Anita Stern
Projects

Outcomes & Leadership in Motion

Strategic partnerships, data products, and community programmes that demonstrate how I activate teams and ship measurable impact across Europe and Asia.

Capital raised

CHF 28k

Aggregated sponsorships and grants across community initiatives and delegations.

Leaders mobilised

420+

Founders, mentors, and delegates engaged through programmes and partnerships.

Playbooks shipped

15

Reusable operating manuals now in use at START Global and consulting clients.

KPIs automated

22

Dashboards and analytics views deployed across Mastercard and Prizm Optics.

START Global Partnerships

Partnerships Head

Leadership
May 2023 – Jul 2024St. Gallen & Zurich

Scaled Europe’s largest student-led entrepreneurship club by uniting founders, investors, and operators under a new partnerships playbook.

  • Founded the 'START meets Female Entrepreneurship' initiative across Zurich, Munich, and Lausanne chapters
  • Brokered strategic partnerships with Google for Startups, AWS, and Swiss Venture Capital associations
  • Architected a CRM-driven sponsorship workflow adopted by 3 chapters and 25 organisers

Female Mentors

17% → 40%

Network Reach

60 → 200+

Sponsors activated

18

HubSpotNotionAirtableFigma

National Model United Nations

Head of Fundraising & Delegate

Community
Sep 2023 – Apr 2024Zurich & New York

Built the financial runway and strategic storytelling for the university delegation competing at the world’s largest UN simulation.

  • Negotiated multi-sponsor support packages with Swiss federal agencies and alumni angel investors
  • Designed the delegation’s pitch narrative used across 10+ keynote appearances
  • Co-led policy research that contributed to the team’s Honorable Mention award in New York

Funds Raised

CHF 13k+

Speeches

10+

Delegates supported

18

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EY NextGen Innovation Challenge

National Champion & Global Finalist

Strategy
Jan 2026 – May 2026Zurich & Virtual

Developed a go-to-market blueprint for AI-assisted due diligence and represented Switzerland at the global finals.

  • Authored a 5-year financial model mapping ARR, CAC, and churn scenarios for the proposed solution
  • Delivered winning board-level presentation to EY Zurich partners and national leadership
  • Coached cross-functional team on storytelling and stakeholder QA for global round

Competition Stage

1st in CH

Addressable Market

€4.2B

Global Delegations

12

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Mastercard Analytics Workbench

Data Science Consultant Intern

Technology
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025Lisbon

Engineered KPI dashboards that powered real-time commercial decisions for Southern Europe portfolios.

  • Shipped 10+ Hadoop & Impala queries underpinning Mastercard’s regional analytics suite
  • Documented workflows and onboarding guides now used by five new consultants
  • Codified data governance checks reducing refresh incidents by 35% week-over-week

Dashboards live

10

Countries served

8

Refresh frequency

Daily

HadoopImpalaTableauConfluence

Prizm Optics Market Entry

Consulting Squad Lead

Strategy
Sep 2024 – Dec 2024Singapore

Guided a medtech startup through Southeast Asia market expansion with operating scorecards and growth experiments.

  • Designed 10+ metric executive dashboard tracking pipeline conversion and clinician adoption
  • Ran customer discovery sprints across 4 hospital networks and synthesised insights for founders
  • Increased leadership meeting efficiency by 20% through revamped ritual design

Clinician Interviews

32

Scorecard KPIs

12

Efficiency uplift

+20%

NotionFigmaTypeformGoogle Workspace

Global Affairs Fellowship

Founder & Coach

Community
Aug 2020 – Jul 2022Lisbon & Remote

Created a youth diplomacy programme connecting 200+ students across Europe and Asia for weekly briefings and debates.

  • Produced 80+ briefing decks and policy primers published internally to partners
  • Mentored student analysts who later represented schools at Harvard MUN and Oxford Global Summit
  • Secured partnerships with embassies and think tanks for guest speaker series

Students coached

200+

Briefings delivered

80

Partner organisations

9

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Repeatable playbooks I bring to teams

Partnership Flywheel

A modular workflow for scouting, nurturing, and activating partners across ecosystems.

  • Signal mapping & segmentation
  • Activation sprint with co-created value props
  • 360° reporting & retention rituals

Analytics Launchpad

A seven-step playbook I use to stand up data products in under six weeks, from ingestion to ops runbooks.

  • KPI alignment & paper dashboards
  • Pipeline automation
  • UAT & enablement

Leadership Lab

A coaching cadence designed for student teams balancing academics and high-stakes delivery.

  • Goal-setting & accountability rituals
  • Capability pods for peer coaching
  • Narrative reviews to celebrate learning