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I live in NYC. From SF originally. Big fan of the NYC tech scene, startups and meeting cool inspiring entrepreneurs. Love sports and all things competition, including poker, video games, board games and debating current events.

I didn't study in high school, but surprisingly worked my tail off in college as a biochemistry major, authored a major scientific paper on protein folding, stability and functionality (Random circular permutations generated on the DNA level), only to sell my soul to go into investment banking after college. I dug myself out of that rut, did some private equity, VC and finally got to my passion of working at young startups ever since.

I got married to my amazing and beautiful wife in Beirut, Lebanon in the summer of 2009 to the sounds of Stereo Love and Infinity.

I work at Hunch with a group of ridiculously smart and interesting people. I lead business development efforts for Hunch and feel fortunate to be here.

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