Business Advisory and Capital Raise
Aerospace manufacturing and equipment supply chains.
Finance Raise - Successfully raised over $30 million in seed and subsequent funding rounds for start-ups and small to medium-sized businesses involved in manufacturing, finance, and healthcare across Eurasia, Europe, and the U.S. The strong business cases for these companies were based on technological innovations and/or B2C supply chains. These capital raises were successful due to collaboratively prepared private placement memorandums, business plans, pitch decks, and roadshows.
Supply Chain Management - Successfully built a global B2C supply chain, including streamlining contract manufacturers and raw material procurement in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. for a medical device manufacturer and healthcare network provider.
Digital Marketing - Led and executed successful pilot B2C digital and traditional media marketing campaigns for solo practitioners, healthcare networks, and medical device manufacturers. The B2C medical device pilot programs were later expanded into international markets.
Pharmaceutical R&D - Led a team of scientists in manufacturing lab-scale quantities of a polyphosphazene-based in vivo drug delivery platform designed to deliver low NOAEL cancer therapy. Scale-up manufacturing and clinical trials were conducted in the U.S. and Asia in 2021.
Regulatory Medical Device Compliance - Advised and prepared FDA 510k application and established an FDA-compliant quality control system for medical device manufacturers.
Business Development - Provide advisory services to a US MRO (Maintenance, Repair & Operations) client regarding their supply chain and strategic partnership with a major Eastern European aerospace and energy turbine manufacturer.
Emerging Markets Entry & Analysis
Microfinance in Central Asia. Providing loans to retailers and wholesalers throughout Tajikistan.
Private-Public-Partnership - Transformed a nationally recognized microfinance NGO into a financially self-sustainable organization by providing fee-based advisory services to regional credit cooperatives and securing grants from Citi Foundation, United Way, and commercial banks.
Microfinance & Commercial Bank Branch Network - Built and expanded a financially sustainable micro-finance branch network across Central Asia, now comprising 23 regional branches serving 30,000 clients. Implemented bank card issuance and acceptance in 13 Eurasian countries.
Central & Commercial Bank Training - Provided advisory and training services to Eurasian central and commercial banks. Topics included prudential bank supervision, payment systems, new bank product development and rollout, loan & risk management implementation, and AML/KYL policies.
Access to Finance - Prepared a country survey of Central American bank products for small tourism businesses. Developed and rolled commercial bank products designed to support and grow private tourism businesses.
Market Entry Survey - Country survey and analysis of Central American bank products designed to promote and support small tourism businesses.
