Jimmy Zhu

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    • Summary

      FinTech. Entrepreneurship. Puppies.

      Looking for smarter people than me, solving bigger problems than I can solve.

      Jimmy is currently an investment professional at Citi Ventures, the strategic investment and innovation arm of Citigroup.

       

      Previously, Jimmy was an investment professional with Canaan Partners in their New York office, looking at venture investment opportunities in technology. Before that, Jimmy was on the Product Marketing team at Facebook, responsible for both the auto-play video product as well as mobile ad units. When he first joined Facebook, he led their Pricing and Yield Management responsibilities as part of the Monetization Analytics team focused on the US business, with experience in Canada and Latin America.

       

      His professional experiences also includes strategy and management consulting using analytics for financial services corporations, private equity consulting, investment banking with both Goldman Sachs (TMT) and JPMorgan (FIG), and various roles across start-ups (location-based services, e-commerce, retail).

       

      Jimmy attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Science in Management Science. Jimmy recently completed receiving his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Entrepreneurship and Operations Research.

       

      He is an avid winter sports athlete, an amateur photographer, and a professional travel points collector.

    • CURRENTLY

      "If you want to build a ship,
      don't drum up people to collect wood

      and don't assign them tasks and work,

      but rather teach them

      to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

       

      ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

      Citi Ventures

      Venture Capital

      Citi Ventures is a strategic investing and innovation arm of Citigroup.

       

      I invest in and collaborate with startups that are building better products, creating richer experiences, and enabling enterprises to be more efficient. With unprecedented demand and expectations from consumers and enterprises, the technological evolution will create opportunities for both new and existing leaders.

    • Previously

      A seemingly random walk

      URX (acq. by Pinterest)

      Summer 2015

      Monetization Strategy, Product, Business Operations at an early-stage start-up.

       

      URX is building out the mobile contextual knowledge network.

       

      YC S13, Accel and Google Ventures-backed. Acquired by Pinterest, May 2016

      Canaan Partners

      2014

      New York based investment professional on Technology, focused on Series A investments in video, analytics, messaging platforms.

      Ads Monetization Analytics & Product

      2011 - 2014

      Monetization Analytics

      • Newsfeed & mobile advertising
      • Pricing and Yield Management: US, CA, LTAM

      Product Marketing

      • Video ads
      • Mobile ads: mobile app, re-engagement, retargeting

      Operations and Management Consulting

      2008 - 2011

      Essex Lake Group

      Startup Analytics Consulting

       

      Gotham Consulting Partners

      Private Equity Consulting

      Investment Banking
      (Internships)

      2006 - 2007

      Goldman Sachs

      Technology Media Telecomm

       

      JPMorgan

      Financial Institutional Group

      The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

      MBA: Management, Operations Research

      Wharton Venture Partners - Technology - Investment thesis on data aggregation and analytics platforms focused on financial services industry

       

      Wharton Technology Club - VP Member Ed

       

      Wharton Entrepreneurial Intern Fellow

       

      Wildmen Hockey, PEVC Club, GAPSA, Cluster Council

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology

      S.B. Math, S.B. Management Science

      Double-major in applied mathematics and management science (concentration in finance)

       

      Coursework in psychology (including at Harvard) and marketing

      Stuyvesant High School

      Public School at its Finest

      Intel Science Talent Search

      Semifinalist

       

      Published: American Journal of Pathology

      Swim Team, Math Team, SING!, Band

      InSITE, Philadelphia

      2015

      Founding Member, Philadelphia Chapter

      VP, Recruiting

       

      The InSITE Fellowship program is a leadership development network, connecting graduate students with startups and venture capital funds

      Global Platinum Securities

      2004 - 2008

      Founder, MIT Chapter

      VP, Strategic Development

       

      GPS is a multi-campus, long-only student-ran investment fund to promote education and provide hands-on experience in investing and valuation

    • Photography

      “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”

      - The Little Prince

       

      Portfolios (Breath-First Search):

      Portfolio, a collection of my best and favorite photos

      SmugMug, a structured repository of my photos

       

      Collections (Depth-First Search):

      2019.12.16 - Spanish Christmas

      2019.07.29 - Scandinavia Honeymoon

      2018.11.10 - Singapore & Taiwan

      2017.12.15 - New Zealand (Again)

      2017.11.19 - Tulum

      2017.06.30 - Maui-Wowie

      2016.03.05 - Malta & Amsterdam

      2015.12.21 - Australia & New Zealand

      2015.11.20 - Cuba Libre

      2015.10.26 - Zurich, Berlin, Munich, Oktoberfest

      2015.09.01 - Best of SF Summer

      2014.12.20 - Morocco and Southern Spain

      2014.11.15 - Iceland: Not Just a Frozen Tundra

        

      Snippets - a few of my (recent) favorite shots:

    • Other Thoughts

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      Twitter

      Tumblr

      Pinterest

      SnapChat

    Thanks for learning more about me - feel free to reach out!

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