Alba R.
5.0
Studied at Stanford Graduate School of Business
Worked at Public Investment Fund
Not currently taking new clients
Work Experience
Strategy Consultant
Public Investment Fund
February 2022 - August 2022
● Evaluated 200+ investment opportunities across 13 sectors for investment teams to initiate the due diligence process ● Designed the SWF's origination process ensuring investments contribution to national development (i.e., non-oil GDP, job creation)
Strategy Consultant
KKR & Co
March 2020 - February 2021
● Managed the carve-out of Wella from Coty, creating a newly-established company of 6,000+ employees present in 100+ countries ● Coordinated directly 20+ country cluster leads, 3 regional leads and a budget of $10M+, completing the execution of 10,000+ tasks
Strategy Consultant
Carrefour
June 2020 - January 2021
● Delivered ad-hoc special projects such as e-groceries expansion in current and new countries in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa, potential M&A opportunities, strategic partnerships and Black Friday event across 10 countries ● Launched cross-functional initiatives to increase basket profitability and optimise P&L
Chief of Staff
Careem
June 2017 - June 2020
● Designed the Vision 2022 strategy for Careem to evolve from a ride-hailing to a SuperApp platform leveraging market research ● Identified and built relationships with +400 start-ups in MENA across mobility, last-mile delivery, food and payments to drive partnerships, investments and acquisitions; prepared the playbook and managed the integration of acquired companies ● Engineered the E2E strategy and managed the implementation (including dashboard creation) of the data-driven cash collection project impacting +1 million drivers, HQ and supply teams in 16 countries, +120 cities reducing global Careem's bad debt by +98% ● Steered investor relations, prepared internal and external communications and orchestrated financial reporting in front of Uber
Associate Consultant
Boston Consulting Group
October 2015 - May 2017
● Prepared the Vendor Due Diligence of a 1B€+ fashion group including financial projections for the following 4 years ● Advised a leading Spanish bank in the definition of initiatives to foresee the challenges Fintechs would entail due to the new PSD2 ● Redesigned the petrol stations franchise (ownership) model for the largest oil & gas Spanish company accounting for 9M€+ savings
Strategy Consultant
The Economist Group
February 2015 - September 2015
Researched, analysed and shortlisted potential targets to acquire across the consumer, healthcare, media and public policy sectors for The Economist Group working as an independent in-house consultant reporting directly to Shane Naughton (Group CFO) ● Accomplished the acquisition of Signal Noise, a data design agency in London, one of TEG's 12 acquisitions in +175 years ● Supported the sale of 50% of The Economist Group from Pearson to the Agnelli family
Analyst
Bank of America
September 2012 - July 2014
● Arranged the integration/acquisition of BofA Merrill Lynch by Julius Baer to transfer $50B+ assets under management ● Prepared daily/weekly newsletters with latest news, asset allocation recommendations for a 20,000+ EMEA HNWIs audience ● Rebalanced product, region allocation of discretionary portfolios with different risk profiles following macro news
Education
Stanford Graduate School of Business
MBA, VC
2022 - 2024
Singapore Management University
Masters, Management
2012 - 2012
ESADE
Bachelor's Degree, Management
2007 - 2012
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Overall Rating
5.0
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