• Define and execute the company's strategy, aligning science, operations, and business goals
• Lead seed and Series A fundraising, leveraging networks and partnerships to secure capital and strategic collaborations
• Choose and prioritize indication strategy, such as DKD, obesity, atherosclerosis, or MASH, based on opportunity, patient need, and risk
• Oversee the transition from preclinical development to IND submission and clinical development
• Build and manage the team as the company progresses
• Collaborate with Professor Ann Marie Schmidt and advisors to integrate scientific excellence with commercial strategy
• Represent the venture to investors, partners, and the scientific community
• Lead all aspects of the venture's growth from strategy-setting through advancing programs into clinical trials

Co-Founding CEO – Metabolic & Inflammation Therapies

• Define Cure's category positioning and initial market wedge
• Identify high-value use cases and create a focused market-entry strategy
• Secure design partnerships with lenders, fintech companies, and regulated enterprises
• Work with executives and operators to turn recovery problems into expandable deployments
• Partner with technical and product leaders to build AI agents that understand context, reason over account data and policy, personalize conversations, take action across systems, and improve through feedback
• Establish data, experimentation, evaluation, and operating loops to improve recovery rates, efficiency, compliance, and consumer experience
• Recruit the founding team and create a culture of speed and product excellence
• Develop narratives that attract customers, talent, partners, and investors
• Define milestones and lead the seed financing process with support from Montauk Capital

CEO, Co-Founder

• Set Outpost's category, positioning, initial beachhead, and market-entry strategy
• Partner with the CTO to take the platform from concept through MVP, pilots, and repeatable deployments
• Translate complex hardware, energy, compute, and AI capabilities into clear customer value
• Develop industrial, logistics, defense, aerospace, and ecosystem relationships
• Secure design partners, pilots, strategic partnerships, and early revenue
• Create and communicate Outpost's immediate and long-term company narrative
• Lead future financing rounds, including fundraising narrative, milestones, operating plan, and investor process
• Recruit and inspire the founding team and establish company culture
• Own strategy, product and commercial prioritization, partnerships, fundraising, operations, and company-building
• Create systems needed to scale the company