Over the past five years, I have advised leadership teams of companies, governments and foundations on investments in emerging markets across three continents. I started my career as a strategy consultant, helping companies of different sizes assess opportunities in sectors like healthcare, energy, and education by facilitating robust strategic planning to develop new products and scale their business.

I am born and raised in NYC and have spent the last five years sourcing, developing and investing in multifamily and commercial real estate in the United States, focusing on apartment complexes and mixed use projects. Being frustrated with the asset class drove me to launching a co-living startup and consequently entered the VC space.

I was born and raised in Japan, American by citizenship, and ethnically Chinese. As an investment analyst/associate at one of the world’s largest and most diversified independent alternative asset management firms, I was responsible for investment and operational due diligence of quantitative hedge funds for the past three years.

My home is at the intersection of strategy and creativity. I go wherever innovation calls me. My first startup, “Partyzan Hats,” employed Carpathian hatmakers and taught me the power of authenticity. As a management trainee at WPP owned advertising agency Scholz & Friends, I learned the ABC of selling ideas.