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New York, United States

Burbank, California, US

Santa Clara, CA, US

• Directed the creation of a ‘quick wins’ strategy team to accelerate execution and address the most critical challenges facing SVB
• After liquidity crunch was realized, led a Liquidity Solutions project, increasing deposits on SVB’s balance sheet by $4.5B in less than 90 days
• Redesigned Procurement Services, creating an ‘Accelerated Approvals’ process, reducing approval time from weeks to days
• Overhauled Hiring and Talent Acquisition to reduce the time it takes to post a job requisition to market by 40%
• Streamlined the credit process by rationalizing credit memos, portfolio reviews, and time spent in meetings, returning over 4hrs/week to teams
• Recognition Awards: Chief Financial Officer (Q4 ’21); Chief Marketing Officer (Q1 ’22); Head of Strategy & Innovation (Q1 ’22)

• Edstrom & Company LLC is a premium independent consulting shop that partners with ambitious companies to transform their businesses. We deliver strategic insight and implement transformative change - collaboratively..
• Conducted buy-side market sizing and due diligence of a trade promotion software company for a Western European investment fund
• Led a team of six consultants in a buy-side due diligence for BlackRock LTPC, analyzing a US water software company (i.e., hydraulic modeling)
• Embedded in a US surgical hardware company, post-acquisition, by Montagu Capital to conduct lean ops improvement and strategy redesign
• Led a due diligence for an international private equity firm, identifying new markets for Zinc Oxide nanoparticles in consumer electronics
• Supported a West Coast private equity firm assess the impact of COVID on its portfolio companies across US and EU markets

New York, NY, US

• Un-American: A Soldier's Reckoning of our Longest War (Bloomsbury, 2020)
• Un-American is a hybrid of social commentary and memoir that exposes how blind support for war exacerbates the problems it's intended to resolve, devastates the people allegedly being helped, and diverts assets from.
• The LA Review of Books calls it, “Eloquent, devastating… With the resignation of Catch-22 and the sadness of All Quiet on the Western Front”Paths of Dissent (Macmillan, 2022)
• American veterans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan offer invaluable firsthand perspectives on what made America’s post-9/11 wars so costly and disastrous.
• Twenty years of America’s Global War on Terror produced little tangible success while exacting enormous harm. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States sustained tens of thousands of casualties, expended trillions of.

US

• Conducted a strategy reset of a childcare company for a world-renowned mega PE-fund ($10B+), which led to a “distinctive outcome” for the client
• Designed and implemented an “Agile transformation” for the enterprise business unit of a multi-billion-dollar Australian Telco
• Led strategy and implementation workstreams with several electric utility clients—from ‘big moves’ into hydrogen power and EV charging infrastructure, to using advanced analytics to implement a churn reduction program.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Sample BCG case experience:
• Promotions optimization for a large Australian brewery; this included two major steams of work: 1) Built promotions dashboards (using Tableau) for different user groups (Key Account Manager, National Account Manager).
• Conducted due diligence for a multi-billion dollar, international commercial bank on the decision to divest a major business division
• Advised a multi-billion dollar Australian private health insurer on the reorganization of a division of the business, assessing run-rate cost savings and responsibilities for key personnel
• Prepared a CEO candidate to lead a multi-billion dollar Australian private health insurance company
• Built proposal decks across multiple sectors (TMT, Public Sector, and Retail), resulting ~$5-10m of casework sold

London, GB

Built predictive models and provided macro-economic research on thematic trends, advising asset management firms and institutional investors responsible for $17tn of assets under managementLed research to assess the risk of 'Stranded Assets' – assets that that can suffer from unanticipated or premature write-downs, devaluations, or conversion to.

Oxford, Oxfordshire, GB

Recruited, invited, and developed strong relationships with top tech. executives and entrepreneurs. Provided consulting deliverables to the Dean of the Business School for improving Oxford’s annual flagship event, “Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford.”

Arlington, Virginia, US

Nine years progressive experience in planning, problem solving, training, logistics coordination, conflict resolution, and management with increasing responsibility in hazardous and politically sensitive areas for an infantry unitSecond in Command of an organization consisting of 170 Honor Guard soldiers Directed all planning and coordination for major.

Arlington, Virginia, US

Selected above entire Army peer group to serve as the Military Escort to the President of the United States of AmericaDirected all planning, successfully coordinated, and executed nationally televised events, honoring the President of the United States and foreign Heads of State

Arlington, Virginia, US

Extensive hands-on experience planning, training, advising, and commanding complex combat missions in a counter-insurgency capacity, resolving hostile threats while developing effective local governance for the Afghan populace in austere and politically unstable environmentsLed a highly-trained 30-person Light Infantry Platoon in over 350 combat patrols.

Arlington, Virginia, US

Upon being selected for the Special Forces in 2005, I competed for, and was offered the privilege of shadowing a Green Beret team leader to gain functional and operational experience with 10th Special Forces Group; only 1% of West Point Cadets are accepted for this opportunity.

Master Of Science (Msc), Environmental Change & Management

Mba, Finance, Strategy, And Private Equity

Bachelor Of Science, Engineering Psychology W/ Systems Engineering Track

High School Diploma