Kevin Colas
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I am a business analytics, strategy and finance professional with 20 years of experience, including more than 10 years in management and 3 in directorship, in 2 lines of business:
Consulting: 10 years in strategy and operations consulting managing up to 6 people teams. Including:
- 1 1/2 year building and managing a sales and operations analytics team of 6 analysts, creating, maintaining and improving documented processes to improve sales, control, financial and accounting reporting and support sales teams of a large scale private health exchange of up to 14 BPO clients.
- 9 years in strategy consulting working on growth opportunity identification, strategy clarification and strategic problem solving projects managing up to 6 analysts and/or peers.
Financial Services: 8 1/2 years in financial services in asset management and investment banking managing up to 10 people teams. Including:
- 1 1/2 year as the co-founding General Partner of an early growth consumer VC firm,
- 2 years as General Manager and Portfolio Manager in a European mutual fund of funds boutique,
- 3 years in M&A for a global French-based investment bank working on cross border transactions with IT, consumer, healthcare and industrials Fortune 500 and funded startup clients,
- 1 year in institutional equity sales for a global US-based investment bank and,
- 1 in investment RFP marketing for a global US-based custodian and asset management firm.
On my spare time, I love reading, visiting art and design shops, galleries or museums, playing tennis, cooking for friends and family, visiting new neighborhoods in my cities and traveling abroad.