Management Sales

Laweh M. Baako

** ******* *******, *** ***, Jersey City, NJ 07310 ? 201

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

THE BERYL CONSULTING GROUP, Jersey City NJ (5/05-03/10)

Due Diligence Analyst - Investment Management

. Member of Investment, Portfolio and Risk Committees

. Consult Institutional Investors, FOFs, Family Offices and Hedge

Funds

. Relationships with hedge funds & private equity firms including top

performing, closed and emerging fund managers

. Knowledgeable in niche FOF strategies including Energy, Asia,

Quant, Diversified, Alternative

. Assisted Senior Managing Partner in developing security valuation

issues and best practices documentation for monitoring hedge fund

investments

. Developed proprietary quantitative and qualitative due diligence

pipeline

. Identified top performing managers through comprehensive due

diligence and industry interactions

. Successfully modeled Skewed Asset Return Distributions for a $100

million portfolio case study using Beryl Tools

. Assisted in interviewing emerging hedge fund managers and

conducting operational due diligence

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING, Boston MA (6/04-8/04)

E-Learning Business Analyst (Co-op)

. Developed a Web Administrative Interface for a Content Management

System to promote E-Learning in management groups using PHP

. Redesigned a flat file database in PHP for web uploads to Solaris

Server for improved efficiency and 100% Return on Investment

. Conducted pilot tests in Sales and Marketing Departments for the

implementation of the Academic Online Kit (AOK) Web Administrative

Interface

. Studied case methodology and analyzed sample business cases and

strategies

ITOXYGEN, STARTUP ENTERPRISE, MICHIGAN TECH, Houghton MI (8/03-12/04)

Chief Operations Officer, Vice President for Research and Development

. Student run Startup company on Michigan Tech's Campus

. Member of the Executive Board that succeeded in securing an initial

$120,000 corporate sponsorship commitment from Emphasys that led

to a $1.2 million first round seed capital investment

. Responsible for the financial and operational aspects of ITOxygen's

major technology products

. Developed procedures to make ITOxygen more structured and led in

the strategic initiative of creating a spin-off of ITOxygen called

Husky Games

. Coordinated overall project development, setup timelines using

Gantt Charts in MSProject

EDUCATION:

MICHIGAN'S TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (2000-2005) - BSc. Computer Science &

Electrical Engineering (Math Minor)

SKILLS:

Java/J2EE/, MS Project, MS Visio, ASP, VB, SQL, VISUAL STUDIO,

Crystal Reports, PowerPoint, SPSS, MS Excel,

MATLAB, Monte Carlo Simulations, Econometrics, Stochastic Simulations,

Markov Models, Beryl Tools Analytics

OTHER INTERESTS:

Writing Coach, Soccer, Billiards, Bowling, avid participant in the

global equities markets; analyzing hedge fund

trading strategies; Reading advanced material on risk / portfolio

management including Fabozzi's Trends in

Quantitative Finance, Fat Tailed and Skewed Asset Return

Distributions, Valuation: Measuring and Managing

the Value of Companies, Fourth Edition by Koller, Goedhart & Wessels

REFERENCES: Available upon request

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