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PitchBook: Finding a job or reinventing yourself by using better data
Private markets continue to grow in value and opportunity. To stay ahead in this competitive, fast-paced landscape, you need insight into the flow of capital across the entire venture capital, private equity, and M&A ecosystem. Rick Ruvkun will provide a review of the power of Pitchbook including data on companies, investors, funds, investment exits, and markets.
RICK RUVKUN
NEW YORK, NY
(917) 833-9795
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-ruvkun/
Rick (he/his) is a personalized career transition consultant. He has experience in recruiting and managing financial professionals. This gives him a clear understanding of the best practices job seekers can utilize to be readily recognized by recruiters and managers as standout candidates. Most recently, Rick is a Senior Consultant at Lee Hecht Harrison, a market leader in career transition and outplacement services.
Prior to becoming a career consultant, Rick spent his career managing equities for institutional clients. He is a retired Partner of Lord Abbett, a private investment management firm. Rick has a thorough understanding of how companies function from the point of view of pattern recognition and foresight into product innovation. Within asset management, Rick’s experience spans the functional areas of research, investments, institutional client relationship management and fund raising. Rick spent the past decade of his 35-year career as a Director of Equity Research and as an Equity Portfolio Manager. This experience allows him to approach and counsel clients on achieving their most productive paths to success from a broad variety of perspectives. Rick has an engineering degree from Stanford University and a Master’s degree in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
He is treasurer of Central Queens Academy in New York City as well as well as a career advisor at the MIT Sloan School of Management for the Sloan Fellows Executive MBA Program.
He is dedicated to financial literacy, mentoring college and graduate students and math literacy for first-generation students through his volunteer work.