Growing companies rarely need more effort. They need a creative angle.
Currently
Full-time for the right mission, fractional alongside.
Between New York and the Hudson Valley. I answer every note.
That's been my work twice over now. Thirteen years investing institutional money, then eleven building OuiSi, a company I made out of an idea about human connection. Now I'd like a new problem. I'm most useful when what's stuck is the thinking, not the effort.
Where I've worked
My path
Thirteen years pricing risk, eleven building a company.
Founder & CEO
OuiSi Inc., Brooklyn
Disconnection, from each other and our environment, is the defining problem of our time, and OuiSi approaches it creatively: a physical-meets-digital platform that lives in homes, classrooms and memory-care centers. It continues today, restructured and leaner by design.
Built to $15M of revenue from nothing, and into a quarter-million homes and classrooms.
Participant, Inaugural Cohort
THNK School of Creative Leadership, Vancouver
A program for creative leaders working on societal challenges. Part think tank, part accelerator, and the one deliberate pause in twenty-five years.
The bridge between the markets career and founding OuiSi.
Portfolio Manager
Point72 Asset Management, New York
Ran a book in interest rates and currencies, decided by models rather than hunches. The creative work was in the data: reading it in ways nobody else was, borrowing methods that looked unrelated until they weren't.
One of the top three performers among the firm's global macro managers, per dollar of risk taken.
Portfolio Manager
Wellington Management, Boston
Helped build and run Wellington's most successful model-driven investment business. Sat on the committee that reviewed the firm's global macro teams: how they were doing, who should get more capital, and what nobody had accounted for.
The business I helped build is still running. Observing other managers for a living taught me to spot trouble early.
Bond Trader, then Junior Partner
Deutsche Bank · FairLane Asset Management, Toronto
Quoted prices in Canadian government bonds all day, every maturity, where being wrong is immediate and public. Then head of risk and quantitative analysis at a startup hedge fund.
Ran a book earning about $10M a year.
BMath Actuarial Science · MMF Mathematical Finance
University of Waterloo (1996–2001) · University of Toronto (2002–03)
The maths behind model-driven investing, and the habit of taking a problem apart before answering it.
Most of the MMF ran alongside full days on the trading desk.
How I work
I work with people, from teammates to customers, to understand their needs and ways of working.
I use my analytical and creative background to find a new angle on existing or new efforts.
Then I help build it, from ideas through to scaling.
What I'm building
Furmath, a creative and mathletic game of balancing equations
OuiSi Daily and Photologue, digital versions of the physical game
A bookshelf, made from an old piano shell
Things I'm learning
Brazilian jiu jitsu: a year in, rediscovering that angle and distance beat force
About myself, through a program on transpersonal psychology and mystical experience
Things I've written
Shining Moonlight on IMDb, on why a Best Picture winner's rating collapsed the week it won
Facebook Users of the World, Unite!, on what a user is worth to Wall Street, and the leverage that gives them
How We See, the OuiSi blog on noticing, play and connection
Get in touch
Deep inside a problem? I'd like to hear about it.
Part or full-time for the right mission, and/or fractional alongside. Send a short note: what you're building, and where it's stuck.