MJW
Independent & Consulting Projects
The below represents independent projects and client-based consulting work, that fall outside my linear professional career.
Early Stage Politics
Founder
Founded Early Stage Politics, a new event series to convene the venture capital and startup communities with early-career politicians running for public office.
Corro
Chief of Staff
Helped DTC e-commerce startup enter market and scale revenue
by leading initiatives across marketing, operations, and business development.
NYC Media Lab
Augmented Reality Fellow
Led research team to author
7500-word white paper on near-term commercial applications of augmented reality technology.
InSITE
Fellow
Selected for highly competitive leadership program for graduate students from top universities to help advise startups and technology companies.
Republic
Consultant
Designed an evaluation framework for digital asset companies that sought to raise capital on Republic, an equity crowd fundraising platform.
NYCEDC
Consultant
Hired by former employer to conduct market mapping and industry research on blockchain and AI to evaluate investment trends in New York City.
Faces of 5G
Executive Director
I lead Faces of 5G, an initiative aimed at educating leaders in the public and private sectors about the coming benefits of
5G technology.
MEI Facil
Consultant
Traveled to Brazil to conduct market research and advise on business strategy for São Paulo based fintech startup.
Grand Central Tech
Advisor
Advisor to Grand Central Tech's Urban Technology Hub, a center to support startups and entrepreneurs building urban technology.
Blockchain Beyond Crypto
Creator
Created and led an event series that explored realistic commercial applications of blockchain technology.
Electronic Gaming Federation
Consultant
Built a pricing model to help EGF, an
e-gaming company, sell to public and private high schools.
Fenway Summer Ventures
Consultant
Created fundamental systems to help venture capital fund manage, track,
and analyze deal flow.
AlleyCorp
Fellow
Investment Fellow for entrepreneur Kevin Ryan’s (Double Click, Mongo DB,
Gilt Groupe, Zola) venture fund and startup incubator.
Sports Direct
Consultant
Authored white paper on trends in back-end retail technology and innovations in physical retail space utilization for UK's largest sports retailer.
Columbia Business School
Teaching Assistant
Designed coursework and curriculum for Columbia Business School class: Digital Literacy for Decision Makers, taught by investor Brett Martin.
Electric
Consultant
Led a multi-disciplinary team of engineers and business school students from Columbia to build a machine learning model using natural language processing in Python.
Josephine
Consultant
Worked alongside the CEO on general regulatory, political, and business matters and helped lead Josephine's advocacy and political organizing efforts.
DUCO
Consultant
Expert on one of the world's top consultant on-demand services.
Volunteer & Non-Profit
The below represents non-profit & volunteer work, that fall outside my linear professional career.
Hillary for America
Advance Staff
Traveled nation-wide to help execute political and campaign events for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
The Graduate Entrepreneurship Council
Founding Member
Helped create the Graduate Entrepreneurship Council, an institution founded by Columbia Business School, Harvard Business School, Wharton, to empower entrepreneurially-driven graduate students to easily and meaningfully connect with each other.
Heat Seek NYC
Advisory Board Member
I sit on the Advisory Board for Heat Seek, a non-profit designed to aide lower income residents in proving negligence against their landlords over improper heating of their homes. It uses the power of the internet of things to remotely monitor and record the temperature of users' homes, registering heating violations.
Columbia Entrepreneur Organization
President
Managed a team of 47 and a
budget of $120,000 to foster the entrepreneurial community at Columbia Business School.
InSITE
Fellow
InSITE is a leadership development program comprised of graduate students from top universities such as Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton. InSITE Fellows and alumni make up a global network of entrepreneurs and leaders in the technology and venture capital industries. Fellows engage in semester-long consulting projects with startups and technology companies
National Science Foundation
SBIR Grant Reviewer
Reviewed and assessed startup applications for the National Science Foundation's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), i.e. "America's Seed Fund, non-dilutive grant program.
BUILD
Associate Board Member
Former board member at BUILD, an organization founded in 1999 that is dedicated to proving the power of experiential learning through entrepreneurship and igniting the potential of youth in under-resourced communities.