https://near.org/https://near.foundation/Accelerating the world’s transition to open blockchain technologies by growing and enabling a community of founders, developers and creatorsBizOps helps achieve enterprise-wide goals by ensuring tactical alignment between daily operations across all key functional areas of the organization and top-level strategic priorities. Functionally, BizOps owns critical work streams, including finance and accounting operations, tax strategy, corporate strategy, corporate governance operations, vendor procurement and management operations. It also drives strategic initiatives deemed necessary to the growth or success of the Company as defined by C-level executives.• Overseeing strategic direction & operational execution of the NEAR Foundation’s global operations, ensuring alignment with the Foundation’s mission & objectives, supporting hyper-growth development, building out high performance scalable operational processes and consulting with DAOs & projects, building on the Layer 1 Protocol NEAR, on operational, financial & legal matters• Managing strategic, cross-functional & cross-entity business initiatives, special projects including AI-driven projects & process enhancements, and liaising with crypto infrastructure and other service providers• Navigating complex regulatory landscapes across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring full compliance with global blockchain regulations• Overhauled & implemented robust risk management framework & protocol, continuing to safeguard the NEAR Foundation’s assets & reputation in a volatile & dynamic industry• Led finance and operations for US entity, along with dissolution efforts, while ensuring the entity was well positioned to deliver to the NEAR ecosystem

Functions Performed: Finance & Operations, Risk & Treasury Management, Marketing, Client Support• Managed strategic initiatives across cross-functional teams, driving significant advancements in revenue, operational efficiency, and client engagement, establishing a transformative impact on Wall Street's landscape• Co-headed treasury management, overseeing areas such as money market activities, payment systems, and ledger balancing. Collaborated with tech teams to innovate and enhance the payment infrastructure, ensuring financial agility• Pioneered the operational architecture & framework for a two-sided market capability, generating over $2 Million in 2021 revenue and streamlining processes to save 5 hours/day. • Championed the promotion of trading algorithms to external stakeholders, catalyzing a 340% surge in business opportunities and achieving a 52% reduction in operational costs

• Provided management advisory services and spearheaded the strategic implementation of the Uncleared Margin Rules project under U.S. Government regulations, overseeing a $20+ Million regulatory initiative as part of Wells Fargo's internal Business Consulting Group• Directed cross-functional teams in quantitative analysis, strategic planning, and risk advisory, culminating in executive presentations that influenced key business decisions across multiple business lines• Established high-level collaborations with Executive Leaders, Sales & Trading, Compliance, and Technology departments, regarding strategic planning, risk advisory, enhancement to financial models (unlocked $10+ Million in additional capital), legal documentation remediation, risk exposure monitoring and project delivery influencing $100+ Million business relationships while aligned with regulatory & operational goals

• Managed review, transfer and settlement of $1+ trillion of financial contracts in a high-profile, global function for a Top 5 Investment Bank, while leading and assisting in operational efficiency projects resulting in a $1.8+ Million positive impact• Upheld internal cross-functional and external client relationships, proactive financial risk management that affected financial portfolio and front-to-back accuracy between departments in a highly regulated and dynamic environment

• Co-founded and hired team to develop an alternative platform for financial transactions, utilizing blockchain, the Ethereum network & smart contracts for the asset management industry; Created/documented an alternative way of viewing the life-cycle of a market-executed trade vs. traditional model• Presented white paper to senior operations management at Goldman Sachs for review and discussion

• Served in various positions and leadership roles at Fort Benning, Fort Bragg, Kuwait and Iraq

• Remote internship with buy-side M&A firm serving over 300 private equity clients• Sourced highly qualified investment and buyout opportunities in small and medium-sized private businesses• Learned deal origination work, creative problem solving and honing communication skills with business owners