I've spent twenty years at the intersection of the digital world and the built one: working across tech, real estate, and community. A bridge between tech and the people it shapes, I serve as an emissary to the creatives, builders, leaders, and organizations learning to harness these tools for the real world.
About
I've spent my career helping the built environment find its voice in a digital age, founding Knightsbridge Park, the nation's preeminent marketing firm and advisory to the luxury real estate sector. Here, I've presided over the marketing and tech of more than $25 billion in global real estate for brands like Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental, and Related. We worked alongside Google's Sidewalk Labs division to hasten adoption of their AI-driven offerings within the real estate sector.
Additionally, I've explored the design and character of spaces themselves: homes, workplaces, in-between 'third places,' and cities and communities at large.
And this work also brought me face to face with a thornier set of questions. Technology itself is agnostic; it's about how it's deployed. Digital life was supposed to enrich our relationship to place and to each other. In many ways, the opposite has happened: we communicate more and connect less, we have more tools and fewer gathering places. In a moment of growing atomization, the questions that matter most aren't only about hardware and software. They're also about the design and character of the spaces and communities where real life happens.
I hold an A.B. in Government from Harvard, and care deeply about housing equity, zoning reform, and the conviction that how we build determines who gets to participate richly in public life.
What I'm Working On
The agency I founded, and the nation's preeminent marketing firm for the real estate sector. We've shaped campaigns for Mandarin Oriental, Four Seasons, Related, and many more across the US and the world. We help the built environment find its voice in a digital world.
Visit the agencySocial infrastructure encompasses the physical spaces, facilities, and human networks that support community wellbeing, social connections, and quality of life. Our nonprofit works at the intersection of zoning reform, housing equity, and the legal frameworks that determine how communities grow, who gets to live in them, and whether they're designed to bring people together or keep them apart.
Well-conceived places do the latter. Conversely, bad policy makes good design impossible. We advocate for common-sense approaches to the built environment — communities structured to foster interaction, collaboration, and genuine civic life.
Learn moreTraversing the world's cities, I'm always in search of what makes the best places tick, and how to translate those lessons at home and internationally. Spearheading smaller-scale, thoughtful residential development in New York and beyond — projects grounded in new urbanist principles, walkability, and the conviction that the design of a place has more to do with how well people live than almost anything else.
I advise individuals, brands, businesses, and organizations — and also offer pro bono work for people and causes I believe in. A few areas where I can help:
We built tools that were supposed to bring us together — and in many ways they have. But we also stopped investing in the physical spaces where connection actually happens. The question isn't whether to embrace technology. It's whether we can use it to rebuild what we've lost.
Conversations
Amidst a staggering explosion of both progress and alienation, I'm interested in asking how innovation and informed design can deepen, rather than undermine, our experience of place and togetherness, setting us up to thrive as individuals and as a collective.
If any of the below resonates, I'd welcome a conversation.
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