About Me (a.k.a. Benji!)
❧ Education
Vanderbilt University
Double majored & minored: Molecular & Cellular Biology, Human & Organizational Development, Chemistry, Business.
Stanford University
Deferred enrollment program at the Graduate School of Business (GSB).
Jericho Senior High School
Graduated salutatorian of my class at the same high school my dad went to 30 years prior.
❧ Experience
Stealth
Tinkering in applications of psychometrics in the real world.
2026 –
Nu (v)
Building the activation layer of Vanderbilt's startup & ventures community, from the ground up.
2026 –
Self/Angel Investor & Startup Advisor
Partnering with founders who demonstrate high-potential building in all industries & verticals.
2024 –
Elysian
Leading ML projects. As 2nd founding hire, helped raise $9M, headed up go-to-market, & scaled insurtech to 20 in 11 months.
2024 –
Mercor
Built internal talent assessment ML pipelines & advised on company scaling at Series A.
2024
D. E. Shaw & Co.
Led special projects in psychometrics, technical talent assessments, & strategic growth.
2021 – 2024
Advanced Therapeutics Laboratory
Conducted CRISPR/Cas9 & gene-editing research as a SyBBURE Searle Fellow at Vanderbilt.
❧ ACS Nano: Fletcher et al. (2023)
2019 – 2022
Merck & Co.
Global vaccines technical operations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020
Muda
Co-founder & COO of a sustainable clothing marketplace. Global top 30 startup in the Hult Prize 2020.
2019 – 2022
Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai
Chemical biology & pharmacological research into autophagy kinases.
❧ Journal of the American Chemical Society: Khamrui et al. (2019)
2017
University of Washington
Investigated the colloidal stability of conjugated nanoparticles in brain microenvironments.
❧ Colloids & Surfaces: Curtis, Toghani, Wong, & Nance (2018)
