Asset class level system development and implementation in traditional and emerging asset classes:
● 6+ years leading portfolio management of $230m trend-following program.
● 7+ years co-managing opportunistic go-anywhere hedge fund from $25m to $65m AUM. 
● 99% automation of all critical investment monitoring systems, while enhancing breadth and complexity by 5-20x.

Portfolio management over multiple market cycles (starting 2001):
● Achieved a 15% annualized return with a superb Sharpe ratio during a prolonged 2001-02 bear market, while spending <10% time-in-market.
● Created the market-neutral pair-trading trade screener used by firm traders.

Key member of research and portfolio management team for $2.4B wealth manager:

Portfolio Research:
Performed research, due diligence, and supported 20+ advisors/partners across a wider range of investment programs:
● including traditional equity & bond mutual funds, ETFs, options, REITs.
● introducing P2P/marketplace lending, resinurance and concentrated stock hedging programs.

Investment Committee:
Created investment committee bylaws and new investment programs coordinating compliance, advising, research, and C-suite of two merging firms with $2.4B AUM.

Knowledge base:
● Led the creation of company knowledgebase for internal collaboration and growing external engagement.
● Led to company-wide adoption of information and procedure sharing.

Writing & content:
● Answered a wide range of advisor and client questions across core and alternative investments, explaining highly technical nuances to experts and non-professionals alike.
● Wrote quarterly program updates.
● Published an educational e-book for employees with concentrated wealth in employer equity (“stock based compensation”) and opportunities to hedge and diversify.

Tools and automations:
● Designed and developed 10+ investment and operational tools.

Consulting since 2019:
● Consulting advisors, CFPs, and wealth managers on operations automation, analytics, portfolio construction.
● Developing a proprietary concentrated wealth analytics module and hedging program.

Breadth & Depth
Working for the family office of pioneers of scaling senior housing and healthcare services across U.S. and S.E. Asia. Analysis, modeling, acquisition, refinancing, disposition, due diligence and valuation of a vast variety of private and public real estate businesses. From apartment complexes to top national chains of hotels and assisted living/independent retirement.

Modeling at Scale:
● Operations – hundreds of (40-200 unit) properties.
● Financial – individual and entity-level financing.
● Ownership – tiered ownership structures and complex cash-flow distribution rules.

Proprietary Automations
Created a tool to auto-analyze 250+ income statements for monthly line-item outliers and streamline attribution gathering from dozens of managers of multiple operators.

Emerging uses and instruments:
Co-living niches, expert in short-term rentals, and actively researching tokenization of the the largest and most concentrated asset class.

● Scale – Constructed securitization model used to price $30B of new residential loan production.
● Complexity – Translated rating agency stress tests and dozens of pages of legal jargon describing waterfall rules into an Excel/VBA/SQL model.
● Efficiency – Tens of thousands of loans daily in a matter of minutes, enabling hedging and scenario analysis.

Valued and hedged 27 residuals tranches of 2001-07 securitizations. Enhanced probability weighted valuation and efficiency.

Developed and launched an industry-leading mortgage loan loss mitigation optimizer (months before GFC ’08), preventing thousands of foreclosures and saving millions of dollars for borrowers and JPM Chase for years to come.

Top 3 institutional P2P note investors on Prosper.com in 2012, when few people knew what Lending Club was, before P2P quickly morphed into B2B (ie Marketplace lending) as institutions came to dominate the demand side of alt lending platforms.

Performed systematic text analysis of loan descriptions and automated bidding on loans (using Proper’s API) within minutes of note listing.

Developed the first GAAP valuation model approved by Moss Adams.

Implemented first-ever ’40-Act solution (LENDX) for thousands of Merriman clients in 2016.

Many years of proprietary research in emerging niche asset classes and investment strategies.

I have worked with highly malleable and diverse early- to mid-stage startups and mobile app business models – as esoteric as gyms, wineries, sports fields, health-tech wearables, browser extensions, and recurring drop-in events.

I have also helped traditional financial services firms, like family offices specializing in real-estate and private equity and CFPs/advisors providing comprehensive investment/wealth management services.

Turn any and all your assumptions into a model to see how all the dynamics play out in a flexible scenario analysis. Build on top of it, iterate, dive deeper, and pivot, if need be.

 

Advising startups on growth-focused product design and monetization strategy. Growth flywheels so that UI and services not only delivers value, but also embed growth in acquisition and engagement, while minimizing churn.

Scalable Scenario Analysis:
● See how much much you’ll need before the next round.
● Get a better sense of where the greatest risks are and how to protect your business.
● See what drives future top and bottom line the most.
● What if there’s a recession, what if there’s a boom?
● Change the timing of rollouts, scaling, favorable and adverse events.
…there’s no limit to what can be modeled!

From traditional real estate businesses refinancing on a standalone and group basis
…to helping startups refine their pitch deck to raise their next round.

Refine your vision, roadmaps, cash needs/uses and make investors and lenders understand  the range of likely outcomes.

● CFA Charterholder (CFA Institute)

My CFA designation is a testament to my integrity, professional commitment, and passion for analytics.

● Modern Product Leadership (Clark School of Engineering, U of Maryland edX).
● Technical Product Management (PM Headquarters).
● Monetization Strategy Growth Product Management (Udacity).
● Product Management (PM Headquarters).

● Blockchain Business Foundations (Blockchain Training Alliance).
● Blockchain Solutions Architect (Blockchain Solutions Architect).

Tokenization and web3 are creating a lot of interesting business models and unleashing the disruptive potential of the ownership economy promising better alignment for all stakeholders – founders, developers, early-adopters, and general users. Despite all the hype and distractions, every ecosystem may deserve a more aligned economy.

 

● Data Science Professional, IBM Coursera.

10-course program.