I was born and raised in the Bay Area by a San Francisco-native mother of Irish, Italian, and Mexican descent, and a Bucharest-born father who grew up in Romania under the communist dictatorship of the Ceaușescu regime. 

My father came to this country not knowing how to speak English and with nothing but his masterful craft as a jeweler-entrepreneur, a desire for a better life, and a relentless hunger to achieve the American Dream. As such, entrepreneurship is in my DNA as well as a deep appreciation for diversity—particularly diversity of thought, experience, and perspective. I have an unparalleled desire to be the ‘hardest worker in the room’ and am always pushing to become the best version of myself.

When I was 18, I left San Francisco and headed toward Dartmouth College. I honed my ability to execute at the highest levels, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and serving as the President of the Club Basketball Team, the President of the Rockefeller Business and Entrepreneurial Leaders, and was named a Rockefeller Leadership Fellow. While in school, I focused on green business and environmental economics, which served my career in venture and growth equity. 

My experience at Dartmouth translated to my role at Insight, looking at every investment opportunity from all angles—the team, the market opportunity, the product-market fit, the underlying financial KPIs of the business, the company’s defensibility & positioning relative to competitors—and crafting a synthesized perspective on whether we should invest and how we’d scale the business.

I’m still writing my life story, but so far, it’s uniquely prepared me to meet amazing founders across the world, build relationships with them and their businesses, and relentlessly go to bat for them to achieve success.