Selected Experience
I work with founders, executives, and investors to identify emerging opportunities, shape strategy, and turn ideas into meaningful growth. My work has included developing new commercial models, leading multiple eight-figure transactions, building large-scale operating programs, and creating partnerships between established companies and emerging AI businesses.
$27M
Deals closed in 2026 to date
8-figures
Largest deals led
Trillions
Tokens acquired and operationalized
FEATURED ENGAGEMENT
Created the publisher’s 1st commercial RAG licensing structure, reshaped pricing and packaging, and led the opportunity from outreach through a multi-year agreement. Read more here.
8-figure Healthcare AI Licensing Transaction
Client: Multinational academic publisher
Counterparty: OpenEvidence
Role: Origination, commercial strategy
FEATURED ENGAGEMENT
Client: Multinational academic publisher
Counterparty: Leading AI science platform
Role: Origination, commercial strategy
Structured and positioned a physical sciences dataset for licensing, developing the commercial package and leading pricing strategy across business, legal and product stakeholders.
8-figure Science AI Licensing Transaction
FEATURED ENGAGEMENT
Originated a data opportunity, advised the rights holder on AI demand and commercial positioning, and facilitated engagement with a well-funded U.S. AI lab.
7-figure major AI Lab Licensing Transaction
Client: Leading exam prep content owner
Client: Leading U.S. AI lab ($2B+ funding)
Role: Origination, strategic advisory
PRIOR IN-HOUSE EXPERIENCE
Built the operating model for acquiring and evaluating large-scale training data, spanning sourcing, procurement, legal review and quality evaluation. Supported benchmark improvements while reducing annotation costs by 40%.
Trillion token Data Acquisition function
Company: Cohere
Role: Head of Data Acquisition
PRIOR IN-HOUSE EXPERIENCE
Rebuilt Data Acquisition after an FTC Consent Order required the deletion of affected data and models. Within 18 months, launched a viral mobile app and global photographer network that generated 2M+ images from 40K data subjects in one year, reducing error rates across demographic groups.
2M+ image Computer Vision Data Program
Company: Paravision
Role: Director of Data Acquisition