I am an avid traveler with a keen interest in international education. I have just started two international education companies, Zoped Academy ad Zoped Internships, Prior to establishing these companies, I was the Grants Manager at Ayusa, a global youth exchange program. At Ayusa, I managed a number of long and short term Department of State initiatives including the Tomodachi SoftBank Leadership program — a three week course for 300 Japanese high school students affected by the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami of March 2011.

Previous to Ayusa, I was the Program Development & Quality Manager with Child Family Health International (CFHI), in addition to a consultant with Diversity Abroad. I also held leadership positions in the annual Lessons from Abroad Conference in the San Francisco Bay Area.

I hold a Masters of Philosophy from the University of Sydney, Australia for his dissertation titled: Higher Education in a Transition Economy: The Case of India 1991-2003. He obtained his BA in Human Development from the University of California, San Diego in 1999, and participated on the Semester at Sea program in 1996.