What I do…

… when I’m not writ­ing or rid­ing:

I’m a tech­no­lo­gist and a lead­er. I sup­pose that sounds like I’m full of my­self, but it’s the best way to de­scribe my ca­reer and in­terests with only two words.

In par­tic­u­lar, I seem to keep purs­ing these ques­tions:

• What makes a good lead­er? How can we help people be­come bet­ter lead­ers?
• How do I im­prove my per­son­al pro­ductiv­ity and pos­it­ive im­pact on this plan­et?
• How can tech­no­logy be used to im­prove the im­pact and value of an or­gan­iz­a­tion? (And how can you tell?)

Concretely

• I’m not cur­rently em­ployed full-time, which is de­light­ful.

• I am work­ing on sev­er­al pro­jects. These in­clude:

  • A few pro­jects that are too early to talk about. I’m ex­cited about these be­cause of their po­ten­tial and be­cause they let me use cool phrases like “stealth mode” at parties.
  • Ex­ec­ut­ive con­sult­ing with a fo­cus on the in­ter­sec­tion of di­git­al, cor­por­ate strategy, lead­er­ship, and ment­or­ing.
  • Board mem­ber­ship at Tet­raS­cience, an in­triguing sci­entif­ic data star­tup that is be­gin­ning to have ma­jor im­pact in the bios­ciences.
  • Ad­vis­ory roles for sev­er­al com­pan­ies and firms.

• I’ve worked in health­care, pharma, bi­otech, re­search and in­vest­ing. Among oth­er things in the past:
  • I was the Chief Di­git­al Of­ficer at Me­mori­al Sloan Ket­ter­ing, where my team and I helped MSK provide amaz­ing pa­tient care and carry out world-lead­ing re­search in this in­creas­ingly com­plex di­git­al world.
  • I was an ad­visor at Tamr, a very cool data uni­fic­a­tion star­tup.
  • For more than a dec­ade, I was the Chief In­form­a­tion Of­ficer at the No­vartis In­sti­tu­tes for Bio­Med­ic­al Re­search. I’ve pos­ted a few of my blogs from that jour­ney.

• I’m keep­ing an open mind about em­ploy­ment and pro­ject op­tions in the fu­ture.
  • While I’m not act­ively look­ing for an­oth­er CxO role, I’d be in­ter­ested in the right one with the right po­ten­tial for mean­ing­ful im­pact and the right people to work with.
  • I’m open to ad­di­tion­al ad­vising, con­sult­ing and pro­ject work as long as it fits with­in my mis­sion. I can help with lead­er­ship, tech­no­logy, data, bio­pharma, health­care, large en­ter­prise, and star­tups.
  • If you have some­thing in­ter­est­ing in mind, please get in touch.