Tomer Solomon
Columbia Grad | Ex-Carta & Credit Suisse | College Admissions Coach
Studied at Columbia University
Worked at Carta
Available Tuesday at 1:00 PM UTC
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Tomer's Coaching Offerings
Custom hourly · $69/hr
Get help with Recommendations, Essays, and Interviews.
Tomer also coaches for SAT, Investment Banking, Business Operations & Strategy, and Management Consulting. View all.
Tomer’s College Qualifications
Welcome to my profile! As a Columbia University graduate in applied mathematics, I am passionate about helping students navigate the college admissions process, focusing particularly on how to make your own compelling life story stand out. I bring a wealth of experience in strategic thinking and business operations to my college coaching. My background includes roles at Carta and Credit Suisse, where I honed my skills in corporate development and strategic partnerships. Whether you're crafting your personal statement or selecting the right schools, I'm here to guide you every step of the way. Let's work together to make your college dreams a reality!
Tomer can help with:
Recommendations
Essays
Interviews
Tomer also coaches for SAT, Investment Banking, Business Operations & Strategy, and Management Consulting. View all.
Work Experience
Founder
Thymos Labs
January 2024 - Present
A venture exploring forward deployed LLM engineering.
Business Operations & Strategy Manager
Carta
November 2020 - September 2023
One of the first hires into the corporate development team, tasked with driving growth via acquisitions, investments, strategic partnerships, and new product incubation across the entirety of our business. Saw the company expand internationally, transition into a multi-product business, and experience high growth with revenue tripling and headcount doubling. Responsibilities fell into the following four buckets: 1. Corporate Development / M&A Execution: Led 4+ deals from start to finish across the deal life cycle, including our acquisition of YearEnd to launch our B2B2C Tax Advisory business, our acquisition of Vauban to augment our fund administration offering via SPV's & expand into the European market, and ZenEquity to launch our India cap table presence. Took a look at many more deals, from fund administration to compensation to liquidity. 2. Carta Ventures: Helped lead our venture arm under our corporate venture thesis, writing checks into 5+ companies and LP checks in 30+ emerging managers. Met many more amazing founders & investors. 3. Strategy & Business Operations: Helped define long-term corporate strategy at the company level. Worked with Product & GTM leaders across company to augment strategic thinking and provide buy / build / partner framing. Worked alongside many talented & inspiring people. 4. New Product Incubation: Incubated new products under the office of the CEO, such as our Seed Round Closings product to help founders close their seed rounds quicker and cheaper.
M&A Investment Banking Analyst
Credit Suisse
August 2017 - October 2020
Typical excel monkeying, DCF-modeling, board deck creating, late-night Seamless ordering, bull-pen bonding investment banking analyst experience. Selected transaction experience includes: 1. Sole buy-side advisor to Elliott Management on its $683mn take-private of Barnes & Noble (Completed August 2019) 2. Sole advisor to Dr. Pepper Snapple Group on its $27bn merger with Keurig Green Mountain (Completed July 2018) 3. Lead buy-side co-advisor to Dana Inc. on its $6.1bn acquisition of GKN’s Driveline business (Announced March 2018) 4. Sole buy-side advisor to Eli Lilly Inc. on its $1.6bn acquisition of ARMO Biosciences (Completed June 2018)
Education
Columbia University
Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics
2013 - 2017
Activities and societies: Water Polo, Science Research Fellow, Sigma Phi Epsilon