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Baden, Switzerland, Ch

Business Development for Battery Energy Storage Solutions and Renewables in North America, at Linxon US.

● Led cross functional teams, identifying, assigning and tracking deliverables in complex technology collaboration projects● Negotiated cooperation and commercial terms with CEO at partner organization, executing calculations and scenario analysis resulting in collaboration agreement saving several millions of dollars in licensing fees for Samsung● Directed all aspects of partnership engagement, establishing connection with multiple potential partners per year and proposing collaboration models● Formulated and led high visibility strategy projects, identifying key growth opportunities and market challenges and developing response plan for the business unit, informing business development activities and strategic direction● Transformed tech content into impactful material for non-tech audience, for major conference keynote presentation ● Led collaborations with 6+ external venture capital companies (Samsung funds of funds) and Samsung CVC teams across the world in identifying market forces and emerging technologies, increasing team’s impact and market sensing capabilities

Top contributor across multiple strategy engagements. Workstreams included:● Creation and proposal of technology pathfinding framework, resulting in new operating model and structure for a Samsung business unit● Generation of market analysis to create strategy for new business unit, resulting in a shift in product family focus as well as organizational changes required for strategy implementation● Construction of technology assessment framework and generation of strategy recommendations for technology acquisition for Samsung Semiconductors; resulted in allocation of technology acquisition resourcesAbout Samsung's Global Strategy Group: Samsung’s Global Strategy Group (GSG) is the corporate strategy advisory division of Samsung Group. The group advises Samsung business units on key strategic issues and collaborates with them to set corporate priorities.

Berkeley, Ca, Us

● Instructor for undergraduate introductory business class, for two consecutive semesters during MBA

San Francisco, Ca, Us

● Creator of onboarding and support strategy for Twitter Syndication partnerships

● Consultant in a six-month long engagement identifying the next innovation opportunities and formulating the strategies for supporting the Finnish innovation environment. Final findings made to the organization’s steering committee and the cabinet of the prime minister.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

● Coordinated IBM servers product features plan across functional teams

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

● Led a group of 4-6 test engineers to execute test strategy on IBM’s high end servers● Created test strategies to enhance software updates mechanisms resulting in decrease in system downtime and customer complaints

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

● Creator of test strategies for IBM High Volume and High End Servers. ● Led a team of validation engineers. ● Recipient of IBM-wide recognition for leadership and engineering achievement.

Masters In Business Administration (Mba), Strategy

Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical Engineer