Over the last 15 years, I’ve worked at the intersection of venture capital, technology, and community development.

My venture career has included helping grow New Jersey’s first public venture fund, leading strategic investments at Bell Labs Ventures, and building startup ecosystems and founder programs that bring new technologies to market.

At my last venture, MoCaFi, I realized we fell short of our mission to build a banking platform that could meaningfully close the racial wealth gap—largely because partner and investor incentives weren’t always aligned with the long-term mission.

That realization changed how I think about the problem.

If a financial institution is going to improve the economic power of historically subjugated Black businesses, it will require a new kind of model—an independent, self-reinforcing engine of enterprise development.

Today my work centers on understanding, collaborating, and designing systems that connect venture creation, capital strategy, and enterprise ownership in ways that grow BIPOC economic and civic power.