Shaq joins the Lux team with a passion for technology and a desire to invest in people. He is drawn to technologies that separate true signal from background noise, a theme that has guided him from early DSP work at NASA and Northrop Grumman—where he helped process infrared & RF data for missions like the James Webb —to decoding genomic information at Illumina and observing the birth of GRAIL’s liquid‑biopsy platform. And most recently at Parthenon, where he advised mega-cap private equity investors on enterprise & infrastructure software buyouts. Shaq’s intersectional journey sharpens his view of how foundational “building blocks” in sensing, data infrastructure, and computational biology create outsized downstream markets. Now at Lux Capital, Shaq partners with founders who bring that same clarity‑seeking mindset to their life's mission.

Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it. –Michael Ovitz

Growing up on the Space Coast, Shaq earned a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida. He is passionate about pursuing his lifelong goal of living up to his name and finally dunking a basketball. He loves partnering with his companies, and helping them think strategically on how to stay ten steps ahead of the competition. Competitive from a young age, Shaq is obsessed with being a team player and helping whatever team he’s on to win, whether that is his peers at Lux or the entrepreneurs he works for.

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