Ray Lui Email & Phone Number

Cleveland, Ohio, Us

Sprinly is an organic plant-based food e-commerce brand on a mission to help our society live healthier lives and build a more sustainable planet.On the Inc. 5000 list, they were ranked as the #1 fastest-growing organic plant-based brand in the U.S. two years in a row.Additionally, Sprinly is named as one of the Top 5 Best Places to Work in Cleveland and has earned Inc.'s Best in Business award for biggest positive impact on society.The team at Sprinly is constantly innovating with their product and cooking approach to be thinking about how they can add more nutrition to their meals using clean, organic ingredients. Equally important, they are focused on building a world-class team to create something greater that will positively impact the health of our society and the sustainability of our planet.We're currently hiring talented individuals as we continue scaling! Please feel free to reach out at careers@sprinly.com.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Qatalyst is a top-tier investment bank focused on M&A for the biggest and fastest-growing technology companies. Key M&A transactions include the sale of LinkedIn to Microsoft and Fitbit to Google. I worked alongside VPs, partners, and CEO to perform financial analyses and provide strategic advice for key players in the high-growth tech space with a focus on the consumer & internet sectors.My advisory projects included the below with exits worth over a total of $10 billion.Tumblr $1.1 billion sale to Yahoo • Collaborated with Tumblr CEO and Head of Product to create marketing materials for strategic investments, partnerships, and acquisition by Yahoo • Assisted VP of Finance with financial and business projections, along with comparables valuation and IPO analyses • Represents one of the largest social media M&A transactions of all timeKiva Systems $775 million sale to Amazon • Constructed capitalization and payout tables to assess the value of a sale to shareholders while considering the impact of vested/unvested options, warrants, escrow and retention holdbacks • Performed IPO analysis incorporating a dilutive financing round to advise Kiva Systems to either sell or IPOBain Capital and Golden Gate Capital $6.9 billion take private of BMC Software • Performed LBO analysis with specific focus on exit transaction scenarios • Completed sum-of-the-parts analysis to understand potential value of each business segment for potential divestitures • Mapped out potential buyers for different product portfolios of the target and their acquisition rationaleOther advisory projects included:- OverDrive $410 million sale to Rakuten- Netezza $1.9 billion sale to IBM- Sony divestiture of Gracenote to Tribune Media- Strategic Investment in Go Daddy by KKR, Silver Lake and Technology Cross Ventures- Strategic Investment in ARRIS/Motorola Home Business by Comcast

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• First intern at Qatalyst Partners• Performed financial analyses and board presentations for both Netezza's $1.9 billion sale to IBM and the strategic investment in Go Daddy

London, Gb

Worked across advisory, tax, and audit services throughout the internship that concluded in a final presentation to multiple senior managers of the firm

• Transitioned responsibilities to General Manager in August to return for my Sophomore year at Wharton• Idea generation to launch in only 3 weeks• Developed systems and managed all operations of the business• Created 45+ recipes for the menu• Worked with 9 different distributors• Managed an 8 person team• Hosted an eating contest that garnered in local media press

B.S. In Economics, 3.9/4.0 Gpa, Majors: Entrepreneurship, Finance, And Management

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