James is a multidisciplinary designer and team leader building revolutionary products, memorable brands, close-knit teams, and industry-defining companies from 0 to 1 and beyond. He operates best in high-ambiguity, strategic, asymmetric environments where speed and precision matter more than mass or incumbency.

Currently, he's designing emotionally intelligent agentic systems at Giga. Before that, he led design for infrastructure products, one of five product divisions, at Coinbase, helping build agentic commerce, instant global payments, and a more free and fair internet.

Born in NYC, based in SF, and building on the internet.