James helps clients uncover high-value AI opportunities and strengthen their data foundations, and works with investors to evaluate where AI can unlock new value or disrupt existing business models in the companies they back. He brings extensive management consulting experience, with proven capabilities in strategy development, operational transformation, and due diligence. His work includes developing an AI roadmap and AI solution for various clients, conducting technology research, and executing benchmarking studies and site selection analysis for Fortune 500 companies within the critical minerals sector.
He has also consistently identified operational efficiency opportunities that generate substantial EBITDA improvements for clients through data-driven analysis, including a West Coast container terminal project that delivered projected annual EBITDA increases of 10-20 million USD. His expertise encompasses sell-side and buy-side due diligence on multi-billion-dollar projects in software, critical minerals, global midstream oil pipeline assets, and global logistics infrastructure for major financial institutions.
Based in Chicago, IL, James holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, with a focus on Entrepreneurship, and a Bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Development from Columbia University.