Shine Wu

Associate Consultant

2023 - Current

▸ Developed Bain's perspective on GenAI partnerships, GenAI change management, and strategic areas of GenAI value capture via detailed market analysis and partner interviews ▸ Advised private equity clients on >$100M in cumulative investments into tech companies through rapid diligences through extensive data analysis, expert interviews, surveys, and market models

Executive Director

2020 - 2023

▸ Technify is a Duke-based platform that provides pro bono tech consulting and innovative digital solutions by connecting top tech talents at U.S. colleges with social enterprises and NGOs in Southeast Asia. This is an initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of State as part of their Young Southeast Asian Leaders. ▸ One of four directors managing 50 students across eight teams

Associate Consultant Intern

2022 - 2022

Conducted growth equity due diligences on 5 companies

Analyst

2020 - 2022

Aera VC invests at the frontier of deep technology and sustainability to accelerate the world to a better future. We invest in radical technologies to reverse climate change and frontier breakthroughs for humanity. ▸ Constructed investment memos for two deep tech companies, CarbonChain and Noya Labs, which Aera VC subsequently invested in ▸ Produced valuation reports for each underlying Aera VC Fund portfolio company

Partner

2021 - 2022

Project Leader

2020 - 2021

▸ Led a team to develop a market entry strategy for an early stage venture studio ▸ Led a team to develop a presentation for the executives of a unicorn business automation company on why they should enter the electronic data interchange market before their IPO

Management Consulting Intern

2021 - 2021

Project Manager

2020 - 2021

Led a team in the consulting division to produce a report on how an Edtech company streamlining school administration could increase growth by strategically expanding into adjacent verticals and consolidating their product features.

Research Assistant

2019 - 2020

▸ Interviewed all the bookstores in Durham to write a research report on how bookstores have adapted to the rise of e-commerce for Professor Ashish Arora ▸ Investigated the nature of cartels and anticompetitive behavior by reporting on OPEC+ and the oil industry (during the 2020 oil price war) for Professor Allan Collard-Wexler

Research Analyst Intern

2020 - 2020

Built econometric models for Dr Arthur Grimes, former Chairperson of New Zealand's Reserve Bank, at the world's tenth ranked economics think-tank: ▸ Co-authored a paper on the shortcomings of an engineering approach to measuring productivity. This paper is now being submitted to economic journals ▸ Provided technical assistance for a paper on how the implementation of sustainable policies impacts the subjective wellbeing of citizens in the medium to long term ▸ Provided technical assistance for a paper on whether measuring subjective wellbeing is better done on an ordinal scale or a cardinal scale

Youth Member of Parliament

2018 - 2019

Selected as the Youth MP for National List MP Brett Hudson to participate in the triennial New Zealand Youth Parliament. ▸ Elected to be the Chairperson of the Economic Development, Science and Innovation Select Committee ▸ Led the committee to develop a report on housing, regulatory systems, the living wage, and taxation. Subsequently submitted this report to the official Parliamentary committee ▸ Winner of New Zealand Business & Parliament Trust 2019 Youth Parliament Competition