Mariela Salas

Mariela Salas is a professional with extensive experience in research analysis, operations, and project management. She is a results-driven team player with a proven track record of meeting and exceeding goals. An articulate, goal-oriented self-starter seeking a challenging high-level position where her communication skills, strong analytical capabilities, and excellent leadership aptitude can be utilized.

Mariela's skill set includes being adaptable, flexible, and able to rapidly grasp new concepts, with a strong sense of ownership and pride in her work. She excels in managing growth, organizational change, and capacity building in a professional and entrepreneurial manner. Her strengths lie in analysis, evaluation, group facilitation, synthesizing information, and delivering creative solutions to problems. She is resilient in fast-paced, ever-changing environments, intuitive, constantly seeking to learn more, and adept at system/process creation and optimization.

Education-wise, Mariela studied MS in Urban Policy Analysis and Management at The New School and BS in Criminal Justice at Paul Quinn College. She has a diverse organizational background, having held positions such as Portfolio Manager in Business Operations at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, CoS to VC/Analyst at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Director of Research and Operations at JSK Investor Solutions, Director of Lending at New York City Financial Network Action Consortium, Loan Consultant - Risk Analyst at ACCION USA, and Center Manager at PLAN Fund.