Ryan Jones

Pixbi enables individuals to discover, save, share and purchase products from images without leaving the original content

- Built primarily with Angular, Node and Redis (See more here: guntherkoo.com/pixbi/)

- Built a best-in-class team of seven: CTO/co-founder, two back-end devs, two front-end, one developer/designer and myself

- Partnered with top publishers and all major retailers including: Shape, Popular Science, OK! and Amazon, Macy’s, Wal-Mart

- Became the sole provider of an ecommerce service for the two largest digitizing platforms, Mag+ & Adobe DPS

- Raised $750k+ prior to first product launch in August 2014, secured 25k+ unique MAUs within first month, 10% purchase conversion rates and covered more publications, products and pages than anyone has done in the past

- Awards and recognition: 2015 SXSW Accelerator Finalist, 1st Place at Alley Boost Pitch NY, 2nd Place at PitchForce SF, “Most ground breaking in mobile commerce” by PSFK & Braintree

- One of five that created a new group managing multi-asset class portfolios on discretion for institutions with $25-500M across the U.S.

- Tasked with portfolio management, project management, trading, manager selection, structuring investments, analysis for our CIO, onboarding strategy, marketing materials, prospect meetings, client meetings, legal structures, and tech builds

- Solely responsible for determining all ETF investments, active/passive strategy, and cash management strategy

- Helped bring in $4.6B in less than 18 months and grew the size of group to nine team members ($50mm+ ARR)

- Sole Financial Analyst on a seven person team with over 70 ultra-high net worth clients and ~$2B AUM

- In charge of portfolio management, implementation, trading, syndicate, presentation materials, performance analysis, one-off analytics, and general team COO / Project Manager

- Personally managed clients with < $15M in assets and first analyst to be approved by management to call prospects

- 1 of 4 undergraduates hand selected by Babson investment trustees and faculty to manage $1.2mm of Babson’s endowment

- Performed research analysis on securities, presented to an open forum on a weekly basis, and implemented investment ideas

- Research reports included industry outlook, valuations (DCF, Compco, and P/E), company focus, and investment potential

- 1 of 3 managers focused on the technology sector (Return: 43.98% (4/30/09-4/30/10), Alpha to IYW: 180bps, SPY: 981bps)

- Rotated between three separate teams taking on extensive projects and aiding in day to day operations

- Projects included: Client asset allocation, single stock hedging, prospecting, and client reports

- Presented at meetings about products, private equity, fixed income, and research calls

- Acted as support to PWM team by processing accounts, determining IPO eligibility, customer retention platforms, etc.

- Educated on departments throughout the bank from the attendance of division focused meetings

- Presented investment ideas to PWM UK team (portfolio return: 12.88%, SPY: -32.18%, alpha: 45.06%, time: 7/24-10/24/08)

- Elected CEO by peers of a 30 member student-run entrepreneurial venture

- Developed strategies, goals, and operational plans for the business

- Directed and coordinated each departmental function and produced weekly reports to board of directors