Sanjee Singla
Stanford Masters in Management Science and Engineering, specialty in Entrepreneurship. I'm building a jobs website that will change how we search and apply for jobs. Looking for gifted startup web engineers who want to work on a big change.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Website: | http://www.sanjeesingla.com |
| Industries: | Internet |
| Skills: | Business, Databases, Design, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Graphic design, HTML / CSS, Human-Computer Interaction, Investment, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Product design, Recruitment, Software Engineering, SQL, Web design, Web Development |
| Groups: | Stanford Innovation Tournament 2008 |
| Visas: | United States, United Kingdom, entire EU |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding experts, Finding team mates, Growing my group, Helping friends, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Participating in a competition, Patenting my idea, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Trading services |
| Tags: | business, careerbuilder, consulting, d school, Entrepreneurship, hasso plattner institute of design, Health care, Healthcare, hotjobs, indeed, infrastructure, Innovation, jobs, linkedin, monster, monstertrak, recruiting, silicon valley, simplyhired, social networking, stanford |
| Schools: | Stanford University |
FULL BIO
Skilled MS&E Masters graduate from Stanford. Winner of the 2008 Stanford Innovation Tournament. Specialist in entrepreneurship, design thinking, advanced financial modeling, marketing, project finance (previous), healthcare (previous) and jobs (now).
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Jobs Website |
| Position: | Founder |
| Time period: | November 2009 - Present |
| Description: | Building a better system to match job seekers with employers. |
| Employer: | Healthcare Startup |
| Position: | Founder |
| Time period: | May 2009 - November 2009 |
| Description: | Working on developing a new way to help disadvantaged people improve their healthcare. |
| Employer: | Taylor-DeJongh |
| Position: | Financial Analyst, Investment Banking |
| Time period: | September 2008 - May 2009 |
| Description: | • Placing debt/equity for $100-300M M&A and PE transactions across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa
• Building high-quality robust financial models including debt/equity, tax modeling, and complex structuring • Current example: Lead modeler for a medium-risk oil and gas exploration project in Tunisia • Performing due diligence including market research and locating targets for M&A or debt/equity placement using ProjectWare, Infrastructure Journal, WSJ, Yahoo, internal research, and other online databases |
| Employer: | ADN Ventures |
| Position: | Associate |
| Time period: | December 2007 - September 2008 |
| Description: | I modeled incentives for the anchor tenant and debt assumptions on a JP Morgan model for a port project in Louisiana, which allowed ADN to broaden the scope of its work as an advisor and negotiate a higher potential success fee. I worked directly with the principal, Adam Nicolopoulos. |
| Employer: | XFolio |
| Position: | CFO |
| Time period: | December 2007 - February 2008 |
| Description: | I worked on a startup as part of Stanford's famous Technology Venture Formation class, building on a year long engineering project done by two on our team to create a business that we then pitched to VCs within ten weeks. Our project included customer research with hundreds of people including senior level employees with experience at Palm, Danger, and others. I was fortunate enough to be mentored by Steve Blank, and taught by professors Steve Blank, Audrey MacLean and Mike Lyons. |
| Employer: | The Concord Group - Land Use and Real Estate Consulting |
| Position: | Analyst |
| Time period: | May 2007 - July 2007 |
| Description: | I analyzed US real estate projects and made recommendations on pricing and positioning to maximize revenue to the owner/developer. I worked on 8 project analyses during my time at TCG, and was the first intern chosen to lead a 3-person due diligence team and to conduct unassisted fieldwork at a project site in California. My work was praised by the Los Angeles team, which I enabled to complete its mandate at reduced cost and within schedule. |
| Employer: | Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects, Stanford University |
| Position: | Consulting Analyst |
| Time period: | February 2007 - August 2008 |
| Description: | • Authored a KPMG-sponsored CRGP White Paper surveying Rationales for adopting Public-Private Partnerships
in 7 US States using interviews with state officials, research on state DOTs, news and attending industry conferences • Ran a training workshop in Doha for a client of Stanford’s new software for the design stage of mega-developments Allowed Stanford to iterate on features, strengthen relationship with the client, and oversee first commercial use • Helped teach complexities of Project Finance to 20 graduate students looking to gain depth and enter the field |
| Employer: | Minerva Consulting |
| Position: | Associate |
| Time period: | February 2007 - August 2007 |
| Description: | I developed and executed market strategy for Minerva, a small strategic and environmental consulting firm based in the Bay Area. I also did research to assist Minerva in developing itself as a business with packages at various price points to reach out to SMEs in Palo Alto. |
| Employer: | Mozilla |
| Position: | Graduate Student Team |
| Time period: | December 2006 - November 2007 |
| Description: | I worked on an interdisciplinary team of seven graduate Stanford students on a consulting engagement for Mozilla. We did an in-depth marketing analysis of their add-ons and extensions and proposed actionable improvements to their structure, their content, and their user interface. Mozilla made many of these improvements on more recent revisions of their add-ons! |
| Employer: | Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| Position: | Financial Options Researcher |
| Time period: | July 2006 - December 2006 |
| Description: | I worked with Chris Armstrong, now Assistant Professor of Accounting at Wharton, to explore option transactions using Thompson, Equilar, and SEC filings to catalog and model executive compensation and incentives. My work assisted an effort at the GSB to produce the largest and most cohesive database on options compensation in the US. |
| Employer: | Northern Trust |
| Position: | Commercial Banking Summer Analyst |
| Time period: | May 2005 - July 2005 |
| Description: | My department at Northern was having trouble maintaining its requirements for a new account system they were building to hold >$3.1 trillion in assets. When I came on board, I performed gap and market analysis for the design process and arranged meetings with key stakeholders throughout the organization. By becoming an expert on the new system I was able to build a fully-featured database that closely matched the new structure, enabling my client to store thousands of the system’s parameters in a logical and user-friendly way. |
| Employer: | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research |
| Position: | Research Assistant |
| Time period: | December 2002 - November 2004 |
| Description: | I worked with Professor John B Shoven, one of the leading experts on Social Security in the United States to brainstorm, identify, and analyze potential solutions to the Social Security crisis in the US. I assisted with research for his 2006 paper, "Political Risk versus Market Risk in Social Security" and also on a book he worked on with former Secretary of State George Shultz. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2006 - 2008 |
| Degree: | Management Science and Engineering, MSc |
| University: | Stanford University |
| Time period: | 2002 - 2007 |
| Degree: | Economics, Physics Minor, BA |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | Highlights of Recent Trends in Global Infrastructure: New Players and Revised Game Rules (2008) - Contributor. http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/iteiit20081a5_en.pdf
Political Risk versus Market Risk in Social Security (2006) - Contributor. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=896208 |
| Papers: | Wrote two mini-cases with co-author Jacqueline del Castillo on aspects of Mozilla, furthering our team engagement with the company and contributing to the resources available as part of Jeffrey Moore's follow up to Crossing the Chasm. |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Pool, table tennis, badminton, cricket, ice skating, and more...I tend to pick up and drop new sports every year or so! |
| Hobbies: | Piano performance, SLR photography, music, film, modern art, sculpture, theatre, social and latin dance, politics, geopolitics, economics. Also, long intimate conversations, warm light, the beauty of a landscape in solitude, and time spent with a good friend. |
| Awards: | Winner, audience award, Stanford Innovation Tournament 2008.
Piano Diploma of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (DipABRSM) 2003. Piano Performance Certificate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (CertGSMD(P)) 2003. Winner, International Space Schools Education Trust, Science in Space Awards 2002. Highly Commended, Science Writer Awards 2002. |
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Ankit Tawar
Pursuing Integrated Master of Science (Economics)...Have an inclination towards quantitative economics, financial modeling and entrepreneurial activities.
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Saket Vora
American grad student pursuing M.S. in electrical engineering at Stanford. Interested in entrepreneurship, energy, greentech, cleantech, social ventures, politics, film, traveling, data visualization, and cooking.
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Tony Wang
American, 23, graduate in Philosophy and Economics at Stanford. Former BASES Social-E Challenge Finalist.