Ryan Albert
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Finance Expert
Newport Beach, United States
Toptal member since June 7, 2018
Ryan, a Princeton graduate, has worked as a venture capitalist at Altpoint, an investment banker at Deutsche Bank, and as a corporate strategist at Vice Media. He's built financial models, led capital raises and executed $6+ billion in M&A and VC transactions for internet, media, and software companies. He works with entrepreneurs and funds around the world as a freelancer and joined Toptal to continue working on challenging projects.
Career Highlights
Education Highlights
Case Studies
Investor Presentation
Market Research and Valuation
Industry Expertise
- Finance
- Venture Capital & Private Equity
- Media & Internet
- Food & Beverage
- Real Estate
- Retail
- Software
- Transportation
Other Expertise
- Budgeting
- Investment Analysis
- Latin America (LATAM)
Work Experience
Founder
RAA Capital
- Founded a company that provides freelancing services to early- and late-stage startups, large businesses, venture capital firms, and private equity funds globally.
- Built a financial model, unit economic analysis, competitor analysis, and budget and fundraising deck for an early-stage international startup looking to raise $10-to-$20 million of capital in the United States.
- Created a valuation analysis, investment memorandum, and term sheet for an international venture capital fund's prospective ~$10 million Series A investment in a financial technology startup.
- Built a revenue model, KPI dashboard, and investor presentation for a private artificial intelligence company updating its top investors on performance, a recent sales strategy shift, product market fit, and future fundraising needs.
Associate
Altpoint Ventures
- Worked directly with the founders of incubating portfolio companies to develop business plans, product market fit, and marketing strategies along with providing financial planning, capital budgeting, financial modeling, and fundraising support.
- Led market research, due diligence, investment thesis creation, and financial valuation analyses for prospective early-stage investments and follow-on investments in a ~$100 million on-demand transportation services company and a ~$200 million big data location-based advertising startup.
- Led the fund valuation and the limited partner and year-end audit reporting for venture capital and private equity portfolios—performing comparable company, discounted cash flows, and sum-of-the-parts analyses for pre-revenue and mature companies.
Investment Banking Senior M&A Analyst
Wells Fargo Securities
- Created a financial model, merger analysis, and management presentation for the ~$200 million divestment of a subsidiary of a large publicly-traded company to an international private equity fund.
- Built a merger model incorporating multiple financing scenarios for a publicly-traded REIT client purchasing a ~$3 billion asset portfolio from a large diversified REIT.
- Developed a detailed merger model and comparable company analysis for a publicly-traded food and beverage client pursuing strategic public and private company acquisition opportunities.
- Provided financial projections, discounted cash flow analysis, comparable company analysis, and merger scenarios for a large publicly-traded clothing retailer pursuing strategic alternatives including a potential sale of a core real estate asset to provide cash for future deal financing.
Senior Analyst, Corporate Strategy
Vice Media
- Developed the capital budgeting, revenue growth, and cost optimization strategies for agency, television, and digital media business segments.
- Worked with the sales operations to perform large-scale analytics on thousands of product revenue orders to equip salespeople with insights into critical trends of core clients.
- Built a company-wide financial model, including detailed yearly budget and projections for the individual business segments.
- Worked with the corporate development team to provide capital structure analysis and to determine the proforma budget impact of acquisitions made by the company.
- Developed potential synergies and determined the pro forma budget impact of carving out various business segments and strategically regrouping the units based on their overlapping costs and business focuses.
Investment Banking M&A Analyst
Deutsche Bank
- Built a merger model, including the discounted cash flow and leveraged buyout analysis, along with a confidential information memorandum for the sale of a middle-market private transportation company to a large private equity buyer.
- Created a bottoms-up property by property financial model to develop merger scenarios and valuation, along with a comparable company and transaction analysis, for the multi-billion dollar sale of a large publicly-traded real estate company.
- Performed a discounted cash flow and leveraged buyout analysis incorporating net operating losses for the sale of a legacy infrastructure asset.
- Developed a proprietary global M&A research report for company-wide distribution, covering critical macroeconomics trends, themes, and insights on the M&A industry.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Economics
Princeton University - Princeton, NJ, USA
Skills
Finance
Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Fundraising, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Three-statement Modeling, Market Research, Valuation, Financial Modeling, Leveraged Buyout Modeling, Budgeting, Capital Raising, Investment Return Scenario Analysis, Investment Thesis, Investment Portfolio Management, Operational Finance, Capital Budgeting, Transaction Modeling, Capital Structure Analysis, Equity Financing, Debt Raises, Comparable Company Analysis, Private Company Valuation, Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), Revenue & Expense Projections, Cost Management, Cost Reduction & Optimization (Cost-down), Profitability Analysis
Output Software
Excel 2010, Microsoft PowerPoint
Data & Analysis Software
Bloomberg, Capital IQ
Industry Expertise
Technology, Real Estate, Food & Beverage, Retail & Wholesale, Venture Capital, Software, Transportation & Shipping
Geographic Expertise
United States, Latin America (LATAM)
Other
Pitch Books, Investment Analysis, Business Strategy, Business Models, TMT, eCommerce, Consumer Marketplaces, Startups, Board Presentations, Business Planning, Early-stage Venture Capital, Marketplaces, Fintech, Finance, Financial Statements, Digital Media, Infrastructure, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Presentations, Early-stage Funding, Market Sizing
How to Work with Toptal
Toptal matches you directly with global industry experts from our network in hours—not weeks or months.
Share your needs
Choose your talent
Start your risk-free talent trial
Top talent is in high demand.
Start hiring