Yichen Wu

Tesseract is a forerunner in the evolving digital asset sector and has multi-disciplinary expertise in investing, portfolio management, capital markets, and blockchain technology. As a digital asset technology firm, we are dedicated to providing high-quality service and aim to maintain long-term partnerships with our institutional clients. Link: https://www.tesseractinvestment.com

EntoCube is a startup that develops automated farming technology and solutions for mass producing insects for human consumption, in both urban and rural settings. EntoCube also has a portfolio of insect-based food products distributed through 40+ retail locations. In my capacity as co-founder and board member, I created business plans and growth strategy, managed R&D and operations, recruited CEO and built teams, raised financing, drove key account sales, managed strategic sourcing and worked with partners.

Member of the Scope Management team in Nordea’s Core Banking Program (CBP), a +€1bn, 3y digital platform project. It is the largest core banking transformation in the Nordics and the cornerstone to Nordea’s ambition to fully embrace digital banking. Define and prioritized program deliveries to the business; solve mission-critical business and technical issues within complex environment; conduct cross-disciplinary analysis, strategic and tactical solution design, while weighing trade-offs between numerous aspects and stakeholders; act as the liaison between the CBP technical delivery team and the business.

Drive financial and strategic change initiatives as a member of the EPG segment leadership team: identifying historical trends, setting targets for the sale team, quantifying impact of macroeconomic and deal-based scenarios, formulating pipeline risks and upsides, consulting business on potential whitespace and other various analytical inputs Lead end-to-end forecasting and budgeting processes for EPG, triangulate with segment leadership, sales, corp, product group and pipeline inputs; streamline and maintain rhythm of business (ROB) processes

Worked with both BCG and client teams to support top management of leading global organizations in both strategic and operational initiatives Projects span across various fields including strategy and due diligence in technology, industrial goods in both Europe and Asia as well as public sector in the Middle East Responsible for delivering complex problem solving and recommendations for project modules through a diverse set of tasks, e.g. financial modeling, running workshops, strategic analysis, market research and conducting expert/client interviews

Member of the Structured Finance , Credit Products (Guarantees) team.

Responsible for constructing complex business simulation models using Excel & VBA Conducted rigorous research extracting realistic parameters for simulation models Provided simulation model support to clients around the world