Joshua is a technology entrepreneur, financier, and startup architect. Over the past 20 years, he helped pioneer category-defining business model such as Free2Play for online game industry (as its original U.S. trademark holder), Train-to-Earn for Artificial Intelligence space, and Risk Parity for Decentralized Financial space.

He previously worked at Accenture as technology and corporate strategy consultant, Deutsche Bank in its global investment banking division, as well as M&A group. He then started North America’s first free-to-play MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game) publisher, GamersFirst, which became one of the largest free-to-play MMORPG publishers in the Western Hemisphere with offices in the U.S, India, Brazil and Turkey. GamersFirst was backed by Intel Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Greycroft.

He also started a virtual game asset trading platform in China, Item*Star, while simultaneously helping to build Playspan, the largest virtual currency payment platform for gamers in North America backed by Softbank and Menlo Ventures; he acted as its early backer, shareholder, and board member prior to its acquisition by Visa International for $190M in 2011.

He was Founder and General Partner of Exponential, an $150M early-stage venture fund based in Newport Beach, CA, focused on financing several startups in digital health, AI, and cloud computing space which included: Curely, Kuddly, Ampsy, Athletigen, UNYQ, RStor, and Fractal in 2016.

He won the Orange County Business Journal’s Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award and was chosen as one of the OC Metro’s 40 under 40 in 2010.

He also founded and chaired a YPO (Young Presidents Organization) Singularity University Seminar which was recognized as one of the highest rated educational programs in YPO in 2016. His latest venture, MIND AI, won 12 of the top startup awards in South Korea between 2020 and 2022.