Rafi Sands Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, US

Tandem is a marketplace that makes the office leasing process a breeze. Browse spaces and move-in within 14 days: tandem.space.Backed by Y Combinator

Stanford, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Pano offers a next-gen wildfire situational awareness intelligence platform that helps fire authorities, utilities, and community organizations respond to wildfires before they are destructive. Combining disparate data feeds including proprietary mountaintop cameras and geostationary satellites, the Pano platform includes deep learning AI to provide.

Campbell, CA, US

Boston, MA, US

Boston, MA, US

Oakland, California, US

Served as the first-ever Student Advisor on the UC Board of Regents, representing 210,000 UC students as the only undergraduate on the system’s highest governing body in a one-year, non-voting position.

Boston, MA, US

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Elected by the 32,000-person student body to serve as a stakeholder for a $6mm student fees budget and as the University’s chief student advocate to all external bodies including the Board of Regents, the City of LA.
• Managed an office staff of 45+ working to lead specific campaigns such as BruinsVOTE!, which broke the 100-year UCLA voter registration record in November 2016, and FundTheUC, a campaign to pressure the state to better.
• Recognized by the White House for organizing a press conference with the CA Senate Pro Tempore following the June 2016 UCLA shooting which pressured the state to establish the nation’s only publicly funded gun violence.

• Oversaw policy initiatives of the U.C. Student Regent, representing 240,000 students across ten U.C. campuses.
• Developed a 4-pronged proposal to increase student representation and involvement in the UC’s shared governance model.
• Led campaigns to establish Student Advisor position on the Board of Regents, expand middle class tuition assistance efforts and improve systemwide cultural sensitivity through combating acts of hatred and bigotry.

San Francisco, California, US

• Quri is a growing retail analytics and intelligence company that provides major CPG brands including Proctor & Gamble, Unilever, and Nestlé with the ability to monitor in-store visibility on their promotions, displays.
• Used Excel and SQL to increase data review efficiency, analyze cost of data acquisition, and prepare actionable insight reports for major CPG clients, which used data to make multi-million-dollar retail promotion.
• Designed auto-updating charts with Python to keep executives up to date on key metrics of the company’s operations, leading to important restructuring decisions.
• Managed quality-assurance team which reviewed millions of data points on in-store visibility, promotions and out-of-stocks.
• Prepared lists of sales leads to target new client bases and maximize contact within current clients.

Los Angeles, California, US

• The Daily Bruin is consistently ranked as one of the top college newspapers in the country.
• Wrote weekly articles primarily covering the U.C. Regents on topics of tuition hikes, student representation, etc.
• Published several investigative stories on topics of U.C. administration costs, CA unpaid internship law, etc., prompting other newspapers to follow suit. To read samples, visit http://dailybruin.com/author/rafael-sands.
• Work consistently featured on daily newspaper’s front page. Student representation story won internal “story of the month” award.

• The Scribe is the official student newspaper of Oakland Technical High.
• Revitalized the seldom published, nearly 100 year-old newspaper to enhance the campus experience for the 2,000-person student body.
• Managed a staff of 5 senior editors and 30+ contributors to facilitate consistent and high quality monthly publication.
• Created an all-new redesigned website and transitioned the print paper to newsprint quality, thereby increasing readership.
• Culminated term with publication of school’s Centennial Edition with extensive history and photo coverage of the school’s past.+Adobe Photoshop and Indesign+WordPress Web Design+Team Management+News Reporting+Editing

• Represented hundreds of temple kids and teens as the sole youth advocate on the 30+ member board.
• Shared insights on critical issues of how to increase youth involvement in temple events and programs.

Oakland, California, US

• Marqeta is an innovative tech startup redefining the abilities of traditional payments processing technologies.
• Fully reviewed company’s website and developed a model to reduce clicks-to-conversion ratio, thus enhancing user engagement. Presented model to the executive board which implemented many of the suggestions.
• Used JSON, a branch of JavaScript which powers many card-based transactions, to troubleshoot use cases of the Marqeta Card.
• Designed a promotional program for user acquisition through the Subway™ client relationship

Mba

Education record

Education record

Bachelor’S Degree, Business/Managerial Economics