Kai Cash

Co-Founder

2023

building

Co-Founder and CEO

2022 - 2023

A retail and wholesale marketplace for retailers and consumers to find new and unique premium beauty and wellness products from the world's diasporas.

Entrepreneur In Residence

2022 - 2023

2nd Entrepreneur in Residence at the Hub. Envisioning and documenting interesting ways to accelerate the clean energy transition through the use of natural ecosystems, carbon markets, and systems design.

Investor

2021 - 2022

Financial Analyst

2020 - 2021

I am a finance controller at Microsoft serving in Corporate External and Legal Affairs -- supporting the U.S. Government, E.U., and U.N. affairs teams. This work provides a deeper understanding of how private sector firms leverage emerging technology and talent to solve complex problems. I aided in maintaining a model to efficiently spend Microsoft’s internal carbon tax revenue, helped to construct Microsoft’s carbon offset portfolio, and drafted Microsoft's first Environmental Justice Plan. Also, I contributed to Microsoft’s attainment of higher revenue from investment in high growth startups through Microsoft’s venture capital arm (M12).

Associate @ Blackstone Launchpad in Partnership with Techstars

2020 - 2020

Intern at CapitalG

2018 - 2018

Advised & facilitated solutions on CX taxonomy, sales intros, & marketing for C-suites of B2B & B2C portfolio companies Planned & executed Customer Experience (CX) workshop, facilitating best practices sharing for 25 CX leads (12 companies) Wrote a contact rate reduction playbook for the CapitalG growth team to centralize learnings of all portfolio companies Executed D&I workshop for 40 D&I leads (15 companies) to build actionable plans (product, people, internal & external comms.) Analyzed & catalogued financial metrics for 100+ private companies to assess successful ventures & inform future investments Designed a framework for machine learning integration, leading to increased efficiency for reporting new companies Created​ ​150+ private company profiles in Salesforce for due diligence

Intern

2016 - 2016

J-PAL South Asia is conducting a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the impact of incentivising Tuberculosis (TB) patients to refer people from within their social networks for free screening on increasing the overall detection and treatment compliance rates of TB in India. The study is being conducted in partnership with Operation ASHA, an NGO that runs TB DOTS centers in India. This evaluation will be conducted with approximately 5000 patients across 5 states. -Assisted on a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the impact of incentivizing Tuberculosis (TB) patients to refer people from within their social networks for free screening on increasing the overall detection and treatment compliance rates of TB in India. -Organized field plans and implementation protocols -Contributed to field data collection efforts -Tested survey instruments used for data collection.