I invest. I serve on boards. I build connections, ideas, and organizations that require collaboration. I teach when I've learned something new and see an urgent need to share it.

I co-founded Assembly Ventures, a transatlantic venture firm that invests in teams building early-stage companies that change the way people, goods, data, and energy move.

I have spent most of my investing career close to mobility, transportation, industrial technology, and physical AI. These are businesses where software and hardware eventually have to meet the physical world, an incumbent system, a regulator, a customer, or all four.

The part I like best is early, when the technology probably will work, the customers are starting to signal interest, and the path from one to the other is still being invented.

You can find more about our portfolio and the fund on the Assembly Ventures site.

I bring an operator's perspective to the board room. I am strategic when there is time, practical and clear-eyed when there is not, and often the person a founder can call when the problem is hardest.

I like the work because companies become legible there. Product choices, hiring decisions, financing, culture, and ambition stop being separate topics.

Some problems do not belong cleanly to a company, government agency, university, nonprofit, or investor. Those are usually the ones I end up working on.

I co-founded the Michigan Mobility Institute because the automotive industry was changing faster than the institutions training its workforce. We built degree programs, employer collaborations, and new ways for those institutions to work together.

As an entrepreneur-in-residence at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, I used artifacts from our country's generations of entrepreneurs to make innovation and invention legible to young people deciding what they could become.

I organize rooms when the solution requires new stakeholders to sit together.

Systemic Topography is one half of this work.

My current research turns from the system to the person inside it: judgment, resilience, and the psychological capital leaders draw on when the pressure is highest.

I am pursuing that work through the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Teaching is partly a way to share what I have learned and partly a stress test. A framework sounds very different after a room full of operators, executives, students, or investors starts pushing on it.

I teach and moderate for professional audiences, executive education, and industry forums. Details under Speaking.