Curriculum vitae
Doctoral researcher at the University of St. Gallen, based in the joint HSG–ETH–Zurich AI Lab, working on what a firm becomes when most of its work is done by AI. Before that, two years of executive-facing strategy work at Zurich Insurance across Zurich and Singapore. Trained in mathematics and physics, then in innovation and technology management. Six industries in seven years, the same habit each time: get curious, learn the business fast, then improve how it runs.
Experience
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Doctoral Researcher
University of St. Gallen, Zurich AI Lab — the joint lab of Zurich Insurance, ETH Zurich and HSG
- Doctoral research on how organisations work when some of their members are AI agents, alongside people or in their place; first studies in progress.
- Exploring how employees collaborate with AI agents, starting with the data from Zurich’s firm-wide AI hackathon.
- Support the lab’s venture incubator, where two AI-first insurance start-ups are being built, with research and working software.
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Strategic Project Manager
Zurich Insurance Group, Group Strategy — the group’s strategy and innovation talent programme
- Led the programme’s Asia-Pacific region from Singapore: four strategy projects, each sponsored by a regional executive, with fourteen project members reporting to me from scoping to final recommendation. Two of the four reached implementation.
- Built the growth strategy for a commercial line of business with a four-person team across three regions; wrote the recommendation, adopted by the line’s leadership.
- Seconded to the regional Head of Strategy: owned the macro-economic and market analysis behind the Regional CEO’s executive briefings, and contributed to two market-opportunity assessments.
- Led a group-wide AI strategic-monitoring programme, advising executives on AI strategy for their functions.
- Designed and taught a four-day strategy curriculum - project management, design thinking, the craft of a good deck - to over 130 high-potentials and senior leaders.
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Independent Consultant
Studio APG — a B2B video studio
- Repositioned the studio’s offer by mapping its production workflow against delivery risk, and re-pitching it on what buyers actually paid for.
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Bar Manager
The Noble Hops — a craft beer bar
- Ran the (in my unbiased opinion) best beer bar in Sydney: hired, trained and managed a team of five, and was offered a partnership in the business.
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Founder’s Associate
Bubble — a comics and manga e-commerce start-up of eight people
- Raised the international delivery margin by five points by analysing 100,000+ sales records in Python and redesigning the pricing; automated the marketing workflow, saving a day a week of operations.
- Built the publishing arm’s website.
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IT Consultant Intern
Wavestone — a consulting firm
- Built vendor API integrations for the firm’s Azure data-governance platform - the youngest hire in the firm’s history, at nineteen.
Education
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PhD candidate, Management & Strategy
University of St. Gallen (HSG)
Institute of Management & Strategy, in the joint HSG–ETH–Zurich AI Lab.
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MSc Technology & Innovation Management
Mines Paris PSL & Université Paris-Dauphine
Highest honours, top 4 of 36; thesis on evaluating corporate innovation training. Includes a mandatory gap year, spent in Sydney.
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BSc Mathematics & Physics
Université Paris-Saclay, Institut Villebon-Charpak
High honours; a selective, project-based cohort of 35 students.
Writing & building
- The AI Strategy Brief
A fortnightly newsletter on what matters in AI for business and finance, written solo since September 2025. It began as an internal briefing at Zurich and has been independent since May 2026.
- Essays
Long-form pieces on AI, firms and the technologies reshaping work, some hosted here and some first published on Medium and Substack.
- The lab
Small tools and experiments around AI, research and the way work actually gets done, built in the open. Mostly written by directing coding agents.
Skills & languages
- Research
- Field-study design, interview and survey instruments, agent-based modelling, Monte Carlo simulation, pre-registration and research ethics.
- Analysis
- Market research, financial and survey analysis in Python and SQL; decision papers and executive presentations.
- AI engineering
- Anthropic and OpenAI APIs, agent harnesses and multi-agent orchestration, evals and deterministic replay, memory and retrieval design.
- Building
- Python (FastAPI, pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch), TypeScript, React and Next.js, Astro, SQL, Git, Docker, Vercel, Railway, Azure.
- Languages
- French (native), English (fluent), German (beginner, in lessons)
Otherwise
Lived and worked in France, Australia, Singapore and Switzerland. Long-distance running in the mountains, bouldering, manga and bande dessinée, and the physical newspaper.