Challenge
Emerging ocean and climate technologies faced major barriers to commercialization, piloting, and investment.
00 / IndexTurning Innovation into
Turning Innovation into
Commercial Adoption.
I build the commercialization and adoption pathway for technologies in the built-environment.I work with the people who make it.
01 / About
Planning, operations, commercialization at the messy edge of innovation.
Today I run Nomadic Foundry, helping technology get from idea into real use across the built environment, infrastructure, maritime, and logistics. Climate and resilience cut across all of it.
Twenty-five years building and scaling products, ventures, and partnerships in domains that are hard to commercialize. Most recently venture building and partnerships at SeaAhead. Before that, scaling Pupil’s digital-twin platform. Earlier, building a geospatial analytics capability at McKinsey.
I think in data. Machine learning, computer vision, and geospatial systems have shaped how I plan and decide since well before they were common.
Function 01
Planning & Decision Systems
Turning messy, high-stakes problems into clear plans and durable decision systems.
Data · ML · AIFunction 02
Operations & Workflow
Designing the systems and workflows that let new capability actually run and scale.
Function 03
Commercialization & Revenue Ops
Building the path to market: go-to-market, partnerships, pricing, and revenue motion.
25+
Years of experience
50+
Companies served
2
Venture-backed startups
02 / Work
Ventures, platforms, and systems I’ve built.
Venture building
SeaAhead
Building platforms for ocean & climate innovation
Approach
Designed and launched programs, partnerships, and piloting initiatives to move technologies from concept toward adoption.
Result
Established SeaAhead as a leading venture platform for ocean innovation, supporting startups’ paths to market.
Global scaling
Digital Reality Corp (fka Pupil)
Scaling digital-twin technology globally
Challenge
Pupil needed to evolve from early-stage digital-twin tech into a scalable global platform for built-environment insights.
Approach
Led commercialization across new markets, defining go-to-market pathways, partnerships, and a multi-geography scaling strategy.
Result
Enabled rapid expansion and market credibility, positioning the platform for global enterprise adoption.
Product & service development
Digital Reality Corp
Challenge
Digital Reality Corp (DRC) had developed an innovative process for rapidly capturing and digitizing real estate and was looking to scale and expand the offering into commercial real estate, construction, and asset management, and explore applications beyond property marketing in residential real estate.
Approach
Worked closely with pilot clients to test, standardize and scale methodologies for commercial real estate. Supported the establishment of operational benchmark, approaches to measurement standards in different geographies, and client delivery.
Result
Stak - the commercial product scaled rapidly to multi-family developments, commercial real estate transactions, building retrofits and decarbonization. The early success in London paved the way for adoption in the UAE, Singapore, and the USA.
New capability development
Digital Reality Corp
Building the Building Insights team
Market Investment Scoring Model
Citizens Financial Group
Developing the market opportunity model
Internal product development
Citizens Financial Group
Marketing analytics platform for customer-360 visibility, analytics, and modeling
New capability
McKinsey & Company
Building a geospatial analytics capability
Challenge
Infrastructure and financial-services clients needed geospatial insight to inform capital allocation, strategy, and risk.
Approach
Developed and launched a new geospatial analytics capability, bridging technical innovation with strategic decisions.
Result
Helped clients embed location intelligence into core strategy, strengthening the firm’s edge in infrastructure and finance.
03 / Insights
Speaking, press, and writing.
Writing · Coming soon
Published articles and longer-form writing are being collated and assembled.
Press Mentions
2025-05-01Business Wire. ClimaTech 2025: Massachusetts Doubles Down on Climate Innovation2025-05-01Yahoo! Finance. ClimaTech 2025: Massachusetts Doubles Down on Climate Innovation2025-05-01Morningstar. ClimaTech 2025: Massachusetts Doubles Down on Climate Innovation2025-04-30Oceantic. 2025 Ocean Renewables Summit2025-04-30LinkedIn. ClimaTech 2025: Massachusetts Doubles Down on Climate Innovation2025-04-17Undercurrent News. Investors upbeat despite eFishery debacle hitting aquatech valuations2025-04-09The Fish Site. Do eFishery’s downfall and tariffs herald tough times for aquaculture investors?2025-04-08Blue Food Innovation. Summit Highlights2025-03-28Guice Offshore. Offshore energy startups presenting at IPF252025-03-19Oceantic. Offshore energy startups will present innovations at IPF2025-03-18MassTech. Healey-Driscoll grants $2.5M+ to boost startup growth2025-02Blue Food Innovation. Summit Speakers2025-02-29Ocean News & Technology. Ten startups selected to pitch ocean renewable innovations at IPF2024-12-13Ocean News. Largest US offshore renewable energy conference to showcase innovations2024-12-12AltEnergyMag. Largest US offshore renewable energy conference to showcase innovations2014McKinsey & Company. Geospatial analytics for the public sector04 / Now
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05 / Contact