Brian Pallas

About Brian Pallas

Brian Pallas is CEO and Founder of Opportunity Network, the invitation-only platform that enables highly-screened CEOs and decision-makers to connect on business deals above $2.5Mn. Opportunity Network counts CEOs in 120 countries, and has hosts $540Bn in deal flow.Opportunity Network partners with top financial institutions like UBS, Credit Suisse, ABN Amro, CaixaBank, Nedbank and Citizens, alongside some of the World\'s best CEO associations like YPO and EO.Its team counts over 40+ different nationalities and operating all over the world. Among other publications, Opportunity Network has been featured by the Financial Times (http://on.ft.com/1Qn0wzQ), Forbes (http://onforb.es/1Qn0aJp) and other international publications (for more information: Opportunity Network, Brian worked at the Boston Consulting Group (“BCG”), a global top management consulting firm. He worked in Private Equity for three different funds and managed the sales process of two companies as an Investment Banking. Brian started his career as a scriptwriter for a prime-time Italian TV show, Zelig, with an audience of over 3 million viewers. In 2014, Brian earned his MBA from Columbia Business School. He also holds a B.S. in Show Business Management and an M.S. in Economics that he achieved graduating cum laude from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. In 2014 Brian has been nominated in 2014 for the Wired Audi Innovation Award by Wired Italy as one of the most promising Under 35. In 2016, at the age of 28, he has been selected as a judge by Forbes to identify the best 30 Under 30 for the first European edition of the ranking. Brian is also part of the Expert Network of the World Economic Forum.

Experience

1. Expert Network

   World Economic Forum

   Oct 2016 — Present

   In order to improve the quality of decision-making at a time of increasing complexity, the World Economic Forum seeks to provide leaders with an efficient way of interacting with the collective intelligence of the Forum’s wide network of experts to improve the state of the world. The Network brings together the key transformations affecting industries, economies and global issues, and the associated experts and activities.

Education

• Columbia University

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Entrepreneurship

  2012 — 2014

• Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

  110 e lode, Economics

  2005 — 2010

Skills

• Business Strategy
• Due Diligence
• Market Analysis
• Italian
• Corporate Finance
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Entrepreneurship
• Internetworking
• Financial Modeling
• Management
• Strategic Consulting
• Management Consulting
• Business Networking
• Forecasting
• Start-Ups Management
• Strategic Planning
• Leadership
• Business Planning
• Market Research
• Mobile Internet
• Mergers
• Competitive Analysis
• Strategy
• Private Equity