I’m an MD-technologist. A delinquent savant, nature-freak, mystic... it’s all the same thing, really.
My interest is using technology to promote population health. I’m industry-agnostic to that aim, and passionate about reducing barriers to innovation where research, technology, and medicine meet. In global health, I develop high-tech for low-resource environments. Right now that’s Savimbo, a social enterprise made by and for Indigenous Peoples and local communities to reach climate markets directly.
If you want to find a cohesive career strategy here, you can say I’m a serial entrepreneur applying high-tech in critical sectors. In the past I’ve worked on fair-trade, micropayments, fintech for last-mile collectives, climate markets (biodiversity, nature-based carbon, agrobiodiversity, biochar, reforestation), Rights of Nature law and policy, government partnerships across Latin America, international policy, international development, Indigenous and human rights negotiations (UN, national, state, local), conflict-zone and remote-field operations (Putumayo, the Darién Gap), wearables for consciousness, newspace, behavior design, civ-tech and smart cities, artificial intelligence and machine learning, cybersecurity, small-modular reactors, tobacco control, near-infrared spectroscopy, functional MRI, stem cells and tissue engineering, vascular composite allograft, 3D printing, virtual reality, specialist networks, nanotechnology, voice-recognition software, microbiome, web/app product design, business and startup strategy, social enterprise, popular-science writing, branding/PR and niche marketing.
Currently, I’m a digital nomad, with a yoga habit. Mostly in places where they grow bananas. Prone to profanity or poetry, sometimes both.
I usually quote Karen Kilroy: "I can't help but wonder how much further technology could go if we solved things for people who had the biggest problems first — and then made games."