About

Where my current attention goes

I'm currently VP of Product at ZoomInfo, where I focus on our internal AI systems and operations for the product org. I also work on external AI projects: MCP, agent skills, and third-party platform partnerships. Including projects like gtm.ai

Here I write mostly about AI, technology, data, and economics.

How I got here

The common thread throughout my career is that I've often found myself surrounded by extraordinary people who are doing extraordinary things. I've been fortunate enough to be a part of those journeys. I'm unsure if that is luck or skill on my part.

As a teenager I would build and host websites for local businesses, and worked construction. I went to film school, and was drawn to post-production and generative motion graphics. This was pre-AI, so it was code and math. I realized that I had little interest in the film industry, and not long after graduation ended up in tech. My roommate worked for a startup and I liked the sound of it. It felt like the natural fit; I like to build and I like asymmetrical upside.

In my early 20s I took a brief detour into finance, spending two years at Elm Partners, at the time a small fund (~$600m) run by Victor Haghani. It was a team of three, and we worked out of a private members club in West London. For a kid who grew up in an old mining and steel town, this introduction to finance was something. I became aware of a world I didn't really know existed. I learned to think mathematically, in bets and expected value.

There were many interesting experiences during that time. Here's one that has stuck with me: Victor was working on a research paper about the Kelly criterion and how people bet on a coin when they're aware that it's biased. I was helping with the research legwork. A draft was sent to Ed Thorp for feedback, and I sat in on the call. It was an hour well spent.

The idea that something like the Kelly criterion existed and could be applied in the real world to meaningfully change someone's trajectory blew my mind. The paper found that even people trained in probability and risk, London School of Economics students among them, bet irrationally. That also blew my mind; markets are made of people, and people are irrational.

After Elm I joined Peakon as an early employee. I ran growth there for a few years without a job title, reporting to the founders. Acquire pipeline, route pipeline, make sure the pipeline closes. Workday acquired Peakon in 2021 for $700 million. That year I co-founded Workbounce with Rowan Bailey, who I'd worked with at Peakon. Rowan is someone I'll always be grateful that chance put us in the same room in our mid 20's. Rowan and I have worked together for almost ten years at this point. Index Ventures led our $2.7 million seed round, and ZoomInfo acquired us in 2024.

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