Born and raised in New York City. First job: a neighborhood bakery, $5 an hour. He's watched this city change from what it was into what it is today. That education never stopped.
His mother is Israeli, his father Greek. The kind of household where nothing was handed to you. The city confirmed it daily.
For 30 years he's been throwing himself into the deep end — theater conservatory, piano on street corners across 35 countries, 100,000 strangers, a dog named Brando, a van, a bucket for tips. Then back to New York to build LUME Studios — 10 years, 1,600 events, 393 Broadway, Tribeca.
He's driven through the mountains of Guatemala at midnight, been fed by strangers who didn't speak his language, and changed more flat tires in the desert than he can count.
He'll tell you ideas are everywhere. The world is full of people with extraordinary ones. What's rare is the person who actually goes.
That gap between thinking and doing — 30 years of saying yes has taught him to close it. Every single time.
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