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Safiya Walker

MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School

United States

Work Experience

  • MBA Candidate

    2022

  • MBA Extern

    2024 - 2024

  • MBA Summer Investment Intern

    2023 - 2023

    Founded in 2015, Silversmith Capital Partners is a Boston-based growth equity firm with $3.3 billion of capital under management. Silversmith’s mission is to partner with and support the best entrepreneurs in growing, profitable technology and healthcare companies. Representative investments include ActiveCampaign, Appfire, DistroKid, impact.com, Iodine Software, LifeStance Health, PDFTron, and Webflow. For more information, including a full list of portfolio investments, visit www.silversmith.com.

2022 - 2022

  • Product and Growth

    2022 - 2022

    Pre-seed venture building a female-led future by supporting women in technical fields. Focused on web3 in 2022. Hosted 100+ in-person events in 20+ cities and invested $1M+ into companies like Buildspace, OpenSea, Unstoppable Domains, Shima and Faction VC.

2019 - 2022

  • Sr. Associate, Business Development & Strategic Partnerships

    2021 - 2022

  • Associate, Business Development & Strategic Partnerships

    2019 - 2021

    Building breakthrough crypto solutions for a world without economic borders. Our vision is to enable the world to move value like information moves today. We're building the Internet of Value. Responsible for business development, strategic product partnerships & growth

2017 - 2019

  • Product Strategy (Consumer Growth)

    2019 - 2019

    Member of the 8-person 2017 class in the Strategy & Analytics Leadership Program. Gained a holistic understanding of how to operate a global tech company at scale. Led consumer growth initiatives, filed a patent with my cross-functional team, conducted user experience research etc. Most importantly, I worked with incredible people everyday to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce.

  • Product Marketing (Consumer)

    2018 - 2019

  • Business Operations & Analytics (Long-Term Strategy)

    2018 - 2018

  • Sales Strategy & Operations (Flagship)

    2017 - 2018

  • Summer Associate

    2016 - 2016

    Interned in Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) practice area on a product strategy case.

  • Global Markets Sales and Trading Summer Analyst

    2015 - 2015

    Rotated through EFS Credit Structuring, Equities Marketing, Interest Rates Sales and presented a final project for each rotation to MDs and teams

  • Investment Management Intern

    2014 - 2014

    Prepared 20+ page research analysis of the Metals & Mining industry and Alcoa Inc. as a potential portfolio investment, Presented recommendation to portfolio managers and 50 other key stakeholders