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California, United States

Oakland, California, United States

FAN is a 501c3 that provides Financial Aid Advisors to low and middle-income families so that they can secure and maximize financial aid awards provided by PK-12 schools, colleges, and certificate programs. FAN has helped over 1,500 people to get awarded an additional $156 million in financial aid.

San Francisco Bay Area

Programmable payments in construction enables frontline SMBs to access the capital and financing that exists within the project value chain rather than trying to attract external capital (which is largely unavailable and limiting). We call this Value Chain Funding. The workflow enables pre-production designation of final payee's as well as manages approvals, escrow, and payments and so has characteristics of Web3 but still dependent upon FinTech rails and TradFi trust processes. Although Chipi is beneficial for all SMB's and their sponsors, it is a particularly vital enabler of financial inclusion for targeted groups. Financial inclusion is the bridge between economic opportunities and economic outcomes and so delivers on lifting groups subject to poor access to capital. Chipi eliminates:- negative cash flow for subcontractors created by materials procurement- credit limits, collections & costs for suppliers- financial and project risks for general contractors and developersChipi solution will:- increase and diversify the workforce- enable scale in purchasing- satisfy owner DEI and workforce goals with efficacy- satisfy lender CRA requirements- enables direct placement of financial resources into communities and hence increases capital absorption- de-risks project participation for suppliers and subs and so attracts interest and talent - process transparency eliminates interpersonal discrimination that would prevent timely funds flow

San Francisco Bay Area

BW specializes in large residential landscape installations with a broad scope of work. Project sizes typically run from $200k to $2 million. Ran all aspects of operations with particular emphasis on finances, project management, sales, software, and client service. Tripled the company's revenue and profitability with less than a 50% growth in capacity. Selected and deployed all the current workflow processes and software systems.

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for structuring and placing special situation investment opportunities with Family Offices, RIA's, and other professional asset managers. Started and built the business of sourcing the shares of privately held pre-IPO companies and distributing them to institutional buyers. Sourced and placed a $450 million transaction representing one of the largest of its kind in the industry.

San Francisco, California, United States

Natural resource, long-short hedge fund that invests in global equities across full market capitalization spectrum. Strategy heavily utilizes listed options to create position, commodity, and portfolio return asymmetries and to generate additional period returns. Responsibilities include: o Macro strategy and commodity long/short equity allocationso. Economic and business cycle analysiso Portfolio constructiono Risk management including variance and stress-test analysiso Contribution and attribution analysis; benchmark design and selectiono Actively manage and trade volatility book and related “Greeks”o Synthetic option replication and correlation tradingo Equity trading and execution

San Francisco, California, United States

Reputation engine calculated using "top-down" prediction markets and other social media contributions. First industry vertical was crowd-sourced home valuations by zip code to determine both local market expectations and identify people with knowledge.Reverse auction for home buyers and sellers that identified "bottom-up" experts revealed through their willingness to stake their compensation (or net price) based on the final selling price.

San Francisco, California, United States

Volatility arbitrage firm on various US Exchanges. Responsibilities include: o Group portfolio and risk management o Head market makero Oversight of algorithm developmento Overall operational matters and personnel management totaling 10 persons (8 traders)

San Francisco, California, United States

Regulatory and Operational Governance.

San Francisco, California, United States

Volatility arbitrage market maker and portfolio manager.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Eurodollar market maker

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Portfolio Manager: Priced, executed and managed short-term domestic debt issuance, funding gaps, and outstanding balances, totaling $15 billion annually, as well as related options and futures overlay portfolio. Also acted as proprietary trader typically focused up to the two year treasury and eurodollar curves and underlying derivatives.Primary responsibilities:o Macro strategy including thematic forecasts of economic, fiscal and monetary outcomeso Portfolio construction and managemento Target and manage portfolio duration, convexity, and funding gapso Security issuance of $50-$150mm per dayo Hedge construction and execution using cash, futures and optionso Cash-futures and yield curve arbitrageo Proprietary trading across curve.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Responsible for sourcing, analyzing and recommending commercial and investment banking loans to North American and Global loan committees. Credit and business analysis, fee negotiation, and relationship management were central responsibilities.

Msc. Sloan Fellowship

Bba, International Business And Finance