Dec 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• At Budgie, we reinvented how Americans interact with their healthcare benefits. By translating complex healthcare data into simple financial experiences, we empowered people to make better decisions while saving time, money and stress.
• Raised $3M from Greycroft and Pear VC.
• Built and launched a recommendation tool to help employees pick the right health insurance
• Accessed claims data and created an adjudication engine to process them.
• Worked with benefits teams, benefits brokers and health plans to find savings for employers & employees.
• Hired and led design, data, engineering, devOps.

Sep 2019 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

• Alternative investment marketplace
• Established new markets and grew the core business by adjusting the product offering based on feedback from users and data analysis
• Led cross functional initiatives around product marketing and platform upgrading
• Scaled a team of PMs, Data Analysts and Data Engineers

Sep 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 8 mos

• Helping businesses reach their goals
• 1) Fractional Product Leader
• Helping with product strategy, implementations, architecture or buy vs build decisions
• Building better user experiences leveraging AI capabilities to help businesses attract & retain users
• Driving operational efficiencies (through processes, AI & automation) and faster time to market
• GTM, growth hacking, data analysis
• 2) Advisor and investor
• Supported startups and founders across healthtech, fintech...

Mar 2016 – Sep 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Aura (prev. Insikt) is a technology driven consumer lending company empowering millions of families to advance economically through affordable, credit-building personal loans.
• Led the team building and improving the top of funnel (new products, channels, improved experiences)
• Revamped and improved the payment and collection capabilities
• Partnered with the Growth, Ops and Capital Markets teams to enable the growth of the business

Aug 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Singapore, Philippines

• Healthcare startup in Emerging Markets building lending programs to allow middle class patients to access to treatments.
• Employee #1
• Built the business while running products and business development
• Ran projects in Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines in partnership with Fortune 100 companies.

Feb 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines

• Lexia Analytics is a consultancy with deep functional expertise in market access strategies, consumer finance solutions, implementation of new technologies and novel approaches to drive sales development. With experience from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, our principle focus is improving consumer outcomes in developing markets.

Jul 2013 – Aug 2013 · 1 mo · Paris Area, France

• Preliminary Due Diligence on potential investments
• Memos for Investment Comittee

Apr 2009 – Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Electronic Market Making and Arbitrage trader:
• Created new volatility arbitrage strategies (pair trading, calendar spreads, basket trading)
• Monitored positions and order passing automatons
• Improved execution strategies through better timing, delta hedging and order passing
• Products traded: listed equity options (US), stocks, ETF, Index futures

Jun 2008 – May 2009 · 11 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Developed strategy to capture relative value in credit vs. equity on short term basis (with positive return even in 2008)
• Conducted due diligence on companies to increase the number of lines in portfolio (both in Investment Grade and High Yield)
• Products traded: CDS, CDX, corporate bonds, convertible bonds, equity stocks and options

Sep 2006 – Jun 2007 · 9 mos · Paris Area, France

• Managed positions and conducted new deals in FX, rates and securities lending
• Monitored Balance Sheet usage

May 2006 – Aug 2006 · 3 mos