His career has lived where technology meets law. An electrical engineer turned USPTO-registered Patent Agent, James has authored patent applications for international tech companies and studied how AI and blockchain innovations actually work. The mix gave him deep technical fluency and a careful, analytical eye — and unlike many analysts, he can build the software himself.
He also knows travel from the road. For years, James has lived and worked as a digital nomad across South America and Western Europe. He has planned the trips and learned firsthand what makes one work — so he sees a traveler's day the way travelers do, not the way a brochure paints it.
At Athena, those two threads meet. James leads our Travel Agent AI vertical, building Agents that plan and book trips. A builder who has lived the traveler's experience is exactly who should lead travel AI.