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- engagekit.io to boost your LinkedIn outbound and organic inbound traffic
- geekgrind.co to ace your next IGCSE and A-level exams with real exam question banks and AI tutors

And 4 more apps to launch in 2025.

Ky-Nam 🧑‍🚀

Boston Children's Hospital

-Working with hospital staff, corporate partners, doctors, and students in residency to provide insight into patient care experience

Advisory Board Member

Tractus

-Facilitating investment mission for economic development agency. In charge of client communication, B2B sales matching, and internal data tracking. Resulting in 96% client satisfaction. Built long-term client relationships by regularly checking in to assess needs, ensuring high engagement and repeat business. 
-Member of APAC investor attraction generation project. Managing outreach to existing and new contacts via CRM system and optimizing client presentations using data-driven intelligence and lead signals. Adhered to strict KPI’s resulting in 4 new cross-border partnerships spanning various sectors. 
-Prepared various market research and strategy development reports through in-person and phone interviews spanning product demand forecasting, competitor metrics mapping, and risk assessment. 
-Executing APAC Partner and M&A search for leading American pharma manufacturer by vetting 200 potential partners from client specific standards and assessments. Presenting 3 finalists to executives.
-Marketing coordinator for Thailand office. Developing written marketing content on Asia wide market investment trends and conducting targeted cold calls to potential clients, presenting new sales opportunities to C-suite.

Market Strategy Analyst

Princeton in Asia

-Collaborating with a multidisciplinary and multicultural team to provide consulting and marketing support.
-Conducting research and analysis for consulting projects, as well as crafting corporate communications and marketing materials.

Analyst | Princeton in Asia Fellow

StreetWise Partners

-Participating in a competitive, one-year workforce development program with a focus on essential professional development and social capital building
-Collaborating with a professional mentor to submit high-quality, weekly deliverables support and focus on my professional goals
-Participating in exclusive networking events and workshops with the top business and finance companies

Apprentice

Elon University

-Built an internal gratitude tracking system to organize and manage over 6,000 donations totaling over $50,000
-Collaborated with senior executives and trustee members to communicate student perspective in long term philanthropy plan 
-Budgeted $200,000 to engage entire senior class for philanthropy events

Gratitude Director in Office of Advancement 

-Devised a multi-functional training plan for newly hired tour guides resulting in a 90% increase in employee confidence in taking on new role.   
-Organized and facilitated hiring process by creating a systematic coding mechanism to read over 200 applications, ran hybrid interviews for over 100 applicants, and on-boarded 40 applicants.  
-Oversee the campus visit experience for approximately 1,200 families daily by ensuring the guides are professional and courteous and creating diverse programming targeted to the needs of specific groups. 
-Coordinated weekly professional staff meetings.

Campus Visit Intern 

Working with students who have a disability to help navigate the academic, social, and cultural responsibilities of college life by the means of advice parried with mentorship to help cultivate a connection between mentor and mentee.

Disabilities Resources Academic Mentor

Help to foster an inclusive campus through dialogue, panels, tours, and host for overnight students that are interested in learning more about the Elon experience. On my tours, I discuss finances along with other aspects of the college experience with families and school counselors. In addition, I help hire as well as train new Tour Guides by introducing them to the functions of public speaking, the content of the school, and more through implementing constructive criticism of their pre-existing knowledge.

Elon University Diversity Ambassador/Elon University Tour Guide and Training Team member

-Selected to participate in program designed to raise civic engagement and social responsibility in Sri Lanka
-Studied Sri Lankan history and culture and learned how to provide assistance in an international setting.
-Worked with team of 10 peers to brainstorm and evaluate project ideas; group decided to document critical LGBTQ narratives within the country to increase understanding and acceptance.
-Constructed social media plan for promoting the program’s mission and the present project. 
-Developed project budget by consulting with facility mentors, running risk management analysis, and negotiating grant proposals with senior university officials.

Periclean Scholar

PepsiCo

-Strategically built and managed accurate sales pipeline and maintained high volume of activity, including social selling, emails, and outbound calls. 
-Consulted with major customers, including Walmart, Publics, Kroger, and Target, to assess success of current product sales and to determine new potential sales opportunities.  
-Performed outside business-to-business sales with proven proficiency in targeting new customers. 
-Created new onboarding process for new hires and trained about 10 managers and 15 new hires in local office as program pilot; process will be implemented throughout within the Georgia market immediately.
-Evaluated success of new onboarding process through surveys and townhall meetings; findings demonstrated a 20% increase in new employee preparedness.  
-Presented findings and solutions to senior leadership in final report

Sales Manager

I’ve always thrived on being first. First to raise my hand in class, first to try a new street food item, first to get my hands dirty and do the hard work others avoid. My instinct to lean into uncertainty and momentum has shaped the way I work and the environments I seek out.

It’s what brought me to Asia through the highly selective Princeton in Asia fellowship, where I now work at Tractus Asia helping global companies and founders break into and expand across some of the most complex markets. From mapping $200M+ commercial opportunities to sourcing strategic partners across India, Vietnam, Malaysia, and China, I’ve learned to blend analysis with action and turn research into revenue.

I’m drawn to messy, early-stage problems and love helping teams see through the fog. Whether it’s GTM planning, capital introductions, or outbound sales, I help create clarity by matching the right people at the right moments in the right places. Increasingly, I’m focused on how AI can streamline early-stage diligence. I’m growth-obsessed and customer + client first...always!

Outside of work, I run Sabai Dog, where I serve up NYC-style hot dogs on the streets of Bangkok. If you ever want to talk go-to-market, global expansion, or mustard vs. ketchup, I’m your guy.

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