Background
My professional career began in Spring 2020, when I worked as a Private Wealth Management Intern for Raymond James in Beverly Hills. During this internship, I strengthened my financial literacy — researching companies’ financial summaries, key ratios, and disclosures through Thompson One. It was at this internship where I got my first inside look into people’s emotions when investing. During my 5th week, I came into the office at 7 am and saw the panic on peoples’ faces as my colleagues were looking at the TV screen. CNBC was broadcasting breaking news, “S&P 500 -6%”, “S&P 500 -8%”, then “S&P 500 -11%”. We never put the phones down as we handled the endless stream of client calls. I assisted our Senior VP in rebalancing our client’s portfolios and learned how important it is to be quick on your feet.
My crypto journey began in 2016 when I first started tracking Bitcoin. I told my AP biology teacher that he should think about investing when it was $400. A year and a half later it nearly hit $20,000. I began personally investing in crypto in early 2020 and started working professionally in June 2021.
At the crypto research company, Token Metrics, I started as an Investment Analyst intern with a focus on general blockchain and cryptocurrencies, then transitioned full-time to an Investment Analyst and a Venture Analyst for Token Metrics Ventures.
As an intern, I wrote multiple deep dive research reports, including an 18-pager on Algorand, blog reports gaining 100k+ total views, and hosted a daily crypto podcast. As an Investment Analyst, I pioneered the first NFT research at Token Metrics in July 2021 and created our fundamental NFT scoring system with 13 metrics.
As a Venture Analyst, I formed investment recommendations on early-stage crypto projects, writing multiple 5-page investment memos monthly. I sourced 25+ deals for our venture fund weekly, speaking with founders worldwide. I often provided our portfolio companies with recommendations on how to improve tokenomics, value accrual, growth, and more. I also ran operations for a DAO investment syndicate, hosting weekly investment discussions, and utilizing Snapshot for proposals.
I led our fund to invest in multiple early-stage web3 companies such as Nillion, TEN, Nibiru, Blockless, Airstack, Nolus Chain, and more.
I transitioned to Project Manager for crypto launch pad Moonclub where I managed 7 employees, including developers, marketers, artists, and interns. I ran 20+ NFT projects from start to finish with $500K+ in revenue. At the same time, for Emerging Assets Group, I helped design the tokenomics for RWA Tokenization projects Blu Arctic ($BARC) and Gold Retriever ($GLDN), and grew them to $103M MCap and $54M MCap at ATHs.
I just returned from a 10 month solo traveling trip through Southeast Asia where I learned to scuba dive (earned 4 certifications), surf, wakeboard, motorbike, & dirtbike, and volunteered at Sylvis Hostel in Chiang Mai, Thailand for 2 months, completely rebuilding the hostel’s website.
I am dedicated to supporting my community and helping those in-need. At USC, I developed and managed a clothing drive where we donated 170+ pounds of clothes to Emmanuel Baptist Rescue Mission homeless shelter. I also co-founded and was the President of Great Skate, a Service Skate Club designed to provide clothing, blankets, toiletries, and food to disadvantaged members of the Los Angeles community.
Growing up in the diverse racial and socio-economic community of Silver Spring, Maryland, I had high school classmates from 130 countries and friends from 26. I have experienced a variety of other cultures by traveling to 15 countries. These experiences have given me a broader outlook and inspired my long-term goal of investing in crypto to help remedy income inequality in the US and globally.
I’ve had a knack for investing since I was 11 or 12. I used to invest with paper money accounts when I was in middle school. In high school, I distinctly remember telling my parents to buy Snap’s IPO on the first day of trading. This was around the same time I first learned of cryptocurrencies. After staying up all night researching crypto, I was hooked. I was telling everyone to buy Bitcoin at around $400, and my AP Biology teacher thanked me months later when it shot up to nearly $20K.
I’ve always been passionate about the “big questions.” Staring at the stars most nights I would wonder whether we were the only living beings in our universe and who or what created us. I wrote my first paper on extraterrestrial life when I was 11 and my most recent when I was 21.
I studied Philosophy and Finance at the University of Southern California. Here I further developed my investment and research skills, taking courses ranging from Financial Analysis and Valuation to the Sociology of Wall Street. I continued asking the “big questions” and took courses like Meaning of Life, Life in the Universe, and Metaphysics and Epistemology.