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Stockholm County, Sweden

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Coached founders and co-hosted trainings on unconscious bias, financial modelling, gamification, as well as narrative building.
• Proactively reframed our weekly founder checkins, growing engagement by 20% as well as the relevancy of information shared.
• Performed due diligence on the founding team, USP, unit economics, market, regulations, GTM, and sustainability.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

• Executed comprehensive market and financial analysis to effectively connect start-up and scale-up clients in Series A-C to investor clients, procuring salient exposure to the Fintech and AI investment landscape.
• Engaged in acquisition initiatives, contributing to the growth of the company’s client base and market network.
• Actively coordinated the end-to-end fundraising strategy.

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

• Leveraged purposefully-planned customer analytics and trends to improve the architecture of the app's most used features, while simultaneously optimising the sales strategy.
• The app's magically powerful focus modes prove to be the biggest selling point, so the latest update (1.6 versions) reduced focus-mode battery consumption by 50%, with updates cumulatively reducing battery consumption.
• Shifted advertising efforts more towards Mac platforms following statistics showing ~75% of app usage takes place on macOS.
• Improved customer conversion ($/download) rate by +140% in the two months following the most recent update (1.6 versions).

London Area, United Kingdom

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Zurich, Switzerland

• Completed investment analysis cases, focused on European and Swiss equities (small – large cap), evaluating suitability for our two flagship funds, as well as bespoke mandates.
• Modelled revenues and business segment Comps to present SOTP analyses.
• Models covered GW capacity projections for renewable energy companies to better understand ROIs, as well as churn rates for licensing and SAAS business models; strengthening our bottom-up approach.
• Called company IRs and analysts to further validate my understandings and judgments on market competition.
• Contrasted the resulting holistic understanding of the target company’s eco-systems (operational, strategic, and financial), against the backdrop of volatile macro conditions.

Zurich, Switzerland

• Scoped new repo market opportunities within Europe, the US and Singapore, succeeding department growth and diversification ambitions following SIX’s acquisition of BME.
• Investigated eligible/tradeable securities across markets - appraising against collateral needs - and classified the respective market & trading infrastructures to ultimately conclude suitability and potential value.
• Surveyed a multiplicity of MMFs, evaluating fund and asset ratings (fulfilling internal risk requirements), TER, performance & yield, settlement and redemption time, as well as ESG metrics and strategies.
• Carried out further analyses targeting optimisation of SIX’s FX Swap investment strategy.
• Developed a dashboard prototype to structure, enhance and simplify access to business, risk, and system information for Cash Management.

Switzerland

• Co-led and fostered efforts in achieving ISO certification for Youth Forum Switzerland: an annual, World Economic Forum inspired, event; the first of its kind in Switzerland.
• Hosting over 800 students and world-class speakers from across Europe and the US, I cooperatively ensured compliance with ISO’s “event sustainability management system”.
• Conceived and executed carbon offsetting and reducing initiatives, warranting unprecedented schoolwide carbon neutrality by 2025; having most inspiringly integrated a 320,000 tree planting campaign over the next 4 years.

Master Of Science - Msc, Economics And Business - Behavioural Economics, Cum Laude: 8.5/10

Activities and Societies: Honours Class Private EquityApplied Microeconometrics, Advanced Behavioural and Experimental Economics.

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc, Accounting And Finance, First Class Honours

Activities and Societies: LSE Business and Investment Group - Select M&A Analyst

International Baccalaureate (Ib) Diploma, 44/45 (Top 1% Globally)

Higher Level Mathematics, Physics, and Economics.