Elektra B.
Business Development Manager at Zest- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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Zest
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Ecuador
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Business Development Manager
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Nov 2022 - Present
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Rochester Institute of Technology
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Student
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Aug 2018 - Present
Rochester, New York Metropolitan Area - Currently perusing Bachelor's in Biotechnology and Electro-Mechanical Engineering
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xIris
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France
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Real Estate
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Vice President
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Nov 2019 - Oct 2022
New York, New York - xIris is an AI startup aimed at decreasing the response time of law enforcement to potential mass shootings and violent events by detecting weapons in public spaces using CCTV live footage - Served as Head of Strategy for raising seed funding, securing $350,000 - Led members of the Business Development Team, securing a partnership with local police forces - Triaged a pivot during the onset of pandemic towards thermal sensing, enabling next funding round
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Unitiv LLC
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United States
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Mining
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CEO, Co-Founder
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Jun 2016 - Nov 2019
Boston, Massachusetts - Founded at MIT, Unitiv is a rewards-based crowdfunding platform for small local businesses to raise funds to grow without making expensive loan payments or giving up equity - Led recruitment of board of 7 mentors from MIT and Harvard Business School - Completed 17 successful funding campaigns - Chosen as a ‘Top 50 Innovator’ by NE Venture Summit
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COO, Co-Founder
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Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
Rochester, New York Area - Access ASL is a machine-learning startup seeking to generate authentic “sign” visuals for deaf users - Created Scientific board of 5 RIT professors to accelerate development of weighted inverse kinematic system - Established partnership with the National Institute of the Deaf
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Angelique De Paris Inc
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United States
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Retail Luxury Goods and Jewelry
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Executive Assistant
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Jun 2014 - Mar 2018
NYC, New York - Organized and managed JCK trade shows at the Javits Center, NYC and Las Vegas - Worked as assistant to CEO, personally closed over $3 million worth of accounts with TJ Maxx and QVC
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Education
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Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelor's degree, ENGINEERING -
The Perkiomen School
High School, 11th -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering -
MIT Launch
MIT Launch, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies