Freights Bay Digital Asset Management
Founder, Founder, CEO
Launched to world's only hedge fund dedicated to clean energy bitcoin yield
Patrick Hidalgo
Hedge Fund Manager
Hedge Fund Manager
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Experience
Chief Financial Officer
Fundraising & Investor Relations
• Developed a compelling value proposition and key messaging for fundraising.
• Provided market insights to the management team,... more including financial trends, investor concerns, and competitor
actions, and anything that might impact the company.
Strategy, Planning and Management
• Assisted in formulating the company's future direction and supporting tactical initiatives.
• Acted as strategic business partner to the executive leadership team.
• Evaluated financial performance of organization regarding short-term operational goals, budgets, and forecasts.
Financial Analysis, Budgeting and Forecasting
• Identified, developed, and executed analysis of business initiatives, product launches and/or new service offerings.
• Created reports and implemented software and tools for budgeting and forecasting.
• Developed a compelling value proposition and key messaging for fundraising.
• Provided market insights to the management team,... more including financial trends, investor concerns, and competitor
actions, and anything that might impact the company.
Strategy, Planning and Management
• Assisted in formulating the company's future direction and supporting tactical initiatives.
• Acted as strategic business partner to the executive leadership team.
• Evaluated financial performance of organization regarding short-term operational goals, budgets, and forecasts.
Financial Analysis, Budgeting and Forecasting
• Identified, developed, and executed analysis of business initiatives, product launches and/or new service offerings.
• Created reports and implemented software and tools for budgeting and forecasting.
Bitt
Chief Financial Officer
• Helped the company raise $18MM (created the Series B business tweet, 1 page summary and investment pitch deck).
• Collaborated with the team to deploy the world’s first... more CBDC for a currency union (the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union). Other deployments included stablecoins in Barbados, Belize, and Ukraine an d another CBDC in Nigeria.
• Developed a merchant calculator which is still being used on Bitt’s website to demonstrate how the mMoney product in Barbados can cut costs.
• Guided the company through the Central Bank of Barbados and Financial Services Commission’s Fintech regulatory sandbox.
• Had complete responsibility for Investor Relations, Financial Planning & Analysis, Forecasting, and Treasury.
• Helped bring stability during a cycle of 3 CEOs, 2 COOs, 4 CTOs, 2 CLOs, and 3 different board of directors.
• Collaborated with the team to deploy the world’s first... more CBDC for a currency union (the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union). Other deployments included stablecoins in Barbados, Belize, and Ukraine an d another CBDC in Nigeria.
• Developed a merchant calculator which is still being used on Bitt’s website to demonstrate how the mMoney product in Barbados can cut costs.
• Guided the company through the Central Bank of Barbados and Financial Services Commission’s Fintech regulatory sandbox.
• Had complete responsibility for Investor Relations, Financial Planning & Analysis, Forecasting, and Treasury.
• Helped bring stability during a cycle of 3 CEOs, 2 COOs, 4 CTOs, 2 CLOs, and 3 different board of directors.
Granicus
Technical Product Owner
a government focused, cloud-based software company * Used our version of Scaled Agile to manage the workflow of 30 products and 5 engineering teams for 1-month sprints and... more 1-year road mapping. * Managed a backlog of roughly 120 tickets / 200 story points every month.
Software Developer
* Released beta and minimum viable product (MVP) versions of Peak in React JS. * Refactored an Rspec test suite in Ruby on Rails. * Refactored Peak's Flux library from Marty... more to Redux
Rockies Venture Club
Volunteer Deal Screener and Pitch Coach
Cleantech Open
Volunteer Specialist Mentor
Self Employed
Founder
- Failed attempt at developing a Tinder for FSBO mobile application.
- Failed attempt at developing a solar project / impact investor portal.
- Failed attempt at converting... more an existing ski area into a self-sustainable eco-ski area.
- Failed attempt at developing a parking application for the city of Denver.
- Failed attempt at developing a solar project / impact investor portal.
- Failed attempt at converting... more an existing ski area into a self-sustainable eco-ski area.
- Failed attempt at developing a parking application for the city of Denver.
Proprietary Capital
Director of Trading Operations, Senior Analyst, Analyst
● Negotiated ISDAs, MRAs, MSFTAs (approximately 100 such documents).
● Designed quantitative security and portfolio level analytical tools for Agency MBS.
● Assisted... more with the editing, analysis and message of the monthly performance newsletter.
● Negotiated with auditors to adopt a new GAAP bond amortization method (constant yield method) to improve our tax exposure.
● Created a due diligence analytical framework for successfully selecting a fund administrator.
● Designed quantitative security and portfolio level analytical tools for Agency MBS.
● Assisted... more with the editing, analysis and message of the monthly performance newsletter.
● Negotiated with auditors to adopt a new GAAP bond amortization method (constant yield method) to improve our tax exposure.
● Created a due diligence analytical framework for successfully selecting a fund administrator.
Countrywide Financial
Vice President, Senior Financial Analyst, Research Analyst
● As a Product Manager, responsible for, Asset Backed Securitization (ABS) and whole loan trading of $15 billion+ of Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC), Fixed Rate Second... more (FRS) and Subprime (BC) mortgage products (roughly $825 million in gross revenue). Worked on securitization six pack, over collateralization, mono line wrap, agency wrap, pool policy, pass-throughs, and net interest margin structures.
● Developed financial models (NPV, IRR) which evaluated the product's cash flows.
● Developed financial models (NPV, IRR) which evaluated the product's cash flows.
Piper Jaffray
Information Technology Support
● Translated Excel model bond cash flows into VBA code and used Open Bloomberg as the data feed in order to calculate daily yields.
● Supported the department in all aspects... more of computer software, hardware, and networking.
● Supported the department in all aspects... more of computer software, hardware, and networking.
The Parnasus Fund
Equity Analyst Intern
● Recommended Megahertz (MEGZ) as an investment - not purchased by PARNX but gained 400% when acquired by U.S. Robotics (USRX).
● Analyzed equities based on the socially... more conscious contrarian criteria of the firm and reported results in presentations to the President, Director of Research and other interns.
● Analyzed equities based on the socially... more conscious contrarian criteria of the firm and reported results in presentations to the President, Director of Research and other interns.
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Securitized $15B worth of loans from three different product lines that I managed.
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