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Finance Director

Finance Director

I can provide strategic and operating advice based on fundamental analysis. Experienced in organizing and optimizing projects across teams. I am able mediate between large egos and conflicting interests. Flexible enough to deal with any other function as needed.

Chief of Staff

Chief of Staff

I have a track record of successfully managing relationships with clients, corporate management and across internal teams and managing and training junior staff. Proven experience in executing on collaborative projects that require optimisation and cooperation.

Due diligence/acquisitions/investor relations

Due diligence/acquisitions/investor relations

Financial modelling, forecasting and valuation. I can also meet with management of counterparties to draw out relevant investment insights. Experienced in conducting investor education/pitching investments as part of my current day job

Analytical automation/optimization

Analytical automation/optimization

I have proactively improved and/or automated several analytical processes over the course of my career. I have also written code to enable fundamental analyses that would have been impractical to do manually. Can integrate large data sets across sources/platforms.

Experiences

Seed investor

Seed investor

Seed investor in early stage companies, focusing on high-quality and differentiated products. I maintain regular two-way correspondence with the founders that I have invested with: I actively stay abreast of recent developments and provide strategic and financial advice. I have linked to an example.

Redburn (Rothschild&Co) and UBS : Energy/Renewables Investment Analyst

Redburn (Rothschild&Co) and UBS : Energy/Renewables Investment Analyst

Equity analyst since 2015 covering European/American energy companies including Exxon and Aker Carbon Capture.

I have a track record of strong strategic analysis evidenced by accurate forecasts and investment outperformance.

In many cases I have automated and improved processes through coding.

Citi: Credit Analyst, Technology, Media and Telecommunications

Citi: Credit Analyst, Technology, Media and Telecommunications

Proactively created a financial/credit template that reduced errors and modelling time which was adopted across my department; I trained colleagues in its use. Contributed to the creation of one of Citi's global corporate credit risk scorecards as part of a global team.

Columbia University MBA, Class of 2015

Columbia University MBA, Class of 2015

Academic focus on investing and finance

During my time here I was a part-time analyst at a value-oriented investment fund

Led the Basketball Club and Equity Research Club

GMAT Instructor

GMAT Instructor

Coaching for the GMAT (standardized test used in MBA applications) in my spare time accomplishes several things at once: sharing my love of puzzles and difficult questions; organically growing my network of skilled professionals across industries; and monetizing my unusually high GMAT score of 780.

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  • i.e. Mentor
  • Equity Research Analyst
  • Investor
  • Coach/Mentor
  • Fundraiser
  • Chief Of Staff
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  • i.e. Tech
  • i.e. Education
  • Finance
  • Energy
  • Clean energy
  • Technology, information and media
  • Consumer tech
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Career experience

10-20 years

Regions
  • Europe, 
  • Africa, 
  • Middle East
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  • i.e. Research
  • i.e. Branding
  • Python
  • Google TensorFlow
  • Excel
  • Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
  • Finance and Fundraising
  • Early Stage Investment
  • Analytics and financial modelling
  • GMAT
  • Equity Valuation
  • Credit Analysis
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  • i.e. Digital nomad
  • i.e. Ex-Google
  • investment
  • Financial Analysis
  • Financial Modeling
  • clean energy
  • VC enthuasist
  • Excel
  • Management
  • MBA
  • Sport lover
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