Hey- I’m Uly. I’m currently:
- based in Denver, Colorado 🏔
- working as a Senior Strategy Consultant at IBM Enterprise Strategy 👨🏽💻
- Board Secretary for STRIVE Preparatory Schools 👨🏽🏫
- Harvard Business School MBA 2024 Candidate 🧑🏽🎓
- Spending time outdoors: hiking🥾, trail running🏃🏽, rock climbing🧗🏼, or skiing ⛷
- Getting my art fix (after not pursuing my dream of being an artist) by checking out modern art exhibits 🖼
⚡️I’m passionate about catalyzing the economic development of underserved communities through two vehicles:
- emerging technology
- equitable access to education
my story
🏞 I grew up in a predominantly Chicano/ Mexican-American community in Southwest Denver. With the help of my parents, I started a party-rental business in high school that taught me the potential of business as a vehicle of economic and social change
🎓 I received my Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in as a double major in Economics and Government. My experience at Wes helped contextualize and formalize my entrepreneurial upbringing in Denve
🏛 Started my career as a Business Transformation Consultant at IBM’s Federal Sector in Washington DC. My experience ranged from erp implementations, ai/machine learning, and sales proposals for Cook County IL, DHS, FDA, and other federal agencies
🇲🇽 Investment Banking Intern at Evercore during the Fulbright Garcia-Robles Binational Business Program. During my Fulbright, I interned as an Investment Banking Analyst at Evercore Mexico (now TACTIV) and took MBA classes at ITAM
🌁 Senior Strategy Consultant for IBM’s Enterprise Strategy in San Francisco. My experience has ranged from building financial models, synthesizing market trends into insights, and developing digital strategies for global clients in agriculture, retail, telecomm, and healthcare.