenberg · Communication & negotiation, UNSW
- Eagle Scout at 13 · two weeks in the Rocky Mountains at 14
- National Merit Finalist · Loyola High School Cahalan Award · Loyola football
- Passed the SIE securities exam
Finance, capital & deals
- Deloitte audit senior on multi-billion-dollar hedge funds, mutual funds, and special-situation funds, coordinating teams in the US and India · earned CPA
- Venture partner: deal flow, due diligence, and investment opinions
- Helped establish and raise capital for three venture funds, two built around AI
- Led investment readiness, GTM, and financial model for a potential $12M debt raise
- Strategy and consolidated model for a proposed three-company merger in AI healthcare and devices
- Advised a SPAC founder through deal flow, assessment, and a completed target acquisition
- Guided two companies through projections, potential mergers, and VA hospital trial grants
- Founding co-president, Columbia Business School Venture Capital Club
Companies built & advised
- Co-founder & COO, Human Garage: apartment to ~$2.5M a year and a team of 39
- Co-founder & CEO, Faces of the Future (2020–now): venture studio head, 15 startup concepts, 30+ founders and executives guided
- Co-founder, CEE Ventures: technology and systems advisory for small businesses and startups
- Co-founder, SwipeZine: digital revenue products for publishers, radio, and musicians
- Chief Growth Officer, molecular hydrogen supplement brand
- 30+ startups advised, with projects in the US, Dubai, Singapore, Ghana, India, Japan, and Brazil
- Advisor, Union International & Co. (Singapore): deal flow and due diligence in global luxury and wellness markets, and US market entry for international clients
- Advisor, Urth Intelligence, a climate-focused fund of funds · The Water Code, water technology and heart-brain coherence
- Advisor to Lifter Leadership and The Conscious Playshop on IP, product strategy, and growth
- Strategic partnerships adviser, Exemplar Companies PBC
- Mentor, FasterCapital (Dubai): took startups through multiple funding rounds, from concept to product-market fit and US expansion
Wealth, ownership & legacy
- Founding council member, Foundation for Human Potential, a 501(c)(3) venture-philanthropy vehicle
- Conceived its model: put the highest-risk startup capital to work with full, immediate tax deductibility
- Fundraising and grant decisions for people and innovations in health, financial literacy, and community
- Studied and designed private membership associations and trusts for ownership, governance, and continuity
- Architected a contribution economy: phantom-stock-style participation units, mission pools, and rewards for verified contribution
- Taught 20 creatives and founders how to run their business finances
Media & influence
- Co-publisher, Faces of the Future magazine: UN General Assembly, US–Africa Leaders Summit, C40 Conference of Latin Mayors
- 92-page international issue in 7 days, 12 people, 4 countries, $500 budget · later issues included a Spanish-language edition for Latin America
- Adviser to the lead producer of an award-winning documentary on childhood obesity
- Convened 150+ artists, politicians, actors, entrepreneurs, and philanthropists, leading to meetings with governors, economic directors, and industry leaders
- GM of digital services, Beverly Hills Courier: led 28 people across two offices and four countries, Rodeo Drive promotions, sale at 2x for equity holders
- GM of digital, San Marino Tribune: built a hyper-local digital brand for the San Gabriel Valley
- Honored guest, first Misk Global Forum, Riyadh, 2016
- Won the Yale pitch competition with a Columbia venture · founded Columbia’s university-wide solve-athon
Human potential & practice
- Stood up a rejuvenation station for a 10,000-person event in one week, with no budget
- Mentored 12 healing practitioners and creatives into managers and leaders
- Traveled India alone for spiritual practice · Paramashivoham I & II · Light Wave · Way of Council
- Joe Dispenza seven-day advanced retreat · three years of consistent men’s work
- 1,000+ hours of channeling · dozens of Akashic and Human Design readings · remote-viewing training
- Years of relationship work, building a conscious partnership with Victoria
Creative & technology
- Two published albums as thecs3.po
- Co-host, The Startup of Human Potential podcast
- 500+ hours of self-taught AI and software development · built the Faces of the Future habit app
Service
- Served the homeless and supported people through spiritual emergencies
- Community work with TopangaSAFE and TopangaREACH
- Trained Way of Council facilitator
Spiritual training and hours reflect my own practice, not certifications. Proposed transactions are described as proposed. Structures are designed alongside each client’s own attorneys and tax advisors.
02 Finance. Wellness. Media. Consciousness.
Twenty years of building things that have to hold.
Companies, publications, funds, and communities, across wellness, capital, and media. I keep my head down and deliver.
2023 – now
Foundation for Human Potential
Founding council member, supporting fundraising and grant decisions for people and innovations in health, financial literacy, and community.
2020 – now
Faces of the Future
Co-founder & CEO, with Victoria Petrovsky. Venture studio head: guided 30+ founders and executives and led 15 startup concepts. Co-host of The Startup of Human Potential podcast.
Selected advisory
Capital & deals
Led investment readiness, GTM, and financial modeling for a potential $12M debt raise by a wellness-device company. Built the strategy and model for a proposed three-company merger in AI healthcare and devices.
2018 – 2023
Global advisory
Advisor for Union International & Co. (Singapore) on luxury and wellness deal flow and US market entry; mentor at FasterCapital (Dubai); advisor to Urth Intelligence and The Water Code.
2018 – 2021
Venture partner & advisor
Deal flow, due diligence, and founder mentorship. Helped raise capital for and establish venture funds; many founders I mentored went on to raise.
2015 – 2017
Columbia Business School
Founding co-president of the Venture Capital Club and of a university-wide solve-athon that brought MBAs, engineers, and policy students together. Took a Columbia venture to Yale and won its pitch competition.
2014 – 2018
Human Garage
Co-founder & COO. Grew an integrative wellness company from an apartment to ~$2.5M a year and a team of 39.
2014
Faces of the Future magazine
Co-publisher and editor-in-chief. Led a team of 12 across four countries to produce a 92-page international publication in seven days on a $500 budget, connecting entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and politicians. Distributed at the US–Africa Leaders Summit, the UN General Assembly, and the C40 Conference of Latin Mayors.
2013 – 2014
SwipeZine
Co-founder. Web and mobile revenue products for newspapers, radio stations, musicians, and local businesses.
2012 – 2014
Beverly Hills Courier
General manager of digital services, leading 28 people across two offices and four countries. Built an internal incubator for international websites and new revenue streams, ran promotions for Rodeo Drive events, and supported the sale process that returned 2x to equity holders.
2010 – 2012
Deloitte
External auditor, from audit associate to audit senior, on multi-billion-dollar hedge funds and clients across private equity, hospitality, and retail.
03 What I’ve practiced
Initiated, and grounded.
I’ve traveled India alone for spiritual practice and trained in Paramashivoham I and II, Light Wave, and the Way of Council. I attended Joe Dispenza’s seven-day advanced retreat, and have spent more than a thousand hours in intuitive and channeling work.
I’ve trained in remote viewing, explored intuitive body scanning, bent a few spoons, and given dozens of Akashic readings, including to prominent families. I share this as my own experience, not as a promise of anything. It means I take the unseen seriously, and I hold it accountable to real life.
For the past three years I’ve done consistent men’s work. I’ve also served the homeless, sat with people in spiritual emergencies, and supported my community through TopangaSAFE. Service keeps it real.
Hours are personal estimates, not certifications.
04 The life
A Total Life of Joy, lived out loud.
Topanga, Victoria, two cats, beach volleyball, and a long list of countries. I’ve worked through dismissive-avoidant patterns and built a loving, high-functioning partnership with someone who is my opposite. It’s the best leadership training I’ve had.
Podcast
The Startup of Human Potential
Conversations on building and becoming, co-hosted with Victoria.
Software
habits.fotf.app
A habit app I built, part of 500+ hours of self-taught AI and coding.
The question I’m working on
How do we establish physiological, social, and economic coherence, in one person and in whole communities, and how can technology empower it?
It’s the thread through the Foundation for Human Potential, Faces of the Future, the podcast, and the software I build.
Work with me