Founder & Governance Strategist
Building at the intersection of governance, risk, and emerging technology. Twenty years of operational leadership, now applied to the accountability problems that matter most.
Twenty years running complex hospitality operations across New York City — multi-unit openings, technology deployments, vendor ecosystems, and the kind of high-stakes decision-making that doesn’t come with a playbook — turns out to be qualifying GRC experience that was never labeled as such.
The transition to technology risk and governance isn’t a career change. It’s a recognition: the gap between what institutions promise and what they deliver is an accountability problem. I’ve been solving versions of it for two decades. Now I’m building infrastructure to name it, measure it, and close it.
Columbia University. French Culinary Institute. Cisco NetAcad. Security+. What looks like an unusual path is, on closer inspection, a coherent one — every credential earned in service of understanding systems and where they fail.
Governance and accountability intelligence for practitioners. Tracking the gap between advancing technical capability and the institutions meant to govern it — across cybersecurity, AI governance, and digital sovereignty.
reports.vordan.co Privacy InfrastructurePrivacy-first messaging platform built on a three-layer architecture: Nym mixnet for network anonymity, SimpleX protocol for identifier-free messaging, and an email-familiar interface for adoption. For individuals and sovereign enterprise.
aftermail.co Data InfrastructureA verified local hospitality knowledge layer for LLM retrieval. Phase 1 complete with 417 passing tests on GCP and 7,191 ingested restaurant listings across Manhattan.
figurea.coA six-component practitioner framework for measuring and closing the gap between what governance promises and what it delivers. Assessment instrument available. ISACA Journal submission in progress.
View the FrameworkOpen to conversations about GRC roles, venture partnerships, co-founder inquiries for AfterMail, and acquisition discussions for Figure/A.