Finance
More than two decades across finance, strategy, and operating roles.
I spent more than two decades in corporate finance before turning much of my attention to research and writing. Today I am the founder of Nariway and the publisher of Artobiography.
Current
Selected Work
- CIA Insights Interviews on careers, work, and education, with specialists across many fields.
- History of Work A reference archive on the words, inventions, thinkers, and case studies that made modern working life.
- The Brief Experiment How 150 years shaped the way we think about work. A book in progress.
Books
Archive
Essays Writing on work, careers, leadership, education, and other subjects, 2019 to 2026. 
Art
Years spent collecting, visiting museums and fairs, and writing about art.
Liane Chu, When Stories Align, Secrets Exposed, They’ll Know It’s Show Time, 2025
Research
A doctorate in strategy and innovation, followed by years of independent research and writing.
About
I have always had more than one professional interest at a time. For the past few years, most of my attention has gone to what happens to important art collections.
A collector can spend decades building something remarkable, and eventually a different set of decisions begins. Does the collection remain with the family? Is it donated, sold, lent, or divided? Could it become a museum, a foundation, a university collection, a traveling exhibition, or another form of public access?
I founded Nariway to focus on those decisions, the future of significant private collections, and the different ways they move into public life.
I also publish Artobiography, an independent publication telling the stories behind the world’s remarkable collections, with deeply researched features and conversations with collectors, museum leaders, founders, advisors, and specialists across the art world.
I came to this through an unusual route. I spent more than twenty years in finance and business, from Arthur Andersen and UBS to serving as the CFO of a technology company. I hold a doctorate in strategy and innovation, and I have co-authored two books. Outside of work, I have spent years visiting museums, collecting art, and going to fairs and exhibitions.
Today, much of my research centers on private collections, collector-founded museums and foundations, collection stewardship, public access, institutional durability, and the different ways privately held art can enter public life.