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Michael Smith
Principal-level finance leader specializing in venture-backed startups and strategic finance
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Repeat founder and former venture investor with 7 years of investing experience, now building a startup focused on fixing CPG trade promotion inefficiencies. The candidate articulates a differentiated product vision using predictive modeling and portfolio-wide cross-elasticity analysis rather than event-by-event TPM measurement, and is actively mapping the NY venture studio ecosystem to support 0-to-1 company building.
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Key Strengths
- Deep understanding of CPG trade spend inefficiencies
- Differentiated TPM/product vision around portfolio-wide cross-elasticity
- Founder experience
- 7 years of venture investing experience
- Strong customer discovery and idea validation approach
- Entrepreneurial ownership mindset
- Knowledge of venture studio/accelerator value creation
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