I'm very driven, and helped along with my dreams by amazing friends and family. At the same time, I'm very easygoing when it comes to my personal life and tend to be calm and supportive. I'm also very curious by nature, and I love discovering new things (like the stuff you're interested in). I read. A lot. I would like to think I'm funny, and friends would agree to various degrees. My sense of humor's best captured by my movie choices, if you're trying to get hints.

I've worked in finance for a bit, including positions at a hedge fund, a private equity firm, an investment bank and an institutional brokerage. I then took a Director role at a consulting firm, and am now COO for TravelLabs.

If there's a word for me, it's analytical. I was a math major before I decided being a professor wasn't all it's cracked up to be. So I tend to give very good advice to my friends, and tend to deal with life's bumps well. On the other hand, I don't really understand highly emotive people.

Books: Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem, In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek

Movies: Adaptation, Dangerous Liasons, Tampopo, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms (last vignette), The Royal Tenenbaums/The Life Aquatic

Music: TV on the Radio, The Flaming Lips, Beach House, The Talking Heads, Interpol, Wilco, The Knife, David Bowie

Food: My favorite restaurant is Dry Creek Kitchen in Healdsburg.

- Interesting work
- Supportive friends and family
- Good music
- Good books
- A computer/internet connection
- A car

I've recently been obsessing over nutrition and diet - I'm the kind of guy who builds Excel spreadsheets, so I have a well-developed model for meal plans now.