I build and scale teams; develop plural futures in food, climate, governance; and, navigate digital technologies.
But I’m mostly a husband and a dad, who loves sambal terasi, and is constantly making masala hot chocolate for his daughter.
I work on (1) teams, (2) foresight, and (3) tech
I love to connect the dots between individual behaviors, social dynamics, and the technologies that enables them
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1. Build and Scale Distributed Teams
Established the regional Asia office for a San Francisco-based digital consultancy, with USD +15 million in annual revenue
Lead operations to scale a fully remote consultancy grow from 5 to over 20 people
Worked with early startups, including in crypto-research and robo-advisor
Built diverse, multi-disciplinary teams (tech to design) in Asia and also with fully remote (distributed) teams from Africa to Asia and Europe
Designed distributed (remote) work team culture, project management processes, digital collaboration tools practices and more
Applied the “Intentional Working” concept (from Chris Heuer), which builds upon collaboration research findings and practices from Google and others
2. Decentralizing Technologies
(tech independence)
How to use accessible hardware and open source software for knowledge management, cloud-based collaboration software, and data ownership (localizing data)
Knowledge Management & Collaboration: Document Management tools like Paperless to NextCloud, a Google Workspace alternative
AI Software: Local, open-sourced LLM chat bot, using RAG/LangChain to keep data local
Data Ownership: Download websites, YouTube videos, Backup Google/Dropbox data locally and to S3, Automate content distribution (POSSE)
Other Software & Services Used: Docker, Nginx Proxy Manager, Cloudflare (DNS), Scaleway (S3 and Instances), Ollama (Llama2:7b), etc
3. Strategic Foresight in food, governance, emerging tech
Capacity Building & Training: I provide futures and foresight capacity training for policymakers to young changemakers.
Agri-Food Systems: FAO, Basque Culinary Center, Global Food Manufacturer; Governance: International IDEA, UNDP, SOIF; Emerging Tech: EU Policy Lab at European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), a UK Government Agency
Awards and Recognitions: 2019 Award Winner and 2018 Emerging Fellow at Association of Professional Futurists
Current & Recent Positions: Foresight Learning Lead for NGFP at School of International Futures, Climate Foresight and Scenario Specialist at FAO
Board Member at the Association of Professional Futurists, Co-Editor of Perspectives at the Journal of Futures Studies, Board Member of Participatory Futures Global Swarm
