James Palano

Experience

1. S

   Scale AI · Full-time

   • Strategic Projects Lead, Frontier Data, Generative AI

     Jan 2025 - Present · 10 mos·Current
2. H

   Harvard Business School · Full-time

   • Research and Program Management - Managing the Future of Work

     Apr 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos·Boston, Massachusetts, United States

     Title: Senior Researcher - Managed a cross-functional team to execute a large-scale research project about job preferences among the U.S. workforce and management practices among U.S. employers. This included qualitative research design, quantitative analysis, and insight generation. - Wrote an HBS Entrepreneurship case about the journey to product-market fit and various exit valuation scenarios for a B2B SAAS communication and knowledge-sharing software which navigated COVID and raised capital using multiple instrument types. - Wrote an HBS case titled “Hairitage: Influencer-Led Brand Building" about influencer entrepreneurship in the digitally-native consumer products space.

3. S

   Self-employed

   • Management Consultant

     Apr 2023 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

     - Market opportunity and investment analysis for AI applications in legal and audit technology verticals. - Created end-client-ready materials with insights into the fund's portfolio and comparable asset trends for a pitch to an alternative asset manager on a new strategy. Client won the pitch for their asset management strategy. - Market entry analysis: performed TAM analysis, built a model to estimate the total market value of a collectible asset category, and identified major competitors in each category and promising market entry points.

4. K

   Keystone AI · Full-time

   • Consultant

     Jun 2022 - Mar 2023 · 10 mos

     - Delivered projects that combined quantitative analysis, insight generation, and delivery of final write-up or presentation with a cross-functional team - Developed a strategic exploration of opportunities in the metaverse; presented findings weekly to senior strategy executives at a major semiconductor company - Led a team to create a business development strategy driven by new regulatory requirements that affected a range of large technology companies - Generated data-driven insights to support a change in adtech demand sourcing for a major publisher - Drafted responses to an "Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" (ANPR) related to new FTC privacy and data-use regulations - Analyzed large datasets (10,000+ observations) to develop quantitative insights that were presented to clients

5. A

   Amazon · Internship

   • Senior Product Manager

     Jun 2021 - Aug 2021 · 3 mos

     - Worked across teams and stakeholders in the CTPS business to develop recommendations to better align adjacent teams and drive progress on an important KPI - Received full-time return offer

Education

1. 
   Harvard Business SchoolMBA

   Activities and societies: Outdoors Club, Technology Club, Investing Club, Squash Club, Wine & Cuisine Club

2. 
   Dartmouth CollegeB.A. in Economics, Engineering Minor

   Activities and societies: Political Economy Project scholar; Dartmouth Club Boxing (President/Captain); Finance Tutor; Dartmouth Outing Club First-Year Trips (Trip Leader); Sophomore Trips (Trip Leader); Volunteer at Upper Valley Haven Shelter; Theater Technician; The Dartmouth 50; Dartmouth Mountaineering Club; Tabard

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