Robert MacLeod

About Robert MacLeod

Alacrity by definition,\"A cheerful willingness to serve.\"In the same way most people read books (literature), that’s the way I read business (Financial Statements).”Businesses exist to solve problems, I have found financial, supply chain problems to be the most difficult, naturally gravitating scalable analytics based solutions bridging both: Freight Audit & Payment with Financial Management/Operations Consulting leveraging a configurable analytics stack.Subject Matter Expertise and Core Competencies- Supply Chain Finance: Distribution Centers and Transportation- Freight Audit & Payment: Invoicing- Inbound & Outbound Transportation: Ocean, Air, Trucking, Domestic, 3PL, LTL/FTL- Shipping Programs, Performance Metrics, Mode Enhancement, Cost Analytics,(DIFOT/SIFOT)- ROI: Product, R&D, Pipeline, Initiatives- Merger & Acquisitions - due diligence packages, pro forma statements- Technology Transfer & Business Development growth: asset protection- Market Evaluations, go to market initiatives, partnership collaboration- Strategic Planning, STS/LTS, Ops & Finance- Deep Dive market evaluation & segmentation for Collaborations and product growth opportunities- Competitive Intelligence for deep dive market/finance analytics to support corporate strategyEach role has influenced my personal brand and approach in critical analysis for problem solving from Leadership Principles, Maxims, Corporate and Culture Values, and personal philosophies. A current Mentor and multi-company CFO Ryan Dunlap bestowed this message:“All analytics have 3 basic silos: Data, Information, Knowledge. It is your job to tell the story and share the narrative through that lens.” Amazon has rounded off this mantra perfectly with their leadership principle “Bias for Action.” Once at the point of knowledge, if becomes the role of an industry leader and influencer to create guidance and recommendations for a path forward, or a multitude of well vetted options for a path forward.Nike\'s culture, product and branding over work product, forced a “Professional Skepticism” philosophy, or is “The right person, in the right place, with the right SME, asking the right question, at the right time?” This mindset is the guidance across solution architecture in mitigation of current or future problems.True Innovation, operates within the full scientific method for rigor and testing, but under the language of business operations and finance.

Experience

1. Founder Developer

   Latte Solutions

   Jan 2022 — Present · NY, US

   First Service lines address client profiles across Freight Analytics that start on a per contract engagements, with the end goal of a forward looking sustainable architecture. In a world of multiple data sources daisy chained together, our process can manage a unified data source in an unstructured format, then determine whether a technical structure is required (think SQL) or if centralized & unified ingestion (think document) is optimal for speed of analytics.Results achieved through doing 100 heuristics, i.e. simple algorithms for complex problems, with excellence to tackle large stack performance management targets.The secondary business line is market data science to identify, create, and implement durable investment strategies with proper Risk-to-Reward ratios. The peak of our firm\'s hierarchy of needs is Capital Preservation, a principle we keep at the forefront of our decision making for an investment thesis.Founded with manual trading strategies with a 5-year track record of success, as a self-taught Python Developer, algorithms enable a new levels of risk management, which human emotion(s) cannot supersede keeping logic as the highest order of decision making. As Principal Founder, our core thesis is to find opportunities for \"Conservative-Aggression\" in which the highest financial gain can be met, while being mindful of all risk scenarios during all stages of investments. Maintaining a status as a privately held Incubator Hedge Fund structures that results are not subject to public disclosure, but maintain a profitability ratio of 1.82% daily CAGR across our primary strategies.

Education

• University of Washington

  Professional Accounting & Finance Certification, Accounting and Finance

  2014

• Central Catholic High School - Portland

  High School Diploma

  2002 — 2006

• Willamette University MBA

  MBA, Finance, Accounting, Entrepreneurship

  2012 — 2014

• Seattle University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), General Science: Chemistry & Biology

  2006 — 2011

Skills

• Research
• Leadership
• Public Speaking
• Microsoft Office
• Nonprofits
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Fundraising
• Microsoft Word
• Marketing
• Data Analysis
• Market Research
• Customer Service
• Social Media
• Business Development
• Business Planning
• Event Planning
• Community Outreach
• Outlook
• Economics
• Quantitative Analytics
• Report Writing
• Entrepreneurship