Sean L.
MBA Intern
Experience
Jul 2025 - Aug 2025
2 monthsLondon, United Kingdom
MBA Intern
Hartree Partners
- Prepare consolidated accounts, tax adjustments, and support strategic special transactions leveraging investment banking and finance expertise, including valuation and due diligence support
- Participate in commodity trading simulations and achieve top-quartile performance; demonstrate proficiency in risk management and derivatives strategy
Apr 2025 - Present
8 monthsLondon, United Kingdom
AI Consultant
xAI (Grok)
- Lead finance capabilities for Grok AI, managing 30+ domain experts and reporting directly to leadership under Elon Musk in flat, high-velocity structure
- Develop structured educational pipelines and knowledge frameworks that systematically improve model accuracy and reliability for financial use cases
- Advance multimodal AI capabilities spanning document analysis, financial statement interpretation, and image-based data extraction, enabling more sophisticated understanding and processing of complex finance materials
- Drive GDPval and quality improvement initiatives: establish evaluation frameworks for model outputs, enhance training data quality and relevance, and validate AI-generated financial models, IFRS interpretations, and M&A scenarios to ensure technical rigor and practical applicability
Jul 2021 - Aug 2024
3 years 2 monthsMalaysia
Manager, Corporate Finance
CIMB Investment Bank
- Southeast Asia's premier investment bank by deal volume and by awards for unparalleled service
- Execute full IPO lifecycle for 99 Speedmart: due diligence working group, equity valuation (DCF, multiples), prospectus drafting, regulatory approvals, investor presentations; retail tranche oversubscribed 3.04×
- Advise Celcom-Digi merger: synergy analysis, restructuring strategy, regulatory compliance, post-merger integration, and capital structure optimisation
- Support DigitalBridge on due diligence and valuation analysis for proposed acquisition of Malaysian telecom towers (~$1.8bn valuation)
Sep 2016 - Feb 2021
4 years 6 monthsMalaysia
Assistant Manager, Audit & Assurance
Grant Thornton
- Lead financial statement audits and advisory projects for diverse industries (logistics, retail, technology), with annual revenues of up to US$1bn
- Execute IPO readiness projects, IFRS conversions, restructuring advisory, and capital adjustments
- Develop audit automation macros; coach and train 15+ junior auditors annually
Summary
Finance professional operating at the intersection of investment banking, corporate finance, and frontier AI development.
Leading finance capabilities at xAI (Grok) under Elon Musk's leadership in fast-paced, high-performance environment driving multimodal AI improvements and knowledge quality initiatives.
9 years executing IPOs, M&A transactions, and strategic projects across dynamic, cross-functional teams.
Languages
English
AdvancedMalay
AdvancedChinese
IntermediateJapanese
ElementaryEducation
Sep 2024 - Sep 2025
University of Cambridge
MBA · Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Student Representative
- Co-Chair of Financial Management Club
- Co-Chair of ASEAN Business Club
- Sole recipient of Collaborative Leadership Award
Certifications & licenses
CFA Charterholder
ICAEW Chartered Accountant
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