Provides strategic and financial advisory solutions to leading companies in food, forestry, and agribusiness. Focused on sell-side and buy-side M&A and strategic alternatives analysis.

Product strategist working to help Astraea, a machine learning startup, develop and execute a go-to-market plan. Responsible for coordinating competitive intelligence, legal activities, and payment processing. • Oversaw strategic analysis of competitors and suppliers and reported findings to management and the board of directors• Researched and authored position papers on trends in the space economy, the applications of satellite and remote sensing data on socially responsible investing, and the adoption of machine learning across industries

Management consultant working to help a top 4 US bank conduct statistical reviews of its operations and portfolios. Focused on ensuring data sourcing aligned with risk management objectives. Drove improvements to the review process to ensure its sustainability.• Overhauled and standardized the compliance test documentation process, resulting in a 40% decrease in data sourcing errors and average review duration• Analyzed compliance test review process and presented to the client a conditional approval methodology which shortened average review duration by two days• Coached and led nine-associate offshore team to identify and communicate gaps in high-risk compliance reviews

Management consultant working to help a top 4 US bank conduct statistical reviews of its operations and portfolios. Focused on improving quality for data sourcing and identifying tests that needed rework.• Created management dashboards to monitor capacity and bottlenecks leading to the creation of a dedicated data-source validation function and doubled production capacity • Developed a risk modeling process which identified 230 compliance tests with statistically biased results• Led business requirements documentation for customer service quality control testing

International Correspondent Banking Analyst, BB&T, Winston Salem, NC 2013-2016Managed funding and billing operations for the country’s second largest international factoring portfolio, with earnings of over $60 MM. Supported Anti-Money Laundering and Know Your Client process improvements for international banking unit.• Developed and implemented the business recovery strategy which maintained business continuity and preserved business relationships during the Greek sovereign debt crisis• Drove improvements in reporting and compliance processes which identified assets tied to fraudulent accounts and remediated 16 audit issues

Participated in BB&T’s management rotation program. Supported the Bank’s capital management function during 2013 Federal Reserve stress testing cycle.• Authored commercial and industrial loan model documentation which was a component of the bank’s successful stress testing resubmission to the Federal Reserve• Developed a model for estimating Beacon credit scores across the $10 B small business loan portfolio

Produced polling reports for political team directors and campaign managers based on telephone surveys of likely voters in target states• Organized election-day poll watching effort by assigning volunteers to polling locations based on geocoded coordinates• Managed communication and retention activities for volunteer poll watchers