About Me#

I work at the intersection of public capital, venture strategy, and research — focused on how institutional design and financial instruments shape innovation in high-friction, public goods domains like space, climate, and education.

Current Roles#

Financial Analyst | California State Treasurer’s Office#

June 2025 – Present

  • Conducting credit risk assessments for the California School Finance Authority, including analyzing audited financials, debt service coverage & construction budgets to recommend $40M in facility construction grants to 150+ charter schools.
  • Reconciling program balances and reviewing financial compliance quarterly, coordinating with the State Controller’s Office and Accounting to resolve discrepancies and ensure accurate reporting for $500M+ in active CSFA-administered financings.

Advisor | New Vista Capital#

June 2025 – Present

  • Perform deal diligence on early-stage aerospace and defense startups; building unit economics & valuation models.
  • Map dual-use technology pipelines and identify non-dilutive funding sources (e.g., SBIR/STTR, DIU contracts) to de-risk capital deployment and support follow-on financing strategies.

Previous Experience#

Strategy & Operations Associate | Berkeley Space Center#

November 2022 – March 2024

  • Co-authored a 100-page strategic plan for the Berkeley Space Center, defining recommendations for research clusters in space transportation, in-space manufacturing, bioproduction, nuclear propulsion, space agriculture, and satellite services.
  • Proposed a polycentric governance model for public-private R&D partnerships, leveraging decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) to manage intellectual property, multilateral decision-making, and the research agenda for outer space.

Financial Analyst | Messari#

August 2023 – February 2024

  • Delivered 50+ diligence reports on new crypto assets, analyzing financials, contract security, protocol mechanisms.
  • Produced 4 analyst research reports on top 100 market-cap assets for institutional investors, evaluating technology, regulatory frameworks, and long-term price drivers.

Summer Associate | Berkeley Research Group#

June 2021 – July 2021

  • Evaluated economic and business interruption damages for a vineyard & barrel winery affected by the 2021 Glass Fire.
  • Developed ARIMA time-series econometric models and financial projections.

Strategy Intern | Autodesk Inc.#

May 2019 – August 2019

  • Provided recommendations for enterprise knowledge system for interdepartmental use. Developed standard operating procedures using Confluence and Jira; used by 300+ engineers and 20+ Agile executives.

Investment Banking Analyst Intern | PEAK Technology Partners#

March 2019 – June 2019

  • Conducted business valuation for two ~$20mm HCM/HRMS startups using transaction and public comparable models.

Research Experience#

Economic Litigation Consultant | Independent Advisory#

January 2024 – Present

Research, consulting and valuations for expert witnesses in:

  • Metcalf v. TransPerfect (Plaintiff)
  • New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection v. 3M (Defendant)
  • Pride v. United States Department of Agriculture (Defendant)
  • Provost v. USDA (Defendant)

UC Berkeley Research Assistantships Positions#

Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics
Professor Gordon Rausser — February 2020 – Present

Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics
Professor David Zilberman — March 2024 – March 2025

Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Professors Dawn Song & Christine Parlour — August 2021 – August 2022

Department of Economics
Professors Emi Nakamura & Jon Steinsson — October 2018 – May 2019

Education#

University of California, Berkeley#

B.A. Economics & B.A. Legal Studies — May 2022

Contact#