Louis Pires

Experience

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  Trexseo

  Jun 2017 - Sept 2018

  FOUNDER AND FUNDRAISING PROGRAM MANAGER

  • Piloted all aspects of a successful e-commerce retail platform offering over 1,000 products that enabled groups and individuals to create online product fundraisers utilized by organizations, including schools.• Designed and integrated store functionalities on the site and also facilitated organizational fundraising events.• Planned fundraising campaigns for organizations overseeing organization outreach and fundraising event marketing reaching over 5,000 people each fundraiser. • Set up systems and procedures to ensure the company’s success over time.• Reviewed financial statements and assembled KPI reporting to assess the company’s performance.• Analyzed fundraising event marketing and sales data to identify new opportunities for growth, such as new products or services that met unmet needs in the marketplace.• Increased high school program’s fundraising performance by nearly 30 percent. Show less

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  Arizona State University

  Nov 2018 - Mar 2020

  Data Analyst Aide

  • Conducted data gathering for the Doing Business North America (DBNA) project which identified government regulations in North American cities that cause economic inefficiencies involving over 10,000 data points. • Planned data collection team events involving key project stakeholders to analyze and discuss data sourcing strategy, helping to reduce data verification needs by roughly 40 percent. • Delivered detailed data gathering suggestions that supported the team when analyzing data from 92 cities across 111 economic variables. Show less

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  Trading Markets and Investment

  Mar 2019 - Aug 2022

  Marketing Analyst and President

  • Originated and implemented innovative digital advertising campaign strategies scaling across nine college campuses, ultimately recruiting over 2,000 student members.• Designed, promoted, and sold Trading and Investing and Professional Interviewing virtual courses to over 1,200 students to engage students during pandemic.• Set up and utilized email marketing programs reaching over 270,000 students across 14 campuses.• Coordinated guest speaker events managing event marketing, logistics, project management, talent attraction, security, vendor management, and event communications. • Orchestrated large-scale career fair recruiting events with more than 1,200 participants and organized many virtual employer recruiting events. • Prospected, recruited, and negotiated contracts with renowned speakers, such as Andrew Yang, for a 5,000-person event. • Navigated complex negotiations for venues, vendors, 3rd party event agencies, and speakers.• Spearheaded a student scholarship competition for nearly 1,000 students with accountability for event marketing, coordination, and execution.• Founded, launched, and scaled the largest student organization in W.P. Carey with over 1,500 students, which provided members with the proper tools for gaining financial awareness. Show less

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  LIENFUND FINANCIAL LLC

  Jan 2021 - now

  Founder

  • Developed the concept of the first tax lien brokerage platform that tokenizes tax liens and allows individuals to invest in any U.S. tax lien.• Led data collection efforts to build the first national tax lien database across 2,500 counties totaling $14 billion of debt securities annually. • Invited to the ASU New Venture Challenge Investment Competition as the only undergraduate student and ultimately won the competition.• Recruited and led a team of fintech developers to build a mobile app for tax lien investment with a real-time database backend.• Networked and invited to pitch to angel investors and venture capitalists, including AZ-VC, the $110 million venture fund led by Jack Selby.• Presented pitch deck and financial model to investors, securing enough funding to satisfy pre-seed expectations. Show less