Todor Valev

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a minor in Data Science
Anticipated Grad date: May 2024
GPA: 8/10

Relevant Courses: Learning from Big Data, Strategic Management, Marketing, Statistics, Quantitative Decision Making

Danum Advisors B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands

Equity Research Analyst | Part-time
Mar 2024 – Present

• Directly reporting to the Managing Director of the fund and participating in full-scale investment due diligence process: sourcing, evaluation, financial analysis, structuring and presenting investment cases
• Analyzing potential investments performing in-depth equity research and building proprietary financial and valuation models

Learning from Big Data | RSM Course

Oct 2023

• Developed a Purchase Prediction model using boosted trees and random forest algorithms to forecast subsequent purchases of supermarket customers, scoring 2nd place for prediction accuracy in a class of 50 peers
• Built a sentiment analysis data pipeline using Naïve Bayes Classifier for movie review sentiment detection

• Won 1st place in the B&R Flowtraders (Erasmus University-wide competition) 2021-2022 Investment Competition out of 50 other student-led investment groups generating the highest risk-adjusted returns out of 11.52%
• Awarded a B&R Investor Certificate and received a EUR 1k scholarship for CAIA Alternative Investments Level 1

Technical Skills

Languages

Fluent in English and Bulgarian; Conversational proficiency in Dutch and German

Hobbies

Played League of Legends competitively, basketball semi-professionally in high school, Minecraft, traveling