Elika Mahdavi Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Built a strategic operational framework for Finance, Business Operations, Recruiting, and People Ops• Helped raise and secure $45M in second round of financing• Designed the foundation's first Treasury Management strategy• Led hiring, negotiations, and onboarding for new talent, expanding teams in Engineering & Growth• Collaborated with executive team to align operational goals with overall business objectives

Remote First, Us

Chief of Staff for the Product, Design & Engineering Organization

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Chief of Staff for Box's Industries team, specializing in:Financial ServicesPublic Sector (Federal Government, State & Local)Life SciencesMedia & Entertainment RetailNonprofitEducation• Strategy, Planning & Operations for all Go-To-Market (GTM) efforts covering Box's highest revenue verticals in North America, Europe, Australia and Japan. Focus on the Enterprise, Mid-Market and SMB sales segments• Report monthly to the CEO, COO, and Executive Leadership team on the health of the business. Work closely with Managing Directors to predict and remove upcoming roadblocks and risks• Serve as an advisor and trusted partner to Managing Directors to drive strategic and operational projects, ensuring team is meeting growth objectives in key industries• Work cross GTM functions including Marketing, Sales, Enablement, Finance and Public Relations to interlock on key company initiatives, anticipate and remove friction, and build necessary relationships for delivering cross-functional projects• Subject matter expert on all business metrics for Box's top industry verticals. Develop dashboards using Salesforce and Atlas to measure, monitor and report on critical business KPI's. Build financial models that forecast and establish the company's internal annual targets for Revenue, Churn, Retention and Pipeline for key industries • Drive and facilitate key leadership meetings including weekly team cadence, quarterly off-sites, and monthly business reviews. Manage external and internal team communications• Develop and evaluate OKR processes, working cross-functionally to highlight quarterly business objectives, key focus areas and community initiatives • Oversee Fiscal Year Planning process, collaborating closely with SP&A and Finance on forecasts and annual budgets. Training and on-boarding new Managing Directors and executive team members

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Joined as the 25th employee: worked with the VP of Business Operation and the CEO in growing the company to 100+ people• Analytics: Led the company’s analytics efforts for everything that touches data (Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Sales Operations)• Strategy: Developed the first company-wide sales strategy and lead generation effort for the inside-sales team, sourcing 150,000 leads that encompassed USA, Mexico, Canada and Western Europe• Product: Led the development and growth of our payments team (how we collect and payout our partners) for domestic & international partnerships. Reduced payout duration from two weeks to one day by implementing product changes and process improvements• Recruiting: Worked with the VP of Operations to build out the Business Operations team. Responsible for sourcing, evaluating, interviewing, and training four new Analysts. Contributed to strategic Engineering, Sales & Customer Success recruitment

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

I was a consultant at the Toronto chapter of the United Way to understand and support their donation, funding and capital deployment processes. Our objective was to help their network of nonprofit community agencies receive funding faster, more efficiently and with clear visibility.• Developed an internal mapping of how funding moves through the organization (from the initial time a donor makes a contribution, to how the funds travel through the various branches of the nonprofit, and then finally the actual deployment and transfer of funds to a field organization)• Partnered with agencies within the umbrella of the United Way to understand their pain-points, objective and existing business workflows• Mapped use-cases to actual business objectives, evaluated existing platforms and technologies used by the agency, their sponsors, partner organizations, and nonprofit field employees• Re-designed the internal donor and funding processes for system optimization and digital transformation • Developed cross-functional relationships to help train agency workers and field employees on the new designed system, highlighting increased efficiency, speed of receiving funding and needed visibility

Relay Ventures is a Canadian early stage venture capital firm exclusively focused on mobile software. • Member of the investment team responsible for screening new investments, making financial models, performing analysis on market/geography/industry/technology trends• Assist in due-diligence processes, create annual reports for Limited Partners and attending periodic board meetings for portfolio companies

Menlo Park, California, Us

• Member of the Private Equity team responsible for screening new investments, conducting due-diligence and analysis on the investment performance of fund managers• Meeting with current and prospective clients including new and existing fund managers and General and Limited Partners • Additional responsibilities included developing excel models, writing investment memos, conducting research on emerging market trends and preparing reports for senior management

Menlo Park, California, Us

Toronto, On, Ca

I was a Summer Analyst at CPP Investment Board, the largest Private Equity firm in Canada. I completed two rotations in Direct Investing and Funds & Secondaries. • Direct Investing: Developing financial models for direct co-investments in private and public companies. Met with Board members and Executive leadership teams of prospective acquisition companies for due-diligence, performance & team evaluation• Funds & Secondaries: Meeting with fund managers to evaluate performance and strategy, assisting in due diligence and writing investment memos

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

The Canadian Federation of Engineering Students (CFES) is a national, bilingual organization that represents approximately 60,000 engineering students across Canada. Offering services ranging from leadership development conferences, technical skill competitions, a national student magazine and other outreach efforts, the CFES is the highest level of student government in engineering within Canada.

Cologny, Geneva, Ch

Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Br

I had an internship at Vale's Canadian headquarters in Toronto the summer of my Sophomore year. I helped forecast the need for increased fiber optics cables and additional satellites required to provide internet coverage to our mines in Indonesia. Vale-Inco is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brazilian mining company Vale. It produces nickel, copper, cobalt, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, iridium, gold, and silver. Prior to being purchased by CVRD (now Vale) in 2006, Inco was the world's second largest producer of nickel, and the third largest mining company of platinum group metals outside of South Africa and Russia. Brazilian mining company CVRD (now Vale) extended an all-cash offer to buy Inco for $18.9 billion in 2006.

Master Of Science - Ms, Management Science And Engineering

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Industrial Engineering (Major In Operations Research)

Arts Unionville