Case Studies

Real-world implementations and results

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Product Management

Strategic Automation at Razor Group

Product Manager and M&A Tech Analyst

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Asset Management

Quantitative Finance at Metzler Asset Management

Student Assistant

Product Management
Mar. 2021 – Jul. 2022

Strategic Automation at Razor Group

Razor Group
Product Manager and M&A Tech Analyst

Co-built M&A automation platforms that scaled the global market leading e-commerce aggregator to a €1B+ valuation and €400M+ revenue in just 1.5 years since founding, saving over 1,000 hours of manual work monthly through intelligent process automation.

Challenge

Razor Group’s rapid growth demanded scaling M&A technology to efficiently value, manage, and integrate a high volume of acquisitions while making fast, sound decisions in ambiguous environments.

Solution

Led 50+ M&A deals while building the VAR platform on AWS to semi-automate valuation and due diligence, which involved calculating P&Ls from millions of transactions and automatically generating investment committee slides.

Results

The production systems and automation delivered scaled the company to a €1B+ valuation and €400M+ revenue, with automation saving 1000+ hours of manual work monthly.

Key Achievements

  • Owned the product strategy and implementation of the M&A tech platform, cutting the time for valuation and offer generation from weeks to hours, enabling the global market leading e-commerce aggregator of today to rapidly scale to a €1B+ valuation and €400M+ revenue in just 1.5 years since founding
  • Led 50+ M&A deals while building the Vector Accelerated Reconciliation (VAR) platform on AWS to semi-automate valuation and due diligence by calculating a P&L from millions of transactions and by automatically generating investment committee slides, delivering €1M+ in value on single deals
  • Saved 1000+ hours/month by both personally developing key automations and strategically managing the agile product development including technical leadership of the development team
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Asset Management
Jun. 2018 – May 2020

Quantitative Finance at Metzler Asset Management

Metzler Asset Management
Student Assistant

Developed and automated complex financial models for market-beating investment strategies, enhancing portfolio analytics and decision-making through object-oriented programming and data pipelines.

Challenge

Needed to implement quantitative investment strategies and enhance portfolio analytics by engineering and automating complex financial models to achieve market-beating performance in Fixed Income & Asset Allocation.

Solution

Engineered and automated complex financial models like the Merton Distance-to-Default using object-oriented programming, building data pipelines to enhance portfolio analytics and decision-making, and analyzing bond issuers via thorough credit analysis.

Results

Automation of financial models and implementation of data-driven pipelines significantly improved portfolio analytics efficiency and supported the execution of successful market-beating investment strategies.

Key Achievements

  • Executed quantitative, market-beating strategies in Fixed Income & Asset Allocation
  • Engineered and automated complex financial models (e.g., Merton Distance-to-Default) implementing object-oriented programming and data pipelines to enhance portfolio analytics and decision-making
  • Analyzed bond issuers via thorough credit analysis and direct intelligence gathering at financial roadshows
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