AJ grew up as an internationally competitive ski racer while living hundreds of kilometers away from the alps.

Before Dryft, she's launched multiple ventures from 0 to 1. In her first full-time role, she founded a new business line for a large engineering firm, securing $3M in contracts within six months. Before that, she joined Kyte in San Francisco as a first employee onsite to scale the company from the ground up. She's also started several of her own projects, including at Stanford where her team developed self-assembling medical devices (supported by Sequoia Partners through Botha Chan) and an educational nonprofit.

Dryft's customers are who AJ grew up with. All her prior jobs since childhood involved manufacturing or the physical world. From Viessmann (cooling & heating systems), Siemens’ AI Lab on its “Factory of the Future” initiative, Amazon, large automotive manufacturers like ZF & Schaeffler (through Modis), jewelry wholesalers, Bremicker (traffic sign production) and multiple medical device manufactuers.

AJ holds an MS in Data Science from Stanford and is an alumna of the Center for Digital Technology & Management (CDTM). At Stanford, she taught flagship entrepreneurship and data science courses, working alongside educators and entrepreneurs such as Steve Blank (4 IPOs), Tina Seelig, and Scott Sandell (NEA).

AJ does everything with intensity and loves opposites. She’s competed in more than 13 sports and earned numerous scholarships and fellowships (Threshold Venture Fellowship, CEO for One Month, Valedictorian Scholarships, Haniel/Studienstiftung). But her real obsession is with design and detail — from the paint on her 1976 GMC Vandura to the ballgowns she designs herself.