Many people on the CRV team sharpened their competitive edge as Division I athletes, but I found mine on a stage through speech and debate. Looking back, competing on the national circuit all throughout high school became my training ground for investing, teaching me how to distill complex ideas into narratives, connect with people and build conviction.
While I grew up in the Bay Area immersed in tech and innovation, every summer my brother and I would escape the bubble to visit our grandparents in Vienna, Austria.
Being in a European cultural hub was a refreshing adventure, one that replaced the hype of internet applications and Silicon Valley’s forward momentum with days spent getting lost in museums, coffee shops and parks. Immersing myself in Austrian culture sparked a deep interest in history and connecting with people from all walks of life, along with a lasting appreciation for the arts and languages.
Unfortunately, the factory was nationalized in the late 1960s, effectively chaining its doors shut overnight. Seeing decades of work taken by external forces left a lasting mark on my family, shaping a deep skepticism toward entrepreneurship. For me, my great grandfather’s entrepreneurial legacy remains a foundational influence.
I saw my time at Stanford, in the heart of innovation and dreammaking, as a way to reclaim the entrepreneurial spirit our family once had.
I was one of a dozen students to join the esteemed Mayfield Fellows Program, a nine month work study program centered around principled leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation. Alongside my cohort, I learned by doing — pressure-testing ideas and business frameworks through case studies in the classroom and wearing many hats while interning at Canal (a then Series A e-commerce enablement platform). Joining the fellows community alongside alumni like Josh Reeves of Gusto, Kevin Systrom of Instagram and Justin Rosenstein of Asana helped me reframe entrepreneurship not as something fragile or fleeting, but as a craft worth pursuing with intention and conviction.
The program also brought me lifelong friendships. Living and working with my cohort created a constant exchange of ideas, lessons, perspectives and shared ambition. The environment—where everyone was genuinely invested in everyone else’s success—shaped my belief in teamwork, diversity of thought and collective progress.
It’s this exact quality that drew me to CRV, where teamwork is a value we live and breathe on the ground with the founders we partner with. We’re a small but mighty team, and I’m proud to work alongside folks who are committed to rolling up their sleeves for founders at the moments that matter most.
At Stanford, I completed both my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in management science and engineering, an interdisciplinary program that’s given me the skills to evaluate early stage companies through both a technical and strategic lens. Serving as a teaching assistant for courses on venture scaling and principled entrepreneurial decision-making taught me how enduring companies are built: first, through rigorous strategy — identifying non-obvious insights and inflection points that structurally enable scale — and second, through principled leadership, where values guide decisions in moments of real uncertainty and pressure.
Speech and debate taught me that one of my greatest strengths is connecting with people through humor.
I lean on humor to disarm moments, connect with people, and elevate ideas
I spent much of my time on campus working with the legendary GSB professor Jennifer Aaker, as a teaching assistant for her class, “Humor: Serious Business,” and exploring how humor builds trust and shared understanding in business contexts. I carry that lesson into my work, using humor to build genuine relationships with founders and people from different walks of life.
I spent much of my time on campus working with the legendary GSB professor Jennifer Aaker, as a teaching assistant for her class, “Humor: Serious Business,” and exploring how humor builds trust and shared understanding in business contexts. I carry that lesson into my work, using humor to build genuine relationships with founders and people from different walks of life.
I'm drawn to founders whose energy and commitment to a problem area is contagious.
At CRV, I focus on the application layer, with a growing fascination for the “dev-sumer” and the emerging infrastructure companies that shape how they build for the rest of the world. I’m most excited by founders operating at the forefront of some sort of disruption cycle – those who are relentlessly driven, unapologetically obsessed and so deeply committed to making something work that their belief becomes contagious.
I’ve always been deeply inquisitive. My childhood nickname, “Curious George,” still follows me thanks to my endless questions. Curiosity has taken me through product and growth roles at startups across disparate industries like biotech and e-commerce. My love of learning and a pull toward missions bigger than any individual role makes me gravitate toward environments where I’m not the expert. I’m inspired most by people who choose to dedicate the next five to ten years of their lives to building in a space they care deeply about.
Outside of work I’m an avid foodie, film buff, Ottoman history nerd and love playing backgammon. On the weekends, you can find me at the Fort Mason farmer’s market or walking Marina Green with a podcast plugged in.
