Eric Ontieri Email & Phone Number

Nairobi County, Kenya

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Kenya

- Source contacts for startups, incubators, accelerators, venture capital, donors and other relevant stakeholders in Nigeria, Senegal and Ghana to be interviewed for a comprehensive overview of the agritech/tech ecosystem in West Africa.- Working on a methodology and scorecard to quantify the capacity and commitment of tech ecosystems to catalyze and scale agritech solutions- Working on a methodology to measure the performance of tech ecosystems in producing agritech solutions across countries to identify strong and weak points.- Populate the scorecard with data from secondary data sources, including databases, official statistics, national policies, and strategies.- Design, disseminate and collect questionnaire data to fill in the data gaps that cannot be collected from desktop research.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

- Designed and administered questionnaires among more than 75 stakeholders to collect country-level data on the enabling environment for agricultural technologies in Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda querying the finance ecosystem, infrastructure, public policy, digital preparedness and human capital.- Sourced contacts and interviewed mega-funded startups in East Africa e.g. Pula, Twiga, Apollo, Hello Tractor, SunCulture- Developed a balanced scorecard to measure country-level commitment, capacity to implement and measure the actual performance in harnessing the power of implemented agricultural technologies- Prepared assessments with analysis of the questionnaire data and the balanced scorecard to assess the readiness of selected countries via a relative index.- Organized validation workshops conducted with stakeholders and drafted a summary report of the workshop conclusions- Authored three white papers based on the findings, on the methodology, key findings, observations, and recommendations.- Created quantitative reports/maps on trends and insights by coding interview transcripts and survey data on Dedoose.- White papers, reports and scorecards meant for a target audience looking for a blueprint for a soft landing on how to invest in the lower hanging fruit in these ecosystems.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

- Assisted in developing a statement of work defining the project and required deliverables.- Performed a gap analysis evaluating the needs and resources of the agtech community in Piracicaba through a high-level evaluation of infrastructure, public policy, financial sector, human capital and connectivity/density of the ecosystem- Generated a series of recommendations for high-level investment into the region to drive development of the ecosystem- Designed a 5-year plan to address resource gaps to be funded by either local or international stakeholders.- Developed a whitepaper/’best practices playbook’ for ag tech ecosystem mapping/development that can be referenced in performing gap analysis within other regions going forward- Devised a coding manual to create reports from coding interview data, reports and noted into Dedoose

St Louis, Missouri, United States

- Developing a language agnostic, deep learning model for sentiment analysis and return prediction on unstructured data using FastAi and HuggingFace- Researching the short-term alpha available in text-mining financial statements like 8K, 10Q, 10K and news articles from Reuters- Developing information retrieval, data cleaning and preprocessing scripts from EDGAR online, GitHub and Kaggle- Setting up scalable test APIs on AWS Elastic Container Service and AWS Lambda functions with BentoML and Flask- Setup a dashboard for reporting real-time news, top positive and negative stock predictions using Retool to query a staging database.

Nairobi County, Kenya

- Engaged in portfolio review on the performance of $100 million worth of portfolio companies.- Participated in pipeline review of $50 million of private equity, venture capital, public equity, and fund of funds proposals.- Screened and evaluated co-investment proposals, reviewed financial statements, and created financial models for valuation by creating forecasts and projections.- Data-mined Bloomberg, ThomsonONE and CapitalIQ for relative valuations, precedent transactions, and comparable transactions to build valuation models.- Summer capstone project was a landscape industry report on fintech in sub-Saharan Africa which has grown by a 24% CAGR in 10 years, summarized trends and pinpointed worthwhile opportunities within the deal pipeline.- Provided a capital markets outlook on investments looking to IPO, issue stock or tap bond markets for financing.

Nairobi County, Kenya

- Set up a low-cost ISP to provide affordable internet to the lower half of the economic pyramid.- Held a Tier3 NFP License and an ASP License from the Communication Authority of Kenya.- Go-to-market involved a value pricing strategy based on use, acceptable speeds and disposable income.- Solution was designed to be a catalyst to provide the majority on homes with internet and accelerate the transition to a 24-hour digital economy.

Nairobi County, Kenya

- Worked on alternative modes for credit for farmers e.g. using farm leases as collateral- Legal entity structure as a non-deposit taking microfinance- Succeeded in being submitted for the USAID Feed the Future Initiative

Westchester County, New York, United States

- Primary technical lead for troubleshooting PWM risk metrics across $1.6 billion overnight positions in fixed income, equities, foreign currency, derivatives and collateralized securities that feed into the firm’s risk engine.- Model development and validation liaison between market risk, the trading desk and strats. - Benchmarked performance metrics for the firm’s $12 billion available for sale portfolio against Citi/Merrill mortgage indexes and presented to the Retail Bank leadership.- Risk reporting role for lending products in the Retail Bank including the $55 billion Bank Deposit Program, Margin and securities lending.- Junior lead on the Profit and Loss Attribution project that undertook to stratify the return per trader by alpha versus beta, with the goal of identifying traders with unique alpha.- Junior lead on the Project Phoenix project which was a regulatory-mandated firm wide project to either consolidate trader marks across institutional and retail books or explain discrepancies.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance And Enterpreneurship, Passed

Activities and Societies: - Olin Centre for Experiential Learning Practicum - Olin Sling Health – Rapid point of care genetic screening.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Actuarial Science, Math Minor, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Africa Student Association Fed Reserve Challenge