My journey began with a degree in engineering, which taught me to simplify complexity, and lead me to a two-year postgraduate career in the avionics industry where I worked on airborne radar systems for fighter jets.

I quickly learned that I was far more interested in the commercial application of deep technology and explaining use cases in simple terms to non-technical customers which led me to the world of management consulting where I learned about the importance of the talent management and leadership functions in the fast-changing financial markets.

At the ripe age of 25 armed with lots of ideas, I decided to pursue my first entrepreneurial venture which was a combination of strategy consulting, team building and software product services into investment banks and fund managers.

A few years later and with my first exit under the belt, I decided to continue to build new ventures which provided advisory services and web-based technology into the financial services sector.  Some succeeded and others did not but I continued to learn a huge amount: specifically, I learned a great deal about persistence and the importance of building ‘high-performance’ (meaning small teams that could deliver outsized returns) teams for my ventures and our clients.  Into the early 2000s and armed with this expertise and a desire to work in alternative markets, as some of the most talented traders left banks to start up their own hedge funds, I built an offering that served new start-up hedge funds as well as traditional funds wanting to launch alternative investment strategies.  At the same time, as I met highly talented newbie entrepreneurs, I helped to launch several new ventures in AI and voice technology.

In 2010 I moved to Singapore to learn about the Asian markets where I scouted for interesting new opportunities and then discovered blockchain technology.  In 2014 I had already developed a vision for building future high-growth ventures that could serve industries and would be built upon blockchain rails. To this end, I built a team which took academic research from a research lab at NUS and created a set of blockchain based ventures including Zilliqa, the layer-1 blockchain.

Since that time, I have been steadily fulfilling the vision and today am proud to say that I have created a portfolio of ventures, helmed by outstanding CEOs who are starting to combine the power of blockchain, metaverse, gaming and music technologies to help luxury brands to enter a new age where digital and physical come together.