I make the substance visible.
I find the hidden value in people, organizations, and ideas, and build the structures that force that value into view.
Global CEO, Renaissance Group · Writer
I find the hidden value in people, organizations, and ideas, and build the structures that force that value into view.
Global CEO, Renaissance Group · Writer
I find the substance in a company, a person, or an idea, and I build the structures that force it into visibility.
For nearly two decades I have positioned B2B leaders inside the prevailing zeitgeists of digital transformation and sustainable energy.
Three decades of Eastern philosophical study ground my reading of ethics and cultural dynamics.
Years inside global corporations, alongside world-class business minds, sharpen the judgment.
The blend gives me an unusual view of how organizations behave and how cultures speak to one another.
The fascinations that feed the work:
RENAISSANCEI founded Renaissance Group to make the substance of B2B companies visible to the markets they serve. We work with Schneider Electric, SAP, PwC, and others across Asia, Europe, and North America, on brand strategy, narrative, and the content systems that keep both coherent over time.
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Hastings.Hastings is the managed AI operating system for companies of 50 to 1,000 people. It turns a company’s scattered knowledge and work into one governed system that both people and machines can read.
Visit Hastings ↗I publish essays that pull the thread. Twelve centuries of Japanese cherry blossoms as a climate chart. A functioning religion invented in seventy-two hours by a million AI agents. The grammar of genuflection in Qianlong’s court and Trump’s.
Russia buys a soldier for $40,000 and spends him at the front within the hour. Ukraine kills him for the price of a phone and logs the score.
Read → June 2026In a single year, the rich and powerful spent $8.5B trying to outrun aging. This is what that money is really buying.
Read → June 2026On the day Pope Leo XIV stood beside an AI executive to release his first encyclical.
Read →readers follow the daily writing on LinkedIn.
The essays go long on Substack. The daily observations, on power, brands, and the patterns underneath the news, live on LinkedIn.
His posts are always thought-provoking and at the same time so very well written, almost poetic. He always brings history to support the narrative and points to a perspective that makes one think. In these days, where everything is fast, short, and intellectual baby feeding, finding this type of content is wonderful.António Coutinho
A precious writing style that, regrettably, is about to disappear. If you still have copies of all your previous articles, I would humbly suggest you put them together and publish them under the title ‘Tales of the LinkedIn Days.’ People will buy. Scott Fitzgerald did it for the old twenties. You have the talent to do the same a hundred years later.Tom Cunha
Your posts qualify as some of the best writing I see here on LinkedIn.Salwa Emerson
I admire your orientation, depth, and obvious insight. I feel your care.Renee Lertzman, PhD
Loved your Nvidia post. And I say that without having a short position. I just liked it.Sam Arie
You say things people don’t dare to say. Absolutely unique and refreshing when most of LinkedIn sounds like a silly echo chamber.Melissa Kargiannakis
As usual, your posts make my day. How easy it is to kill the poetry in the modern world.Gustavo Guimaraes
Thank you for writing intelligent content about the absolute shambles that is going on right now. So very few are being brave and writing any commentary. The cowardice is rampant. Your posts should be going viral.Dawn Mari La Monica, JD
“Craft, attention, institutions, cultures, and selves are being compressed into data, then into product, then into yield.”
“When the Empire declines, the Fortress rises.”
Building fortresses in an age of global fragmentation
For thirty years, the story of global business was convergence. Trade would produce peace, interdependence would make conflict impossible, and trillions of dollars of enterprise value stood on that assumption. In the 2020s it collapsed.
In the world now arriving, interdependence becomes a kill chain. Every node of connection is a potential point of failure, or of coercion. The book maps the rupture and the answer: physical sovereignty over your supply, narrative sovereignty over your truth, values sovereignty over your tribe. Control that holds when the network fails.
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Two keynotes, built the way the essays are built. You can book me for a stage anywhere in the world.
How empires rise, narrate themselves, and come apart. A talk on power, brands, and the long patterns underneath this century’s headlines.
A case for being human. A cinematic journey through the costs of our optimization obsession, from Blueprint protocols to Hermès refusing to scale.
After we optimize away everything human, who remains to enjoy the perfection?
A feature built around my analysis of the divergence between central bank gold buying and retail investor behavior, drawing the Rothschild parallel forward to the present. October 2025
Quoted on the economics of Meta’s AGI recruitment drive: “AI researchers now earn more than Fortune 500 CEOs while their code replaces millions of jobs.” August 2025
A parallel piece on the same subject. August 2025
Cited on how the TikTok economy offered unexpected lifelines to Chinese exporters caught in the trade war crossfire. Read
On positioning, narrative, and the discipline of brand work for global B2B enterprises.
On the arc from Indian engineer to consultancy founder, and building an intellectually serious firm outside the usual capitals.
For client engagements, reach out through Renaissance. For keynotes, writing, interviews, and everything else, email me directly.