Ben Walker
Founding Member, CoS Mastermind Network at Primary Venture Partners- Claim this Profile
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English Native or bilingual proficiency
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Chinese - Mandarin Limited working proficiency
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German Elementary proficiency
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English, Old (ca.450-1100) Elementary proficiency
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Norse, Old Elementary proficiency
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Attic Greek, Ancient (ca. 400 BCE) Elementary proficiency
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Bio
Experience
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Primary Venture Partners
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United States
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Investment Management
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1 - 100 Employee
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Founding Member, CoS Mastermind Network
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Oct 2022 - Present
The Chief of Staff Mastermind Network is a vetted community of business professionals in NYC tech. The members in this exclusive network gain access to mentorship, coaching, and networking with leaders in the industry to navigate a thriving career path, as well as a forum to share best practices and resources with peers and execs. The Chief of Staff Mastermind Network is a vetted community of business professionals in NYC tech. The members in this exclusive network gain access to mentorship, coaching, and networking with leaders in the industry to navigate a thriving career path, as well as a forum to share best practices and resources with peers and execs.
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Simon Data
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United States
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Software Development
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100 - 200 Employee
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Chief of Staff
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Sep 2022 - Present
A natural extension of my broad-ranging experience at Simon, I'm now in a position to help shepherd cross-functional initiatives on a more fluid and demand-driven basis.
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VP, Operations
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Mar 2019 - Oct 2022
As part of this amazing team, my focus is on operational excellence - across the company and between functions. I've been privileged to lead a number of company-wide motions, such as goal planning, as well as dive into the weeds with individual teams, where I've been able to form / scale teams as diverse as our Customer Success team, People Ops team, and now Business Development.I have had particular focus in supporting our GTM teams through GTM Ops and Enablement initiatives, always looking to make the jobs of our sellers, account managers, and marketers easier and more effective. Show less
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Director, Customer Success
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Oct 2018 - Mar 2019
Hired to build operational excellence across the org, my first project soon became a new role - lean into the CS org and build process for scale. In just 6 short months, I more than doubled the size of the team while building out internal playbooks to create a more standardized and repeatable model.
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Bain & Company
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United States
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Case Team Leader
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Jul 2016 - Oct 2018
Leading UK retail bank 2018 • Led sub-team defining the operating model for several components of the bank's re-organized digital division • Organized client workshops, collected feedback, generated consensus, and supported client sponsors presenting their work to Exec level decision makers Leading global sports betting company 2018 • Led internal effort to reframe usage of client's core, differentiated sports betting platform, including internal financial and market analysis Private Equity Group 2017-2018 • 9 commercial due diligences on targets in industries ranging from beer to plastic injection molding to specialty chemicals • Created market and financial models based on primary and secondary research, including analyzing large market databases, scraping web and social media data, and interviewing extensive industry expert panels • Led sub-teams of up to two analysts tackling separate pieces of analysis - ideating, researching, analyzing, and presenting results to clients Leading online UK retailer 2016-2017 • Created and implemented a pricing prioritization scheme through developing a prioritization model, co-developing pricing guidelines/playbooks for each of 14 product lines, and obtaining buy-in on action plans from business heads • Conducted market analysis of online UK retail and consumer credit in support of client bid solicitation process • Analyzed customer sentiment and developed a customer testing plan to support a critical portfolio decision Show less
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Bain & Company
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United States
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Business Consulting and Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Summer Associate
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Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Conducted market and competitor analysis of UK SME banking, underpinning the team’s recommended initiatives Owned one of these initiatives, developing jointly with the client project lead a detailed implementation roadmap Conducted market and competitor analysis of UK SME banking, underpinning the team’s recommended initiatives Owned one of these initiatives, developing jointly with the client project lead a detailed implementation roadmap
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Marine Corps Recruiting
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Armed Forces
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700 & Above Employee
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CI/HUMINT Officer
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Jun 2012 - Aug 2014
As a Counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) officer, I planned operations and activities while leading CI/HUMINT specialists to identify and counteract the threat posed by hostile intelligence entities.I redesigned the CI/HUMINT Collection Support Section, hand-picking a new team of Marines, implementing new online collaboration tools, and creating new work flow processes which resulted in a 130% increase in annual intelligence publications distributed to the national intelligence community.I concluded my tour as the Commanding Officer of 3d CI/HUMINT Company, managing 106 highly-trained Marines and providing support to over 50 different multinational operations worldwide. Show less
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Logistics Officer
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Jun 2011 - Jun 2012
I managed all purchasing, contracting, supply, billeting, field site set-up, rations, and transportation needs for a unit of 450 Marines across dozens of annual, global operations while overseeing $36M of assets.As the logistics officer for our unit's detachment during Winter Exercise 2012, I planned and managed the logistics needs of a detachment of 200 Marines and 20 foreign partners during a winter deployment to South Korea in a period of heightened tensions, directly supervising a team of 16. Show less
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Officer Candidate / Officer in Training
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Jan 2010 - Jun 2011
During the six month Basic School for new Marine officers, I ranked 1st of 300 and received the Marine Corps Association Leadership Award for performance in rotating student-leadership positions during both academic and live-fire military instruction.In the follow-on course for CI/HUMINT Officers, I was credentialed as a Federal Counterintelligence Agent with a Top Secret clearance and CI polygraph.
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Mandarin Chinese Cryptologic Language Analyst
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Apr 2007 - Jan 2010
As a cryptologic analyst, I was trained to monitor, transcribe, and translate intercepted target communications while performing limited analysis and exploitation. Additionally, I learned aspects of Electronic Warfare (EW) operations to include Electronic Support, Electronic Protect, and Electronic Attack.
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Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) -
Rice University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics -
Defense Language Institute
Associate of Arts (A.A.), Mandarin Chinese