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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

University of Oxford

Founder at Lace & Liberty

Beacon Pointe is a registered investment advisory firm that takes a comprehensive approach to helping institutions, retirement-sponsored plans, and high-net-worth individuals and families set and meet their financial goals. We focus on full service financial planning and research driven investments. Through our allWEALTH® approach, we partner with our clients to help them make the most informed decisions possible on any issues related to their wealth and help clients align their wealth to what matters most.

Beacon Pointe

Associate Regional Director

Lace & Liberty is an innovative modern bridal brand known for it's unique ability to customize aspects of each design to suit the individual bride. With Lace & Liberty's unique manufacturing setup and direct to consumer approach, pricing for custom made wedding dresses are highly attractive, making a luxury product & experience that was previously only available to a few brides now accessible to most.

Product Development 
• Planned and executed rollout of different product categories based on customer needs, price point, logistics and manufacturing capabilities. Including virtual custom dress design service, mix & match home try on options, and personalized retail experience through showrooms in San Francisco and Los Angeles.  
• Utilized data and customer feedback to drive new product creation. Created plus size wedding dress line following feedback from 1000+ brides with national top wedding blog A Practical Wedding. 

Sales & Customer Experience 
• Designed best in industry customer experience along with innovative personalized product offerings, achieving significantly higher than industry average sales conversion. (Reviews)
• Trained a dedicated design and sales team equipped with tech tools to manage all customer interactions and end-to-end order production and delivery. 

Design & Manufacturing 
• Built out supply chain. Vetted and qualified dress manufacturing partners in China and implemented direct communication, training, and quality control procedures with manufacturing partners.
• Actively manage all business P&L, pricing strategy, cost control, cash flow management, and value chain analysis to maximize competitive advantage.

Featured in Vogue Business, Business Insider, Huffpost, Brides

Lace & Liberty

Founder

Castor Ventures is a private venture fund for MIT alumni and friends of the community to access high-quality, diversified venture portfolios in early to growth-stage companies, many with a MIT alumni connection.
 
Our investors own a portfolio of ~20-30 venture investments diversified by stage, sector, and geography. The fund co-invests alongside other established venture firms.
 
Castor Ventures is part of the Alumni Ventures family of venture funds. Alumni Ventures is consistently recognized as one of the most active venture firms in the US, according to PitchBook. The firm employs over 50 full-time venture investors, has raised more than $1B, holds a rapidly growing portfolio of over 1,100 venture-backed companies, and counts 600,000+ community members and subscribers across all of its funds.

Castor Ventures

Fellow

• Built out complete coverage of HK institutional fixed income client base. 
• Responsible for managing daily investment needs of 40 institutional clients.
• Complete ownership on rates coverage for the region’s central bank client Hong Kong Monetary Authority.

Credit Suisse

Vice President, Fixed Income Distribution

Developed in-depth coverage of correlation trading desks during the 2008 financial crisis. Identified trading opportunity in credit default swaps (CDS) space, capturing over 300% increase in flow trading volume.

Danielle Wen