Open-source AI founder. Making AI tangible.

Member of Global Affairs staff at OpenAI since summer 2025, researching how AI applies to healthcare, patient empowerment, science and medicine, industry and education. I founded the AI company Pathmind, which helped companies with physical operations apply deep reinforcement learning to problems in supply chain and industrial control. In 2021, I led the Pathmind team to Clipboard Health, a unicorn healthcare startup. At CBH, I headed the data science team that built the pricing algorithms for a $300 million annual run rate marketplace matching nursing aids with nursing homes. CBH raised a growth round from Sequoia and became a unicorn while I was there. Pathmind grew out of Skymind, a Y Combinator startup (W16) that built open-source AI developer tools such as Deeplearning4j, now part of the Eclipse Foundation. Before that, I handled communications and recruiting for FutureAdvisor, an automated investment manager backed by Sequoia Capital. FutureAdvisor's AUM and revenue grew by 45x during my 20 months there, while the size of its team quadrupled. Startups I founded have been included in CB Insights' AI 100, TechCrunch's top 7 YC startups, and VentureBeat's Transform conference, and featured in the MIT Tech Review. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/26/1038643/ai-reinforcement-learning-digital-twins-can-solve-supply-chain-shortages-and-save-christmas/ I've led companies from 0 to $4 million a year in revenue, raised nearly $19 million in venture funding for it, and managed teams at blitz-scaling unicorns. Knowledge and skills: Deep learning, reinforcement learning, Artificial intelligence, LLM, finance, writing, product development, team-building, PR and recruiting. (Rusty) Languages: French, German, Spanish Interests: Supporting Ukraine. Fun fact: I juggle on a balance board to relax.