Adam Rubinsky

New York, NY; Evanston, IL · (713) 632-5550 · adam.rubinsky@gmail.com

I am currently pursuing my MBA at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management. My passion to make the world a better place through technology has guided my career, where I now focus on bringing innovation to industries that have historically been resistant to change - such as Financial Services.

During my time at Kellogg, I am pursuing my interests in early stage investing, fintech, enterprise SaaS, and technology strategy and product management. My prior experience includes Product Management at Amazon, Venture Capital Investing at Moderne Ventures and Illuminate Ventures, Technology Strategy Consulting at Accenture, and Business Operations at Vital Farms.

I am an analytically-minded problem solver with a strong need for continuous growth and a thirst to always be learning about new topics and ideas. I love working cross-functionally and in teams to generate innovative solutions and insights. I excel at breaking down problems to their core elements, especially in high-pressure situations.


Experience

Senior Product Manager - Technical

Amazon
  • Conducted first-person user experience study benchmarking AWS serverless capabilities against leading cloud service providers Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

  • Presented 12 key recommendations to AWS Serverless Experience and AWS Lambda product teams and created roadmap for implementation of prioritized changes.

June 2021 - August 2021

Venture Capital Associate

Moderne Ventures
  • Led extensive diligence process and wrote investment memo for $4 Million Series A1 investment in Kaiyo (used furniture marketplace). Conducted interviews with executive team, financial evaluation, and competitive analysis.

  • Developed new markets hypotheses in potential investment opportunity areas, including financial accessibility, ESG, and tenant risk, through detailed market sizing, competitive landscape analysis, and growth forecasting.

  • Screened and conducted diligence process in evaluating 50+ early-stage technology companies within finance, insurance, home services, and real estate markets for Seed, Series A, and Series B investments.
January 2021 - June 2021

Venture Capital Associate

Illuminate Ventures
  • Crafted sector analysis and hypothesis on AI and Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) software, used to inform General Partners on new area of exploration and on viability of Seed investment in Continuous AutoML Platform.
April 2020 - September 2021

Technology Strategy Consultant

Accenture
  • Directed workshops with 40+ senior technology employees (including CIO) to guide new IT operating model design at Fortune 250 capital markets firm; Integrated 9 siloed IT groups into a unified federated model.

  • Developed three-year business case and roadmap for IT human capital reallocation at Fortune 250 insurance firm, achieving $53.8M in cost savings used to fund cloud adoption and API development initiatives.

  • Designed and implemented strategy to overhaul on-premise consumer data storage interface, containing data from 130+ million customers, to cloud datastore; generated annual savings of $40+M for large retail bank.

  • Delivered oral sales presentations and selected as lead for innovative cloud strategy engagement at Fortune 100 credit card provider due to strong relationship with client leadership, resulting in $3.5M revenue for Accenture.

  • Managed 12-person development squad to build cloud-based data tables and connections on large-scale data migration from 23 legacy systems to AWS, coordinating with 18 business segments of Fortune 100 bank.

  • Assessed 62 processes for automation potential at top 3 Canadian Bank; developed proof of concept automation for fraud & risk line of business, improving fraud detection action time by 6X and saving ~$11M annually.
October 2016 - August 2020

Education

KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT - NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Master's of Business Administration
Focus Areas: Technology Management & Finance

Leadership: President – Fintech@Kellogg Club; Fintech Career Trek Leader; KWEST Leader

August 2020 - June 2022

Vanderbilt University

Bachelor of Engineering
Major: Mechanical Engineering; Minors: Economics, Engineering Management

GPA: 3.6

Leadership: Founder and Vice President, Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity

August 2012 - May 2016

Skills

Expertise in:
  • Fintech
  • Cloud Architecture
  • Analytics and Data Visualization
  • Microsoft Excel

Programming Languages & Tools

Interests

Outside of my professional pursuits, I moonlight as a DJ (check out my SoundCloud below). I also enjoy keeping active as much as possible, primarily through playing basketball and hiking whenever I can get near some mountains.

I enjoy watching Houston sports teams (although lately they feel tragically cursed) and Formula One Racing. I've also gotten into reading quite a bit lately, and especially enjoy Sci-Fi sagas such as Dune or Foundation. I also thoroughly enjoy learning new things, so as part of my journey in learning to code, I built this resume website using Python's Flask Framework and AWS Serverless services.