Peter Calano
Founder of Spresso Club
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
Protiviti's Digital solution works across sectors at the nexus of strategy, design, technology, and assurance.
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
Sweater is a fintech company building the first fully-managed venture capital fund that is open to everyday investors.
Raised $14,300,000.00 from Kickstart, Eli Broverman, Nick Perez, Litquidity Capital, Monsen Ventures, Aaron Wolko, Bison Venture Partners, Nate O'Brien, Jeff Cruttenden and Spacestation Investments.
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
Future Perfect Ventures is an early-stage VC firm focused on decentralized technologies including blockchain, crypto, IoT, and AI.
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
SkyBridge is an investment management company.
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
Member
2022 - 2022
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
Citigroup is a financial services holding company that provides various financial products and services.
Raised $12,950,000,000.00 from ValueAct Capital and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
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
The Launch Pad is a novel and successful entrepreneurship initiative developed at the University of Miami.
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
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA
2019 - 2023
High School Diploma
2015 - 2019
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA
2019 - 2023