Sonia Petecka Email & Phone Number

Miami Beach, FL, US

Miami, Florida, United States

• Keep investments, projects and people organized and running smoothly
• Screen and evaluate investments including research and coordination with founders
• Develop holding company verticals including investing, innovating and impact
• Identify and lead execution of priorities, manage communications, marketing plans, social media, and ad hoc projects
• Hire, train and oversee employees in the Philippines and interns in NY and Miami
• Organize and coordinate investor events and presentations including in person eMerge Americas Conference, a16z Tech Week and virtual events

Miami, Florida, United States

• Project Management
• Manage Single Purpose Vehicles, admin staff in the Philippines, communications, research, CRM and calendars
• Prepare and present executive summaries

Miami Beach, Florida, United States

• Coach clients to elevate and help them achieve their goals, gain confidence, develop their careers and grow as leaders, for example helped a client sign a new client at a rate 7x what they received in the past
• Facilitate Subconscious Reprogramming to help clients manage stress and eliminate limiting beliefs, for example helped a client permanently overcome extreme anxiety and panic attacks (she’s been free of them for 2.5.
• Organized and led 2 mini retreats for women in Miami, facilitated a wellness retreat in Paros, Greece, as well as many workshops, webinars, Kundalini Yoga and Meditation and Breathwork classes in person and online
• Developed social media marketing and promotion that resulted in new clients and leads, organically grew Instagram following from 400 to 2500+ over 3 years

Greater Seattle Area

• Initiated, managed and expanded relationships with Fortune 500 clients at all levels of the organization in the retail, CPG and logistics industries, as well as relationships with vendors and partners
• Grew revenue from $3M to $9M annually over 2 years through preparing and implementing a robust strategic plan
• Drove the delivery of multiple projects, managed onsite and offshore cross functional teams (sales, delivery, marketing, HR, finance, legal), facilitated regular reviews of status reports, gave feedback to teams.
• Designed, wrote and ran email and digital marketing campaigns, prepared client and internal communications, proposals, and revenue forecasts
• Organized, led, and spoke at events like client roundtables, innovation sessions and conferences
• Researched potential innovation ideas that fit in with clients’ current business and technology priorities and goals, prepared pitches and presentations, presented them to C-level executives

New York

• Led project teams in the US and India to ensure 97% on time and on budget delivery of projects
• Managed cross-functional teams during pursuits, proposal creation, staffing projects and contracting
• Drove significant business value – 80%-time reduction for product onboarding onto the website

New York

Greater New York City Area

• Assisted Professors in teaching and grading for graduate and undergraduate Economics classes

Greater New York City Area

• Researched and presented brand tracking reports for hair color in the US to senior managementteam leading to optimization of the brand’s marketing and advertising efforts
• Analyzed secondary research and syndicated reports (sourced from Nielsen and GFK/Roper),provided analysis of current trends in the market with recommendations for future expansionopportunities to the marketing team
• Prepared discussion guides for focus groups and assisted in concept development on severalproduct concepts

New York, NY

• Developed a marketing strategy and a business plan to bring the Integrative Health Program to profitability
• Researched and determined best practices in terms of pricing and offerings among other medical centers that can be used at NYU Langone and prepared an implementation plan

Greater New York City Area

• Directed a team of 4 MBA students to analyze the competitive landscape of the skincare industry and developed new retail ideas and social media strategies for the brand
• Performed an analysis of the brand’s target customer segments through surveys and developed programs to expand the customer base and increase customer engagement and loyalty
• Evaluated existing partnerships and researched potential new collaboration opportunities to identify ways to leverage partnerships to gain exposure and awareness

New York, NY

• Prepared a business plan and an investor presentation for a sustainable fashion start-up as part of the Stern Luxury and Retail Club Consulting Corps
• Brainstormed ideas for reaching new clients through improving the website and expanding channels of distribution
• Set up financial models to ensure the proper calculations of costs and revenues
• Performed market research and competitive analysis, created, distributed and analyzed market surveys, researched potential investors

• Managed and executed multiple research projects on the role of different T cell subsets in a mouse model of Multiple Sclerosis that resulted in publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Coordinated collaborations with scientists, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies
• Analyzed experiment data and presented research findings at lab meetings
• Trained, mentored, and directed new interns and students

Framingham, MA

• Led experiments and analyzed large clinical trial data sets for the Campath drug testing
• Worked with a team of 6 scientists managing post-marketing testing for 3 different enzyme replacement therapy drugs, presented results in lab meetings

Medford, MA

• Assisted in breast and prostate cancer metastasis research
• Worked with PhD students to develop a silk-based culture insert used to study organ specific metastasis in vitro

New York, NY

• Assisted staff in different hospital departments (OR, OBGYN, Cardiology, Pathology, Child Psychiatry)
• Organized activities and games for children in the Child Psychiatry department

Paris Area, France

• Independently performed lab tests and analyzed results
• Translated science papers between French and English

Southampton, NY

• Assisted hospital staff in maintaining high level of patient care
• Helped organize the annual fundraiser

Southampton, NY

• Managed retail and office work at a high-end women's clothing store
• Maintained high level of customer service with a demanding clientele

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Strategy, Global Business, Finance

Activities and Societies: • Management Consulting Association, Stern Women in Business, Luxury and Retail Club, Academic Committee •.

B.S., Biochemistry, French Literature

Activities and Societies: Ballroom Dancing, Pre-medical society

Education record

Tufts in Paris Program, all classes in French