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Dedham, Ma, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts

- Co-Instruct up to six two-day courses a year on various innovation frameworks and methodologies – including Design Thinking, S-Curves, Innovation Gap Analysis, the Medici Effect, and Blue Ocean Strategy. - Lead a “Lean Start-Up” project that incorporates innovation methodologies taught in class and focuses on creating and expanding new business ideas.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

- Led the Cat and Specialty Pet verticals, which collectively grew ~70% (YoY CAGR) since 2019.- Defined overarching goals and strategy and managed key business metrics; key cross-functional partners included supply chain and logistics, marketing, advertising, promotions, merchandising, pricing, competitive intelligence, and specialty and flagship retail brands.- Managed top supplier relationships and optimize performance by hosting bi-weekly and monthly meetings with senior executives.- Led key pricing, logistics, exclusivity, and accelerant program negotiations with supplier portfolio.- Conceptualized and led the Pet Category’s Outdoor Furniture strategy (representing ~40% of total Pet Category sales); created a comprehensive long-term strategic project plan, OKRs and KPIs to track and measure success, and identified opportunity areas; efforts resulted in ~60% YoY CAGR growth since 2021.- Led the Housewares NPS Task Force to address employee concerns and improve day-to-day life at Wayfair; efforts resulted in higher retention rates and increased NPS scores across Category Management.

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston, Massachusetts

Cambridge Associates is a leading global investment firm. We help private clients, endowments & foundations, and pension plans implement and manage custom investment portfolios that generate outperformance so they can maximize their impact on the world. We work with ultra-high-net-worth families and individuals at various stages of the investment lifecycle helping them to prepare for generational wealth transfers, establish governance processes, and educate family members on how to preserve and grow their wealth. We also assist in establishing and managing private foundations to support our clients philanthropic endeavors. Cambridge Associates delivers a range of portfolio management services, including outsourced CIO, non-discretionary portfolio management, staff extension, and asset class mandates.- Proactively identified and vetted new prospects to ensure overall fit within the Cambridge Associates community and led prospect meetings to communicate the firm’s service offering; efforts contributed to over $2 million in new revenue in 2018. - Customized external materials based on prospects’ investment needs and objectives, current and projected market environments, and specific areas of focus such as family governance, tax strategy, trust structures, and investment education for families and individuals. - Created and refined the Private Client Practice’s proactive outreach strategy, which utilized internal and external networks, as well as predictive data methodologies to strategically generate new business leads.- Represented Global Business Development throughout new employee training, and presented an overview of Cambridge Associates and its role in the financial services industry.- Created and implemented a firm-wide innovation rollout plan, which established global innovation goals, internal innovation design-thinking processes, innovation measurement tools, continuous feedback loops, and resulted in updated firm-wide values focused on future growth.

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston, Massachusetts

Federal Street Advisors provides conflict-free wealth advisory services and investment consulting to high net worth individuals, nonprofit organizations, and foundations. We have particular expertise in working with clients in transition, generational wealth transfer and clients interested in aligning their investments with their values or mission.Supported the Investment Advisory Team in the implementation of client investment strategies. In addition to working directly with clients, day-to-day responsibilities included the preparation of investment performance materials, client presentations, allocation proposals, and execution of client trades/money movement.

Documentation and Registration Specialist who assisted financial institutions invest in foreign Registration Markets. Provides insight, strategic thinking, guidance and completes documentation on behalf of clients such as Goldman Sachs, Vanguard, J.P. Morgan, Consulting Group Capital Markets Funds, PIMCO, Scottish Investment Trust, First Trust and BBH Cayman Trust Clients. Also communicated with Sub-Custodian banks in foreign Registration Markets in order to launch funds, and gain insight to the intricacies of the specific markets.