THEO LOUIS

*** *. ******** ***., ********** Park Plaza, Chicago, IL 60601

708-***-**** ad3po6@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Chicago, U.S. Master of Business Administration, Concentrations in Finance, Entrepreneurship, Strategy Management Sep 2023 – Jun 2025

• Gomberg Family Merit Scholarship Recipient, GRE: 334 (98th percentile)

• Sector Analyst for Chicago Booth SMIF (Student Managed Investment Fund Charter)

• Co-chair of Public Speaking & Communications Group, MBA Admission Fellow- Country Captain (France)

• Active member of Private Equity Group, Entrepreneur/Venture Capital Group, Outreach ECOLE INTERNATIONALE DES SCIENCES DU TRAITEMENT DE L'INFORMATION (EISTI) Cergy, France Masters of Computer Engineering, Focus on Business Intelligence & Data Analytics Sep 2015 – Oct 2017

• 40% merit-based scholarship awarded to top 1% ranking students in entrance exams

• Founder and President of Universal in Actions, individually supported 25+LGBTQ international students to get legal support; Organized workshops on work and residence rights, filing processes, and social integration attended by 300+ people QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Qingdao, China

Bachelor of Software Engineering Oct 2009 – Jun 2013

• VP of the Computer Science Association, VP of the University's Internet Forum EXPERIENCE

BACKER NORTH INVESTMENTS (a Private Equity firm focusing on mid-market buyouts across US and Canada) Remote in U.S Private Equity Analyst Jan 2024 – Mar 2024

• Sourced, evaluated investment opportunities in the Tech sector, and conducted due diligence.

• Prepared DCF valuations and LBO modeling.

CREDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE & INVESTMENT BANK (2nd largest bank in France) Paris, France Analyst May 2021 – Jul2023

• Screened potential TMT sector acquisition candidates, based on qualitative fit, and IRR of deals.

• Prepared valuations using comparable public companies, precedent transactions, and DCF analyses were later used by senior bankers in negotiations to argue for higher offer premiums.

• Built a solution that reduced 30% of work in target sourcing and due diligence for M&A and Equity Research Teams.

• Promoted to associate in July 2023 due to performance annual review (top 5%). XINWANDA TRUCK LTD (a start-up auto firm) Harbin, China Data Project Manager Oct 2019 – Apr 2021

• Built and recruited a team of 49-member data digital transformation team of data analyst, data engineer, and data architecture.

• Led team to research data infrastructure and develop new solutions, cutting data processing time by over 80%.

• Researched competitors, customer, sales data and developed the best practices of automated visualization dashboards, helping the sales team to react quicker to opportunities and reducing administrative work by 80%, supporting 15% margin growth. RENAULT SAS/DSXCONSULT (the ninth biggest automaker in the world) Paris, France Data Analyst Consultant Nov 2017 – Sep 2019

• Evaluated investment opportunities by modeling market data, persuaded executives to increase investment for the electric vehicle Renault Zoe, helping to increase sales by 114% and achieve 1st position in the European electric vehicle market.

• Persuaded IT leadership in migrating legacy databases into versatile Cloud architecture, led a project to implement this transformation, cutting data processing time by over 50% and resulting in $3M in licensing and maintenance cost savings. ADDITIONAL

• Financial Trainings: Wall Street Prep LBO Modeling & Private Equity Deal Process, J.P.Morgan Investment Banking Virtual Experience, Executive Education in International Corporate Finance & Valuation (Columbia Business School)

• Certifications: Wall Street Prep Private Equity Masterclass, Financial & Valuation Modeling, PMP, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

• Languages: French (Fluent), English (Fluent), Chinese (Native)

• Interests: Travelling (51 countries), Rowing (champion, ACBB Rowing Club, 2019), Singing (trained by opera singers for years in Paris), Scuba Diving (PADI Advanced Diver; Rescue Diver)

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