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  1. JJC of xoxohth's LinkedIn:
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  3. James Choi
  4. Columbia Business School MBA Candidate, Class of 2015
  5. New York, New YorkFinancial Services
  6. Previous
  7. StoneWater Capital LLC, Renthop.com, SAIC
  8. Education
  9. Columbia University - Columbia Business School
  10. 384
  11. connections
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  18. Background
  19. Education
  20. Columbia University - Columbia Business School
  21. Columbia University - Columbia Business School
  22. Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance
  23. 2014 – 2015
  24. Relevant coursework: Financial Accounting, Corporate Finance, Value Investing, Asset Management, Derivatives, Debt Markets, Credit Markets, Quantitative Finance
  25. Activities and Societies: Columbia Student Investment Management Association, Wealth Management Club-VP of Finance, Equity Research Club, Commodity Club, Government and Business Club, Asian Business Association, Corporate Finance Club
  26. University of Chicago
  27. University of Chicago
  28. Masters, Social Sciences
  29. 2003 – 2006
  30. I was in an interdisciplinary program at UChicago and focused on macroeconomics and political economy. My thesis discussed the impact of Park Chung Hee's regime on economic development in South Korea during the 1960's and 1970's.
  31. University of Pennsylvania
  32. University of Pennsylvania
  33. Bachelors, History and Philosophy
  34. 1999 – 2003
  35. I focused on intellectual history and political philosophy.
  36. Activities and Societies: Academic team, philosophy circle
  37. Summary
  38. I am currently a second-year full-time MBA candidate at Columbia Business School, focusing on finance. My professional experience spans across fixed income futures trading, algorithmic equity trading, government consulting, and business development.
  39. Experience
  40. Research Analyst, Summer Intern
  41. StoneWater Capital LLC
  42. May 2014 – August 2014 (4 months)Greater New York City Area
  43. Stone Water Capital L.L.C. is an emerging markets fund-of-funds founded and managed by former Warburg Pincus partners. As the first MBA intern hire, I was responsible for research and due diligence for the pre-existing long-short equity fund and a PE fund that will launch within the next year.
  44. Consultant
  45. Renthop.com
  46. June 2012 – December 2013 (1 year 7 months)Greater Chicago Area
  47. Renthop.com is an innovative site that allows people to easily search rental properties that meet their criteria, without having to go through craigslist or brokers. It started in NYC, where it is now the second largest apartment search site after Craiglist. After working on the Boston site during the summer of 2012, I worked on business development for the Chicago version. Renthop is now nationwide.
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  49. Y-Combinator funded and featured in a Harvard Business School case study for a course on entrepreneurship.
  50. Consultant
  51. SAIC
  52. March 2012 – December 2012 (10 months)Chicago, IL
  53. SAIC is a research firm that provides consulting services to government agencies such as the Department of Defense. I am currently consulting for a project that uses financial market data to predict major geopolitical events.
  54. Research Analyst and Trader
  55. Tradelink
  56. May 2006 – February 2012 (5 years 10 months)Chicago, IL
  57. I worked as a research analyst and trader in a quantitative trading group that traded equity pairs deploying statistical arbitrage. My job consisted of executing trades for portfolio managers, working with programmers and quants to better refine the model, identify any problems in our algorithm, do research on market forces that can affect our portfolio, recommend ways to manage our risk, backtest equity pairs using different parameters, as well as hedge highly volatile positions through ETFs and index futures. In 2011 I led the team in making major changes to our strategies, in response to the Eurozone debt crisis and U.S. debt ceiling negotiations and the ensuing market volatility that followed..
  58. Proprietary Trader
  59. LAS Holdings
  60. 2005 – 2005 (less than a year)
  61. I traded Euribor futures spreads, provided summary of european market activity to senior traders, and checked daily position reports.
  62. Volunteer Experience & Causes
  63. Minds MatterAlumni Director
  64. Minds Matter
  65. October 2011 – March 2014 (2 years 6 months)Education
  66. Minds Matter is a nonprofit organization that mentors disadvantaged high school students and helps them achieve their dreams of attending college. I served as a mentor for two years, an associate member of the fundraising board for one year, and currently serve as alumni director.
  67. Alumni interviewer
  68. Penn Secondary School Committee
  69. October 2010 – Present (5 years 1 month)Education
  70. I interview high school senior applicants to Penn.
  71. Test Scores
  72. GMAT
  73. Score: 740, 97th percentile
  74. October 2012
  75. 48 Quant, 44 Verbal, perfect scores on integrated reasoning and analytical writing.
  76. GRE
  77. Score: 327, out of 340 max
  78. October 2012
  79. Skills
  80. Microsoft ExcelBloombergVBAPythonRRisk Management
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