OppZo is a mission-driven FinTech company whose goal is to democratize access to affordable working capital. OppZo's team consists of former government contractors, experienced capital allocators, and entrepreneurs who are passionate about designing innovative and mission-aligned financing solutions to help small and medium businesses grow. We believe that every business owner deserves access to affordable and fair financing when they need it.OppZo is reinventing how small businesses get access to capital. We are venture-backed and led by veterans in the FinTech space.

New venture-backed FinTech platform which is poised to revolutionize the way people donate to nonprofits, political campaigns, & crowdfunding platforms. The company is in stealth but is backed by some of the top investors in the FinTech world and is supported by many of the nation's leading nonprofits.

We are a new and rapidly growing team of change agents inside J.P. Morgan. We are data scientists, design strategists and business leaders set on creating and building AI data products that transform the way we and our clients do business - balancing the art of decision making with science.What we build will matter and have huge impact; our products and solutions will reach thousands of our clients around the world, and affect how J.P. Morgan does business, moving trillions of dollars a day. Our group will also work closely with FinTech teams to find emerging tech companies that can help us accelerate development of new products.

Appointed during the Obama Administration, I led the OFR's Monitors Program, a multi-year, multi-million dollar program that is developing a suite of tools to assess, measure and monitor risk across the financial system to complement our flagship products, Financial Stability Monitor and Financial Markets Monitor. I crafted the business plan and set overall priorities and allocated resources and staff appropriately. The goal of the program is to build a research to production pipeline to make our monitoring products and financial data available to the public.My work can be found at https://www.financialresearch.gov/money-market-funds/

Built the backend data platform that led to seed funding while doing a full time masters. Spent time in both the NYC and the Nairobi office.

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• Conducted independent research at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute ("HHMI") lab of University Professor, Dr. Darcy Kelley• Created custom models and algorithms used in acoustic spectrum analysis to recover the phylogenetic signal of frog mating calls in matlab and a proprietary scripting language, Signal• Synthesized artificial frog mating calls used in control experiments to isolate the phylogenetic signal characters