VHacks

I was on the founding team of undergrads & MBAs at Harvard/MIT that made the first-ever hackathon sponsored by and inside the Vatican City, with the goal of kickstarting the Catholic Church’s social enterprise ventures arm. Some stuff I did/helped on in my kitchen sink role:

• Raised $XXXk from Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Salesforce, and others (not including LPs).
• Managed rapid development schedule of vhacks.org with an external design firm.
• Led a group of Fortune 500 C-level executives at tech companies and Vatican government leaders in assessing pitches and awarding over $XXXk in funding.
• Designed the end-to-end in-person experience for our 120 technologist participants, 250+ press contacts, and higher-ups in the Vatican.

Some press:

• Inside the Vatican's First-Ever Hackathon | Wired
• The Vatican Hosts a Hackathon | Wired
• The Vatican Is Wooing Silicon Valley | The Atlantic
• Vatican Hackathon: interview with Msgr Lucio Ruiz | Vatican News
• Students 'hack' away at global problems during Vatican hackathon | Catholic News Agency
• Harvard Students Help Bring First Ever Hackathon to the Vatican | HARBUS
• MIT students heading to Rome for first ever Vatican hackathon | MIT Sloan
• Master of Code attends VHacks, The Vatican's very first Hackathon | Master of Code
• Harvard Students Bring Hackathon to the Vatican | The Harvard Crimson
• Vatican hosts its first hackathon | La Croix International
• How Some Harvard MBAs Hacked Their Way To The Vatican | Poets and Quants