PETER ZAK
Personal Portfolio
About Me
I am a finance-oriented business student passionate about data science and predictive modeling for algorithmic trading. I am particularly interested in building automated data science solutions to facilitate the process of informed and quantitative oriented decision making, both in trading and corporate governance.
Education: ESCP Business School
Bachelor of Science in Management (graduation 2025)
The world’s oldest Business School (est. 1819)
“Grandes écoles are elite academic institutions that admit students through an extremely competitive process, and a significant proportion of their graduates occupy the highest levels of French society. Similar to Ivy League universities in the United States or Oxbridge in the UK or the C9 League in China.”
ESCP’s Executive MBA ranks 2nd worldwide in Financial Times 2024 ranking
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4th Best Business School in Europe (Financial Times)
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One of the “trois Parisiennes“
It is known as one of the trois Parisiennes
(three Parisians), together with HEC Paris and ESSEC , designating the three most prestigious business schools in France.
ESCP Website: https://escp.eu
Financial Times Ranking (1st mater in finance worldwide): https://rankings.ft.com/business-education/masters-in-finance
Financial Times Profile: https://rankings.ft.com/schools/115/escp-business-school/programme-portfolio
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CISCO’s LIFT
“Leaders in Finance & Technology program is a 10-week finance summer internship experience aimed at identifying and developing future finance leaders and CFOs”. Only a total number of 8 Interns were hand-picked for this internship from the whole EMEA region. During the Internship I:
Link to CISCO’s website: https://www.cisco.com
My CISCO experience:
– independently automated analytical workflow by creating interactive dashboards using Power BI and Power Query to streamline the process of identifying and filtering financial data. Whenever a new raw dataset is uploaded, my dashboards automatically update themselves by applying predefined data transformation steps and allow users to retrieve information of interest by applying customized easy to use filters.
– collaborated in a team of 3 other LIFT Interns by analyzing the correlation between discount and revenue levels of best selling EMEA products. Our team provided recommendations and findings before CISCO’s EMEA executives panel and ~200 Cisco employees, followed by a Q&A session.
– worked on Cisco’s platforms & tools, exporting datasets, analyzing trends over years and across product families, drawing conclusions and suggesting improvements.
– gained practical experience and proficiency in using tools like Excel, Power BI and Power Query for financial data analysis (financial records from previous accounting periods, gross-to-net-revenue walk).
– applied quantative modeling techniques and concepts learned during my extracurricular online specialization courses at Wharton University (Finance & Quantitative Modeling for Analysts Specialization”) to real corporate financial data.
JET ESCP
JET ESCP is the oldest consulting Junior Enterprise established at ESCP in 2004 that serves as a non-profit civil social organization formed and manage exclusively by students. It provides services to companies, NGOs and other institutions.
Link to JET ESCP’s website: https://www.jetescp.com
My JET ESCP experience:
– Participated in numerous projects, including an urban transportation sustainability initiative, startup accelerator, inclusive education project, etc.
– Analyzed data, conducted market research, offered solutions to clients to streamline inefficiencies and generate additional revenue streams;
– Acted as a project leader for an environmental sustainability development initiative, managed a group of 4 consultants, held weekly meetings, assigned workload, presented findings in front of clients and supervisors.
LANGUAGES
English
Level: Native
Polish
Level: Native
German
Level: B2
Italian
Level: A2
SOFT SKILLS
INTERNATIONAL EXPOSURE + CULTURAL INTELLIGENCE (CQ)
Throughout my studies, I gained experience working in international teams and interacting with people from around the world. Moreover, thanks to my travels, I gained exposure to many cultures and explored differences in how people around the world live and think.
GROUPWORK ORIENTED
I gained vast experience working with other people to analyze data, deliver business projects, propose solutions and tackle problems – all in a collaborative environment.
OUT OF THE BOX SOLUTIONS & INNOVATIVE APPROACH
As my supervisors and professors can testify, I truly suggest and implement ideas from a perspective that no one would think of. Moreover, when it makes sense, I attempt to apply automation solutions and modeling programs to enhance my workflow,
Sections of my Portfolio
See different courses and specialization I completed on platforms, like edX and Coursera during my bachelor studies.
See photos from my travels, which contributed to my unique worldview and versatile predisposition.
Projects
Under Development
Explore quantitative trading models I developed and other data science projects I worked on.