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- Led the Exceed Alternative Investment Platform from vision to MVP in 1 month, identifying best fit investee categories by performing regressive career performance analysis, interviewing talent agents, and analyzing trends across music, European football, and entrepreneur personas. - Worked with EY and Herzog, Fox & Ne’eman to develop a regulatory strategy and design the investment vehicle with the goal of minimizing investor/investee tax implications in Europe and US, using creative problem solving to reduce cost and complexity. - Partnered with engineering, UX, and the executive team to deliver the MVP, supporting the team with strong feature requirements, clear user stories, low fidelity wireframes, prioritizing features, and planning sprints.

- Co-founded and launched a FinTech small business capital marketplace that allows small businesses to raise capital by issuing bonds to their community; raised $15M to date with continued operations and growth. - Led product from concept to MVP, creating a new financial debt instrument with an objective risk model, and earned FINRA regulatory approval by defining product security requirements, developing compliant in-product content, and performing due diligence on 3rd party partners. - Ran experiments to drive customer growth, analyzing product metrics and performing market research to establish the GTM foundation that achieved $20M+ of investments into SMBs by year end Q2FY22 with 4X average YoY growth FY19, FY20, FY21, FY22. - Teamed with UX to deliver intuitive Small Business Issuer onboarding flows that reduced onboarding process by 10X over competition while ensuring effective risk management and regulatory compliance. - Developed the investor growth roadmap and commercial strategy for partnerships, leveraging strategic finance experience to drive mutually beneficial agreements. - - Teamed with engineering to select backend services based on FINRA compliance; evaluated API services for KYC, AML, payments processing based on cost and technical fit.

- Grew the business by 40%, securing new contracts with major accounts including Bristol Myers Squibb, and tuning service to better meet client needs earning preferred vendor status with Novartis leading to $1M+ in ARR. - Laid the groundwork for the company’s first online marketplace, working with clients to identify requirements for radiologist selection including experience, specialized expertise, availability, rates, time zones, credentials, and reviews. Owned F&A with the objective of laying a foundation to support the organization’s growth, shifting operations to improve organizational cash flow and productivity. - Renegotiated radiologist-side marketplace contracts to address changing FDA regulatory requirements, minimizing provider loss while meeting company’s strategic goals.

- Served as a Fractional CFO, Controller, and Strategic Advisor working with clients across Tech, CPG, Creative Agencies, and Media to maximize profit, growth, and establish strong data-driven operational foundations to support strategic business decision-making. - Led Profitas growth strategy, identifying new client sources and new strategic service offerings for account expansion that grew the business by 50%.

- Served as the startup’s first in-house finance personnel, oversaw KPMG audit to secure a $7M Series A, identifying operations and accounting gaps and implementing a strong governance model for the ongoing reconciliation of artists’ accounts against restricted cash. - Worked with engineering to develop an algorithm for the calculation of forex royalties to ensure the payments engine correctly reconciled accounts across global currencies.