I'm an investor relations and finance executive in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently a Board Director at Hectre, a Venture Partner at Scrum Ventures, and an advisor to companies building AI and software across agriculture, climate, logistics, industrials, and food-tech. I've sat on both sides of the table: late-stage operational IR, growth-stage strategy, and early-stage venture. That mix is the whole point, and it's what lets me help teams communicate value and close deals.

My story starts somewhere between Texas, Tokyo, and Taipei. I grew up Taiwanese American, with eight formative years in Japan and Taiwan, enough to learn that stories land differently across cultures, and that context, more than credentials, usually decides what gets funded. I studied History at Rice University, because what moves markets and what makes a founder's story land are human questions before they're financial ones. Then Cornell, to sharpen the analytical edge.

As a student, I launched two businesses. Both created real value for thousands of people; neither survived. Those early failures gave me lasting respect for anyone who bets on themselves, and a conviction that the world's most important problems deserve the most impactful stories and the most sophisticated capital strategies.

I've built my career at the intersection of capital, story, and strategy.

First came THRIVE, SVG Ventures' award-winning agtech accelerator, where I ran deal selection, diligence, and program management for a global cohort of early-stage founders and helped generate millions in new contracts and follow-on funding. Then venture at Scrum Ventures, investing as a generalist across B2B, frontier, and deep tech: neurotechnology, VR surgical training, skin multi-omics, food supply chain, and enterprise SaaS, including a nine-figure exit through Prodigy's acquisition by Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST).

Then I crossed to the operator side.

At GrubMarket, a $2B+ revenue pre-IPO food-tech unicorn, I built the IR and capital markets function from the ground up: orchestrating nearly $300M across multiple late-stage rounds from investors like Tudor Investment Corp, Pinegrove Capital, Japan Post Capital, and General Mills, driving a 3.5× valuation increase, running all corporate PR as chief storyteller, and leading a full IPO readiness program with Tier-1 Wall Street banks. Along the way, I launched GrubMarket's Sustainable California initiative, planting 150,000 trees, because the best companies grow their top line and move the world forward at the same time.

Today, I advise high-growth technology companies on fundraising, investor relations, and the art of building stories that close, and I write about all of it on my newsletter, The Data Room. Off the clock, you'll find me at tech and VC meetups around San Francisco, or in an intense battle on the tennis courts, because every good investor knows when to press the advantage and when to just keep the ball in play.