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Hong Kong, Hk

FinTech startup: building data APIs to empower consumers and businesses to access their financial data anywhere in Asia-Pacific.

San Francisco, California, Us

Various Product Management tours of duty at a top US personal finance startup with 400 employees and over $100 million in revenue. In Platform, Member Engagement and Growth roles, built a core craft of product leadership skills, including strategic prioritization, data-driven product design, user-thinking, cross-functional leadership and operational execution. - Product Platform: led financial data integrations team, owning partnerships with leading account aggregation APIs (Yodlee, Plaid) and credit reporting services (TransUnion). This data powered the core of our logged-in experience. - Member Engagement: led product efforts to grow our active member base across the user lifecycle, focusing on new user onboarding, CRM and activation of 3rd party data sources. - Organic Growth / SEO (co-lead): responsible for growing the user base to over 140 million annual visitors, by building engaging logged-out content experiences. We built the front-doors through which most users first experience NerdWallet, driving high double-digit traffic and revenue growth across many emerging verticals. Managed several direct reports.

Boston, Ma, Us

Played team leadership role in San Francisco office, delivering Bain’s management consulting services to Fortune 1000 and private equity clients. Clients included top-10 global players in Technology, eCommerce, Money Transfers, BioTech and Retail. Focused on growth and operations strategy projects, and managed team members in daily execution. Demonstrated consistently strong client results backed by data-driven insights, and effective partnerships with senior business leaders.- Product Strategy: Built unified product roadmap and actionable software strategy for new business unit of a BioTech leader, including integrating multiple start-up acquisitions.- Operations Excellence: Led operations review and competitive benchmarking for global Technology player, identifying large annual savings from industrial operations and supply chain improvements.- Growth Strategy: Developed growth strategies for leading US players in a wide variety of sectors (CPG, Financial Services, eCommerce).- Investments: Completed 10 private equity diligences (B2B software & services, retail, industrials...).

Zurich, Ch

Advised clients on M&A and equity/debt financing projects as part of Southeast Asia Corporate Finance Group (Investment Banking Division), closing $2.7B in deals. - Deal Management: Advised first-ever mobile telco & bank privatizations in Vietnam, running deal execution over 30+ months- Analytics: Built financial, valuation and operating models across a range of industries including wireless telecoms, satellite TV, IT services, commercial banking, commercial aviation, real estate... - Awarded highly selective global MBA sponsorship

Corporate finance advisory and capital raising mandate for small- to mid-sized firms in China/ Taiwan. Developed financial models and conducted due diligence across multiple sectors, including technology, retail and industrials.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management Major

Master’S Degree, Master Of Arts (Ma), International Studies (Chinese Focus)

Bachelor’S Degree, Political Science & International Studies

1St Year Of "Classe Preparatoire", "Hec" Business Studies (Scientific Track)

Dual French Baccalaureate And Spanish Selectividad Exams, Scientific Track (With Math Emphasis)