Chief Executive Officer of SandboxAQ, the pacesetter in quantitative AI Large Quantitative Models (LQMs). Previously with Alphabet, leading AI and quantum teams. Author of Quantum Computing: An Applied Approach. Serial entrepreneur and Co-Founder of several tech companies, including EarthWeb/Dice (NYSE: DHX). Also co-founded Vista Research, a fintech company. Trustee of the X Prize Foundation and has been a Board Member of Trickle Up, which helps thousands of entrepreneurs start small businesses each year. Has a foundation, The Hidary Foundation, which is dedicated to medical oncology research and has supported work at Sloan Kettering and UCSF. Has been recognized for leadership by organizations such as the World Economic Forum and is a member of YPO. Studied neuroscience at Columbia and subsequently received the Stanley Fellowship in Clinical Neuroscience at NIH, working on functional brain imaging and neural networks.