Markus Wellmann Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Helping businesses scale revenues by 6 figures+ utilizing cutting edge sales funnels, branding and lead generation techniques.

Grana Digital is a bespoke development agency serving small,early-stage clients with a focus on blockchain technologies.Services:Developing product strategies for start-ups in Web3, Fintech and data-driven technologies.Originating business development opportunities for Web3 protocols for dApp and TradFi integrations.Converting relationships into.

Paris, Île-de-France, FR

Zug, Canton Of Zug, CH

DIA is a Web3 data oracle providing real-time, customizable blockchain price feeds. Current responsibilities include creating partnership integrations for DIA oracles with dApps and traditional financial institutions.

Rowayton, CT, US

• Secured $100k of ARR within first 8 months of beta version sales of SaaS platform to institutions and multi-billion dollar asset management firms.
• Managed relationships with institutional clients with a focus on positive relationship-building, consultative processes and long-tail commercial strategies.
• Built extensive network of buy-side/sell-side investment advisers and funds through outreach and events.
• Extensively leveraged CRMs for client outreach and customer acquisition.
• Planned marketing initiatives and leveraged referral networks to promote business development.

• Oversee the development of the firm’s strategic long-term direction by researching and executing on business expansion opportunities, including facilitating a $15 million capital raise.
• Co-manage and monitor $150 million of gross assets across three funds and 30+ portfolio managers.
• Build, evaluate and stress-test financial projection models to optimize strategy decisions that affect the firm’s use of leverage, income and expected performance.
• Orchestrate product launches by actively collaborating with the firm’s joint venture partners, prime brokers, administrator, legal counsel and auditor.
• Institutionalize internal processes by working with software engineers to automate data capture and storage for customizable utilization.
• Regularly author portfolio and business updates to present to the investment committee.

• Actively performed investment due diligence on long/short equity hedge fund strategies specializing in: technology, media, financials, biotech, merger-arbitrage and artificial intelligence/machine-learning.
• Built excel models using quantitative analysis on portfolio managers’ daily and monthly returns to create balanced portfolios that maximized Sharpe/Sortino ratios.
• Designed and built excel-based reporting system that would generate daily P&L and NAV reports of the Discovery funds and investment advisers.
• Successfully implemented a repeatable and organized process for strategy onboarding by collaborating with the funds’ prime brokers and administrator.
• Modernized and regularly updated pitch books, tear-sheets and marketing materials.
• Mentor a team of interns by actively involving them in key functions and emphasizing the value of teamwork and attention to detail.

New York, New York, US

• Digital Media and Application Development Agency
• Successfully helped deliver products by working with clients and designers to build engaging branded content and user experience design for companies such as Cisco, CheckedUp, picshare, Gayot, BTS, Kutoto, DeepSky and.
• Collaborated with iOS/Android and web developers for development process from initial wire-framing steps to product release.
• Supported in creation of edited branding, design and feature specifications proposals for prospective clients such as Bob Vila and Otterbox.
• Created Gayot’s Google Analytics account and helped client understand the functions/features of the platform.
• Routinely participated in conference meetings with clients for different stages in the app production process.

• Enterprise-facing start-up offering a mobile rich push technology platform for retail businesses.
• Researched and contacted potential clients in the retail, technology, advertising, healthcare, and tourism industries; researched competitors and emerging start-ups to develop new ideas for the application of the Xtify.
• Established contacts for Xtify’s client pool by networking and pitching the functionality and usefulness of the rich push notification technology.
• Created, drafted and revised pitch books for incoming clients such as Sephora, Citi, and Sam’s Club.
• Wrote enterprise-facing copy and designed ads and banners to promote the Xtify product online.

New York, New York, US

• $325 million hedge fund focusing on emerging market fixed income and credit products Quantitative Analysis & Research
• Analyzed economic sovereign statistics (e.g., foreign direct investment, trade balance, external sovereign debt) for all developed and developing economies.
• Built Excel and PowerPoint presentations that compared debt to GDP and debt per capita trends among emerging markets and developed nations.
• Translated company profile of KR-Trust, a German asset management firm, from German to English for the Chief Operations Officer.Trading / Operations Support
• Streamlined and managed database containing over 1,000 CDS contracts; verified counterparties, novations and organized according to indexes.
• Reorganized legal documents pertaining to domestic and offshore managed funds; established accounts with Interactive Brokers by providing all relevant legal documents/information.

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