Josh is a hacker who specializes in translating technology insights into actionable strategies. He speaks, writes, and consults for businesses from that startup down the street to the biggest multinationals on the planet, focusing on using new and emerging technologies to create exponential improvements using the recently possible.
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TRANSFORMATION
From the first e-commerce engine to the backwards evolution of the US Telco system – and now at the forefront of AI – Josh has been on the front lines of several world changing technologies. This means that transformation efforts can not only avoid the mistakes of the past, but optimize for multiplier effects by drawing on numerous growth patterns at once. From wearable computing to AI Expert Systems, Josh has harnessed rapidly evolving technologies across numerous industries.
STRATEGY
BOARDS
Josh sits on numerous advisory boards, from large firms such as BP or Eyrir Ventures to scale-ups like Venture.co or Worksuite.com. His extensive experience solving liminal and emerging problems at an executive level allows him to identify the unknowns most critical to address for success, both across industries and from the smallest to the largest companies.
ADVISING
Josh has advised Fortune 100 companies and early-stage startups alike, with a focus on market-leading iterative technology development and design. A deep understanding of critical business imperatives and an ability to explain technical limitations and capacity quickly and clearly allows Josh to support fast decision making at all levels of growth.
I’m building BTR to help nations make AI a public asset – not a vendor dependency. We translate priorities into implementable specs, then run evidence-driven pilots to prove what should scale and what shouldn’t. National AI needs proven strategy.
Start at BTR.is.
Continuous Glucose Monitors are the first of a growing class of physically embedded sensors that could drastically change human behavior and control of glucose levels.
This project is designed to determine how, thus improving health outcomes in obesity, heart disease, and diabetes… all of which are leading indicators of death by Covid-19.
Check out an overview deck here, and contact me if you’re interested in partnering!
IndigoMetrics measures and manages employee behavior, cohering culture and helping every individual chart a path towards organizational success. By leveraging a unique data set and extensive experience with large enterprises, the platform codifies the social contract to empower employees and inform leadership. This is data utterly unique to you and your org.
Good projects never die – but many of them have to rest for a while until conditions improve!
I’ve been building and experimenting since I crawled out of the womb, so the raw material of past learning is vast. I’ve tried to pull together a collection of past projects that illustrate some of the core principles of the work that I do. And yes, the crowbox is included!



Josh has presented everywhere from the TED Mainstage to the WEF’s Davos conference, speaking to audiences randing from a table of board members to crowds of hundreds.
In every case Josh’s content speaks to the heart of technology innovation – where we can get unprecedented leverage in using the magic of our age to create a new and better world.