Ivey HBA1 (third year). Making things, meeting people, and getting a little carried away with an idea.
A little about me ↙
What if everyday life had side quests? What if a group date worked like a dating show? What if an app could make the first move when two friends wanted to hang out?
Those became ONEXP, Ditto Group Mode, and Crossed. So yes, sometimes “hear me out” does turn into a project.
I’m in my first year of the HBA program at Ivey Business School, which makes this my third year of university. I’m working toward product management, and I’m especially drawn to consumer and social products.
In 2023, I co-founded ONEXP through Beta Camp. We imagined real-world missions, new people to meet, and AR characters hiding around the city. Very reasonable scope for five people with seven days to make a first version, obviously.
We started with Discord and posted the missions ourselves. I worked on the product vision, user flows, onboarding, and launch while leading a team across four time zones. The idea reached people in seven countries. It never became the full game we imagined, but it made me want to keep doing this.
Right now, my side quest is looking up startups I’m into and building something for them! Ditto Group Mode was my first vibe-coding project. I put together the Figma flows, a working prototype, and a concept trailer, then shared the idea with the founders. It’s a fun excuse to get curious about a product and see what else it could become.
Sometimes that means building a social product. Sometimes it means organizing the actual event.
At Western Founders Network, I went from Director of Flagship to VP of Future View, and now I’m a Senior Advisor. I led five directors across partnerships, logistics, marketing, and budgeting. We ran tech and startup events for 600+ students: Odyssey Cup, a pitch competition; Pitch the Future, a tech startup case competition; and TechX, our tech conference.
I worked on 20+ partnerships, connecting with founders from YC-backed startups and across Canada, along with accelerators and sponsors like DMZ and Ripple Ventures. There’s a lot between “we should run this” and having people in the room: reaching out, following up, getting the team on the same page, and making the details happen.
Before that, I was Director of Corporate Relations at Ivey Venture Capital Club, reaching out to VC firms and partners for collaborations and sponsorships. I got to learn about the startup world while helping other students get closer to it too.
Finance Intern, Hong Kong · Summer 2025
I worked in FP&A with data from seven-plus subsidiaries across Hong Kong and Singapore. I built financial models and dashboards to track reconciliation, transaction flows, and reporting exceptions, helping reduce manual review time by 30%.
Also got to eat a lot of Hong Kong food. Missing the food very much right now.
I also created Dypito, a startup business plan that placed 4th internationally at DECA ICDC. In short, the baby of LinkedIn and Tinder: helping people explore jobs beyond the traditional routes and meet people along the way.
I liked the idea of making career exploration feel a little more open. There are so many jobs out there that you might never think to search for.
Another side quest: creating the Bucket List Club. We might have almost got blacklisted by the principal because we kept coming up with wild events.
The ideas were there. The approvals… less so.
Giesecke+Devrient · February-June 2023
I conducted 120+ reference checks, prepared offer letters, and helped onboard 50+ new hires across Ontario and Quebec. A lot of keeping track of who needed what and making sure the next step didn’t get lost between people.
I’m also into photography, cinematography, AI filmmaking, and guitar. Making the Ditto trailer was a fun excuse to spend time in After Effects, Premiere Pro, and different AI filmmaking tools. Shoutout to Seedance and Flick AI!
And there’s plenty of life that doesn’t need to become a project. Friends, photos, a cat cuddle. I wanted a little of that here too.
