A path across disciplines

That has led from institutional finance and investment to technology ventures, climate systems, consciousness research, artificial cognition and geopolitical analysis.

My career began in banking and financial markets, where I worked with complex products, transactions and institutional clients. As a Director at Citi in London, I was responsible for multi-asset sales to financial institutions in Israel and South Africa and structured first-of-kind transactions.

I subsequently worked across investment, technology and climate-related businesses. As Managing Partner at Capital International, I managed portfolio investments, provided strategic direction at board level and served as acting CEO of an algorithmic trading company. At Thomson Reuters I managed pre-sales with strategic clients and received several innovation prizes. I later served as Strategy Director at MoneXdiam and Chief Sales Officer at Everimpact, whose work focused on measuring and monetising carbon reductions for cities and shipping.

In 2023 I founded Synaptic Quanta. Through the practice, I work with investors, founders and organisations on consequential situations that cross conventional boundaries and require different kinds of evidence and judgement to be brought together.

The result may be a strategy, transaction, venture, investment view or working system.

I hold a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an MSc in Quantum Chemistry from the University of the Witwatersrand. I now build and test personal AI architectures and study why organisms may need to feel whether a situation is beneficial or harmful before they can fully process it. This felt quality is known as valence.