SUFYAN OSAMAH
New York, NY | hello@sufyanosamah.com | linkedin.com/in/sufyanosamah | sufyanosamah.com
Business operator and builder at the intersection of product, tech, data, and finance. Ex-McKinsey, VC-backed startup founder ($750K+ raised, $25M GMV). Now supercharged with AI.
Experience
HONESTDOG — Co-Founder & CEO
- Built consumer marketplace to become the go-to platform for finding and caring for dogs in Europe, bringing transparency and trust to the continent's 3rd-largest illegal market
- Raised $750K+ from VCs and angel investors; scaled marketplace to $25M annual GMV and 30K monthly organic traffic
- Automated operations to run platform independently, maintaining 30K monthly organic traffic with zero team overhead
PICUS CAPITAL — Visiting Analyst
- Evaluated deals, sourced startups, and conducted market analysis across technology sectors
- Helped launch a FinTech startup — developed the MVP, acquired pilot customers, and hired the founding team to take it forward
MCKINSEY & COMPANY — Business Analyst Graduate
- Optimized operations of Fortune 500 CPG companies, driving an estimated $20M+ in cost savings by baselining and benchmarking using operational, financial, and mathematical models
- Expanded McKinsey's capabilities by developing a rapid operations sustainability baselining and benchmarking solution to pilot stage (Scope I, II, III)
- Boosted benchmarking efficiency 40-60% per project by automating reporting and designing modular data collection
AMAZON — Financial Analyst Intern
- Performed Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) for fulfillment centers across continental Europe
- Built pilot benchmarking solution for 20+ FCs across continental Europe, identifying $10M+ in savings
UPREACH — Business Intelligence Working Student
- B2B AR photosystems startup — 6th fastest-growing tech start-up in Germany. Enabled data-driven decision-making and project-level financial transparency by building 6 fully automated BI dashboards spanning financial statements to HR
BUCKLE & SEAM — Entrepreneur in Residence
- Forbes 30 under 30 — top 100 fastest-growing startups in Germany. Enabled data-driven, transparent company culture — saved 2h/day on reporting and cross-functional communication by building fully automated dashboards across the business value chain
- Cut operations costs by 20% across production-to-last-mile delivery via improved demand planning and transparency
Personal Projects
League of Spin ( 2026–present ) — World's most comprehensive table tennis map. 40K+ spots, 80+ countries.
ProtoFitSenseAI ( 2026–present ) — AI-powered adaptive fitness companion.
Education
MSc Finance — WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany
BSc International Business — ESB Business School, Germany
Quantitative Finance Exchange — NCTU, Taiwan
Achievements & Recognition
- CFA Institute Research Challenge — EMEA Champion (top 5 of 900+ teams globally, 2021)
- Published peer-reviewed research: reverse engineering options pricing via genetic algorithms (cited) (doi.org/10.3390/ijfs7040068)
- Business Insider Germany — Top 27 under 27
- 8th place, International Mathematics Kangaroo (30,000+ competitors)
- National powerlifting record (deadlift)
- Deutschlandstipendium (German Scholarship) & WHU Campus for Finance Scholarship
Skills
Building: Cursor, Claude Code, Bubble, Webflow, Figma, AI-assisted development | Analysis: Financial modeling, data analysis, Excel/Sheets, R, Python, SQL, Tableau/PowerBI | Languages: English (native), German (proficient), Urdu (native)