About

A Life at the Crossings

My path has taken me through four countries, from earning a PhD at Cambridge and directing a leadership center at Yale to working across private equity, executive development, and enterprise AI.

The work that enables people and institutions to flourish is rarely born within the boundaries of a single discipline, institution, or point of view. Such work emerges where scholarship informs strategy, technology advances human purpose, and ideas take institutional form.

I have built my life and work in the spaces between worlds. Five verbs have shaped every chapter of my work: connect, create, convene, catalyze, and coach.

Connect

I connect diverse expertise, influential leaders, and complementary institutions around opportunities none could realize alone.

Create

I create frameworks, platforms, and ventures that turn scholarship into systems and imagination into infrastructure.

Convene

I convene leaders from different disciplines and industries, not to dissolve their differences, but to make those differences productive.

Catalyze

I catalyze transformation by bringing technology and people into alignment, enabling organizations to move with both speed and trust.

Coach

I coach leaders through consequential moments, helping them see clearly, choose wisely, and act courageously for the good of their people and institutions.

Current Focus

What if the age of AI becomes a human renaissance, an era when technology helps more people create, contribute, and flourish?

That possibility shapes three connected areas of my work: using AI to expand what people can create, transforming organizations so more people can contribute, and making human flourishing the measure of progress.

Enterprise AI

I design responsible AI systems that expand what people can imagine and create while preserving institutional intelligence and strengthening human judgment.

Organizational Transformation

I align strategy, technology, governance, and workforce adoption so people can contribute meaningfully and organizations can turn new possibilities into enduring capability.

Human Flourishing

I develop frameworks, measures, and ventures that help people, leaders, and organizations understand, strengthen, and sustain the conditions for flourishing.

Beniamin 

My name is Beniamin. In Hebrew, it means "son of the right hand" — the one who stands beside the king. I used to wonder why parents do this. Why burden a child with a name that big? Now I understand. A name like that is not a prediction. It's a summons. A reminder that we are accountable to a greatness before and beyond ourselves.

But how could someone like me live up to it? My father survived a Communist labor camp — and emerged believing that adversity could be turned into ambition, iron into gold. He used to tell me: the extraordinary is simply the ordinary with a better heart.

I am a novus homo — Latin for the first in a family to rise to significance. Forged from nothing. No inheritance but character. And character, I've learned, is everything. It's what testifies for you when you're not in the room.

But character doesn't guarantee glory. It guarantees something stranger: a different way of seeing. It whispers the odd principle to consider others as better than yourself, to spend your influence on their becoming, to love them as you're still learning to love yourself, to make their flourishing your measure of success.

Character doesn't climb for the view. It climbs to see more clearly — and to serve what it sees. This is what it means to be a novus homo. To rise from nothing. To keep rising — not toward status, but toward sight. Not to grasp, but to give. To look at another human being and see potential they haven't claimed yet. And to help them claim it.

And if a name can be a summons, so can a life: to stand beside what is good, and spend our strength helping others rise.