Email

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Interests

🏢 CRE

🎒 Backpacking

⛷️ Skiing

🛶 Boundary Waters

🚀 Startups / VC

✏️ Writing

<aside> <img src="/icons/info-alternate_green.svg" alt="/icons/info-alternate_green.svg" width="40px" /> Current Masters in Real Estate candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Business School.

A Y Combinator alum and former White House appointee.

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Work History

Cofounder / Head of Sales

February 2021 - December 2025

• Co-founded Artemis Labs, a venture-backed technology startup that developed a range of software products
• Raised capital from investors including Y Combinator, Amino Capital and Remus Capital
• Identified target markets through extensive customer research and subject matter expert interviews
• Facilitated sales, planning and executing an outreach strategy

Deputy Speechwriter for the Secretary of Commerce (Presidential Appointee)

October 2020 - January 2021

• Drafted speeches for the Secretary of Commerce as a presidential political appointee
• Speeches were delivered before audiences that included prominent business leaders and international heads of state
• Diligently fact-checked remarks to ensure 100% accuracy
• Maintained Top Secret Security Clearance

Education

MSRE Candidate at UW-Madison

January 2025 - May 2026

• Enrolled and began study a few months ahead of cycle in 2025

Y Combinator Summer 2022 Batch

July 2022 - September 2022

• Participated in the S22 YC batch
• YC is a startup accelerator that provides funding + a three month bootcamp for founders
• YC’s admittance rate is roughly 2%

BA Political Science

August 2017 - January 2021

• Completed degree one semester early
• Designed several independent studies for credit, one of which yielded a peer-reviewed publication on the history of the opioid crisis
• Participated in St. Olaf's Great Conversation program, a two-year series of classes aimed at investigating the Western Canon
• Presidential Scholar (meritorious scholarship award)

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