Thomas Freund Paternostro Email & Phone Number

United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

As a Strike Force Strategy Fellow, I supported PHD Ventures through various responsibilities, including:• Working within the "Strike Force" directly, with Dr. Peter Diamandis and the Entrepreneur in Residence.• Assisting in consulting advisory companies.• Developing and curating material for various publications and books.• Creating material used in the A360 program.• A360 scholar and co-host for A360 for the online members.

We developed a tool to examine whether applying TMR to certain memories or experiencing sleep deprivation leads to a decrease in the vividness of those memories and emotional distress in participants.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Working under Dr. Kiho Im in the Fetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center Research (FNNDC) in the Boston Children's Hospital. Currently working on developing:• Use of MRI analysis software• Fetal/Neonatal MRI post-processing skills and analysis techniques• Machine learning-based image processing and prediction• Knowledge of fetal brain development and anatomy

Working at the Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center (FNNDSC) with Dr. Kiho Im on fetal MRI analysis.

A community of young technology leaders and entrepreneurs that enables and connects the next top founders in Latin America

•Founded the CAI program (Consultoría de Alto Impacto) within the TCC, the first student-led consulting program in México powered by Sintec Consulting. •Led a team of 19 members, including a subdirectory, three coordinators, and 15 CAI consultants, of which over 50% got a job or internship at a consulting firm.• Assisted in coordinating the biggest student consulting event, mostly directed at Tec students in Mexico, called “Consulting Week,” on the hybrid format with the participation… Show more •Founded the CAI program (Consultoría de Alto Impacto) within the TCC, the first student-led consulting program in México powered by Sintec Consulting. •Led a team of 19 members, including a subdirectory, three coordinators, and 15 CAI consultants, of which over 50% got a job or internship at a consulting firm.• Assisted in coordinating the biggest student consulting event, mostly directed at Tec students in Mexico, called “Consulting Week,” on the hybrid format with the participation of 25 Consulting Firms and over 8000 student assistants across all the sessions and +23000 registrations. Organized by TCC.• Developed and matured three strategic client relationships with different organizations/ businesses that could not afford consulting as a pro bono case with CAI. Show less

Mexico

• Responsible for writing the weekly business brief that analyzes the overall business performance that the country manager and the top executives and managers in LATAM and China read. • Created three dashboards using DiD i’s tools, used by at least 200 people on three different teams in México daily, saving them 2 hours each in automatization every week. • Analyzed the performance of demand based on peak hours in the top 20 cities in LATAM which has allowed Didi’s marketing and… Show more • Responsible for writing the weekly business brief that analyzes the overall business performance that the country manager and the top executives and managers in LATAM and China read. • Created three dashboards using DiD i’s tools, used by at least 200 people on three different teams in México daily, saving them 2 hours each in automatization every week. • Analyzed the performance of demand based on peak hours in the top 20 cities in LATAM which has allowed Didi’s marketing and BI team to allocate the total daily burn better. Show less

• Led a team of 3 people and raised more than USD 5,000 for the club from main stakeholders in the city and the region for events such as the DSC Datathon which had 350 participants.• Worked with Crystal Solutions to provide an online data science course to over 600 Tec students.Proposed, developed, and led an online Bootcamp during the pandemic with 13 panels and master classes in less than two weeks, reaching more than 500 students across LATAM.

• Venture investing analysis and fund management activities at the first American Venture Capital firm operating in Ecuador, with integration in the entire Latin American VC environment.

San Francisco Bay Area

Founders Lab is a new one-month accelerator program for college students and young professionals that want to pioneer solutions to address societal issues throughout their career. Founders Lab is designed by New Story: a Y Combinator-backed organization that was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies In The World in 2017, 2019, 2020. Guest teachers include Y Combinator alumni and advisors, Co-founders of charity: water, Founder of Glassdoor, and other leaders within social impact… Show more Founders Lab is a new one-month accelerator program for college students and young professionals that want to pioneer solutions to address societal issues throughout their career. Founders Lab is designed by New Story: a Y Combinator-backed organization that was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies In The World in 2017, 2019, 2020. Guest teachers include Y Combinator alumni and advisors, Co-founders of charity: water, Founder of Glassdoor, and other leaders within social impact and entrepreneurship. Show less

Quito, Ecuador

• Developed core technologies for the management of the team operations. • Research and implementation of software that could improve the efficiency of operations. • Responsible for all technology issues.

Tel Aviv - Jaffa, Tel Aviv District, Israel

• Part of the 3-man core team that went through the Barclays Accelerator powered by Techstars.• Helped develop the financial model for the company.• Responsible for ascertaining documentation that defined the criteria used in Kriptos' ML algorithm.• Worked on various product management and growth hacking strategies.• Learned from world-class entrepreneurs ranging from all over the world in Fintech.• Learned how an early stage startup grows and changes drastically on an… Show more • Part of the 3-man core team that went through the Barclays Accelerator powered by Techstars.• Helped develop the financial model for the company.• Responsible for ascertaining documentation that defined the criteria used in Kriptos' ML algorithm.• Worked on various product management and growth hacking strategies.• Learned from world-class entrepreneurs ranging from all over the world in Fintech.• Learned how an early stage startup grows and changes drastically on an individual level due to mentorship, workshops, and assistance. Show less

• Compiled and reviewed the products and prices on the site.• Responsible for finding bugs in the site and reporting them.• Assisted in the development and updating of unique quality content to meet customer requirements.• Contributed to organizing and writing content material for the website.

Bachelor Of Science And Engineering - Bs, Computer Science And Engineering

Outstanding student recognition by the School of Science and Engineering, given to less than 1% in 2020, 2022 and 2023. MAE (Mentores.

Summer Internship/ Training Program, Nanotechnology

Microfabrication of solar cells, cantilever micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), and microfluidic systems at MIT.nano.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

I realized I did not enjoy mechanical engineering as much as I liked Legos.

Computer Programming

Activities and Societies: Attended Le Wagon Tel-Aviv (Batch #193). 9-week intensive coding bootcamp learning HTML, CSS, Bootstrap.

High School Graduate , International Baccalaureate Diploma (Ib)

Activities and Societies: Model UN Club, Track and Field • Graduated with third highest academic GPA (Cum Laude). • Received two Cultural.