I lead communications for AI and emerging technology, from breakthrough to public conversation.
Director of Research and Innovation Communications at Adobe.
Measures
Scale and reach
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20+ teams
Marketing, social, talent marketing, PR, legal, design, and product. Technical stories only travel if they move through a matrixed organization, so I built the cross-functional partnerships that carry them.
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New investment in generative AI
Executive presentations I led enabled Adobe Research's VP to make the case for generative AI as a major bet, persuading company leadership to put multi-million-dollar resources behind it. That investment contributed to advances including Firefly and Photoshop Generative Fill.
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Three research institutes
At Stanford I made the case for interdisciplinary science to donors considering gifts of $10 million and above. Bio-X, ChEM-H, and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute came out of those campaigns.
Practice
What I lead
New ideas don't travel on their own. I learn the substance, find the argument, and make the case that earns alignment, investment, and action.
Building AI and technology communications functions
I create the strategy, systems, channels, and partnerships that turn an organization's technical expertise into sustained influence, not just occasional announcements.
Shaping executive and company narratives
I help leaders develop clear, credible points of view about fast-moving technologies, connecting technical work with organizational priorities, investment decisions, and public conversations.
Connecting emerging technology with products and business priorities
I build bridges among researchers, product teams, executives, marketers, and communicators so emerging ideas can travel further, from discovery to alignment, adoption, and impact.
Creating thought-leadership and editorial programs
I identify what is genuinely worth saying, develop the larger story, and turn expertise into bylines, keynotes, briefings, videos, and editorial programs that audiences choose to engage with.
I built this function once from nothing. What transfers is the judgment about what matters, the systems that make it repeatable, and the relationships that carry it.
Work & impact
Selected work
AI and technology
Adobe Research stories are created collaboratively and published without individual bylines. On Writing & Media I describe my role in developing the narrative for each featured project.
Also
Books and philosophy
A second body of work in public writing and audience-building, sustained alongside my communications career.
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