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 founder ($25M Marketplace GMV).

Experience

HONESTDOG — Co-Founder & CEO
Berlin, Germany | 2022–2026
  • 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
  • Scaled marketplace to $25M annual GMV and 30K monthly organic traffic
PICUS CAPITAL — Visiting Analyst
Munich, Germany | 2021
  • 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
Munich, Germany | 2019–2020
  • 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
Munich, Germany | 2018
  • 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
Hsinchu, Taiwan (Remote) | 2017
  • 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
Berlin, Germany | 2016–2017
  • 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 — World's most comprehensive table tennis map. 40K+ spots, 80+ countries.

ProtoFitSenseAI — AI-powered adaptive fitness companion.

Education

MSc Finance — WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany
2020–2022
BSc International Business — ESB Business School, Germany
2016–2019
Quantitative Finance Exchange — NCTU, Taiwan
2018–2019

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)

Skills

AI & Engineering: Production LLM integrations (Anthropic API, streaming, agents), Next.js, NestJS, TypeScript, Python, AWS (Amplify, App Runner, EC2, S3, CloudFront), PostgreSQL, Cursor, Claude Code | Data & Analytics: SQL, BigQuery, GA4, Looker Studio, R, Python, Tableau, financial modeling, options pricing (published research) | Business: Strategy (ex-McKinsey), fundraising ($750K raised), P&L ownership, marketplace dynamics, SEO, partnerships, GTM