Kyle Masterson

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London, England, United Kingdom

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About me
👋 Moving Finance and People Forward Through Active Collaboration | Head @ SHIFT Open Finance Community | Co-founder & Investor @ Ignite | Vice-Chair @ Undefinable Community.
Education
- Stratton Upper School
  2017 - 2019
  A-levels Mathematics, Business and Biology A*A*AB
  Activities and Societies: , - Headboy - ‘17 Business award for excellence - ‘18 & ‘19 Award for Academic Effort, - Handball Team Maths (A*), Business (A), Biology (B), EPQ (“Phi; the key to stock market success?”) (A*)
- Stratton Upper School
  2015 - 2017
  GCSE Multiple subjects 9 A*-B
  Activities and Societies: , - Duke of Edinburgh - NCS - 17' Business award for excellence - School Handball Player
- Loughborough University
  2019 - 2023
  Bachelor of Science - BS Finance and Management 1st Class
  Activities and Societies: ' - Course representative - Diploma in professional studies - Handball Team & Treasurer - Kickboxing Team Key Modules: Quantitative Methods for Business (92%), Financial Analysis (92%), Financial Accounting (90%), Law (84%), Macroeconomics (83%), Business Modelling (83%).
- Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
  2023 - 2023
  Machine Learning
  Summer school in Mumbai experiencing the local culture and being taught Machine Learning with a focus on edge devices and spiking neural networks.
Experience
- Fitness Defence
  Dec 2017 - Apr 2019
  Founder
  - Over 16 months, I created and grew a kickboxing club from 8 to 32 customers and monthly revenue from £32 to £112.- Negotiated a 27% discount for hall hire, averaging a 60% net profit per session and overall, 398% ROI.
- Enactus
  Oct 2019 - Jul 2021
  Co-Founder and Sessions leader
  - EFG is a social enterprise that taught soft skills to over 100 young people in the UK and Europe - Partnered with NCS & Barclays, won £1000 from the rotary club, and were semi-finalists in the Enactus nationals.
- Loughborough Student Managed Fund
  Nov 2019 - Jul 2023
  Technology Sector Head
  - Led a team of seven to research and pitch tech stock investments, responsible for a quarter of the £250,000 fund.- Winner of 2019 pitch competition for creating and presenting research for equity investment opportunities. - Automated financial analysis for over 3000 stocks with python (from 50 hours of work to 1) and generated a 15% average return
- House Hack
  Sept 2020 - Nov 2021
  Business Consulting Team Leader/Host/Event Manager
  - Organised, Hosted and Led global teams on 20+ virtual hackathon consulting projects for start-ups. - Won the 2021 Commendation for team work to solve strategy, marketing, and operation problems.
- Accenture
  Sept 2021 - Aug 2022
  Consulting Development Analyst
  - Selected suppliers (£75K cost-saving) and worked directly with C-suite team to plan a digital bank’s mortgage offering. - Scanned and assessed FinTechs for a UK Bank’s Incubator, integrating 5 FinTechs for over 200,000+ SME clients.- Oversaw data analysis and ideation sessions to drive decision-making and lower the turnover of our 3000+ workforce.
- Power of Seitan
  Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
  Founder
  - Cooked vegan seitan, marketed the product, built the website (1434 visits), designed the packaging, and delivered it. - Won £500 from Loughborough Universities start-up competition and was rated 5-stars by my customers.
- FinTech Innovation Lab London
  Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
  FinTech Alumni Lead
  - Created and ran our Alumni Community. I recruited as well as managed over 30 Relationship managers, organised events for 300+ people doubling our ordinary attendance and generating a £5m pipeline.- Researched and pitched the business case for FinTech@Accenture creating a new £15m revenue practice.
- SHIFT Open Finance Community
  Feb 2023 - now
  Leading SHIFT and our three communities.The free SHIFT Open Finance Community of over 260 Fintech leaders and Influencers committed to progressing the open finance agenda through active collaboration. SHIFT+ which delivers Success Management focussed on unlocking Fintech success with consistent commercial outcomes.Fintech Champions a community of individuals from top financial institutions passionate about fintech integration with the aim of supporting FIs find the best Fintech partnerships for them. Show less
  - Co-founder and Investor @ Ignite Incubator
    May 2024 - now
  - CEO
    Oct 2023 - now
  - Operations Lead
    Feb 2023 - Oct 2023
- Jumpstart
  Feb 2023 - Jul 2023
  Ambassador
  - Part of the ~1% of applicants accepted to the UK's only startup grad scheme - Ambassador presenting the Jumpstart brand to help ambitious young people break into the startup world
- Undefinable Community
  Jul 2023 - now
  Founding Member & Vice-Chair
  The undefinable community looks beyond occupational labels - encouraging curiosity and diverse thinking. We're for people who are continually distracted and passionately motivated. Emotionally open, acting with purpose.
- Woodhurst
  Oct 2023 - now
  Head of SHIFT
Licenses & Certifications
- Accenture TQ - Storytelling, AI, Automation & Blockchain.
  Accenture
  Jun 2022
- Python Essential Training
  LinkedIn
  Jul 2020
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Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Kyle Masterson
  National Citizenship Service National Citizenship Service Aug 2017 Selected for leadership and spokesmen roles - representing my group at Graduation for 500+ people. After I was selected to become an ambassador for NCS, giving presentations to convince more people to participate, giving me greater commercial awareness to present professionally for a business.Gained skills, including CPR training & event planning as well as arranging a cake sale for charity CHUMS that raised £130.
- Awarded to Kyle Masterson
  The Duke of Edinburgh’s award The Duke of Edinburgh Jul 2017 Teamwork was essential to be productive to complete everything and so everyone could handle the walk.Required motivation to keep completing tasks over the 6 months, volunteering, skills and physical improvement.
Volunteer Experience
- English Teacher
  Issued by Sandy Twinning Association on Jul 2019
  Associated with Kyle Masterson
- Treasurer
  Issued by Loughborough Students' Sport on Jun 2020
  Associated with Kyle Masterson
- Activities Assistant
  Issued by Gamlinagy Village College on Sept 2015
  Associated with Kyle Masterson