First and foremost, I love animals, all animals. I train pups in my spare time and look for every opportunity to explore nature with my pack. I learn and they learn; it's a symbiotic relationship. And, I am an "entrepreneur's entrepreneur" taking a somewhat non-linear career path, which makes life fun and exciting. I'm Founder | Managing Partner at Arndt Strategies, LTD. and work with entrepreneurs to develop, initiate, and execute business ideas leveraging the internet. I love strategizing with startups and established companies to create internal, internet, and entrepreneurial initiatives to turn ideas into profitable businesses and grow business ventures. Flimp Communications is one of those companies where I sit on the BOD and manage its growth.I love to build companies and internal divisions from the ground up working with people of integrity. I love to identify, cultivate, and finance business ideas that scale. I'm involved from the start as a strategist, equity partner, and financier. Value-add skills include people management, executive management, team building, capital raising, product management, marketing & social media, distribution, financial modelling, business plans & presentations, strategic business development & partnerships, and legal contract work. I focus on team management implementation, operational efficiency, margins, and growing revenues and clients.Added value includes a thorough knowledge of corporate and project finance gained by executing due diligence, financial analysis, and marketing plans on structured project and M&A financings, corporate financings, and IPOs totalling US$10bn+ in APAC, Europe, South America, and the USA while at Morgan Stanley. These skills afford me opportunities to interface seamlessly with global executives, lawyers, bankers, brokers, financiers, accountants, and government officials.I was graduated from Yale College, cum laude with Honors in the Major, received an MBA from Harvard University, and am a Harvard Business School-JFK School of Government Social Enterprise Fellow.I also had the privilege of being a golf professional after college and winning CBS Television's 'The Amazing Race 4' in 2003, travelling 44,000 miles and visiting 4 continents, 9 countries, and 24 cities in 3 1/2 weeks. Yes, it was Amazing!
Listed skills include Strategic Partnerships, Entrepreneurship, Start Ups, Business Development, and 46 others.