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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, United States

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Executed buy- and sell-side corporate strategy / M&A diligence projects for PE and Corporate clients, including market assessments, customer / competitive dynamics, and growth opportunities, ensuring the success of ~$4M in billing revenues• Generated strategic recommendations covering the music PRO market (~$4B in revenues), including a music industry landscape assessment, a total market size and forecast, an evaluation of competitive risks, and an analysis of PR0 2.0 opportunities• Delivered a sell-side diligence report for a live entertainment promotion asset (~$250M in revenues), including a market size (e.g., TAM) and forecast, an analysis of customer / competitive insights, and an evaluation of organic / inorganic opportunities• Created several internal / external presentations, case proposals, and IP related to the AVOD / SVOD market, including key trends, content spending, and SAG-AFTRA / WGA strike implications, leading to billing revenues exceeding $300K per project• Received “Exceeds” consensus ratings from Managers / Partners (with promotion to Senior Consultant in <12 months) and above-average upward reviews from Associates in thought leadership, team management, team development, among others

Santa Monica, California, United States

• Drove and managed digital business licensing partnerships through strategic financial modeling, deal negotiation / execution, and entertainment industry expertise, resulting in domestic and global deals with DSPs that generated ~$1.1B in annual revenues• Created several dynamic Excel-based financial models, including a model that estimated the impact from improvements to subscription churn, new subscribers, and trial conversion for a digital partner that generated ~$750M in annual revenues • Delivered a market landscape and licensing framework presentation for a nascent business category utilizing precedent and analytical expertise, leading to management approval for deals that were forecasted to generate $100M+ in annual revenues

Santa Monica, California, United States

• Managed a team of analysts by prioritizing, assigning, and executing ~30 analytical projects per month for senior leadership, including projects / financial models that evaluated digital business deals that generated more than $1B in annual revenues• Conducted analysis utilizing UMG’s petabyte-scale analytics platform using Google BigQuery SQL to uncover key insights related to subscription churn, conversion, LTV, among other KPIs, informing executives on ~70% of recorded music revenues• Developed a dynamic Excel-based financial model for a streaming partner utilizing an innovative pricing structure that would increase total deal revenues ~10% and allowed executives to change inputs such as market share, revenue share, etc.

Santa Monica, California, United States

• Conducted analysis for the largest digital streaming deal in the history of the industry through a dynamic, VBA-integrated forecast model that provided executives with side-by-side proposal comparisons, reducing analytical downtime by ~95%• Provided financial forecasting guidance for various music formats (e.g., downloads, streaming) by projecting account-level annual revenues in Excel and presenting findings to senior leadership, generating insights for $4B+ in recorded music revenues• Facilitated several “lunch and learn” sessions in which I taught analysts useful Excel short-cuts and formulas such as index/match, offset, indirect, dynamic named ranges, among many others, increasing the overall efficiency of the team

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Analyzed a patient level data set containing over one million patients utilizing SQL for a multi-product co-positioning strategy in a VBA-integrated Excel document, ensuring a ~$1.6B product was positioned correctly within the portfolio mix

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Informed a “go/no go” decision for the acquisition of a clinical trial asset using an Excel-based revenue forecast that utilized inputs received from market research, driving the client to pass on the asset due to failure to reach $1B in revenues

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance Specialization

UCLA Anderson Honor Society (top 15% of class) J. Fred Weston Award - Academic Excellence in Finance

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: Kappa Alpha Order

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