Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · Vancouver, BC · On-site

• GTMfund is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in software and has a network of 350+ go-to-market operators active with founders in the portfolio.
• Lead rounds in geo agnostic Pre-Seed to Seed stage software founders with $1-3M checks. Value to founders is post-investment go-to-market support, where we pair founders with operators in our network that are experts in sales, marketing, growth, revops and customer success.
• I source, review and invest in founders, handle portfolio and community support, lead talent search and placement and help with investor relations.
• Direct involvement in LuminX, Oureon, Telemetron and Eightball AI.

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Vancouver, BC · Remote

• I was selected as a Chapter Lead for the Pacific Northwest in June 2024, where I lead initiatives for the investor network in Vancouver, Seattle and Portland.

Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Vancouver, BC · Remote

• The EVCA is the primary community for the emerging venture capital investor. Founded in 2017, its 1,300+ investors come from a diverse assortment of backgrounds to share insights on industry verticals, co-investment opportunities, career planning, community service and personal interests.
• I joined the EVCA in 2023 and am active in the community.

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Vancouver, BC · Remote

• Front Row Ventures is a student-led venture capital fund in Canada that provides capital and resources to early-stage, college or university-affiliated founders.
• I volunteer as a mentor for new student analysts in the British Columbia cohort and throughout Canada, where I meet to discuss my experience and help review startups prior to investment committee meetings.

Feb 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · New York, NY · Remote

• Remained close with the founders as I moved over to a new investor position, would send founder referrals and used brand materials to educate founders on presentation best practices.

Feb 2022 – Jan 2023 · 11 mos · New York, NY · Remote

• DECKO is a design and consulting agency that partners with active venture capitalists and experts in graphic design to prepare high quality presentations for early-stage founders.
• I helped onboard founders and met to discuss presentation copy, narrative, structure and order of materials, then put together two rounds of drafts for review before the designer handoff.
• Favorite customer experience I had was with Gabe Elias, Chris Reyes and Miles Dotson at Material, who credited the presentation I put together as one of the reasons for their acceptance into HAX and investment from SOSV. Material last raised a $7M Seed round led by Outlander VC and Harpoon Ventures.

Feb 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · Vancouver, BC · Remote

• LOI Venture is an early-stage fund that backs founders in Canada that are under 30 and participants in the League of Innovators accelerator.
• $100k checks into inception and Pre-Seed rounds.
• I planned and executed a new framework to review a higher volume of founders in the program and expand our scope to source other founders in Canada and the United States, ran the deal process from start to finish where I led founder calls, research, memos, references and term sheet reviews in a defined timeline.

Feb 2022 – Jan 2023 · 11 mos · Palo Alto, CA · Remote

• Pursuit Ventures is a small single-family office based in Palo Alto led by a former operations executive at InvenSense, a supplier MEMS sensors acquired by TDK in 2017.
• I assisted the partners with operations, set up a playbook to attract founders and partners in the semiconductor and hardware markets, and helped publish thought leadership posts and articles.

Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 · 0 mo · San Francisco, CA · Remote

• Continued to send founders to the partners and met with new cohort members to discuss experience, review deals and exchange and areas of focus.

Sep 2021 – Dec 2021 · 3 mos · San Francisco, CA · Remote

• VU Venture Partners is the venture arm of Venture University and is an multi-stage generalist venture capital fund that invests in consumer, enterprise, fintech, frontier, healthcare and proptech markets. The fund is managed by seasoned investors with over 50 years of combined investment experience, having deployed a cumulative $2B+ into 400+ companies like Facebook, Uber, Twitter and Venmo.
• I was one of three interns in the healthcare vertical and sourced 125+ founders, prepared detailed memos on close to 10 shortlisted deals and presented two at investment committee meetings.

Jul 2021 – Dec 2021 · 5 mos · Lethbridge, AB · Remote

• CABS is a non-profit that represents over 70k business students from 26 universities in Canada.
• I collaborated with the Vice President of External Affairs to facilitate engagement between students at member universities and CABS alumni through direct outreach, social media campaigns where we published alumni profiles and achievements, and with a mentorship program.

Sep 2020 – Jun 2021 · 9 mos · Edmonton, AB · On-site

• After completing another summer internship in Client Relations, I received a return offer to join as a full-time analyst in the Edmonton office.
• I maintained the responsibilities I had as a student but also interfaced with performance and valuations to ingest and transform raw performance data into our client relations database, completed and published a Client Reference Guide that shared details on client profiles, performance and governmance and was reviewed by executives, and initiated a full redesign of our client dashboards.

Apr 2020 – Aug 2020 · 4 mos · Edmonton, AB · On-site

• Returned to complete another internship in Client Relations after two more semesters.
• I assembled month and quarter-end client portfolio construction, performance and consultant-based reports and designed programs that automated text, image and format data on upload.

Sep 2019 – Mar 2020 · 6 mos · Lethbridge, AB · On-site

• The Student Managed Investment Fund is a $200k+ public equities portfolio managed by junior and senior students under the direction of instructor Wilf Roesler and with oversight from the faculty of management.
• I managed a small, diversified portfolio of mid to large-cap equities and was the primary covering analyst on Gilead Sciences, Eli Lilly and Zoetis, and had prepared theses on WestRock and Veeva Systems.

Feb 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos · Lethbridge, AB · On-site

• I supported Dr. Vishaal Baulkaran on two research projects in corporate governance, and would aggregate board composition data for public traded companies.

Jul 2019 – Aug 2019 · 1 mo · Edmonton, AB · On-site

• AIMCo is an institutional investor and crown corporation headquartered in Alberta with $175B in assets under management managed on behalf of 375k members of provincial pension and retirement plans, endowments, government funds and other public accounts.
• I assembled month and quarter-end client portfolio construction, performance and consultant-based reports and designed programs that automated text, image and format data on upload.

Apr 2019 – Mar 2020 · 11 mos · Lethbridge, AB · On-site

• Promoted to Vice President of Finance before the end of the semester and academic year.
• I appointed and led three directors, introduced a new data management position to help assess new revenue sources or where to cut costs, outlined an annual budget forecast for all club portfolios, managed cash inflows, outflows and reimbursements and executed plans on for-profit activities.
• I represented the DBSA as a delegate at the CABS Roundtable Conference in Hamilton and at the NBSC in Winnipeg.

Sep 2018 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Lethbridge, AB · On-site

• The Dhillon School of Business Finance Club is an on-campus club that provides community and resources to undergrad students at the University of Lethbridge interested in a career in finance.
• I assumed the position as President and led club initiatives for two years. I rewrote the club constitution and onboarding documents for new members, hired for new positions in business technology, community outreach and human resources, negotiated with the faculty and Dean's office for funds and support, and led the recruitment and selection process for the Rotman Interactive Trading Competition and the CFA Institute Research Challenge.
• My leadership led to a large increase in participation in activities and competitions, entries into new competitions, collaborative efforts between finance, accounting and computer science majors, strengthened relationships between students, faculty members and the broader Lethbridge community, and a complete redesign of our brand, visuals and website.

Apr 2018 – Mar 2019 · 11 mos · Lethbridge, AB · On-site

• The Dhillon Business Students' Association has been active for over 40 years and is the largest on-campus and student-led club that supports students at the Dhillon School of Business.
• I assisted the Vice President of Finance with expense proposals and processed cash payments and donations at club events.

Aug 2018 – Feb 2019 · 6 mos · Lethbridge, AB · On-site

• I completed transactions for customers and received deposits and loan payments, issued withdrawals, processed checks and wire transfers and recorded mail deposits, cross-sold bank products, informed customers of new services and product promotions and escalated sales leads for financial planners, wealth managers and loan administrators.

Sep 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Lethbridge, AB · On-site

• Referred to the branch manager and started as a customer service representative shortly afterwards.
• I completed transactions for customers and received deposits and loan payments, issued withdrawals, processed checks and wire transfers and recorded mail deposits.

Jul 2016 – Aug 2016 · 1 mo · Lethbridge, AB · On-site

• I packaged client files to be archived and arranged for pickup. Reported progress direct to the Senior Financial Planner and to a third-party temp agency rep.

Jun 2015 – Aug 2015 · 2 mos · Edmonton, AB · On-site

• I assessed lot space and square footage of industrial park tenants in Edmonton, Leduc, Nisku and Acheson, uploaded details into a database I managed, and sent listings to lease candidates.