Shaq is a partner at Lux. He is drawn to instruments that make the invisible legible - a theme that guided him from early DSP work at NASA and Northrop Grumman, where he helped process infrared and RF data for missions including the James Webb Space Telescope, to decoding genomic signal at Illumina and supporting GRAIL's liquid-biopsy platform from its earliest days. That technical background - spanning physical sciences, life sciences, and computational sciences - shapes how he partners with founders who are looking where no one else is. He invests in platform and "building block" companies where the downstream value created is greater than that of the company itself, and is at his best working with deeply technical teams from inception.

At Lux, which has over $7 billion under management, he sits across a platform that has been first investors in category-defining companies spanning AI, automation, biotech, compute, defense, energy, infrastructure, robotics, and beyond - from Anduril, Applied Intuition, Erebor, and Physical Intelligence in the built world, to Auris and Enveda in human health, to Cognition, Databricks, Ramp, and Runway in AI and software infrastructure, among many others. The firm has created and cofounded more than 20 de novo companies through Lux Labs, and multiple Lux investments have become lasting public companies and significant acquisitions by Amazon, Cisco, Databricks, J&J, Meta, Palo Alto Networks, and more.

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

Shaq grew up on the Space Coast of Florida and earned his Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida. Before Lux, he advised mega-cap private equity investors on enterprise technology and healthcare investments at Parthenon. He built a high-altitude balloon spacecraft in high school to photograph the curvature of Earth and remains passionate about living up to his name and finally dunking a basketball. An avid Gators fan, he can otherwise be found searching for the greatest bagel in the Bay Area.