I operate infrastructure across three arenas that rarely share a room: ancient olives, agricultural systems, and carrier-grade networks.
They appear unrelated only to people who don’t understand infrastructure. The principle is universal: if a system cannot withstand pressure, time, or failure, it has no business existing.
My philanthropic focus is education, because infrastructure means nothing if the people running it are unprepared.
This is work meant to outlive its operator.
ABOUT
My baseline comes from agriculture — the real kind, not the romanticized version. I raise ancient olive trees and produce extra virgin olive oil with an operating discipline borrowed from engineering, not marketing. When your inventory was planted long before you were born, you learn what “long-term” actually means.
Agriculture collapses without infrastructure. So I build and run the systems behind it: throughput, stability, flow, logistics, and the operational backbone no one sees until it fails. It doesn’t fail.
Network infrastructure is simply agriculture with different failure modes. I operate a network backbone as a carrier, responsible for the routes and capacity that keep organizations alive. You cannot negotiate with downtime; you eliminate it.
The philanthropic work is in education because human capability is the only infrastructure that compounds faster than technology. Investing in minds is the highest-leverage move in any system.
My work spans different landscapes, but the mindset is singular: build systems that remain operational long after sentiment, markets, or operators cycle out.
CONTACT
If you work in agriculture, infrastructure, connectivity, or any domain where failure has real consequences, reach out.
Bring clarity. Bring intent. Bring operational truth. I respond to competence, not noise. Write to hello@mao.org