Work

Brainient (2006 - 2016)

I started coding when I was 12 and discovered the web around 14. The first website I ever built was for a non-profit run by my sister.

As a freshman in college (majored in Applied Mathematics & Computer Science), I started a software outsourcing business and hired a bunch of my friends to help companies build websites. We had no clients, so we started bidding for projects on Rent A Coder, Elance and Getafreelancer.com. Our work was good and within a year we had built a team of 10 engineers creating web apps for companies all over the world. While creating software for others, we were also working on our own ideas.

In 2009 we had a feeling that video on the internet will be a big thing, so we built an interactive video ad server to deliver better video ads online. That product took off, so in 2009 I moved to London to raise money from investors and build a sales team. We raised $4 million in financing from a number of amazing investors, and by 2016 Brainient was the leading interactive video ad server in Europe, with customers in 20 countries and serving billions of ad impressions per month.

In 2016 Brainient was acquired by Teads, one of our clients and the largest independent video advertising marketplace in the world.

Teads (2016 - 2018)

After Brainient was acquired, I spent a couple of years scaling the business (rebranded Teads Studio) to 28 countries in 24 months. Teads was acquired by Altice for $300M+, and then by Outbrain for just about $1 billion.

The technology we created at Brainient is now being used across hundreds of billions of ad impressions every month.

Ezra (2018 - 2025)

As a child, I developed hundreds of moles all over my body, which put me at increased risk of skin cancer. Having annual dermatology check-ups to screen for abnormal moles has always been part of my life. Then, in 2015, a friend introduced me to Hospices of Hope, a non-profit in Romania that builds and operates hospices for terminally ill cancer patients. Speaking to patients and their doctors helped me learn that one of the biggest problems in cancer is the lack of a fast, accurate, affordable way to screen for cancer everywhere in the body.

I have also had to deal with cancer in my family, and have seen what toll late-stage cancer takes on patients and their loved ones. So I started Ezra, an AI startup that has created a new way to screen for cancer everywhere in the body using a full body MRI powered by Artificial Intelligence. You can read more about Ezra here.

Ezra was acquired by Function Health in May 2025.

Function Health (2025 - present)

I'm currently CEO of Ezra, running the business as an independent business unit part of Function Health. I've also joined Function as board observer as part of the acquisition.

Our mission as a combined company is to help 8 billion people live 100 healthy years.