Sid Pailla ☀️

We work with impactful leaders to make workforce financial well-being easy, accessible, and rewarding - starting with emergency savings. Alumnus of Financial Solutions Lab, Techstars, Global Good Fund, MassChallenge FinTech, Lighthouse Labs, gener8tor Impact Academy, FoundersBoost, and more. Advocate of federal and state policies for workplace emergency savings, National Financial Inclusion Strategy (via Aspen FSP), US Chamber of Commerce Foundation's Talent Finance Initiative Network, and more.

Non-profit that delivers individualized health + financial resource navigation services for low- and moderate-income employees, and strategic insights to employer's leadership. Emergency loans available in Colorado. A necessary benefit for retaining today's frontline workforce and unlocking invaluable time for HR.

Received patent and Accenture Strategy's Innovation Award - Co-architected, developed, and received a patent for an allocation model that more precisely estimated product profitability in multi-layer complex organizations, leading to improved product portfolio strategy at Large Telecommunications Company - Developed a negotiations analysis tool for a Large Telecommunications Company to identify double-digit savings in wireless tower leasing - Created a multi-billion dollar business case for large scale product technology modernization for a Large Telecommunications company - Established and drove core transformation value case for the CTO function at world's largest Gaming company - Managed and drove value case post merger for CIO function of a Fortune 100 industrials company - Defined IT vision and transformation roadmap for High-Growth Life Sciences Company's IT organization to support business growth - Enabled IT Transformation through sourcing strategy at a Manufacturing Company - Identified a growth-focused finance strategy at an International Non-Profit through channel improvement and overhead cost realignment Extracurricular: - Co-authored PoV on business impact of disruptive technology in Communications, Media, and High Tech - Recruit from business schools - Mentor aspiring entrepreneurs at the high school and undergraduate levels

Founded HiComm to streamline communications between community members in rural South Africa and non-profit organizations delivering essential human services (e.g., water). - Brought together an interdisciplinary team of students to pursue HiComm's vision - Won several grants, including from the esteemed South Africa's National Research Foundation, to deliver innovative communication experiences in rural and low-income areas - Designed and built cloud communications-integrated software based on behavioral science and service-learning principles to provide messaging access to 14M+ rural South Africans - Fostered multi-national partnerships with institutions in South Africa, India, and US to research impact of communication systems on service delivery in water, sanitation, health services, energy, and entrepreneurship services

Developed Inclusivity Systems Framework for Communication Systems - the idea that communication that includes Base of the Pyramid populace must be built on trust, which in turn is culturally built on inclusivity. I argue that inclusivity is derived by: economic affordability, dialogue- and group-focused design, and technological accessibility. In essence, I bridged behavioral economics and systems thinking to derive a unique approach to creating systems for broader populaces. Previous work: Recruited and led several student teams on a mission to improve water infrastructure in rural South Africa. Sought to understand how to deliver water systems while also disseminating entrepreneurial principles within the community to encourage essential human service markets. Integrated two decision tools to form LOCCA (Louis-Ostrom Comprehensive Capacity Assessment), which layers multi-level institutional factors on the underlying development capacity of locales. Provided case study through an assessment of a 3.5M person district in India, results from which improved water services.

Received Letter of Distinction for excellence in teaching. Classes that I have TA'ed include: - Database Management (x3) - Discrete Event Simulation - Risk Analysis - Ethics, Protocols, and Practices in International Research x2 - Multivariate Calculus

Analyzed data from a Human In The Loop simulation testing new navigation technologies – RNAV, RPI Literature research to compare ground and cockpit-based solutions to air traffic problems, to be published

Dissertation: "Designing Appropriate Information and Communication Technologies for the Base of the Pyramid" - A novel framework that bridged behavioral economic and systems thinking principles to create a capability assessment of communities' and countries' information and communication technology for development (ICT4D). The results in turn become design inputs for building more inclusive ICT4Ds to impact change in essential human services such as water, sanitation, and energy.

Lee R. Johnston Scholarship - merit-based scholarship for students pursuing entrepreneurship

Graduated with High Distinction