Sydney Young Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Colorado, United States

Key Accountabilities:- Provide leadership across three modalities; Climbing, Lagree and Yoga, to 60 direct report personnel while orchestrating operations, inventory management, scheduling, and budget management.- Relied upon for day-to-day people and operational management, as well as bigger picture sales and growth initiatives including: Recruiting, onboarding, continuing education and development, setting and upholding expectations, schedule optimization, membership sales and growth, inventory selection/ buying, software management- Effectively prioritize business objectives, juggle many initiatives at once.Key Achievements:- Built out processes, procedures, operational spreadsheets, scheduling documentation and organization necessary to scale the business as the first person in this role- Migrated all retail to a Shopify storefront. Built the storefront from scratch, revamped all client and instructor retail sales procedures. Added capability to run sales and promotions online and instructor incentive discount codes- Led first-ever online Black Friday sale- Implemented onboarding procedures and documentation to meet IRS requirements for all instructors as the business scaled from one studio to three

Denver, Colorado, United States

Key Accountabilities:- Program and coach all three class formats: Circuit, Rescon and Yoga- Continuously develop and learn functional movement and exercise science to provide the most effective (and fun!) workout - Dedicated to playlisting :) Key Achievements:- As Founding Instructor at Duality Fit, helped launch a studio and rapidly grew to reach “sold-out” class capacity

Denver, Colorado

Key Accountabilities:- Responsible for providing leadership to 4 direct report personnel while orchestrating operations, fundraising and financial reporting for 20 fund clients- Relied upon to collaborate with General Partners of each fund to create a scope of work; includes target closing dates/rolling closes, target capital raised, LP base and communications with new investorsKey Accomplishments:- Led multiple Ark-PES transition/implementation projects for 14 fund clients, a new investor platform/CRM software with more dynamic investor functionality - Successfully managed fundraising operations that resulted in closing $193M+ of additional funds for 6 clients- Managed fundraising operations and closing of 4 new sidecar investments for 3 fund clients, Meritage’s 1st involvement with sidecar fundraising

Greater Denver Area

Key Accountabilities:- Responsible for preparing/presenting succinct weekly market and economic updates to an investment management team comprised of the CFO, Director of Investment Research, as well as Portfolio ManagersKey Accomplishments:- Discovered a Large Cap Value fund that was added to the platform and performed successfully for 2-years- Created a more efficient, repeatable process for gathering and tracking weekly, monthly and quarterly data; substantially improved preparation of the weekly economic update call and creation of quarterly materials

Boulder, Colorado

Key Accountabilities:- Responsible for assisting with the creation and implementation of a comprehensive advertising plan; updated and managed on-line listings such as Zillow and Trulia - Relied upon to prepare-for and host open houses while cultivating valued experienced for potential homeowners

Relevant coursework includes: - Corporate Financial Reporting I and II- Corporate Finance- Capital Investment Analysis- Operations and Information Management- Micro and Macro Economics- Principles of Real Estate- Real Estate Finance and Investment Analysis- Investment and Portfolio Analysis- Construction ManagementRelevant projects: - Created 130 pg. equity valuation of ExxonMobil real-time with two teammates- Produced 100 pg. start-up business plan for an e-commerce business with two teammates

London, United Kingdom

- Attend lectures presented by executives, economists, officials from financial and governmental organizations, and business journalists.- 25 lecture and discussion sessions and visits to major financial and political institutions in London. Site visits and seminars provided the unique experience of learning from real world practitioners and gaining an insight to industry knowledge. - Live, study, and conduct research in London, one of the world's principal international financial centers. - Develop an understanding of the wide diversity of financial markets and institutions in the city of London and the international importance of these markets.

Bachelor'S Degree, Finance

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: - Active participant in DECA competitions - Danced for a studio dance team - Played softball and lacrosse