I’ve always been interested in what others overlook. I began in art, design and human ecology, then moved into building companies, markets and investment platforms. More than two decades later, that work brought me back to human ecology and a question that now shapes much of my research: what intelligence are we overlooking when we design the future? That way of seeing systems rather than disciplines has shaped everything I have done since. I became an early operator behind first-of-their-kind ventures, including Formula 1’s U.S. platform and Whole Foods Market’s early e-commerce ventures, before founding technology companies and a venture studio, leading accelerators and venture firms, and eventually becoming a venture capitalist. Today, I study how nature, culture and different systems of knowledge can inform the technologies, industries and economies we build next. My research spans the bioeconomy and biocultural intelligence, particularly in islands and some of the planet’s most ecologically and culturally significant regions. I work between worlds that rarely speak the same language: scientists and investors, governments and communities, traditional knowledge and emerging technology. I bridge those systems so capital, technology and institutions can better understand the value already present in nature, culture and local knowledge, while protecting community agency, governance and economic participation. This work has led to what I call the Green Renaissance, a framework for an emerging economic future in which human prosperity is more deeply connected to nature, culture and the intelligence of living systems. My career may look interdisciplinary from the outside. To me, it has always been one pursuit: finding overlooked intelligence, understanding its potential, and building the systems that allow it to shape what comes next.