§ 0 — Business development · Web3 · AI · New York
Math that looks alive. Scalable symbolic systems on verifiable data, built for financial systems and AI.
Working in AI since 2008 and blockchain since 2018. Co-founded Behold.ai (2015, acquired 2018). Now building partnerships for the infrastructure financial systems and AI run on.
θ = 2πk/60 + ½a·sin(.6t + .7k) · r = .08 + a(.55 + .25 sin(2.3k + .4t))
§ 1 — Now
Three hubs, and the filaments between them.
Head of Business Development
May 2026 –Shinzō makes blockchain data trustworthy with verifiable, permissionless indexing that anyone can run and audit. I lead partnership strategy across institutions, blockchain foundations, core protocol teams and builders.
Executive Director & Co-founder
Dec 2024 –Programs on blockchain education, awareness and policy in New York State. Co-organized NY Blockchain Week 2025 with Chainlink, and spoke about policy at ETH Denver multiple times.
Founder
2026 –Building something new around AI and blockchain. More soon.
p = B(a; Hₕ, Hₕ₊₁) + n̂ · .025 sin(8πa − 2.5t + k) · sin πa
§ 2 — Past
Every rib is a role.
Head of Strategy
Strategy, go-to-market and business development for Fast, a payment layer built so AI agents can move money globally at internet speed.
Head of Strategy & BD · founding team
Wrote the go-to-market strategy, closed partnerships with wallets, bridges and infrastructure providers, and built the pitch materials for the raise.
Set up Agoric’s technical partnerships across Cosmos and EVM chains, stablecoins, wallets, oracles and bridges. Launched the Agoric Builders Program, ran the validator program, and managed partnerships for Inter Protocol’s IST stablecoin.
CosmoverseIndia Blockchain WeekCosmos NYC meetup since 2022Co-founded an AI medical diagnostics company that flags abnormalities in medical images for radiologists. Raised $250K, joined Almaworks, gener8tor and NYU AI NexusLab, and pitched at TechCrunch’s 2016 New York Startup Battlefield. Acquired in April 2018 by the founder of Medica Group, the UK’s largest teleradiology provider.
Fellow, Block 3
A curated, peer-to-peer fellowship for builders in web3.
Program Manager, Credentialing Advisory Services
Ran credentialing programs for internal teams and clients: survey design, data analysis in SPSS and R, labor-market research and practice-analysis studies.
Academic Partnerships & Educational Programming Manager
Programmed the 2018 Voice of Blockchain conference, built partnerships with universities and student groups, and advised crypto startups on their pitches.
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Coached the accelerator’s 12 teams on pitch decks, fundraising and product roadmaps, and ran professor-led events at New York EdTech Week 2017.
x = .08 sin(3y₀ − .9t) ± a·ℓₖ · y = y₀ + .12a² + .02 sin(8a − 2t + k)
§ 3 — Education
Folds hold what was learned.
2013 – 2014
M.A., Instructional Technology and Media
ThesisUsing board games to teach 21st-century skills in the classroom
Won the Andreessen Horowitz Most Technically Challenging Award at the 2014 Columbia DevFest Hackathon. Graduate Consulting Club, International House Tutoring Program, LearnPlay.
2011 – 2013
Research Assistant, three labs
2007 – 2011
B.S., Cognitive Psychology
Research Assistant
Honors thesisSemantic numerosity
Quiz Bowl.
Specializations
Honors & papers
Fields I keep studying
r = r₀ + .045 sin((4 + ring mod 4)·φ + .5t + ring)
§ 4 — Contact
One cell, open to signal.
For investment conversations, partnerships and roles, a message on X or LinkedIn reaches me fastest.
membrane r = .26 + .015 sin(7φ + 2t) · interior r = .24√u