I am the Founder and CEO of Azura, a trading platform designed to make accessing onchain assets and instruments as seamless as using a traditional financial application. Azura’s founding team hails from Jump Trading, Goldman Sachs, Flashbots, Coinbase, and Citadel Securities. We’ve facilitated over a billion dollars in volume and have raised several million dollars from Initialized Capital, the Winklevoss Twins, the co-founder of Solana, and many others. I am also a member of Peter Thiel’s fellowship program.

Prior to Azura, I studied Economics and Data Science at the University of Chicago on a full-ride scholarship. While there, I bootstrapped Analytica Group - a capital markets data analytics provider - to over $650k in ARR from my dorm room. In high school, I spent a summer at Neuberger Berman as an apprentice for its former chairman Larry Zicklin, a Wharton and NYU business ethics professor. Following this, I started D.P.E., an investment management firm that grew to nearly $750k in AUM.

In a past life, I was an aspiring experimental filmmaker and a bedroom prop trader with a focus on digital assets (CS:GO skins, TF2 hats, Runescape gold, sneaker bot keys, video game licenses, and cryptocurrencies).