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 CEO of TrueMath, advising startups, and querying agents for my debut novel.
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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.
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.
Two frameworks for managing AI agent risk both stop one step short. The irreversible action nobody classified is a wrong calculation.
Read post → TrueMath BlogAI now solves Olympiad problems and research-level math. That breakthrough creates an urgent need for deterministic execution infrastructure.
Read post → TrueMath BlogLLMs 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 →John Mitchell built the company he always thought he wanted. After three decades of near-misses, the Portland tech veteran finally has the platform, the valuation, the IPO on the horizon, the version of himself he can stand. Mysts VR lets users live their unlived lives, the relationship they didn't pursue, the job they didn't take, the family they didn't lose, rendered in real time by his co-founder Amelia Huang's deterministic engine. Then a Wall Street Journal piece names a Memphis family destroyed by the product, Congress calls hearings, and John discovers that what his platform actually does is something stranger and less defensible than what he and Amelia have been telling the world for five years. And someone inside the company has been watching him use it.
What John has been using it for is a woman he barely knew in high school, a life in Greece that never happened, a version of himself who left his religion at seventeen instead of forty. The company is coming apart. A whistleblower has retained counsel. The chairman has been running something parallel to Mysts that John was never meant to see. And Kathy, who stayed in the faith John left and held the marriage anyway, is about to learn what her husband has been doing with the platform he built. John has to decide what he can still honor. Mysts, Inc. is a literary novel about regret, attention, and the architectures we build to avoid our own lives.
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Portland, OR · Married, four kids · Probably drinking coffee right now