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Michael N.

Michael Neal

AI for Finance Mastery | Chicago Booth MBA & MS CS Expertise

7,575 min coached

93 followers

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Studied at Chicago Booth

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Worked at Centerview Partners

Successful clients at

Moelis & Company
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Bank of America
PJT Partners
Audax Private Equity

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Starting at 5:00 PM UTC

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Michael's Offerings

Custom hourly · $250/hr

Get help with AI Automation, AI Deal Sourcing, and .

Michael also coaches for Investment Banking, AI for Product Development, AI Services, AI for Data & Analytics, Build with AI, and Break Into AI Careers. View all.

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Michael’s AI for Finance Qualifications

Experience level: Manager

Michael has helped clients get into these companies:

I help people understand, build, and use AI in practical ways. Whether you’re building an AI product, improving your workflow, exploring automation, preparing for AI/data roles, or figuring out how AI applies to your business, I can help you turn broad ideas into clear next steps. I’ve worked on technology across very different environments: the Olympic Games, startups, and AI implementations for real businesses. I’ve scoped projects, built tools, designed workflows, evaluated business cases, worked with technical infrastructure, and used AI hands-on across products, data, automation, LLMs, prompts, agents, and operations. My goal is to make AI feel less overwhelming and more useful. I’ll meet you where you are and help you move forward with more clarity, confidence, and practical judgment.

Michael can help with:

AI Automation

AI Deal Sourcing

AI Due Diligence

AI Financial Modeling

AI Fundamentals

Automated Financial Reporting

Financial Forecasting

Freelancing

Investment Research

Michael also coaches for Investment Banking, AI for Product Development, AI Services, AI for Data & Analytics, Build with AI, and Break Into AI Careers. View all.

About Michael

I started in civil engineering, spent four years at Deloitte on cloud strategy, went to UChicago for an MBA and a master's in computer science, and recruited into investment banking. Along the way I worked on technology for the Olympic Games and built my own company, a prep platform for banking candidates that I still run. None of those moves were obvious from the outside. Each one took the same work: figuring out what the bar actually was, then getting specific about how to clear it. That is what I do with clients. I coach investment banking recruiting, and breaking into tech and AI. If you are switching tracks, I have made that switch more than once.

Why do I coach?

Most of the people I work with are not short on information. They have read the guides and watched the videos. What they are missing is someone who will tell them which parts apply to their situation and which parts to ignore. I had that person at a few points and it changed the outcome. That is the part I try to be.

Work Experience

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Summer Associate

Centerview Partners

June 2025 - August 2025

Technology Group

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Consultant

Deloitte

November 2020 - September 2024

Cloud Strategy / Tech coverage

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Operations engineer

KATERRA

May 2019 - August 2019

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Head Teaching Assistant

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

August 2018 - August 2020

Education

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Chicago Booth

MBA & MS CS

2024 - 2026

Activities and societies: Investment Banking Group — Technical Lead; Quantum @ Booth — Founder

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

BS + MS, Civil Engineering

2016 - 2020

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