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San Diego, CA, US

New York, NY, US

Founded regional MBA alumni association for the NYU Stern School of Business in San Diego.Organize, promote,and coordinate events for 100+ alumnis. Key events to date include private and intimate events with business leaders of the San Diego Padres, San Diego Chargers, Stone Brewery, and the San Diego Asian Film Foundation.Co-lead creation of San Diego MBA.

- Consortium of 12 Graduate Business School alumni associations in San Diego focused on networking, professional development, and alumni engagement- Host regular mixers, networking events, and professional development events in cooperation with partner alumni groups- MBASD includes Berkeley, Booth, Columbia, Harvard, Kellogg, London Business School, IE.

San Diego, California, US

Lead Commercial Operations, Reimbursement & Market Development, & Patient Access

New York, NY, US

Rochester, Minnesota, US

Rochester, Minnesota, US

San Diego, California, US

Tokyo, JP

• Led Sony’s strategic planning process for global multi-billion dollar B2B P&L including evaluating BU performance, assessing product and service market positioning, and establishing long-term direction and tactics.
• Coordinated Sony-wide business case development, developed financial models, and led internal and external negotiations for key retail, service, device, content, and broadcast businesses.
• Led business development of new Sony venture with WGBH (Boston PBS) to provide outsourced broadcast operations for PBS stations. Structured business model, negotiated key vendor and partner agreements, set pricing, and.
• Reformatted eReader business into multi-million dollar mobile carrier pre-load distribution agreement for Kobo (Rakuten) reading store app on Sony Mobile devices. Developed and executed business exit strategy for Sony.
• Launched retail, content, and marketing partnerships in the Action Sports/Active Lifestyle space for relevant Sony products including contracts with Red Bull, Bern Unlimited, Bomber Skis, members of the US National Ski.
• Executed divestiture of Convergent, a profitable Sony technology subsidiary, to a publicly traded technology services company. Built deal book, led team through sales process, set valuation, negotiated definitive.

Tokyo, JP

• Built new Sony business unit responsible for converting world’s movie theaters from 35MM to digital driving $250M+ incremental revenue for Sony at well above threshold profitability and ROI.
• Solved key market challenge holding back digital transition of cinema industry by engaging Sony business unit heads, cinema operators, and film distributors to create a new industry shared cost managed service paradigm.
• Negotiated 10+ year partnerships with every major and mini-major film distributor, set pricing and negotiated customer contracts with major movie theaters.
• Structured, negotiated, and executed $100M+ financing arrangement with Japanese bank alongside Sony Treasurer to support new venture growth.
• Built financial and operating model used by Sony chairman and board to approve $300M+ investment in new business. Financial model incorporated top down and bottoms up sizing, P&L forecasts, complex multivariate.
• Led engineering and operations team responsible for building a global motion picture playout tracking, billing, and reporting system to ensure alignment with legal obligations, “spirit of the partnership” with.

London, GB

Responsible for growth, profitability, and overall relationship management for clients representing over $3M in net income - clients included Progressive, LendingTree, and E-Loan.Redesigned marketing and pricing strategy to better meet key customer segments needs in specific channels based on application, funding, and loan performance metrics – resulting.

Richfield, Minnesota, US

Identified customer desire to purchase consumer electronics in airports at big box retailer prices. Through primary research, competitive analysis, negotiations with leaseholders, and effective relationship management developed both a kiosk and traditional retail strategy, operational plan, and project valuation for executive decision.Provided strategic.

New York, NY, US

Provided strategic leadership for an initiative to report financial results as a publicly traded company during Amerirpise Financial’s spin-off from American Express.

JP

Represented investor interest for a combined $300 million US private equity portfolio (over 30 companies) for two Japanese venture capital funds, including board representation, reinvestment negotiations, and change of control transactionsAdvised on the strategic sale of private equity assets, negotiated and structured investment terms for venture.

US

Actively represented the fiduciary interests of HTC, Inc., a Japanese VC fund that led a later round financing for the company.

US

Represent venture investors' equity stakes in start-up companies.

Completed nine M&A transactions with total value over $2.5 billion, including MapQuest purchase by AOL, Macromedia purchase of Andromedia, and @mobile.com purchase by Software.com.Applied comparable company analysis, discounted cash flow analysis, and precedent acquisition analysis to ascertain the value of corporations for purchase and sale.Conducted on.

New York, New York, US

Assisted senior equity research analysts in their coverage of industries ranging from Canadian Paper and Forestry products and Internet Classifieds to Consumer Electronics Distribution and Video Game Software.While at Goldman I helped initiate research coverage on several companies and built EVA valuation models for approximatley 20 companies in the.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Finance And Entrepreneurship

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Exchange Program

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Finance And Economics

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Exchange Program