David Velardo Email & Phone Number

Portsmouth, NH, US

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States

Rye, New Hampshire, United States

Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina

-Partnered with founder to help him through the early stages, leading to acceptance into YCombinator and $2M investment.-6 months helping to build and test rockets in the Mojave desert.-Advised founder on company strategy and investor pitch.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

-Private lessons, group lessons, and in-tournament coaching to beginner all the way up to 5.0 skill level players.-Visit my coaching website for more information: proposalpickleball.com

San Mateo, CA

-Attained #3 sales rep in California in under 10 months.-Innovated and optimized new sales process targeting unhappy customers who needed additional solar panels.-Created story and presentation which directly led to upgrades in Solar City's internal proprietary sales tools.

San Francisco Bay Area

-Guided product priorities, product plans, and overall product strategy.-Fundraised $200k for Uruguayan development team to build out HTML5 animated app-builder.-Converted complex market vision & strategy from early stage founder into clear, actionable story.-Continued mission post-Visual Group at Synsoft.

Boston & San Francisco

-Built an ecommerce arbitrage company from scratch into $600,000 annual revenue (exploits major price inefficiencies between ecommerce marketplaces).-After testing and optimizing the business manually for 6 months, scaled the business in 3 ways: 1) Proprietary software: created product requirements and mockup; negotiated deal with development shop; oversaw.

Boston & San Francisco

• Developed new strategies for trading public companies and founded a small private fund.
• Raised $350k.
• Style: market-neutral hedged portfolio with aggressive 1-3 week swing trades.

• Classical pianist since the age of 8.
• Private lessons instructor to 8 different students.
• Performed live, professionally on 5 occasions.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)

Education record