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ktical helps cryptocurrency exchanges and other fast-growing online services automatically compensate their users for downtimes while rewarding their developers for uptimes.

● Perform due diligence on potential investments, including industry analysis, competitive assessment, product-market fit, go-to-market validation and modeling
● Restructured IT operations for $20B+ company, consolidating locations and vendors
● Manage value creation and identify/analyze key tech trends and markets that are ripe for disruption
● Conduct market research on sectors of interest, developing and testing hypotheses around opportunities, threats, incumbents and disruptive start-ups
● Led large executive teams (30+) to complete mergers under tight deadlines to achieve high impact

XUNLAB is a cross-industry knowledge base specializing in the socio-market impact of cryptographic technologies.

Quake Capital is a seed and early stage venture capital fund and accelerator program. quakecapital.com 

Advisor for companies participating in Quake Capital's accelerator including:

Frenzy - AI & Machine learning to identify clothing from photos at the brand and SKU level and link to ecommerce sites.
Emoshape - Emotion synthesis for AI and Robotic systems.
Strayos - Analytics and business modeling for mining and construction.
BBy - A revolutionary social app that connects nursing mothers and new parents to buy and sell natural mother's breast milk in a safe and secure manner.

Consulting CMO and Chief Product officer. Helping innovative startups beat public companies in the race to acquire new customers/funding/buzz by reimagining their company/product positioning, branding, strategic planning and competitive intelligence. 

Applying cutting edge and innovative marketing techniques to create the DNA used to build killer presentations, keynotes, lead generation programs, communication pieces and establish the messaging platform, differentiation and competitive frameworks needed to grow sales. A three phased approach that works for 2 person startups and companies with $4B+ in annual revenues.

• Built financial models, drafted credit memoranda, prepared and delivered presentations and other financial advisory documents in support of various debt financing transactions in commercial (retail and office), residential, hospitality, and industrial real estate sub-sectors.

• Provided extensive deal support for the debt funding of several closed and active deals. Responsibilities spanned the entire deal cycle: the financial analysis and preparation of deal documentation for the preliminary business approval, drafting the indicative term sheet, credit committee approval, preparation of the final term sheet with the legal team, legal documentation review (facility agreement and other documents), and financial closure

- Closed deal: US$40 million Refinancing of the Ikeja City Mall to release equity for emerging markets private equity firm Actis LLP (Jan. 2014) 

- Active deals: c. $140m of active deals for the development financing of three retail shopping malls and a debt syndication for an existing mall

• Other ad hoc responsibilities included: 

- Early stage screening of potential real estate deals based on client meetings, pitches, and subsequent information requests

- Updating the deal stage and anticipated income for Nigerian real estate investment banking deals on Salesforce, feeding into management budgeting and planning for Standard Bank Group

- Ownership of team pipeline calendar to ensure sufficient deals were executed in a timely manner to meet the yearly budget.