Shelby Clark
Harvard Business School, Candidate for MBA. Northwestern University, BSc, Biomedical Engineering.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | Business, Engineering, English, Investment, Languages, Leadership, Management, Portuguese, Spanish |
| Location: | Cambridge, MA |
| Groups: | HBS Entrepreneurship Club |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Harvard Business School, Northwestern University |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Enterprise Professional Services (Eps) - Microfinance |
| Position: | Member of the Board of Directors |
| Time period: | December 2006 - Present |
| Description: | Supporting EPS, a start-up MFI, by providing strategic direction to enhance sustainability and social impact.
• Advised on the creation of saving and loan products, security, financial transparency, and growth strategy. • Managing a group of seven consultants to develop a five-year strategic plan and accompaying financial strategy. |
| Employer: | Adorndesigns.Com |
| Position: | Member of the Board of Directors |
| Time period: | December 2006 - Present |
| Description: | Advising Adorn Designs, a start-up that manufactures ‘stylish medical accessories’, on the creation of a business strategy focusing on customer selection, value proposition, product definition, marketing channels, and distribution.
• Identified potential sources of funding and suggested a potential investment structure . • Created a dynamic financial model to define funding requirements and project future cash flows. |
| Employer: | Kiva.Org |
| Position: | Director of Portfolio Risk |
| Time period: | December 2006 - November 2008 |
| Description: | Facilitated growth of the loan portfolio of Kiva.org, a start-up NGO that is pioneering peer-to-peer microlending, from $1M to over $40M by establishing due diligence, monitoring, and investment strategies.
• Established Kiva’s methodology to structure, approve, disburse, and collect loans. • Developed a model to characterize the risk associated with investing in partner microfinance institutions (MFIs). • Led a successful effort to form a strategic partnership to complete the majority of Kiva’s investment monitoring. • Managed design and prioritization of website features related to investment methodology, transparency, and risk. • Worked with an MFI partner in rural Uganda to improve sustainability by achieving the following: improved security and financial transparency, instituted a board of directors, and revised critical process flows and policies. • Discovered major fraud at an MFI partner, involving the theft of $250,000 by the organization’s founders. |
| Employer: | Biotechnology Value Fund, L.P. |
| Position: | Investment Associate |
| Time period: | December 2006 - November 2007 |
| Description: | Advised a biotechnology-focused hedge fund with $600M under management on investment opportunities.
• Conducted primary due diligence to evaluate investments in small and micro-cap biotechnology companies. • Researched therapies in development by interviewing thought leaders in academia, medicine, and industry. |
| Employer: | Oliver Wyman (Formerly Mercer Management Consulting) |
| Position: | Consultant |
| Time period: | December 2004 - November 2007 |
| Description: | Provided strategic direction and analytical support for consulting engagements spanning various industries.
• Advised a foreign government on effective ways to partially privatize the country’s largest state-owned company while navigating complex governmental bureurecreacy and legal restrictions. Conducted all business in Spanish. • Supported an aviation start-up in Istanbul, Turkey by exploring joint ventures and strategic partnerships. • Led an effort to redesign a $400M organization within a major utility company. • Guided the development of a market expansion strategy for a $1.4B clothing manufacturer. • Excelled past peers in being promoted from entry level (analyst) to consultant nine months ahead of the norm. • Identified a major gap in Oliver Wyman’s training program and developed a training initiative to fill the gap that was adopted firm-wide; this training is now given to all new hires. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Harvard Business School |
| Time period: | 2010 |
| Degree: | MBA |
| University: | Northwestern University |
| Time period: | 1999 - 2004 |
| Degree: | Biomedical Engineering, BSc |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Swimming (NCAA scholarship athlete), snowboarding. |
| Hobbies: | Capoeira, Travel (lived in 6 countries on 5 continents, and traveled to over 40 countries). |
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This is a P2P social lending fund for poverty alleviation in developing countries for for-profit enterprises in the Micro and Small Business (MSE) area, not microfinance.
