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Peter Calano

Founder of Spresso Club

New York City Metropolitan Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • Technology Consultant

    2023 - Current

    • Assessing clients' unique needs to create strategic roadmaps and project plans, overseeing implementation timelines, crafting implementation deliverables and leading client meetings/presentations, guiding clients through application walkthroughs/demos, and providing hands-on assistance during testing phases as the lead on workflow-based process automation projects • Spearheaded the back-end enhancement of a leading US bank’s Issues Management process by creating a strategic roadmap to optimize operational efficiency, data integrity, and process consistency. Developed a Data Dictionary, standardized Issue Forms, and defined comprehensive Data Linkages, Notifications, and Report Requirements, facilitating seamless workflow changes and aligning with enterprise standards for direct presentation and communication to client

  • Co-Founder

    2024

    • Curating unique events in alternative venues

  • Founding Member, LP & Deal Scout

    2022

    • Leading deal flow generation by meeting with founders operating in the consumer-touching space

  • Venture Capital Analyst

    2022 - 2023

    • Performed due diligence on early-stage, decentralized infrastructure companies for direct reporting on potential Fund III investments to Founding Partner, Jalak Jobanputra • Monitored portfolio companies’ runways, follow-on investors, and business/product/industry updates

  • Summer Analyst

    2022 - 2022

    • Performed investment analyses on private & public blockchain companies and digital assets • Learned about various hedge fund strategies, including Long/Short and Arbitrage

  • Business Development Summer Analyst

    2022 - 2022

    • Strategized an outreach automation plan, which included developing a user-facing website chatbot • Created a proprietary digital asset valuation technique by utilizing both digital asset metrics and physical real estate comps for presentation on the digital real estate market size

  • Citi Ventures Intern

    2021 - 2022

    • Attended investor presentations and recorded information (revenue model, founders’ backgrounds, competitors, expenses, customers, partners) for direct reporting to Director of Venture Investing • Collected insights from summit on AI, cybersecurity & cloud enterprise technologies

  • Project Manager & Venture Consultant

    2021 - 2021

    • Piloted funding project to grant up to $10k in equity-free funding to Launch Pad clients • Provided clients guidance on financial models, lean startup, lean canvas/business model canvas, idea validation & feasibility, fundraising, marketing strategy, product development, and pitch delivery

  • Consulting Analyst (TAMID)

    2021 - 2021

    • Provided an in-depth analysis of the automatic speech recognition (ASR) industry, including research on APIs and SDKs and how to best integrate vertical markets into Voiceitt’s strategy

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