The Southeast Investor Group (SEIG) is a consortium composed of 50+ venture capital firms, corporate ventures, and individual investors/family offices. SEIG aims to support breakthrough growth-stage startups in the South by connecting them with experienced capital investors.Key Responsibilities:• Spearhead management of 1,000+ Southeastern startup database and active deal flow monitoring• Leverage AI tools to execute extensive regional market research and perform due diligence• Build and nurture relationships with personal portfolio of 50+ companies• Refine pitch decks and counsel target company CEOs to identify maturing growth-stage targets• Collaborate with regional investors to connect breakthrough startups with capitalKey Achievements:• Increased investable company pipeline by 25%• Connected with 100+ Southeast startup founders and venture investors• Promoted to Lead Fellow in September 2023

Seven Seas Capital is an acquisition fund seeking to acquire a B2B services or software business with an enterprise value of up to $100M.Key Responsibilities:• Implement rigorous due diligence processes, leveraging financial modeling tools and qualitative review• Conduct comprehensive industry/vertical market research• Engineer advanced leveraged buyout models• Drive quarterly strategic outreach initiatives and campaigns to identify buyout candidates• Oversee investor engagement with Managing Partner• Manage team of 7 undergraduate/MBA analystsKey Achievements:• Narrowed 50+ brokered and proprietary deal opportunities to 2 IOI candidates• Improved strategic outreach to 200% of previous quarter for a total of 1,600 companies• Promoted to Lead Associate in January 2024

The Technology Innovation: Generating Economic Results (TI:GER) is a graduate program hosted by Atlanta's Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) intended to offer Georgia Tech and Emory graduate students an immersive and practical startup commercialization experience.Key Responsibilities:• Formulated comprehensive commercialization strategy for patent-pending artificial intelligence software• Utilized large language models to collect research insights and estimate addressable market• Developed sales and marketing strategies, including customer acquisition costs and lifetime value• Created and presented pitch decks featuring financial forecasts and projections of investment needs/uses• Partnered with a CDL fintech startup to evaluate investor communication and capital sourcing strategies

Genuine Parts is a Fortune 200 company with annual revenue in excess of $23B engaged in the automotive and industrial aftermarkets. GPC serves global customers from an extensive network of more than 10,000 locations in 17 countries and has approximately 58,000 employees. Recognizable brands include NAPA Auto Parts and Motion Industries.Key Responsibilities:• Partnered with Bain to design a multi-year operating plan for a major strategy program• Initiated and executed a comprehensive request for proposal process• Coordinated workflows between 35+ internal and external stakeholders• Performed market and competitor analysisKey Achievements:• Selected 3 pilot markets from broader list of 48 candidates• Secured RFP finalists• Delivered findings and recommendations to 40+ GPC executive team members

FW Cook is the market leader in executive compensation consultancy, aligning client executive compensation systems to their long-term strategy.Key Responsibilities:• Orchestrated client engagement and project management• Directed a team of 5 analysts to contribute $1.5M to firm revenue in research contributions• Advised on executive compensation structures for 10+ M&A integrations, spinoffs, and IPOs• Collaborated with client executives and board members to produce tailored incentive programs • Reviewed market studies, company SEC filings, and other research to report on strategy trends• Created and revised modeling templates to enhance analyses conducted by over 90 consultantsKey Achievements:• Completed 60+ projects ($4.5M in recurring revenue) annually across a portfolio of 40 clients• Contributed to the acquisition of 8 clients in finance, industrial, and technology sectors• Co-authored several firm publications• Elevated to Project Manager from Primary Analyst in 2020

Colonnade Capital Partners is the University of Virginia's only student-owned and operated hedge fund, with assets under management in excess of $130K.

The Breakthrough Collaborative is an educational program led by student-teachers serving high-achieving students in urban communities.