Analyst Intern Portfolio Management

Tuong (Max) Le

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University of Illinois Chicago May 2027 Cumulative GPA: 3.80/4.00 Bachelor of Science in Finance & Mathematics

Relevant Coursework: Economics (A+), Financial Modelling (A+), Accounting (A+), Portfolio Management (A+) Honors: Dean’s List (All Semesters), WorldQuant BRAIN (Ranked 249th/24,000+ in a global quantitative research competition), Laurette Kirstein Merit Scholarship ($45K+), PATH recipient (one of 25 top UIC business scholars), IMC Prosperity 3 (Ranked 70th/20,000+ in “Algo” category of a global trading competition), UIC Business Honors PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

KORA LLC Chicago, IL August 2024 – Present

Private Equity Associate Intern

Sourced and processed 20–30 proprietary energy-related deals daily, increasing the company's productivity by 80– 90% through an in-house automated web scraper built with Selenium, BeautifulSoup, Tesseract OCR, and Pandas to analyze CIMs and PPP data; attracted interest from partners, prompting $2K/scraper customization requests

Formulated deal expenses with SBA loans and conducted break-even analysis using Debt-Service Coverage Ratio

Selected Transaction Experience:

o $10M Valuation Report of an Oil & Gas Company

Personalized transaction LOI and tailored 20-page long NDA contract; prevented upfront DD payments

Executed valuations using DCF, LBO, and DDM models and lowering the initial proposed price by 30% Westmount Capital Partners Chicago, IL December 2024 – May 2025 Investment Banking Analyst Intern

Strengthened presentations and marketing campaigns using PowerPoint and Canva for sell-side M&A processes

Refined 10+ CIMs while incorporating precedent value and multiple comps, resulted in 20% QoQ client increase

Selected Transaction Experience:

o $60M Debt Capital Raising of a Real Estate Development Company

Led a team of three interns develop sensitivity analysis for WACC-to-EBITDA margins and Fixed-Charge Coverage Ratio model using Excel, boosting seller’s valuation by $5M+ and cut equity dilution by 10%+

Proposed 15+ lenders and obtained a final term sheet with favorable value $4M+ below industry average Increase-Together-Innovation Fund Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam May 2024 – August 2024 Venture Capital Analyst Intern

Solidified role as lead analyst for Director’s equity research presentation after 450+ hours of project management

Produced monthly portfolio updates from latest P&Ls and translated Vietnamese documents for foreign partners

Selected Transaction Experience:

o $400K Valuation Report & Executive Report of a Vietnamese Men’s Grooming Startup

Participated in investment committee pitch and coordinated historical performances and industry analysis

Corrected final valuation by 10%+ after proposing industry Beta, multiples, and FCF assumption changes LEADERSHIP AND EXTRACURRICULAR

Golf Club at UIC Chicago, IL April 2024 – Present

President & Founder

Founded the first-ever student organized golf club at UIC; oversaw 17 officers and 100+ members’ development

Raised $5K for a professional networking golf event (60 attendees); resulted in $2K NCCGA sponsorship money Quantitative Trading Club Chicago, IL October 2023 – Present President, Lecturer, & Head of Quantitative Research

Explored BSM, Greeks, Hawkes model, VaR, and ensembling method in ML topics for lectures of 30+ students

Developed a bond arbitrage strategy in C++, Python, and R, integrating the Schwab API and modeling spreads and trade execution signals with OU Jump and HMM; invited to present findings at UIC’s Finance Research Day SKILLS, OTHER ACTIVITIES & INTERESTS

Skills: Multilingual, FOREX, APIs, SQL, Jupyter Notebook, Tableau, Spyder, Git, PitchBook, Bloomberg, CapIQ Certifications & Training: Sell-Side Equity Research Certification by Wall St Prep, SQL for Data Science by UCD

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