About Chris
January 2024 Update: Approaching age 41, I now have another amazing career in parallel to Green Academics. I’ve transitioned from Angel investor to Chief Business Officer at Endiatx. This medical device startup in Hayward, CA is building the world’s first robotic capsule endoscope. I’m surrounded by visionary engineer-artists aiming to save lives and transform medicine. I consider myself very lucky to be involved in this adventure. I now advise my students about internships and jobs in the technology field, and encourage them to feel passionate and optimistic about the possibilities of the future, just as I do.
About Chris
I have a thirst for life! I was a National Merit Finalist and an AP Scholar with Honors at Scituate High School in Massachusetts in 2001. I finished the Boston Marathon twice in high school and twice more in college. Later I ran a best marathon time of 3:05 at age 27 and also completed an IronMan that year. I tutored as a volunteer at Harvard, where I graduated with a degree in Linguistics in 2005. I sang in the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus in college, and in the San Francisco Choral Society later. I summited the Umbwe Route of Kilimanjaro at 19. I became an acrylic painter in my mid-twenties, and a tennis whiz in my early thirties. I cycled from Seattle to San Francisco by myself in seven days, and completed a ten-kilometer swim. I got into Python programming a few years ago, finished a coding bootcamp in San Jose, and have solved 65 of the mathematical propositions on projecteuler.net. I’ve fused all of these skills to now be an executive at a company with a meteoric trajectory toward saving lives by identifying cancer and diseases.
I took a year off to travel and perfect my Spanish in South America. Je parle Français aussi! I own a diverse portfolio of blockchain assets in addition to other investments. I gutted a 1977 Dodge Clipper RV and remodeled it when I turned 35. I’ve been a musician, a triathlete, a traveler, an investor, and always a reader and learner. I’m as wild at the karaoke microphone as on the geography quiz website of your choice. I believe that there will always be a new skill to master, and have imbued my students with this spirit of energy.
