About Me

Strategist.
Builder.
Transformation Leader.

Anthony A. Busa

I'm Anthony Busa, a San Diego-based strategist and operator working at the intersection of business strategy, product execution, and automation.

My background spans chemical engineering, a quantitative MBA, corporate strategy, startup operations, and technical program management. That mix helps me move between systems-level technical thinking and the commercial realities that determine whether products and organizations actually work.

Today, I help build and scale Navore Market, a local food marketplace connecting local San Diego producers with consumers. That means strategic partnerships, USDA grant execution, product roadmap, analytics, distribution design, producer workflows, and cross-functional execution all have to move together.

I'm also building Metis, a personal AI operating system for agents, memory, governed task lifecycles, and multi-machine orchestration. It is part lab, part operating system, and part proof that small teams can run with much more leverage.

Before Navore: led 12 transformation programs at Johnson Matthey (global specialty chemicals) driving +37% process efficiency, and founded the North America Government Affairs function there from scratch. Then ran ML/AI integration programs at HealthRise, a healthtech startup spanning EHR software, revenue cycle management, and consulting services.

What I Do

Areas of Expertise

Strategy Strategy Market design, positioning, growth logic, stakeholder alignment, and the choices that determine where effort should go. View related work Operations Operations Operating models, workflows, execution rhythms, logistics, metrics, and the routines that make ambitious ideas actually run. View related work Product & Program Leadership Product & Program Leadership Turning messy ideas into scoped releases, roadmaps, feedback loops, dashboards, and repeatable delivery. View related work AI & Automation AI & Automation Designing agent workflows, memory systems, analytics, and automations that reduce operational drag. View related work Stakeholder Networks Marketplace & Venture Building Hands-on venture work building local food marketplace infrastructure, producer operations, grants, and growth systems. View related work AI Implementation & Enablement AI Implementation & Enablement Bringing AI into real organizations: agent workflows, LLM tooling, data plumbing, and the adoption work that gets teams actually using it. The core of my tech enablement and AI implementation consulting. View related work Agent Systems & Orchestration Agent Systems & Orchestration Multi-agent architectures, governed autonomy, memory systems, and the operator tooling that runs a fleet of AI agents. Built on Metis and the Agent Workbench control plane. View related work Data & Analytics Engineering Data & Analytics Engineering Data pipelines, ML signal systems, dashboards, and analysis that turns raw streams into decisions. From the Polymarket signal pipeline to editorial data viz. View related work Platform & Systems Architecture Platform & Systems Architecture The technical backbone: API integrations, platform engineering, and multi-machine infrastructure that scales across an organization. View related work

Recognition

Background & Honors

2018

Forbes 30 Under 30 Scholar, JPMorgan Chase, Consumer & Retail track. Selected from a national applicant pool.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, MBA, Tepper School (quantitative focus).
Villanova University, B.S. Chemical Engineering (Student Body President; built student government structure from the ground up).

Interests

AI systems architecture · backpacking · 3D printing · swimming · strategy writing

Toolkit

Skills & Tools

Business
MarketplacesGTM PlanningFinancial ModelingOperationsFundraising
Technical
PythonTypeScriptNode.jsAstroAI AgentsAPIs
Tools
GitHubClickUpFastAPIOllamaDiscord BotsKraken API