Leigh-Ann Schultz Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Leads the credit risk and data relationship for one of the top 4 U.S. financial insitutions
• Works with the client to understand risk analytics, acquisitions and account management needs, and appropriately position industry leading data and technology solutions
• Builds and maintains relationships with executives, business leaders, and their teams to understand client business objectives/priorities and identify opportunities to add value.
• Facilitates a mutually beneficial… Show more
• Facilitates a mutually beneficial partnership via thought leadership and creative deal structures. Show less

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

• Innovation Solutions Group (ISG) | Consumer Information Services (CIS)
• Drove business for Experian’s cloud-based Ascend Technology Platform via internal relationships and external partnerships with large financial services clients
• Successfully supported 15+ Account Executives on 40+ accounts via aggressive pre-sales involvement, competitor analysis, pricing strategy, contract configuration, and implementation support
• Understood client strategy, business problems, and… Show more Innovation Solutions Group (ISG) | Consumer Information Services (CIS)
• Understood client strategy, business problems, and technology stack to provide subject matter expertise for standard and custom solution recommendations and implementations across the credit life cycle
• Worked seamlessly with sales, product, and engineering to position best-in-class solutions, inform product roadmaps, and bring voice of the client to market

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Regional Economic Outreach - Research Department & Corporate Affairs
• Created and presented economic outlooks to brief FRB executives and leadership, business/financial leaders, and other local groups on business conditions, macroeconomic trends, and monetary policy
• Built and validated risk models, performed other complex econometric analysis, and produced academic writing on consumer credit risk, and national and regional economic trends
• Developed a credit risk score to… Show more Regional Economic Outreach - Research Department & Corporate Affairs
• Developed a credit risk score to inform research on score drift, consumer behaviors and economic conditions
• Recruited, interviewed, selected, trained, and managed summer interns

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Retail Supervision and Research Group - Supervision, Regulation & Credit Department
• Performed moderately complex modelling and other econometric analysis for research papers relating to emerging risks in retail credit portfolios
• Assessed credit risk models in quantitative bank exams for large financial institutions
• Interviewed, helped choose, and mentored summer interns
• Fluent in SAS, SQL, and R Programming
• Organized research conferences with up to 150 attendees

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• Supervision Regulation and Credit Department (SRC).
• Performed analysis and modeling for research contributing to Too-Big-To-Fail (TBTF) literature.
• Analyzed financial documents and market data via Bloomberg terminal and Lexis Nexis.
• Leveraged internal and external databases to collect, clean, and analyze data.

• With Dr. Christopher Laincz -- Mathematical Econ Professor and Administrator for PhD Candidates.
• Provided reference and research services.
• Worked with data and updated academic lectures.
• Co-authored a paper on the effects of strategic divorce on FASFA funding.

• Conducted independent research "Leadership: A predictor of Economic Efficiency during Group Formation from a 'State of Nature'" -- Mentor: Dr. Natalie Shook
• Wrote formal research proposal.
• Applied for and received grant funding and IRB approval.
• Collected experimental and survey data from human subjects.
• Used SPSS to analyze data.
• Presented at the UMD 2015 National McNair Research Conference.

Morgantown, West Virginia

• Conducted laboratory experiments for research on social cognitive biases.
• Worked with human subjects.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Applied Economics, 3.88

Activities and Societies: Recieved award for Excellence in Macroeconomics. Award given only to the top performers.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Economics

As a student at West Virginia University I obtained dual degrees in Economics and Psychology.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Psychology