Connect Who or what is your inspiration in business?

I’m inspired by builders who turn inevitable futures into infrastructure—people like Jensen Huang, but also frontline workers whose lives depend on better tools. My focus is where technology meets reality: when AI leaves the screen, it needs protection, safety, and intelligence in the physical world. That responsibility not just innovation, but real-world impact is what drives how I build.

How do you stay motivated?

I stay motivated by proximity to real problems and real people. When you see how one piece of technology can protect someone, improve their safety, or change outcomes, it stops being abstract. I also operate with urgency, technology is moving fast, and if we don’t build responsibly and quickly, someone else will. That combination of purpose + pressure keeps me locked in.

What would you do with the $25,000?

I would deploy it immediately into product and pilot execution—advancing our smart protective systems into real-world use. Specifically: prototyping upgrades, integrating sensors and edge AI, and running pilots with partners in security, healthcare, and field operations. The goal is simple: convert innovation into deployed impact as fast as possible and generate data that accelerates adoption.