Jeremy Rabson Email & Phone Number

Newton, Ma, Us

Newton, Massachusetts, United States

Managing Director responsible for performance of the Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) business at the SANS Institute.

Newton, Ma

Coordinate the marketing efforts of approximately 50 people to keep all business units in sync. Directly responsible for central marketing services.

Greater Boston Area

Strategic consulting and private investment firm dedicated to building profitable growth enterprises, working on behalf of corporations, investment funds and entrepreneurs/business owners. Clients include Fortune 500 companies as well as small to medium sized entities seeking assistance in developing growth strategies, incubating innovations inspired by customer insights and employee-inspired ideas, improving operational efficiency, developing new products and markets, investing in high-potential companies and raising capital.• Investment Transactions: investment origination and screening; financial modeling; valuation; transaction negotiation and structuring (equity, senior secured, sub and mezzanine debt); confirmatory due diligence.• Strategic and Operational Advisory: Growth strategy development, performance efficiency, sales force effectiveness, product development, innovation, market testing, real estate development and market entry, marketing strategy, interactive development, franchising, opportunity assessments, more.• Financial & Private Placement: Fund development (venture, direct secondary and LBO), private placements, transaction structuring, pro forma modeling, valuation, investment manager seed capital.• Client Industries: financial services (retail banking, private client, investment brokerage, insurance brokerage, alternative investments), business services, pharmaceuticals, retail, beverages, green energy, information services, interactive.

Boston

Support business lines and marketing with strategic choices and analysis based decisioning

Greater Boston Area

Oversaw consumer product, treasury product, direct marketing, and digital product (website and some online banking user interface) teams for Eastern Bank.Eastern Labs (http://labs.easternbank.com) creates new technologies using banking’s rich data and digital assets as the raw materials for experimentation. The Labs provide an environment where financial technologies can be rapidly prototyped, tested, and deployed. With full access to the digital and data assets of Eastern Bank, Eastern Labs can easily tap into the networks, balance sheets, and partners that power the industry.When experiments are successful, Eastern Labs spins out those technologies into new business or spins them back in to Eastern Bank, providing multiple avenues for monetization. The Labs provide the intellectual property, talent, and capital for these new businesses to grow rapidly. Eastern Labs also partners with other companies who could benefit from access to the Labs, our insights, or capital. Follow Eastern Labs @easternlabs.

Greater Boston Area

Prodigy Finance funds talented students from around the globe to attend the world's top business schools. Through our community-based platform, we connect alumni and institutional investors with student borrowers to finance loans that earn returns of c.5% p.a.-- so alumni can support their alma mater, earn competitive returns, and help change the lives of funded MBA graduates and their families. Member of the senior management team. Oversaw market entry in the United States including the rollout of all U.S. aspects of the business including funding, school relationships, investor relationships, investor tax accounting and legal perspectives. Responsible for global marketing to sign up investors for asset backed bond offerings and sign up universities to offer the loan program. Oversee .

Financial services consulting firm specializing in results-driven turnaround and performance improvement programs. • Projects performed by experienced industry veterans with deep financial services operating and consulting experience, each with strong capabilities for driving rapid profitability improvement and working collaboratively with both executive committees and client teams as peers. • Engagements structured with primarily success-fee arrangements linked to measureable results, to align interests with those of our clients.• Engagements have been in retail and commercial banking, securities brokerage, insurance brokerage, private banking, trust, mortgages, cards.

Strategy consulting and advisory firm that helps drive profitable growth through superior customer insight and strategy implementation. Services include: * Corporate Strategy * New Products and Ventures * Investments, Acquisitions and Partnerships * Cost Reduction * Market Research

Greater Boston Area

Member of the Executive Operating Committee. Oversaw all Corporate Strategy questions. Project work included:• Corporate strategy. Evaluated the various business models the company could pursue by sizing each opportunity, analyzing corporate capabilities and gauging organizational passion for the alternatives. Created detailed profitability models for various student financial products. Developed a new product roll-out schedule and calculated the likely impact on our corporate growth rate. Partnered with the CEO to gain buy-in from all key executives and the company as a whole. Presented the strategy to the board of directors. As a result of the strategy, First Marblehead improved the customer experience, significantly expanded the business done by its proprietary brands and began work on a host of secondary products. • School channel strategy. Worked with the head of the school channel to create a compelling case for investment. Analyzed school channel profitability and identified major areas of competitive weakness. Segmented the school channel into targetable groups. First Marblehead hired a new salesforce and gained a position on almost 100 preferred lender lists.• Business model changes. Worked with the CEO to chart a response to the rapid deterioration in the financial markets. The company reduced its workforce by 70%, cut run rate expenses by over 50%, completely re-evaluated its underwriting guidelines and reorganized key divisions.Responsible for strategic assessment, valuation, and negotiation of reactive and proactive acquisitions. Managed cross-functional corporate teams responsible for due diligence. Led and managed bids on three companies between July and December 2008.Owned all market research projects across the enterprise. Significant breakthroughs include the creation of two proprietary research panels, and the establishment of ongoing satisfaction measurement programs for borrowers, clients, and schools.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Oversaw the corporate market intelligence team with an annual budget of $12 Million. The group focused on the creation of proprietary data sets and the management of syndicated data. In six months, launched one new dataset with important insights for our card strategy.Managed strategy consulting teams that focused on resolving questions for senior executives. Teams ranged from four to ten people and consisted of associates from both strategy and business partners. Customers included the bank CEO and the President of the Credit Card division. Projects included:• Credit card strategy. Examined the subprime credit card business with a focus on competitive entrants, attrition and pricing. Developed improved methods of customer segmentation and valuation which helped lead to dramatically different product offerings to subprime customers e.g. no fee. Loss and attrition rates plummeted and competitive entrants were pushed back. • Debit strategy. Overcame conventional thinking on both debit and prepaid cards by creating a compelling business case. Secured corporate funding for a payments initiative that went on to launch prepaid cards for the company.• Customer Experience. Worked directly with the CEO to articulate our customer experience program. Selected to manage strategic risk as part of the company’s ongoing risk management activities.Key member of the Patent Advisory Group that decided which patents the company should pursue.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed strategy consulting projects across a range of business topics:• Rewards strategy. Re-engineered competitor products to understand unit economics. Demolished a number of myths about the category. Work led to renewed attention on rewards, including the launch of new products. Rewards became the fastest growing segment in the Credit Card business.• Asset allocation. Led a small team that developed a strategic methodology for allocating loan financing to different business units in the company. Advised senior management on the best allocation of capital.• Acquisition assessment. Partnered with corporate development to assess acquisition opportunities in automotive lending. Prioritized potential opportunities based on both strategic fit and financial impact.

Greater New York City Area

Vice President Business Development and E-Commerce, (June 2000 – September 2000).• Negotiated all aspects of multiple partner relationships. Deals included: Smartshop.com, Thomson Financial, Intuit Turbo-Tax, and Vault.com.Executive Producer Money and Business, (October 1999 – June 2000). • Managed the finance and automotive sections of the website. Oversaw fifteen person cross-functional team that included marketing, editorial, content development, design and technical co-ordination. Grew the number of visitors (and the number of advertising impressions per visitor) faster than the company average by developing innovative content and marketing programs.• Implemented a stock quote product, the largest product ever launched at About.com at that time.Manager Business Affairs, Director Revenues and Planning, (August 1998 – October 1999).• Responsible for authorizing all sales deals to ensure appropriate pricing. Grew revenue per thousand viewed web pages from less than $10 to over $15. Oversaw quarterly revenue growth from $1MM in Q3 1999 to $7.9MM in Q3 2000.• Built the financial model for the IPO and worked with bankers through the IPO process.• Created systems and metrics to monitor the performance of direct marketing activities.

Greater Boston Area

Focused on financial services, retail and consumer products.• Mutual Funds. Calculated the current and long term value of customer segments. Analysis resulted in new policies for minimum investments, shareholder correspondence and advertising.• Retail. Segmented consumers of major appliances and electronics and helped formulate a new retail concept. The first store opened in February 1998 and grew to 16 stores across 10 states.• Consumer products: Recommended an investment fund proceed with a ~$150 Million acquisition of an antifreeze company. Developed and recommended growth options that included brand extensions and sales through service centers. The company was resold at a significantly higher valuation.

Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

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