Curriculum Vitae

EXPERIENCE

River

CEOMay 2025 - Present

We make tools to read the human brain and nervous system non-invasively. Our goal is accurate and highly transferable thought-to-text human computer interfaces, enabling anyone to set up a device in minutes and either give themselves superpowers or get back abilities everyone else takes for granted.


Next Chapter

MemberJul 2025 - Present

A community for the most ambitious people.


Duo

Co-founder and CTOSep 2024 - Present

We deliver enterprise-ready voice AI solutions for the APAC region. After working extensively in voice AI, we saw an opportunity to help companies in Australia, New Zealand and Asia replace their contact centers with voice agents. Duo primarily works with real estate and logistics companies.


Superfeel

AdvisorOct 2024 - Mar 2025
Founding Engineer2023 - Sep 2024

Superfeel's vision is to make people timeless. We accept that our time on earth is limited, but that shouldn't stop our children's children from enjoying our wisdom and hard-learned lessons. contributions. My role in this mission was to create the human "digital twin" platform. At the time, we didn't have APIs like VAPI to work with, so I spent a lot of time creating voice AI, transcription and voice-to-voice models from scratch and writing the infrastructure to host it around the world. I spent a lot of time working on models architected and researched by Google including AudioLM, SoundStorm and SpearTTS. I also created a voice cloning model based on TortoiseTTS.


Precision Neuroscience

AI/ML ScientistFeb 2022 - Oct 2023

Precision Neuroscience develops minimally invasive brain computer interfaces that can be implanted anywhere in the brain. With in-house manufacturing and a foundry, Precision is known as a leader in brain machine interfaces.


Roche

Machine Learning EngineerApr 2018 - Mar 2020
Project Engineer IIMar 2017 - Apr 2018

I first joined the Roche Pharmaceuticals lung cancer team in Auckland as a Project Engineer II, assisting with the management of a portfolio of drugs including Tecentriq, Alecensa, and Avastin. Later, I joined the Roche Pharmaceuticals Solid Tumour Cancers team as a Machine Learning Engineer working on models to predict patient outcomes. While I value the experience, I discovered I was not well-suited to working in such organisations.

EDUCATION

Victoria University of Wellington

2016

Stanford

2020

Human Behavioural Biology
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence


Startmate (S25)

2025

MEDIA

28 Aug 2025

Walk and Talk

Capital Brief

8 Jan 2025