Founder & CEO with multi-cycle experience across AI, fintech, and high-stakes operations. Built Pollinate Research and Pollinate Trading to $250K+ ARR. Prior 500 Startups exit. Earlier: directed 5,000+ personnel across multinational operations. Currently building MAKO.
I'm a founder & CEO with multi-cycle operating experience across AI, fintech, and high-stakes physical operations. I lead by building — agentic systems, trading infrastructure, AI-native businesses — and have run organizations from solo startups to multinational programs with 5,000+ personnel.
Built Pollinate Trading to $250K+ ARR as founder, owning product, P&L, customer base, and infrastructure end to end. Now founding MAKO at Pollinate Research: an x402 trust layer for the agent economy — verifier, pulse, pricing, and reputation endpoints for autonomous agent commerce, callable as paid APIs and MCP tools.
Prior 500 Startups founder with exit via acquisition. Decade in crypto/web3/DeFi, including operating a hedge fund across multiple market cycles. Earlier career: directed 5,000+ personnel and $100M in U.S. government equipment across protective operations in Iraq, Haiti, and Israel. State Department high-threat certifications; CPP through ASIS International; USMC infantry leader.
Open to VP / Director / Chief AI roles at AI-native or established companies where builder fluency, operating discipline, and market depth are the unlock.
Turning AI capability into business outcomes. The work that sits between research breakthroughs and revenue — capability mapping, deployment architecture, change management, measurement frameworks, and the operational discipline to ship AI into production environments where it actually moves the P&L.
Building organizations where AI is a first-class operator. Designing teams, workflows, and infrastructure that assume agents in the loop from day one — reorganizing how decisions get made, how work gets routed, and how humans and AI systems share responsibility for outcomes.
Verifier · Pulse · Pricing Index · Reputation Score — all callable as paid x402 endpoints. The missing primitive that lets autonomous agents pay each other and trust the result. Drop-in MCP server for Claude Desktop, Cline, and any MCP-native agent. Live at mako.pollinateresearch.com.
Solo-built fintech platform for systematic traders, grown to $250K+ ARR. Market-regime analysis, signal systems, risk dashboards, automated alerts, backtesting, and subscriber workflows — owned end-to-end.
Community of systematic traders shipping AI-built strategies 2× per week. Public /builds feed: regime filters, Monte Carlo prompts, scanners, position sizers, model bake-offs. Real systems, walk-forward validated.
Open-source longevity protocol platform. Your health data, your models, your hardware — a framework for personalized longevity protocols that doesn't ship your biology to a SaaS.
Super-light, session-locked AI coding terminal. One project. One tool. No drift. Built because every "AI IDE" I tried kept losing the thread halfway through a feature.
Pitch microsite for a CMMC compliance lead-generation system targeting defense contractors. End-to-end build: copy, design, deploy.
Interactive family genealogy site — 608+ years, 83 ancestors, 6 countries. Built to learn the data-viz stack I'd been avoiding.
Live tracker for "10 Predictions for 2026 That Nobody Is Pricing In." Public scorecard, updated as the year plays out.
~95% automation of OSINT intelligence gathering for LATAM-focused corporate security and EP teams. Turns noisy open-source signals into structured reports security teams can act on.
Predictive risk analytics startup for transportation. Selected for 500 Startups; exited via acquisition of the technology and team.
26+ years in markets. Systems designed, coded, and live-traded across equities, futures, FX, crypto, and bonds. Same signals shared into the Pollinate Trading community of paying subscribers.
Machine-learning market-regime classifier. Rotates between TQQQ, SQQQ, and gold based on real-time regime detection — long when the model says risk-on, inverse when it flips, gold when it sees defense.
Three engines, one system. TrendLock momentum captures sustained trends, Monthly Flip exploits calendar effects, Crisis Hunter buys panic. Stacked uncorrelated edges designed to perform across regimes.
Multi-asset mean-reversion system across 23 3x leveraged ETFs. Hunts statistically extreme dislocations and fades them with strict position sizing and stop discipline.
Systematic momentum strategy across the major-coin universe. Trend-following with regime-aware sizing, built to survive long crypto winters and capture the spikes when they come.
Built end-to-end alone: data ingest, backtest engine, signal generator, risk dashboards, alert pipeline. Trading involves substantial risk; nothing here is investment advice.
Building MAKO and x402 payment-agent workflows on crypto-native rails. Designing agent primitives for tool orchestration, API integrations, workflow state, payment logic, guardrails, observability, and eval. Daily driver across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini.
Solo-built fintech platform for systematic traders to $250K+ ARR. Product, frontend, backend, data, infra, backtesting, deployment, and customer workflows — all owned. Python · React/Next.js · Node · Postgres · AWS/Vercel.
EP strategy and program builds for Fortune 500 CEOs and families — zero security incidents. Custom software for security ops, client reporting, and operational efficiency. Operated a crypto hedge fund across multiple cycles.
Predictive risk analytics for transportation. Selected for 500 Startups; exited via acquisition of the technology and team.
Built the Enterprise Security Plan from inception. Directed operations, budgets, government relations, and SOPs for high-risk-environment work across LATAM.
Directed multinational operations across the Middle East: 5,000+ personnel, $100M in U.S. government equipment, 24/7 tactical operations centers. Close protection for U.S. Embassy personnel, DoD facilities, and the President of Haiti during election transition.
Maritime Special Purpose Force, security element for MEU(SOC) Direct Action Platoon. Squad Leader, Security Forces, Guantanamo Bay.
Building MAKO. Open to VP / Director / Chief AI roles at AI-native and established companies. The inbox is open.