Background, projects, and record

• Led the team that shipped many of Cardano's firsts, including one of the first smart contracts on-chain, and built one of the oldest and most recognised brands in the ecosystem
• Launched the first native push oracle in Oct 2022, then the first pull oracle and the first L2 partnerchain MVP connected to Cardano through a custom bridge
• Led the launch of the first Proof of Reserve oracle network on Cardano. It compares USDM's bank balances, US$10M+ across US and European banks, to the token's on-chain supply
• Wrote the technical grant proposals that funded the roadmap: 16 funded by community vote, 13 delivered. Also secured C$95,000 in SR&ED credits and $200,000 in cloud credits by joining Google's Web3 Accelerator
• Announced in Q4 2025 that the oracles would go MIT open source as a public good, and delivered that in 2026. Ceased operations in May 2026 after gracefully releasing all customers and disbanding the team

• Product owner writing tickets for data science, engineering, model, and back-end teams
• Sat in 50 to 100 person calls inside the bank across integrations, security, and product
• Reported to the Head of Customer Success and the CEO, and briefed the executive team on the account
• Ran overnight weekend launches of the AI inside the bank

Those numbers came from testing market hypotheses with real prospects, the same method behind the sprint.

• Year one as Account Strategist: carried 1.5x the average client load with the highest client lifetime value on the team, at twice the average
• Became the team's product-market fit and discovery expert, running the PMF workshops: about 48 remote and 3 to 5 in person alongside Aaron Ross
• Saw that clients needed discovery before leads. Co-created Outbound Validation, a PMF service that tests up to 40 value hypotheses with up to 20K prospects in 120 days through live customer conversations
• Trained and managed the client success team that delivered it. Early adopters: C$463K ARR closed in six months, 100 NPS, no early churn, half expanded into other services

• The thesis: agents will need to judge subjective questions, and the current data they need lives in unstructured, unreliable, AI-affected sources. Conik structures that data and gives agents a pipeline to answer from measured sources
• Team: a compliance-specialist Managing Director from FTI Consulting, 0-to-1 operators from Chainlink and Salesforce, an NIH national AI program director, LLM experts, and my previous engineering team. Former bosses, business partners and engineers all committed without pay
• Internal diligence found the space crowded with heavily funded competitors.