Basel Metropolitan Area
Ordering a cargo of biofuel should be as simple as booking a flight. That's what we're building at Hanseatic, where I'm CTO. Pioneer at the intersection of AI, commodity trading, and weather forecasting. My path: AI weather models for energy trading at Jua.ai. We trained foundation models when the meteorological world didn't yet believe it would work. Satellite-based crop yield prediction at Stanford's AI Lab. And a decade co-founding Flamingoo Foods, building technology for agricultural commodity trading across East Africa. Schmidt Science Fellow. PhD in Physics.
Building programmable merchants for physical commodity trading
Co-founder of tech-enabled food logistics business in East Africa
- Built derivatives pricing framework for weather risk transfer products - Led product design and optimization for agricultural and energy sector clients
Research and development of AI weather models
Ermon Lab, affiliated with the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) and Center on Food Security and the Environment