My Story
From vision to value.
I operate at the decision-to-execution hinge point—deciding what’s worth building, what not to build, and owning the outcomes that follow. My work connects strategy, craft, and judgment to ensure products don’t just ship, but drive adoption, trust, and measurable value.
Most executives are either strategists or operators. I’m both. I’ve built and scaled products at national and global scale across healthcare, MedTech, consumer, and SaaS markets. I founded and exited a Top 1% global product innovation firm, led enterprise digital transformation post-acquisition, and now partner with founders, executive teams, and boards at moments of real complexity—when stakes are high and judgment matters.
I’m often engaged before problems are fully defined, where framing the right questions is as critical as delivering the solution. Across domains, one principle holds: good design disappears into use; great design creates confidence, adoption, and momentum.
Good design is invisible.
Great design is outcome.
Good design removes barriers. Great design echoes—it shifts behavior, earns trust, and becomes ubiquitous, turning the ordinary into the essential and the essential into measurable value.
Core Capabilities
Product Decision Architecture · Framing ambiguity into clear product decisions before teams commit time, capital, and engineering effort.
Systems-Level Design · Designing coherent ecosystems—AI + human, digital + physical, product + service—rather than isolated features.
Consumer-Grade Craft in Complex Domains · Delivering Apple-level quality in healthcare, MedTech, and regulated environments—experiences good enough to become default.
Product Ownership & Execution Accountability · Staying hands-on at moments of highest leverage. Owning outcomes across adoption, retention, behavior change, and business performance.
Human + AI Expertise · Designing trust-critical AI systems for over a decade—knowing where human judgment must remain central and where automation creates leverage.
At A Glance
Founder, CEO & Chief Design Officer · Head of altr, a top 1% global product innovation & design firm (Clutch, 2019–2023), acquired by Delve in 2023.
Patents · Design patents issued for work with EO Care and Fidelity.
Recognition · Fast Company Design · MUSE Awards · The Webby Awards · Awwwards · One Show · Hatch
Education · MFA, Design & Technology — Massachusetts College of Art & Design · Post-graduate certifications — Stanford University
Educator & Mentor · Visiting Faculty — MassArt, Boston University · MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition — Mentor · Drift — LGBTQIA+ Industry Impact Leader
Selected Clients
Health & MedTech · Abbott · Athenahealth · BD (Becton Dickinson) · Best Doctors · Breas · COTA Healthcare · Embecta · EO Care · Haemonetics · Homethrive · Humana · Iora Health · MD Ally · Neuropace
Consumer Products & Lifestyle · AT&T · Boost Mobile · Comcast · Converse · Erewhon · IAMS · MSNBC · Optimum · Puma · SimpliSafe · Virgin Mobile · Waterford Crystal
SaaS & Emerging Tech · Bamboo Rose · Centerpiece · Ditto · Intoxalock · Jitterbit · Sea Machines · Trender.ai
Finance & FinTech · American Student Assistance · Deutsche Bank · Divvy · Fidelity · Howland Capital · MEFA