I invest in early-stage life science companies at Cornucopian Capital in New York, where I lead investments across healthcare, drugs, and consumer health. I look for some combination of broken care models and underserved patient populations—markets where novel science clashes with commercial structure. My deals have spanned pediatric mental health, obesity management, AI-enabled drug discovery, and consumer health, collectively raising >$100mm in follow-on capital. Outside of life sciences and venture capital, I've also spent time in middle market private equity at Altamont Capital Partners in San Francisco where I worked on industrial supply chains.
I studied physics and computer science at Williams College, spending two years chasing rare particle interactions. One project took me to the Sanford Underground Research Facility, a mile-deep former gold mine in South Dakota, in search of a nuclear decay in tantalum-180 that had never been observed (after running for >1 year, it has still never been observed, setting a new limit of detection). Another project called DarkSide-20k involved building liquid argon detector components for a dual-phase time projection chamber. My work prototyping dark matter detectors to investigate whether WIMPs interact via electroweak forces later became the subject of my honors thesis, which you can read here.
Before Williams, I grew up in New Jersey, where I went to The Pingry School in Basking Ridge and started swimming competitively at age six. I swam through college and achieved a peak ranking of #8 in the 50 free at Nationals—the culmination of thirteen years of 6am practices, which I don't regret and would not do again.