ABOUT ME

I grew up staring at the Black Sea.

Watching the horizon disappear into the sky.
Wondering where it ended.
Imagining it touching the stars.

That curiosity never left.

I learned early that the world expands for people who are willing to question it.

Years later, that same instinct led me into artificial intelligence — not as a trend, but as a frontier.

AI is not about models.
It’s about possibility.

But possibility without structure becomes chaos.

I’ve built AI in places where failure had consequences.
In public safety environments.
In global financial systems.
Across 210 markets.
Inside institutions serving hundreds of thousands of people.

Different environments. Same lesson:

Intelligence must be designed.
Governed.
Aligned.

Or it erodes the very systems it intends to improve.

My work sits at the intersection of imagination and discipline.

I design operating systems for AI — where capital, technology, and people move in rhythm.

Where innovation compounds.
Where institutions hold.

The future belongs to those who can see beyond the horizon — and build the infrastructure to reach it.

The sea taught me that.
The stars confirmed it.
The rest is execution.

Mastercard
Led global AI product innovation across 210 markets. Shaped $1.5B+ in AI capital and built a $547M revenue pipeline, moving 50+ AI products from lab to production.

NYC Crime Commission
Founded the AI Lab in partnership with Carnegie Mellon. Built one of the first personalized AI cybercrime training tools and deployed AI under real operational constraint.

CUNY
Chief AI Officer. Scaled a 24/7 AI platform serving 275K+ users across 25 campuses, replacing fragmented pilots with governed infrastructure.

University of Hawai‘i
Chief AI & Technology Officer. Aligned 10 campuses around AI.

X-Volante
Advised Fortune 500 and fintech operators, taking GenAI from concept to funded production systems in 30–60 days.

Omnivest Consulting
Built predictive AI models for equity risk and NBA market forecasting.

SpaceBillions
Connecting corporations to the $1T+ commercial space economy and positioning enterprises for the next infrastructure frontier.

John Jay College & NYU
Professor. Taught at the intersection of law, cyber, and AI.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher | Bloomberg | Chubb Limited
Early career in law, financial markets, and global risk — foundations in regulation, compliance, and capital systems.