Oct 2017 – Mar 2018 · 5 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Deep-tech incubator Entrepreneur First recently raised $12.4m in a round led by Silicon Valley’s Greylock Ventures, with Greylock partner and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffmann joining EF’s board.
• Entrepreneur First selects and brings together extraordinary people to build startups from scratch in London and Singapore. They fund individuals and help build co-founding teams, develop ideas, and accelerate through fundraising from the world's best investors.
• To date they have helped over 350 individuals build 80 companies with a total valuation of over $1 billion. Major exits to date include Magic Pony, led by Rob Bishop and Zehan Wang, acquired by Twitter for a reported $150m only 18 months after the founders met on the EF programme.
• EF has won Best European Startup Accelerator at The Europas 2016 and 2017, Best Seed Fund and Best Exit at Investor Allstars 2016.

Apr 2017 – Sep 2017 · 5 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• MarketInvoice is a fast-growing peer-to-peer lending platform, part of the thriving London fintech start-up scene. It specializes in providing short term finance to SMEs, and has lent over £1.6bn to date - one of the largest p2p platforms in Europe. It has raised £10m+ in funding from Northzone and MCI Ventures, also invested in companies such as iZettle and Spotify, and lenders on the platform include the UK Government.
• In charge of scaling operations for the rapidly-growing sales team - this includes:
• Sales processes and best practices definition and enforcement
• Sales and marketing process automation (using tools such as Salesforce, Pardot, in-house API)
• Data analytics and building KPI reporting to drive strategic and operational decision making
• Data quality auditing and improvement, working with large datasets
• Project and stakeholder management (e.g. Product/Tech or Marketing) to roll out new initiatives
• Certified Salesforce Administrator - System Administrator for the company
• Proficient with Salesforce (CRM), Pardot (marketing automation), Looker (BI tool - using SQL and LookML)

May 2016 – Mar 2017 · 10 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Reporting directly to the CEO
• Responsibilities included:
• Strategic projects - internally project-managed the launch of a new product from inception, managing interactions with all teams in the business such as Tech/Product, Sales, Marketing, Risk, etc.
• Board communications and updates, company strategy setting
• Pace-setting and stakeholder management within the leadership team
• Involved in budgeting and fundraising process
• Involved in marketing (undertook CRM / email marketing manager function, created email campaigns to drive product awareness) and sales (sales operations)

Oct 2015 – Apr 2016 · 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Business analytics (in particular for sales and marketing - experience with Looker / SQL)
• Product strategy
• Budgeting
• Fundraising

Jul 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• EPE is a UK-based, SME-focused private equity and advisory firm founded in 2001, which manages a c.£90m AUM fund listed on AIM, EPE Special Opportunities plc (ESO). ESO is one of the top-performing UK investment trusts, with an average return of +136% over the last 8 years.
• Transaction / investment experience: origination and completion of deals, particularly within the consumer and retail space, as well as early stage companies (EIS scheme)
• Portfolio management: board observer at luxury tea brand Whittard of Chelsea
• Fund administration: in charge of annual reporting (Reports and Accounts, valuation reports, returns / cash flows models)
• Skills acquired: advanced financial modelling and analysis, deal structuring, due diligence and negotiation, C-suite stakeholder management

Jul 2012 – Jun 2013 · 11 mos

Mar 2011 – Sep 2011 · 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Founded by well-known industry figure Joseph N. Cohen, AEI is an advisory boutique specialising in film finance and new media ventures. Past releases by client firms include The Artist, The Iron Lady, The Ides of March, The Tree of Life, and The King’s Speech.
• AEI's activities include:
• Financial consulting to production companies, studios and film industry investors
• AEI acts as an advisor on all aspects of finance, distribution, strategic planning and acquisitions.
• Clients include: Goldman Sachs; The Weinstein Company (most Tarantino movies, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The King's Speech); Alcon Entertainment (The Blind Side, The Book of Eli, Dude Where’s my Car, PS I Love You); River Road (The Tree of Life, Brokeback Mountain, most Sean Penn films).
• Film financing and packaging of entertainment projects
• AEI is mandated by producers to find financing (equity investors, foreign presales, tax subsidies, etc.) and attach talent (directors, writers, creative producers).
• Current projects are confidential, but past projects have most notably included The Hurt Locker (2010 Academy Award Winner, Best Picture).
• AEI also hunts and options its own entertainment projects. Projects are then developed and packaged within the company. Ongoing film projects include Camus’ L’étranger and other confidential literary adaptations.
• New media venture capital
• AEI advises potential investors on a number of exciting start-up ventures within the realm of entertainment and new media/technology

Mar 2010 – Aug 2010 · 5 mos · Paris, France

• M&A Emerging Markets - made full-time Analyst offer at the end of my internship (deferred to attend Oxford instead)

Oct 2009 – Mar 2010 · 5 mos · Port Louis, Mauritius

• Asset and portfolio management
• Foreign Institutional Advisor (FII) license in India