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I get excited about macro themes rather than specific ideas. This way, we can see how great ideas can apply across multiple sectors and help companies navigate the realities of operating and adapting. Here are three macro themes that really interest me:

• Enabling the ‘Windowless’ Offices of the Corporate World: Over the last decade, areas like finance, accounting, compliance, legal, risk, tax, and procurement haven’t received much attention compared to technology, security, marketing, and sales. I’m passionate about innovations that focus on these crucial but often neglected functions in enterprise.
• Navigating Government Complexity: Governments are becoming more isolationist and making their own rules, which makes running a business really tough. Companies need to manage a complex web of regulations, taxes, and operating rules at different levels—city, state, and country—depending on where their employees, customers, and offices are. I’m very interested in solutions that help businesses handle this growing complexity from government regulations.
• Managing Data Governance in a Complex World: With more remote workers, numerous cloud systems, embedded AI, and reliance on the data supply chain, managing data governance is becoming increasingly difficult. It’s going to be challenging to understand all the ways data can be attacked and to manage who has access to it. I’m excited about solutions that tackle these data governance challenges.

Blame it on my genes or my dad’s engineer brain – either way, I’m a problem-solver.

Backstory

From tinkering with electronics as a kid (I can still see my poor mother’s face when she found her kitchen table covered by a boombox deconstructed), the knack for figuring things out has always been a part of me.

Blame it on my genes or my dad’s engineer brain – either way, I ended up with a head full of Chemical Engineering and Biology know-how and a penchant for creative problem-solving. Before ‘product roles’ were even a thing, I was working them in a wide range of industries that allowed me to learn new business models in intense operating environments.

Fast forward through two decades of flipping between being an operator and an investor, and you’ll find me — always hands-on, relentlessly driven, invested in the founder and company – and disappointed when things don’t pan out. We founded Jump on that ethos, aiming to provide a supportive team for those on the path to achieving their greatest potential.

On a lighter note, I pride myself on having perfect attendance in school (grade school, definitely not in college!) and working at McDonald’s for my first job. These experiences might seem unrelated but, in my opinion, epitomize true grit, especially if you’ve ever managed a drive-thru on a busy Saturday night.