I'm a finance leader and former founder & CEO of a venture-capital backed tech startup — an operator who has built a business from the ground up, and who has always used finance as the lens for deciding where to invest, what to build, and how to grow.

I co-founded Flare in 2016 (acquired in 2023), pursuing my passions for women's safety, social impact, and technology. I met my co-founder at Harvard Business School, where we bonded over our own experiences with safety and assault, and became determined to build a solution to a problem too often overlooked. That became Flare — an innovative personal safety communication system that filled an urgent, unmet need in the market and grew virally as a result. I served as CEO and CFO —  finance was never separate from the mission. It was how I knew what our goals and priorities were, where to put our limited resources, when to raise, and what "it’s working" actually looked like as we scaled a digital and physical product that customers loved.

I love the spirit of innovation, curiosity, adventure, and exploration. Through my personal travel and my work at the World Bank, I've seen the impact that safety, or its absence, has on women's quality of life around the globe — including my own. I've also seen firsthand the flaws in our healthcare system, especially for women. That's what drove me to become an entrepreneur: to build something that helped people live freely, be ambitious, and make their own choices, without threats to their safety, health, or agency.

I thrive in high-stakes roles where identifying hidden opportunities, applying financial discipline, and taking calculated risks adds up to real impact on the parts of a business that matter most. I'm a smart risk-taker, in my work and in my life.

That instinct — using finance to see a business clearly and act on it — didn't start at Flare. Before founding the company, I worked as an investor at the International Finance Corporation (World Bank), investing in large mining projects across some of the world's poorest and riskiest climates in Africa and Latin America. Our investments had to do more than earn a return; they had to build the local economy through employment, procurement, tax revenue, and sustainable operations. I spent time on mining sites around the world evaluating projects and management teams alongside geologists, mining engineers, and social and environmental specialists — taking helicopters to mountain-top sites, riding horseback to mineral outcroppings, camping at prospective mines, and negotiating with local officials. I loved being that close to the elements, and to the places themselves.

Before that, I got my start on Wall Street, where I learned finance on the job — fast, unforgiving, and through what felt like never-ending days. I supported M&A, debt, and equity financings for large industrial companies, from medical diagnostic equipment companies to barcode scanner manufacturers to automotive safety systems. I learned how large companies build the things that are essential to everyday life, and gained a real appreciation for the elegance of industrial operations and manufacturing. I built financial models, ran valuation analysis, and prepared offering memoranda like a machine. It wasn't the mission-driven work I'd end up chasing, but it gave me the financial instincts and operating discipline I still lean on today — the same ones that let me found, scale, and exit a company, and that I now bring to the founders and CEOs I work with.

But when I'm not working, you can find me exploring, learning, and building beautiful things with my mind and my hands.