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New York, United States

Brooklyn, NY, US

Making Parking and Transit benefits work for frontline hospitality employees!

This Is Alice Inc. offered modern pretax benefits including CRAs, Health FSAs, Dependent Care FSAs, and HSAs.

Building products and partnerships that bring about positive social change.SpentWe conducted background research for Spent: Looking for Change, a documentary about the unbanked and underbanked. Spent was released on Youtube and has over 12 million views as of 1/2015.Along with Participant Media, theAudience, and Amex we designed supporting programs to.

New York, New York, US

In Summer 2014 I was a Fellow at Robin Hood Labs, the technology & research initiative of the Robin Hood Foundation aiming to meet the needs of the 20 million Americans who earn less than $25,000 a year. Working with community organizations, city agencies, and financial institutions, we brought together designers and developers to launch a free tool that.

New York, NY, US

Churnless applied a blend of technology and psychology to product development in order to change consumer behavior. Led Churnless over 3 years. Clients included Amex, AARP, TED, Thrillist, non-profits, and startups. Grew team to 22+ and doubled annual revenue with 20%+ margins. Developed 3 lines of business:Product & Technical Development: Product strategy.

Charlotte, NC, US

Worked on integrating and transitioning Thrive into LendingTree. Led new business development efforts.

CEO and co-founder of Thrive, a startup that helped people manage and improve their financial lives through free, online, tailored advice. Active users of Thrive built assets and improved thier credit scores.Over 3 years, built a team of twenty focused on engineering, product, marketing, and fantastic customer service. Raised two rounds of funding and sold.

Special situations, risk-arb, event-driven, cap structure arb, relative value long/short opportunities.I joined as the first employee under two passionate fund managers to help build the business from the ground up. While we developed and traded global arbitrage opportunities, I always enjoyed getting carried away by the fundamental story of the many.

New York, New York, US

Media, Telecom, Technology Investment BankingSpent night and day working on merger and acquisitions and capital markets transactions mainly involving Wireless, Radio, Telecom, Newspaper, Casino, and Internet companies. Ran into Patrick Bateman and left the business.

New York, NY, US

While in college, I cut my teeth in finance, M&A, and startups working with MSD Capital, Michael Dell’s hedge fund, where they let me work on public equity, private equity, and venture capital investments.