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Current Team
Michael Cutler
Junior at University of Notre Dame
Michael is a Junior studying Finance and Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. He has an intense curiosity for blockchain innovation and emerging technologies, social entrepreneurship, and the cognitive processes that can aid intelligent business and investment decisions.
He has worked for a blockchain analytics startup and interned at a private equity firm in New York last summer. Next summer, he will be working as an investment banking summer analyst at Citi. Michael is currently listening to podcasts that include the Huberman Lab, Joe Rogan Experience, and Invest With the Best.
James Barham
Junior at University of Notre Dame
James is studying Finance and Social Entrepreneurship at the University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business.
James is passionate about valuation, entrepreneurship, opportunity recognition, and social investing. He has worked as an investment analyst at a lower-middle market private equity firm focused on the consumer packaged goods space. He has also worked in operations at a cattle brokerage start-up and an investment bank in China. He will be working as an investment banking summer analyst at Evercore next summer.
Founding Team
Conor Holahan
Investment Banking Analyst at Citigroup
University of Notre Dame Alumnus
He has a strong passion for learning about the business value of technology. Conor has worked as an investment banking summer analyst on Citigroup’s Mergers & Acquisitions team and a business analyst for a cybersecurity firm in the Bay Area.
He has work experience as a data scientist for a Fortune 50 company, a VC-backed startup, and a data analytics research laboratory. Conor has also spent time conducting market research analysis for a venture capital firm focused on investing in early-revenue automation and artificial intelligence startups.
Alex Tullman
Finance Manager & Strategy at Procter & Gamble
University of Notre Dame Alumnus
Alex currently works in commercial finance and strategy for Procter & Gamble. He has a passion for innovative disruption, business development, excellence in business operation, and social service. Before his current role, he fundraised, founded, and endowed a student managed investment portfolio in high school, raised over $10,000 for investigatory research into a new energy technology, raised >$25,000 for a satellite development organization, and worked as a Venture Capital Summer Associate for a VC fund and Angel Network.
Chris Whipple
Investment Banking Analyst at Cowen Inc.
Boston College Alumnus
He is passionate about digital innovation and working alongside entrepreneurs to learn about and help scale their companies. Chris has worked at PeakSpan Capital, a B2B SaaS-focused growth equity firm, a middle-market private equity firm based in New York, and two Education Technology startups in the pre-seed and seed round stages. He will be joining Cowen’s technology investment banking group as a full-time analyst.