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Arlington Heights, IL, US

Helping Exit Ventures' principals identify and vet prospective portfolio companies.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

Teaching a graduate-level course in Global Innovation Strategy

Arlington Heights, US

Created value for consulting clients through intellectual property related to corporate valuation, option investing, strategic management, venture capital, and data analysis. Indicative list of clients and projects follow.Corporate ValuationInternational Financial Corporation (World Bank Group): Designed and developed standardized valuation model for.

Jersey City, NJ, US

Publishing in-depth, data-driven articles on public and private firms involved in finding ways to help civilization Adapt to or Mitigate climate change and Restore our climate. ARM Investing

Tel Aviv, Israel, IL

Responsible for establishing accounting and operating infrastructure for early-stage, international start-up company applying artificial intelligence to allow our civilization to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change.

Tel Aviv, Israel, IL

Advising the CEO and founding team on fundraising, strategy, and partnerships.

Chicago, IL, US

Responsible for U.S. Large and Mid- Capitalization Pick List products targeted to institutional investors and two Canadian Pick Lists.Provided macro-focused investing commentary on a monthly basis, ran conference calls and participated in sales calls to existing and prospective clients.Redesigned Pick List methodology and programmed a database application.

Chicago, IL, US

Driving force behind developing Morningstar OptionInvestor electronic newsletter, producing roughly 90% of investing, educational, and market commentary for the site. One of the most popular features of the newsletter was the "Option Recipe Book", the articles of which explain the risk and reward of various option strategies in a straightforward.

Chicago, IL, US

Senior Analyst in charge of Semiconductors. Specialized in mobile handset value chain, analog chipmakers, and foundries. Managed a group of three analysts, reviewing their financial models, reports, and presentations.

Designed and advised on option hedging strategy for fund's large oil exposure. Built quantitative oil price simulations using @Risk software and used simulation results as basis for hedging strategy. Monitored delta-hedging trades by brokers for listed look-alike option trades as well as rolling of hedges.Analyzed quantitative strategies (e.g., CDS.

Conducted groundbreaking independent research regarding information processing by financial markets from a behavioral finance perspective.Coded a database application to quantify and verify research hypotheses and began using that application to make directional trades on the S&P 500 index using futures and options contracts.System outperformed MAR Futures.

New York, NY, US

* Managed referential data requirements and data sourcing for global “Trades Renovation” project. Global project focused on the implementation of new technological system to reduce operational risk and increase control over settlement and treasury processes. Gathered front and back office requirements, drafted functional specs, and tested the system. This.

* Established Fixed Income Operations risk control group. Our group made weekly and monthly operational risk reports which were distributed to regional and global operational * Interim Head of Listed Derivatives Operations. Managed a staff of 25 and hundreds of millions of dollars of daily notional derivative trades. Served as the Ops representative to.

Mba, Finance, Accountancy

Post-Baccalaureate Studies, Physics

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), East Asian Studies

Intensive Summer Language Program, Japanese