Margaret Rowe
Development Intern at Prestige Corp
Charlotte, North Carolina
Overview
Work Experience
Vice President
2024 - Current
Development Intern
2024 - 2024
Prestige specializes in land development and construction, offering comprehensive services from land acquisition to finished homesites.
Head of Support, Vendor & School Operations
2022 - 2022
• Led operations and logistics for end-to-end delivery including vendor coordination, and quality standardization • Drove increased sales for accounts and vendors, optimizing technical and operational roadmap, and managing day- to-day on the ground operations and relationships to achieve record sales for 2022 Fall semester • Managed and mentored operations and support managers on key objectives, protocols, and policies for the company • Negotiated vendor contracts and standardized and executed onboarding and operating procedure for all Ordo’s Fall of 2022 client launches representing a 10x increase in clients served
Ordo is a K-12 lunch marketplace that pairs schools with local vendors.
Investment Director
2021 - 2022
• Served as Investment Director, managing and providing operational support for 20+ portfolio investments including quarterly KPIs, forecasting modeling scenarios, evaluating portfolio risk, and supporting individual portfolio company growth to drive increased investment performance • Developed US investment strategy and sourced, analyzed, built proformas and financial models, and executed on Fund II investments across sectors, including evaluating and managing analysts’ deal flow • Identified prospective limited partners and investors, crafted, and revised fundraising materials, pitched to investors, and established relationships for successful fundraising of $100M Fund II
Venture Capital Associate
2019 - 2021
• Actively involved in all stages of new investments including, but not limited to: sourcing, comprehensive deal diligence, financial and returns analysis, investment committee presentations and negotiation of term-sheets • Monitored, analyzed, and reported on quarterly performance, ran updated valuation analysis, and tracked viable exit opportunities for portfolio companies. Coordinated strategic opportunities and updates accordingly • Built and maintained strategic relationships with venture capitalists, research organizations, entrepreneurs and key thought leaders in the ecosystem to support sourcing, industry knowledge, and value-add capabilities • Created and lead the inaugural GSV Cup, a global venture capital competition for pre-seed and seed stage learning and talent companies vying for a slot to pitch at the ASU GSV Summit and the chance to compete for $550K of non-dilutive capital
GSV Ventures is a venture capital firm investing in the education technology sector.
Summer Associate
2018 - 2018
• Developed add-on plans for existing portfolio companies to grow EBITDA through market expansion, targeted acquisitions lists, and industry research • Ran diligence on deals ranging from $2.5-$10 million of EBITDA including: evaluating industries, analyzing qualitative and quantitative attributes of the businesses, and building financial models and other diligence materials
Keystone Capital has followed a very different approach to investing in, and growing, companies.
MBA Associate
2017 - 2018
• Performed due diligence and market analysis for prospective investments and helped screen potential deals for partners • Assisted with portfolio startups day to day operations and communication with current and potential investors through LP Letters, prospectus documents, and slide decks with thematic and consistent messaging
Pre-MBA Operations Intern
2017 - 2017
• Identified 12 crucial bottlenecks in outfit generator and provided solutions to reduce manual labor required in styling and overall cost per outfit • Hired and trained a team of freelance photo editors to increase editing volume and decrease reliance on third party • Managed client weekly reports and interpreted week over week change in average order value and units per transaction
Operations Leadership Intern
2016 - 2016
• Managed labor tracking, associate engagement and feedback, direct function coaching, and indirect labor management for approximately 200 Amazon Associates • Ran day to day operations for pick department and served as Area Manager, responsible for hitting volume goal each day • Tested capacity of flat package sorter and adjusted peak volume labor plan through discussions with ship dock team to handle 15 thousand package hours more efficiently
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Raised $8,108,000,000.00 from DBS Bank and Mizuho Bank.
Research Assistant
2015 - 2015
• Programmed surveys into Qualtrics for upcoming research studies. • Cleaned data in SPSS to highlight discernible trends in the survey data that either supported or rejected the proposed hypotheses. • Analyzed journal articles for variables that can be tested in future studies and to better understand the framework of our upcoming studies.