Chief AI Officer · CTO · Deep Tech Builder
Scaling Agentic AI, Multimodal Foundation Models & HPC/AI Infrastructure
I build AI companies from zero to exit.
As a two-time founder/CTO, I've raised $8M+ and led teams through a $770M acquisition. Today I'm focused on generative AI in healthcare, building multimodal vision models for medical imaging, deploying agentic AI in production, and navigating FDA/regulatory pathways to clinical deployment.
My PhD in high-performance computing (parallel systems, optimization) gives me deep architectural intuition for modern AI infrastructure. I've also governed AI strategy at the board level, including oversight of Canada's $375M national research and AI computing initiative.
I'm a hands-on technologist who speaks fluently to boards, investors, and engineers alike.
2022 – Present · Co-founding and hands-on executive leadership
A next-generation Generative AI platform in radiology generating in silico PET scans.
Strategic advisor to Fortune 1000 executives on Enterprise AI Transformation and Agentic Architectures.
Founding CTO at Merantix, Europe's premier AI Venture Studio. Led the 0-to-1 build of an AI-first fertility care platform.
Exploring startup ideas to simulate large-scale complex systems. Launched a web application for financial planning using GPT-4 as an agentic assistant — the earliest experiments in agentic AI.
Key executive driving the data and AI strategy that led to a $770M strategic exit/acquisition.
Oversaw a $375M initiative by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development to architect Canada's national-scale digital research infrastructure and supercomputing capabilities.
Developed high-performance computing (HPC) parallel codes and large-scale analytical tools for complex material systems. Applied first-principles modeling to solve high-dimensional optimization problems.
Finite element modeling and numerical optimization.
Thoughts on AI, technology, startups, and building the future.
Back in the spring of 2023, I wrote a blog about how I pivoted from various ideas to arrive at Plan With Flow. Well, the jury is out now…
Read article →AI is increasingly cheap and abundant, can our society actually put it to good use?
Read article →And to make humanity more rational, prosperous and empathetic.
Read article →In October 2013, after finishing my PhD in Vancouver, I had moved to Toronto to launch my first company from ground zero.
Read article →How a company can change the way people, money and society function.
Read article →The evolution of analytics and decision support software in the enterprise.
Read article →I'm always interested in connecting with fellow technologists, founders, and anyone passionate about AI and deep tech.