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Ying Ying Tan Golinska

Headline: Service Provider
Work status: Living The Dream
Website: http://www.accuraterecording.com
Industries: Financial
Skills: Business, Chinese, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, English, Investment, Languages
Location: Oakland
Visas: US Green Card
Interested in: Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding experts, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Investing in projects, Joining a startup, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting
Tags: alternative investment, Banking, clean tech, credit, financial modelling, music, Photography, recording, social enterprise, vc
Schools: Boston University

FULL BIO

Half Malaysian, half Indonesian, attended school in Singapore before college at Boston University, where I graduated with a double degree in Electrical Engineering and Business (Finance).

Had 3 years of investment banking experience and 1.5 year of fund of hedge funds research experience. Recently relocated to SF Bay Area, looking for the next career opportunity. Currently, volunteering at CEO Women and The Hub.

Specialty includes research, due diligence, financial analysis, financial modelling including LBO and DCF valuation, comparable analysis, and portfolio management.
Multi-lingual: Fluent in English, Mandarin and Malay, conversant in Cantonese and Fujian

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Training4Finance LLC
Position: Partner
Time period: October 2009 - Present
Description: Training4Finance offers hands-on financial modeling courses to working professionals in start-ups or corporate finance and students pursuing career in financial services.

Employer: Accurate Recording
Position: Owner
Time period: April 2009 - Present
Description: Accurate Recording offers high quality live and location recording, photography, mixing and mastering in the Bay Area.

Employer: Hub Bay Area
Position: Financial Controller

Employer: Antarctica Asset Management LLC; New York
Position: Research Analyst
Time period: June 2007 - December 2008
Description: Research experience
• Performed strategic, operational and legal due diligence on hedge funds to identify top performing managers amongst Distressed, Credit, Convertible Arbitrage and Multi-Strategy funds.
• Recommended top managers for the launch of a new credit and distressed fund of funds after researching and meeting with over 100 fund managers.
Portfolio management experience
• Proposed changes to portfolio composition based on exposures to markets, strategies, and regions.
• Produced monthly return and attribution reports for the Antarctica Credit and Distressed Fund of Funds.
• Created peer comparison analysis and risk tracking system used by other analysts for all portfolios.

Employer: JPMorgan Securities Inc, Syndicated & Leveraged Finance; New York
Position: Analyst
Time period: June 2004 - June 2007
Description: • Originated, structured and distributed syndicated loans and high-yield bonds for LBO financing, acquisition financing and recapitalization.
• Experienced in complex financial and credit modeling and covenant analysis to determine optimal capital structure, credit commitment levels and comparable analysis for new issue pricing.
• Researched companies, performed due diligence, and produced credit memos, offering memorandums and presentations.

Selected Transaction Experience
Surgical Care Affiliates/Texas Pacific Group
• $945mm financing for LBO of HealthSouth’s surgical unit with credit facilities, senior PIK toggle notes and subordinated bonds
Constellation Brands
• $3.5bn acquisition financing to purchase Vincor International
• $2.9bn acquisition financing to purchase Robert Mondavi
NBTY, Inc.
• Revolving credit syndication and subordinated notes issuance
The Tire Rack/Leonard Green Partners
• $280mm debt financing for leveraged buyout of The Tire Rack

Firm-wide Initiatives
• One of five selected tutors for 170 new analysts in an 8-week analyst training program.
• Mentored interns, volunteered in recruiting, charity and community service events.
• Led 40 volunteers globally who raised $80,000 in two weeks for the Tsunami relief effort.

Employer: JPMorgan Securities Inc, Syndicated & Leveraged Finance; New York
Position: Summer Analyst
Time period: May 2003 - July 2003
Description: • Ran financing models and comparables analysis, produced memos, offering memorandums and presentations.

Employer: Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. (Formerly known as Fahnestock & Company); Boston
Position: Intern
Time period: February 2003 - April 2003
Description: • Researched and marketed securities and mutual funds to financial institutions and individuals.

EDUCATION

University: Boston University
Time period: 2004
Degree: Electrical Engineering; Business Administration, BSc

INFORMATION

Sports: Qigong, yoga, hiking, biking, and sailing (which is put on hold due to monetary and time constraints).
Hobbies: Environmentally friendly projects, products and services; Photography; Music; Traveling; Tea-tasting, tea-brewing, tea-making, tea houses; Tree house; Piano; Learning new languages and embracing diversity
Clubs: Founder of ASYST, an internship/mentorship program for students in Malaysia
Previous activities:
Founder and President of International Students Consortium
Resident Assistant, awarded Community Development Award
Vice President of BSBA Finance Club
Community Service Chair of Golden Key International Honour Society
Activities Assistant: Organized campus-wide events and advised over 300 groups on events planning
Memberships: Candidate for the CFA examination, Level III
Awards: STARR Foundation Scholarship
Dean's List
Scarlet Key Award: One of the 25 recipients for exceptional leadership in organizations and commitment to college.
Student Programming Award: An award to one graduating senior exhibiting leadership in activities programming.

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  • Tim Yandel

    Journalism graduate from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, currently working as Division Manager at Workbridge Associates – San Francisco, CA.