How I Work
My favorite book is "How to Measure Anything" by Douglas Hubbard. It captures my worldview: if you care about something, you can quantify it, and if you can quantify it, you can improve it. I'm efficiency-obsessed—nothing draws me in more than discovering broken or absent processes and redesigning them from the ground up.
A naturally systematic thinker (scoring 97-99th percentile in pattern recognition), I see the world as a series of solvable puzzles—whether it's compressing time-to-proposal by 67%, solving a Rubik's cube in under 60 seconds, or building pursuit engines that convert cold leads into multi-stakeholder deals.
I've spent almost my entire career at startups because I value working alongside teams with an agile mindset. I can bring order from chaos, am comfortable with limited direction, and think solving impossible problems is more interesting than staying comfortable. All of my roles have involved wearing multiple hats, and I thrive in ecosystems that require the whole team to be whatever is needed to get the job done on a given day.
My Journey
I started in finance at York Funding, where I built a proprietary underwriting system that became the firm's top revenue stream (~$35M) within two years. I owned the full lifecycle: risk analysis, negotiations, investor pitching, and portfolio management for $80M+ in assets. But I realized I was more interested in the systems behind the deals than the deals themselves.
That led me to found Doppl.ai, a data-driven dating concierge service where I took a product to MVP in 12 months with ~2.5× ROI. I ran A/B tests that raised conversion from ~1.9% to ~4.6%, cut customer acquisition cost by 26%, and increased lifetime value by 37%. It taught me how to build pursuit engines from scratch—research, messaging, automation, triage—skills I've applied ever since.
From there, I moved into operations and strategy roles at Saturn, Salley, and AgAide, refining my ability to compress sales cycles, automate workflows, and build repeatable frameworks. At Salley, I cut first-response time from ~18 hours to ~6 hours and ran 30+ structured experiments that lifted CTR ~5× and doubled qualified leads. At AgAide, I developed GTM foundations and led fundraising strategy, coordinating legal, finance, and partnerships to keep deal timelines on track.
Most recently, I completed my MS in Management (Sustainability concentration) at Fordham's Gabelli School, where I served as VP of Student Government, Gala Chair, and Graduate Assistant—roles that involved detailed proposal development, cross-functional project management, and executive liaison work. It was the perfect bridge between my operational roots and my strategic ambitions.
Beyond Work
Outside of operations and strategy, I founded a 501(c)(3) for schools in rural Afghanistan (Local Literacy Project), which won 3rd place for Anthem Awards' "Small Nonprofit of the Year" in 2024. I've been volunteering to help others learn since 6th grade, and when I had the opportunity to build a better charity—one that runs as lean as humanly possible—I took it. Every dollar donated means a dollar received by school children. Admin and wiring fees? That's covered by the annual donations of those on the board.
I'm fluent in Czech (my family is Czech), completed a full-stack coding bootcamp in 2020 (working proficiency in React and Node.js), and have built a variety of emergent events and installations for private clients, ticketed events, and open-access experiences—including installations at City of Gods and Burning Man. I love rock climbing (5.12a), can solve a Rubik's cube in under a minute, and occasionally experiment with molecular gastronomy.
My work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, and CBS New York, and I was a Division I NCAA rower at Fordham (2013-2015).