Experience

Mahway

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Investor / Entrepreneur in Residence

  • Mar 2023 - Present

  Los Angeles, California, United States Wearing many hats, I work side-by-side with Jess Mah and the management team to build impactful businesses at the venture creation firm Mahway.



Crescent Fund

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Partner

  • Oct 2021 - Jan 2023

  Los Angeles, California, United States Investor at Crescent Fund – Southern California's first student-run venture capital firm. https://www.crescentfund.vc/ Portfolio: - Middlemen (escrow for collectibles) - 123 Baby Box (custom subscriptions) - Playbook (XR design tool) - Kona (employee burnout prevention) - Stealth (social marketplace) - Trilobio (lab automation platform) - Stealth (web3 wallet) - Stealth (web3 marketplace)



Bruin Ventures

• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals

• Advisor and Quality Team Lead

  • Jun 2022 - Dec 2022

  Los Angeles, California, United States

• President

  • Jun 2021 - Jun 2022

  - Successfully led 7 board members to run the premier VC and entrepreneurship club at UCLA with a 9% acceptance rate. - Orchestrated initiatives to bring UCLA entrepreneurs together and increase the club’s awareness on campus in 2021-2022.

• Director of Recruitment & New Member Education

  • May 2020 - Jun 2021

  - Redesigned new member education to include presentations on cap tables, term sheets, market research, and other concepts.

• General Analyst

  • Jan 2020 - Jun 2021

  Los Angeles, California - Consulted for startups and VC firms and presented them deliverables and recommendations to aid their company’s trajectory. - Produced a 67 page deliverable of thorough market research on POS systems to aid the development of a startup software.



Paramount+

• Entertainment Providers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product Management Intern

  • Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  Los Angeles, California, United States - Ideated new features and data-driven A/B tests which increased top-of-the-funnel user conversions significantly by over 2%. - Wrote Jira tickets and Confluence documents as well as created company-wide deliverables on current, large-scale projects. - Worked with QA team to find bugs in the platform and designers to create mockups of the features I ideated in Figma.



TruLiv Co

• Italy
• Hospitality
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Product & Business Development Intern

  • Jun 2021 - Jan 2022

  Los Angeles, California, United States - Design and implement new UI/UX frameworks, and initiate Quality of Life improvements for the TruLiv software. - Restructured and filtered historical housing data in Excel for increased efficiency and productivity of the engineering team. - Execute thorough testing and documenting of their proprietary software for bugs, user flow, and other improvements.



Bruin Investment and Trading Group

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Technical Analysis

  • May 2020 - Jun 2021

  - Headed committee to teach new recruits technical analysis of stocks, including technical indicators, volume and risk analysis. - Founded a smaller group where I taught members more advanced technical analysis techniques, such as trading psych

• Senior Analyst

  • Oct 2019 - Jun 2021

  Los Angeles, California - Developed stock pitches on companies using SEC filings, investment research and qualitative and quantitative analysis. - Participated in a quarter-long training workshop detailing accounting, technical, and fundamental analysis techniques. - Generated models of discounted cash flows, public comparables, precedent transactions, and waterfall analyses on Excel.



Bruin Real Estate Association

• United States
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• BREA Society Member

  • Jan 2021 - Apr 2021

  Los Angeles, California, United States - Attended weekly meetings discussing Commercial Real Estate tools and topics as well as met professionals in the field. - Received training in Commercial Real Estate fundamentals, ARGUS, Real Estate financial modeling, and more. - Participated in various events and workshops in the Commercial Real Estate field.



Archway App

• United States
• Entertainment Providers

• Co-Founder

  • Apr 2020 - Dec 2020

  - Founded a private social networking app for college students which launched at UCLA, UC Berkeley, and UCSD. - Delineated roles to 6 interns in charge of growing our social media presence to 4,000+ followers and marketing to students. - Gained proficiency in CRM software, Facebook and Instagram marketing, Mailchimp, and building professional websites. - Ideated new features, such as banner ads and comment functionalities, to continue to engage users and attract advertisers.



Startup Labs UCLA

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Accelerator Participant

  • Jan 2020 - Mar 2020

  Los Angeles Metropolitan Area - 1 of 8 students accepted into an exclusive startup accelerator to further ideate and blueprint my idea for the Archway app. - Created a business plan and model, designed unique user interfaces, and instituted a timeline for the official product launch.



Practical Martial Arts

• United States
• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Black Belt Martial Arts Instructor

  • Nov 2015 - Jun 2019

  5768 Paradise Dr, Ste F, Corte Madera, CA 94925 - Taught and mentored kids, ages 4-16, mixed martial arts and discipline. - Learned how to be a better teacher, mediator, leader, and role model. - Lead groups of up to twenty-five kids in classes which I helped to design.