Blake Sandall Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas, United States

• InsuriShield is the life settlement industry's leading data and technology provider• We're on a mission to simplify life insurance, and our products are giving consumers, agents, and investors instant access to information that has previously only been available to carriers or actuaries with specialized training and software. We believe that policy owners and investors have the right to know what a policy is worth and what steps they can take to maximize the value of that asset• We've leveraged the latest machine learning, AI, and OCR technologies, combined with more than a decade of experience evaluating and trading life settlements, to build the first fully automated solution for policy digitization and pricing. Over the last 6 months, we've digitized and priced more that 50K policies while maintaining significantly higher levels of accuracy and optimization than pricers using alternative tools or techniques

Austin, Texas Area

• Magna Life Settlements is a leading life settlement provider and fully integrated subsidiary of Vida Capital, a multi-billion dollar alternative asset management firm. As a Senior Associate of Strategy & Operations, I lead innovative projects that strive towards operational excellence, real-time business intelligence, and accelerated long-term growth

Austin, Texas Area

• I worked as an independent strategy consultant for projects across a variety of industries including Transportation, Energy/Utilities, Pharmaceuticals, and Asset Management. I specialize in data analysis, business process improvement, supply chain/logistics, and project management• Project 1: Operations integration for the merger of two pharmacies– Developed shipping synergy model that found savings of $900K (15% improvement) while improving delivery time by 10%– Developed supplier rationalization model that found savings of $500K (9% improvement) by reducing # of suppliers by 30%• Project 2: Product development strategy for asset management firm– Wrote market requirements document and product requirements document for the development of an alternative asset exchange– Completed due diligence to determine optimal development approach– After launching, exchange will be the first digital marketplace of a $22B market• Project 3: Business process improvement for asset management firm– Built a live integration between four databases to improve data accuracy and management of 20K life insurance polices– Developed personalized Salesforce dashboards for a deal origination team of 18 people to track weekly goals

Austin, Texas Area

• Sweepstake Buddy is a free service that helps its users capitalize on the $500M in prizes that are given away in the U.S. each year in online sweepstakes• SweepstakeBuddy.com

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Strategy& is a global consulting firm that advises 70 of the world's largest 100 companies• Project 1: IT integration for the merger of two utilities– Worked with 20 client leads to develop Post-Day 1 roadmap for the execution of 120+ business cases over five years– Developed workforce activity model to streamline business processes and design right size future state organization– Identified non-FTE synergy opportunities of over $200M and FTE savings of $8M• Project 2: Functional level integrations for the merger of two oilfield service companies– Developed consolidated employee model that included spans and layers, labor cost, and KPI benchmarks– Consolidated revenues from both companies by region and product, used by CFOs to make critical integration decisions– Identified collective savings opportunities of over $200M• Project 3: Market entry through acquisition due diligence for an upstream oil company– Completed analyses on market opportunity and forecasted revenue/cost synergies– Proposed governance model based on legal sanctions and prior transaction best practices– Recommended the acquisition due to projected synergy opportunities of $100M

Austin, Texas Area

• VC/Market Research firm that connects Fortune 500 companies with high-potential startups• One of two undergraduates out of 30 students admitted into fall Venture Scholars program• Completed market opportunity analysis for a credit card company looking to invest in FinTech startups in Latin America

Austin, Texas Area

• ATI is the longest established venture incubator in the US• Member companies have raised $2B this decade• Helped startups and nonprofits solve their toughest business problems• My main projects were for Bractlet (startup) and CleanTX (nonprofit)

Austin, Texas Area

• CleanTX is a nonprofit cluster development organization for clean technology in Central Texas• Enhanced and updated CleanTX's Industry Database from 138 to 280 companies• Completed industry research that was used to increase sponsorship for nonprofit by 100%

Austin, Texas Area

• Bractlet is a startup that uses analytics to monitor and predict energy usage in buildings• Researched creative ways to streamline engineering tasks• Consulted with founders to shorten energy modeling process by 33%

San Jose, California

• Helped design the data centers of the future on eBay's Mission Critical Engineering team• Developed network application to detect failed power supplies in over 150K servers• Implemented application at four data centers and trained facility engineers, who have used it to find 150+ failures

Austin, Texas Area

• Helped design the laptops/tablets of the future on Dell’s Portfolio Architecture team• Researched and retrofitted innovative cooling solutions for upcoming consumer products• Optimized thermal designs to reduce the thickness of laptops by up to 3mm

Austin, Texas Area

• One of three undergraduates out of 20 students in Dr. Michael Webber’s research group• Performed a decision analysis to assess the option value of an electric vehicle• 90% of single-vehicle households would save money by switching to a plug-in hybrid vehicle• 96% of multi-vehicle households would save money by switching to a battery electric vehicle

Austin, Texas Area

• Played an integral role in planning and organizing the Startup Showcase at SXSW Eco 2012• Worked with leading companies and experts on clean technology and sustainability• Analyzed and communicated with over 100 startups