Erik Brown Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Oakland, CA

• Led financial planning & analysis team for multi-state charter school system with $200M+ annual budget and 2,500+ employees;
• Partnered with senior leadership team to drive organization-wide compensation strategy;
• Leveraged technology to streamline finance team processes and create automated Tableau dashboards for non-finance team members;
• Managed team of four finance managers and analysts that supported school site leaders and home office department managers

Oakland, CA

• Oversaw all budgeting and forecasting for our 34 schools and $100MM budget, directly supporting ten Bay Area principals with monthly meetings and financial reports and managing two other financial analysts who support.
• Drove finance team efficiency and effectiveness by creating data systems and tools to track budgets, manage grants, complete external reporting, and ensure accuracy of financial, HRIS, and SIS data;
• Supported schools and home office departments with ad hoc requests and projects, including all Aspire-wide compensation analyses over the last three years and Aspire’s latest RANs deal

Oakland, CA

• Developed data warehouse, reporting, and analysis capabilities for the Education and Finance departments
• Created Aspire’s Teacher Data Portal, a reporting site comprising of collection of Tableau reports on student achievement data that has been accessed more than 50,000 times by teachers, principals, and other teammates
• Supported CEO and other home office teammates with student achievement analyses and reports, leveraging Excel, Tableau, and database knowledge and skills

Oakland, CA

• Analyzed the operational and financial opportunities for a consortium of charter school organizations to share special education services

East Palo Alto, CA

• Increased student math achievement from bottom 1% in the state to 67th percentile through innovative curriculum, data analysis, and after school program
• Initiated and led collaboration effort of 7th grade math teachers across the district to enable new teacher support and systematic knowledge transfer, including the creation of district-wide math assessments
• Redesigned district-wide professional development strategic plan that shifted from a traditional workshop approach to one based on collaborative teacher teams, and presented plan during annual district retreat

San Francisco, CA & Boston, MA

• Performed financial analysis, data analysis, and research for strategy and due diligence projects for corporate and private equity clients in the manufacturing, financial services, Internet services, publishing.
• Managed junior associates on client engagements, providing guidance and feedback
• Selected as one of only two associates to grow the San Francisco office

Mba

Activities and Societies: Education Leadership Club (Co-President), Board Fellow at Leadership Public Schools, Oakland Small Schools.

Ab, Economics, Certificate In East Asian Studies

Activities and Societies: Princeton University Rugby Football Club (President)