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Justin Howell is listed as Founder & CEO at Rize (acquired by Fifth Third Bank). COO at EquityZen, Private Markets for the Public. at EquityZen, based in New York, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at 500.co, phone signal with area code 646, 202, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Justin Howell.
Justin Howell previously worked as Chief Operating Officer at Equityzen and SVP, Newline by Fifth Third at Fifth Third Bank. Justin Howell holds Mba, Entrepreneurship from The Wharton School.
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• On a mission to transform financial services using technology and behavioral design, and to help every Millennial become financially healthy.• Dedicated entrepreneur – Co-founded and worked at several startups in an operating capacity. Acted as advisor to numerous other early-stage companies, including as an investor and board member. • Business strategist, operator, investor and board member with over 10 years of professional experience in startups (multiple), consulting (Bain & Company), private equity (Bain Capital) and hedge funds (Perry Capital)• Specialize in designing and developing new businesses, and managing turnaround situations, with experience ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 100 companies in a wide variety of industries • Passionate about working with and building companies that are tackling meaningful problems, recruiting top talent, and using technology to drive innovation, particularly in areas such as personal finance, media & entertainment, greentech, and education• Relationship-driven with a wide network of senior-level contacts across private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, healthcare, financial services, media & entertainment, hospitality, and multiple other verticals Specialties: Product and service design. Behavioral economics and motivation psychology. User experience design. Competitive strategy and new market assessment. Business development. Startup finance, fundraising, and operations. Organizational behavior and design. Distressed and turnaround situations. M&A and negotiation. C-level recruiting and assessment. Board best practices.
Listed skills include Venture Capital, Start Ups, Financial Modeling, Private Equity, and 23 others.
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New York, Ny, Us
EquityZen connects shareholders of private companies with investors seeking alternative investments.Recognized as one of top innovators in Forbes's inaugural FinTech50 list.https://equityzen.com
Cincinnati, Ohio, Us
Helping non-banks build, launch, and scale innovative and compliant financial products.
Acquired by Fifth Third Bank. Rize is building AWS for financial services, offering fintech developers access to all the financial capabilities they need across both banking and brokerage verticals through a single API integration, and providing custodians a complete risk management platform so that they can work with fintechs at scale while maintaining regulatory compliance.
Washington, Dc, Us
• Largest group in the country focused on design for change. Grown from a small monthly meetup started in late 2012 by Steve Wendel (Principal Scientist at Hello Wallet) to over 20,000 members with events in cities across the US and around the globe. Launched as a non-profit in 2014 • Group of designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and others passionate about helping people create positive change in their lives: saving more money, getting in shape, learning a new language, etc • Sit at intersection of technology (UI / UX, data science), psychology (behavioral economics, positive psychology), and advocacy. Focus on exposing members to cutting edge tools, research, and practitioners in each area
San Francisco, California, Us
500 Startups is a Silicon Valley seed fund & accelerator founded by PayPal & Google alums.
• Exploratory project to develop market-based B2B solutions for electronic waste collection and recycling
• Led team responsible for overseeing $1.5B illiquid portfolio consisting of 22 positions and actively managing portfolio companies through economic downturn • Triaged positions to make maximum use of scarce resources as team downsized so as to maintain high-touch monitoring of portfolio and ensure efforts were directed where they could have most impact throughout financial crisis• Board member of several portfolio companies. Worked closely with management teams to rationalize overhead, renegotiate financing and cut capex. Recruited additional executives as necessary to fill key roles. As conditions improved, directed companies on areas to strategically invest and how to position to take advantage of rebound• Successfully increased valuation of existing portfolio by 70% from Q1 2009 through Q1 2011. Recognized by Partnership for exemplary efforts in guiding companies through crisis period• Left Perry to focus full-time on entrepreneurial endeavors in early June, 2011
• Social networking website centered around travel that aimed to improve travelers’ experiences by putting them in touch with other travelers, locals at their destination, and friends who had been to places of interest• Led business plan development, raised $750K of outside funding from angel investors• Strong membership growth post website launch in June 2006, favorable press coverage (including Wall Street Journal, New York Times, NBC’s Today Show), and partnerships with STA Travel and Let’s Go Travel Guides led to successful sale of company to travel search engine Sidestep in July 2007
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• Full-service distributor of independent equity research launched to pursue market opportunity when major investment banks were forced to clearly separate their investment banking and equity research departments. Backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners• Pursued and analyzed new business opportunities with goal of positioning company as a roll-up platform within fragmented independent equity research space • Successfully acquired major competitor and facilitated all stages of deal, including diligence, structuring and post-closing integration. Arranged follow-on financing of $5.5M from venture backers in conjunction with purchase
Boston, Ma, Us
• Evaluated and executed large leveraged buyouts in multiple industries including retail, entertainment, consumer products and quick service restaurants• Directed work on key diligence items for each deal, including analyzing and projecting industry trends, evaluating company data and personnel, comparing alternative financing packages and legal structures, and performing extensive financial modeling• Worked closely with senior members of portfolio company management teams to define and implement key strategic initiatives • Selected deal experience: Toys “R” Us: $7.0B take-private LBO of leading specialty retailer of toys and baby products Loews Cineplex: $1.5B LBO of #1 movie theater chain in Northeast
Boston, Ma, Us
• Corporate and business unit strategy consulting for clients in consumer goods, healthcare, credit cards, investment products, and variety of other verticals • Ranked in “Top Bucket” of Associate Consultants in performance reviews and given offer to return as Consultant post-Business School, including scholarship• Selected engagements: Conducted 9-month turnaround and full potential growth strategy review for large investment products firm. Assessed market opportunity by product and channel, leading to exit from non-core areas. Implemented customer segmentation based on proprietary survey of 40,000 financial planners Assessed market actions and relative cost position of key competitor of large consumer products company. Designed creative methodology to compare COGS and freight costs across companies in absence of actual competitor data, a key factor in discovery that company did not have cost advantage it thought it did. This finding led to significant shift in product strategy
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Justin Howell works for EquityZen.
Justin Howell is listed as Founder & CEO at Rize (acquired by Fifth Third Bank). COO at EquityZen, Private Markets for the Public. at EquityZen.
AeroLeads has found 1 work email signal at @500.co for Justin Howell at EquityZen.
AeroLeads has found 4 phone signal(s) with area code 646, 202 for Justin Howell at EquityZen.
Justin Howell is based in New York, United States while working with EquityZen.
Justin Howell has worked for Equityzen, Fifth Third Bank, Rize Inc., Action Design Network, and 500 Startups.
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Justin Howell holds Mba, Entrepreneurship from The Wharton School.
Justin Howell is listed with skills including Venture Capital, Start Ups, Financial Modeling, Private Equity, Entrepreneurship, Mergers And Acquisitions, Business Development, and Valuation.
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