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San Juan, Puerto Rico

Portuit is a diversified global corporation that provides services in strategy, software engineering, marketing, and management. Portuit has engineers, economists, marketers, customer care experts, product designers, and more. Our company is powered by an innovative culture and deep skills that create value every year across multiple industries.

A long-short, multi-asset class investment operation. We consider investment opportunities in the public and private markets including venture capital and private equity. My roles include CEO and portfolio manager.In this position I:• Wrote 2,000+ pages on the profit drivers, equity values, trading behaviors & strategies, and financial modeling methods for U.S. stocks in each industry pursued by the fund. • Expanded my expertise in valuation & business analysis to more than a dozen industries including: biotechnology, software, banks, steel, mortgage REITs, retail, and P&C insurance.• Created and executed complex macroeconomic investment strategies ranging from commodities to currencies to bonds and derivatives on volatility, stock indices, and other public markets.• Managed an analyst and risk staff. • Analyzed and invested in special situations such as spinoffs and mergers.• Raised capital across the U.S. • Chose service providers after extensively searching for the best quality firms and making them competitively bid for our business.• Devised and structured public and private investments.• Conceived and directed the strategy of the firm.• Oversaw legal affairs.

1585 Broadway, New York City

As an equity research analyst I covered Utilities and Merchant Power stocks and helped build the utilities stock picking that became ranked #1 on Wall Street.In this position I:• Assisted my team in launching coverage on 16 stocks and 2 industries, writing parts of the 150 pg. report.• Created and updated financial models on 12 stocks: CPN, FE, ED, SRE, GEN, NRG, XEL, EIX, NVE, PNW, NEE, and AEP.• Valued stocks with a combination of methods including sum of the parts, DCF, DDM, relative P/E, and EV/EBITDA.• Conducted scenario analysis to gauge impact of bear, bull, and base case forecasts.• Advocated changes to stock ratings and honed investment theses in senior analyst’s reports.• Advised hedge fund clients and senior corporate management about industry trends and the team’s key forecasts.• Analyzed and wrote daily about the meaning of news affecting the utilities industry and our stock coverage universe.• Met with and questioned the senior management of companies under coverage.

I was an equity research intern at Morgan Stanley on the Oil Services team ranked #1 across all investment banks by Institutional Investor magazine.In this position I:• With > 99% accuracy, predicted Iraq's oil production several years in the future.• Forecasted Iraq’s annual spending on oil services, production, and the likely impact on major oil services stocks from 2010 to 2016 (in bull, bear, and base scenarios with 9 variables).• Wrote a 22 page report on Iraq’s oil sector that was published by the oil services team.

2009-2010• Delivered lectures on the investment methods of Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffet, and Phil Fisher.• Lead an investment team that researched and presented stocks for the club to purchase with its $50,000 fund. The last stock I pitched to the club, Texas Industries (TXI), rose within 4 months by 120%.

• Became involved in the stock market at age 9 by collecting financial market data from the early internet, analyzing it, and presenting trade ideas to my father based on the principles he taught me about options trading. Started trading on my own at age 15.• Studied and outlined The Intelligent Investor and The Interpretation of Financial Statements by Graham, Soros on Soros by Wien, and The Investment Strategies of Hedge Funds by Stefanini, among others.• I wrote notes several times a week on the framework and factors that lead to consistent investment success.

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics, Philosophy, And Politics

SAT: 2320/2400 Writing: 780 Math: 770 Critical Reading: 770 Relevant Coursework: Financial Modeling, Industrial Organization, Advanced.

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