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Rob Wertheimer

adventure-preneur and technologist; experienced financial / research analyst

Headline: Entrepreneur
Industries: Cleantech, Education, Financial, Food and Drink, Health, Mobile, Travel
Skills: English, French, Languages
Location: Bay Area, CA
Interested in: Brainstorming, Career advice, Employment opportunities, Giving back, Helping friends, Internships, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Starting a company
Schools: Claremont Consortium of Colleges - Pomona College

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: AGN School, Konganapuram, Tamil Nadu, India
Position: Visiting English Teacher
Time period: December 2008 - March 2009
Description: :: Taught conversational English and reading comprehension lessons to 5th-9th grade students at a private school in rural India
:: Authored a report with observations on the state of English instruction at the AGN School along with recommendations for improvement

Employer: Kibbutz Givat Oz, Afula, Israel
Position: Volunteer Farm Laborer
Time period: July 2008 - September 2008
Description: :: Worked in almond harvesting and preparation for factory processing

Employer: Analysis Group Inc., Economic, Financial and Strategy Consultants, Menlo Park, CA
Position: Analyst / Senior Analyst
Time period: August 2006 - June 2008
Description: Selected Consulting Projects
:: Designed Microsoft Excel cost/benefit scenario models allowing clinical and marketing staff at a leading pharmaceuticals firm to evaluate development and positioning strategy for early-stage drug molecules
:: Built a Microsoft Excel model enabling health care plans to assess the budget impact of adopting a new therapy for a rare metabolic disorder
:: Conducted analysis of a sales register database to quantify the extent of consumer overcharging by a retailer for the purposes of legal mediation
:: Consolidated and analyzed internal sales forecasts to evaluate claims of fraudulent earnings per share guidance
:: Other casework included financial statement analysis and modeling, literature review, valuation, qualitative and quantitative market research

Client and Project Management
:: Served as technical lead to client teams, presented modeling results in face to face meetings and teleconferences and responded to technical queries
:: Trained junior staff in cost/benefit modeling methodology and coordinated additional modeling exercises in parallel
:: Authored technical memos to assist the client in using and updating cost/benefit drug strategy models

Business Development
:: Assisted senior management in formulating, drafting and budgeting proposals for strategy consulting projects
:: Selected to attend 2007 Annual Meeting for the International Society for Pharmaco-economics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)

EDUCATION

University: Claremont Consortium of Colleges - Pomona College
Time period: 2002 - 2006
Degree: Economics, BA

PUBLICATIONS

Articles: “The Next Best Thing to Knowing Someone Who is Usually Right,” with Gary Smith and Joseph Steinberg, The Journal of Wealth Management, Winter 2006.

INFORMATION

Hobbies: Travel, motorcycle riding and maintenance, hiking and backpacking, reading, technology and culture
Awards: - One of two graduating seniors to receive the Leland M. Backstrand Memorial Award in Economics
- Recognized by the Department of Economics for Distinction in Senior Exercise

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