Entrepreneur · Advisor · Author
Over-educated entrepreneur with a track record of building companies at the intersection of technology and human need, from WebMD to medical education to AI. Currently advising startups, raising capital, and writing fiction about the futures we're creating.
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Fractional Leadership
Helping founding teams clarify their mission, refine their positioning, and build a roadmap that actually survives contact with the market.
From pitch refinement to investor introductions—I've been on both sides of the table and can help you tell your story to the right people.
Fractional CEO engagements for teams that need hands-on leadership—not another deck of recommendations to ignore.
Current Ventures
These are companies I've co-founded and am actively raising capital for. Each one is tackling a problem I care deeply about.
A deterministic, auditable math engine that acts as the execution layer for AI workflows, ensuring accurate, explainable, and reusable calculations where language models fall short.
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Fragrance-free, ozone-free odor-neutralizing products using proprietary "TIOPUR Renewed Air" technology, starting with solutions for cat litter box smells.
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AI-powered Engagement-as-a-Service platform that helps regulated consumer industries train, communicate with, and reward their business audiences through integrated tools for education, messaging, gamified rewards, and AI coaching.
Learn moreCo-founded Sapient Health Network, which became WebMD
Co-founder, digital literacy education
Co-founder, video-based medical education
Writing
I write about AI, entrepreneurship, and what it means to build things that matter. Follow along on the TrueMath blog or my personal Substack.
LLMs are powerful but unreliable for math. A new IBM study confirms what we've been building toward.
Read post → TrueMath BlogHow reliable, deterministic calculation unlocks real AI workflows like ROI analysis, what-if modeling, and scenario planning.
Read post → SubstackA weekend at Berkshire Hathaway's shareholder meeting, a conversation with my brother-in-law, and a search for steadiness in the age of disruption.
Read post → SubstackWhy Hood strawberries, first kisses, and the moments that can't be archived are extraordinary precisely because they're ephemeral.
Read post →When a Portland tech company promises users the ability to relive and rewrite their pasts in immersive VR, CEO John Mitchell believes he's building something meaningful—until a congressional investigation, a whistleblower, and his own secret addiction to simulated alternate lives force him to confront an uncomfortable truth: the technology doesn't predict reality at all. It just tells people what they want to hear.
Part corporate thriller, part philosophical inquiry into memory and authenticity, Mysts, Inc. braids the stories of Mitchell, his brilliant co-founder Amelia Huang, and Tony Martinez, a Memphis father watching his wife vanish into a simulation where their dead child still lives. The novel culminates in two days of testimony that unravel not just a company, but the assumptions we hold about what makes experience "real"—and whether that even matters when the fiction feels true enough to live inside.
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Portland, OR · Married, four kids · Probably drinking coffee right now