I was born in Romania but grew up in Chicago. I attended Northwestern University where I studied Economics and then started a career in finance. While working in investment banking, I began to explore a passion for entrepreneurship and technology. I put a team of developers together and formed a mobile app development company. I personally funded the operations for a year but after seeing that our projects weren't achieving success, I decided to shut it down. I then joined a Venture Capital firm where I had the opportunity to learn a lot about start-ups and make some very useful relationships. Afterwards, I joined Chicago-based technology company where I helped run the operations team.

I am passionate about finding ways to leverage technology to help solve social problems.