I focus on the gap between fast-moving technology and the institutions that determine what gets built.
I help investors, innovative companies, and public agencies get capital into multi-decade physical assets that outlast the rules they were financed under.
Selected Writing & Speaking
All 26 pieces- Article
The Clutch and the Differential
PolicyAlpha SubstackAI & Energy (opens in a new tab) - Article
Quiet Constraints
PolicyAlpha InsightsData Centers (opens in a new tab) - Panel
Data centers, energy policy, and grid reliability
Panel on what the buildout of AI infrastructure is asking of the grid, and who ends up paying for it.
NABE Policy Conference 2026Data Centers (opens in a new tab) - Article
Infrastructure Moves at the Speed of Institutions
Why the binding constraint on infrastructure is rarely capital or technology: it is the institutions in between.
PolicyAlpha InsightsInfrastructure (opens in a new tab) - Article
Imagining Future-Ready Infrastructure
Yale InsightsInfrastructure (opens in a new tab) - Article
Why P3s are the gateway to the next generation of infrastructure
P3 BulletinInfrastructure (opens in a new tab)
Background
Full biographyTwo decades across the public and private sectors, spent where regulation, capital, and technology meet the built environment.
My work runs from structuring public-private partnerships and de-risking investments for the U.S. market, to designing the commercial and technical frameworks behind digital infrastructure projects.
Managing PartnerPolicyAlpha, an advisory firm bridging private capital and public priorities (opens in a new tab)- Senior AdvisorSidewalk Infrastructure Partners; former Head of Policy & Strategic Partnerships (opens in a new tab)
- Adjunct ProfessorColumbia University, teaching AI and the Future of Cities (opens in a new tab)
- Board MemberGovernors Island Foundation, PowerMarket, and Fountain Valley School (opens in a new tab)
What is actually getting built, and what is getting in the way.
I write about infrastructure, capital, and policy through PolicyAlpha. New pieces land in your inbox as they publish.