About
19 years of building things that work.
From FX dealing floors in Perth and Sydney to venture capital, startups, and now running operations and product for family offices and founder-led businesses from New York, with AI agents doing the heavy lifting. This is how I got here.

The short version.
I spent 11 years at National Australia Bank, starting in business banking, moving through distressed debt, and landing in FX derivatives where I managed hedging strategies for business and corporate clients. Then I left banking to build. Nebula Ventures was founded in 2019 in partnership with Australian real-estate investment manager EG as a venture-investment platform focused on proptech and fintech. More than $10 million was deployed through affiliated investment vehicles. During COVID, Nebula became independent as I remained in New York, and it has been my operating company since. The last seven years have mostly been inside family offices and investment managers in Australia, the UK and the US. A venture portfolio built with a $5B real-estate manager. A $100M digital-asset portfolio with a stablecoin scaled to $70M AUM in 12 months. Today, the COO seat at a Los Angeles family office with 36 companies, where I built the tools the office runs on and put AI agents to work across the back office. In between, a Head of Product role that took a New York marketplace from concept to public launch, and a conveyancing platform my team built and owns. The COO work and the product work are the same job to me: I build the systems a business runs on, then run them. Agents do the recurring work. I sign off every decision. Based in New York.
Background
The journey so far
Four chapters, one throughline, building things that work for people who care.

James
Contact
Want to work together?
Always open to a conversation about operations, product, or putting AI to work inside a business. Drop me a line. I read everything.
