A Daily Practice

I believe the world
can be better.

Not as an abstract idea but as a daily practice. I build companies, shape policy, cross borders, and ask uncomfortable questions because I genuinely think that most systems, industries, and institutions can serve people better than they currently do.

Thirty years of building technology companies across four continents, shaping policy at the European Parliament and United Nations, and speaking on stages in over 30 countries. That belief has not changed. If anything it has grown stronger.

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25+
Years Building
70+
Countries
4
Continents
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One Life. All of It.

The professional story is only half the picture. Behind the boardrooms and stages is someone who gets unreasonably excited about a perfect street food discovery, plays piano with more enthusiasm than skill, and believes a well-timed joke can shift the energy of an entire room. These are not hobbies I squeeze in around the edges. They are how I stay curious, connected, and honest about what actually matters.

My life has never been short of unexpected turns, challenges arriving from directions I did not anticipate, plans unfolding differently than intended. I have stopped trying to avoid the cracks. The Japanese call the art of repairing them with gold Kintsugi. I just call it experience.

What Drives Me

The Rest of the Story

This is where the professional story steps aside.

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What I Actually Do

CEO Made Easy

People ask what a CEO actually does all day. The honest answer is: everything and nothing you would expect. One hour I am in a boardroom discussing strategy, the next I am troubleshooting why a landing page is not converting. I make decisions that matter and coffee that does not. I wear suits to important meetings and the same hoodie three days in a row when nobody is looking. I have learned that leadership is less about having all the answers and more about being comfortable with not having them, while still moving forward.

  • World Traveler

    I am like a child in a candy store every time I arrive somewhere new. Over 70 countries and I still press my nose against the glass. Every place has taught me something I did not know I needed to learn.

  • Sport Addict

    A trained body gives the mind space to be creative, to think clearly, to push further. Movement is not something I add when I have time. It is the foundation everything else is built on.

  • Endless Inspiration

    I find inspiration in the problem nobody has solved yet. In the industry that stopped asking why. That inspiration has taken me into media, entertainment, aerospace, and now events.

  • Foodie

    You think you are sharing a bite but you are sharing a culture, an intention, a moment of genuine human connection. I have had the most meaningful conversations at tables where nobody spoke the same language.

  • Comedian

    Life is genuinely funny if you pay attention. The gap between how seriously we take ourselves and how little that seriousness actually matters. A room that has laughed together can do almost anything together.

  • Music

    Music has been with me since I was a child. It is where I find strength when things are hard, calm when things are loud, and ideas when I am stuck. Playing is not something I do. It is something I am.

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Mindfulness & Mobility

The Body Knows.
I Have Learned to Listen.

Yoga and Ayurveda found me at the right moment and never left. They are not wellness practices for me. They are how I stay connected to what actually matters when everything around me is moving fast, which in my life is most of the time.

People sometimes read me as confident and a little distant when we first meet. What is actually there is something simpler: I am interested in you. In what you have seen, what surprised you, what made you laugh last week. The moment of real connection with someone whose world looks nothing like mine, that feeling has never gotten old.

What I Stand For

Advocacy & Action

Responsible AI & Inclusion

Responsible AI & Inclusion

Technology that does not serve everyone is not progress. It is efficiency in the service of the status quo. I find that unacceptable and I say so.

Climate Action

Climate Action

As Ambassador for the Carbon Drawdown Initiative, I work on carbon dioxide removal because the planet does not need more awareness. It needs more action.

Political Engagement

Political Engagement

Systems that shape millions of lives deserve people inside them who know how systems actually work, and are honest enough to say when they are not working.

I find joy easily. A good comedy special. A perfect meal. A conversation that goes somewhere neither person expected. These are not small things to me. They are the point.

Technology in service
of people.

Let's explore what we can build together.

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