I have been an independent business owner most of my professional life, founding companies to execute my vision — originally software, now e-commerce and information sharing. 
  
The Transparency Project (http://transparency.is)
My life's work all advances the ideal of transparency: public understanding of origins and intent - commercially and socially. 
 
TripleFair will be an e-commerce portal facilitating transactions based on friends and demographics, also facilitating consumer awareness, local business, and social networking for a community of advice exchange. 
 
ideaPush.org is a not-for-profit internet community and NYC salon group, that aims to improve lives by undoing bad "common knowledge" and prejudices caused by private, corporate, and government interests. 
 
“Being Transparent” is a book that will lay out a roadmap for integrating transparency into daily life, to improve business and personal success.

Earlier in life, I have worked as a software engineer, magazine editor and writer, photographer, print shop manager, and as an amateur racing cars and playing competitive pool. I hold a BA in Electronic Music and Composition from Bennington College. I am self-trained in software, which I have taught on a collegiate level. I am currently in the IMD Executive MBA program.

Affiliations include YEO, a young entrepreneurs peer group; Carnegie Hall, where I am a ‘notable’ patron; The Morgan Library, where I am a 'young associate', The Electronic Music Foundation, where I am a founding patron, Sugarbush Soaring, where I fly sailplanes; The Aspen Institute and its group of young thinkers, the Socrates Society; and my favorite: the invitation-only TED Conferences, which bring together the great leaders of technology, entertainment, and design.