Experience

Three decades across technology, venture building and public service — from Army officer to Oracle consultant, database-company founder, mobile-payments and biometric-wallet inventor, and today digital product passports and European innovation programs.

• Graduate Student, Classics — Villanova University

  March 2026 – present

• Managing General Partner — Great Product Ventures

  January 2020 – present

• Non-Executive Board Director — European Innovation Council Fund

  August 2024 – present

• Partner — European Innovation Council (EISMEA)

  July 2023 – present

• Subject Matter Expert, Catalonia Launchpad — ACCIÓ

  September 2023 – present

• Italy Ambassador to the US — ANGI

  March 2021 – present

• President, US Operations & Mobile — Sketchin

  June 2014 – October 2015

• Chief Mobile Product Design & Innovation — Mobile Payments Platform

  October 2012 – May 2014

• Chief of Mobile Product Design & Development — Biometric Mobile Wallet

  January 2006 – October 2012

• Consultant & Co-Founder — Technical Services Companies

  January 2001 – January 2006

• Chief Technology & New Products Officer — Oxford International

  June 1999 – January 2001

• CEO & Founder — Pangea Database Systems

  January 1997 – June 1999

• Principal Managing Consultant — Oracle

  1994 – 1997

• Captain, Field Artillery (Airborne) — U.S. Army

  1986 – 1991

Education

• Villanova University — Graduate Student, Classics (2026–present)
• MIT School of Architecture + Planning — Certificate, Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investment (2020)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Certificate, Artificial Intelligence
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Computer Science (2000–2002)
• Northeastern University — Computer Science (1992–1995)
• The Citadel — Business (1982–1986)