Resume · Updated AUG 2026

Ryan Chang

Education

Philadelphia, PA · Expected May 2028

BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Minor in Consumer Psychology (College & Wharton).
GCAA Cobalt Golf All-America Scholar (2026).
Coursework: Accounting, AI Behavioral Science, Game Theory, Mathematics of Change, Macroeconomics, Business Statistics.

Boston, MA · Jun 2027 – Aug 2027

Selected for Bain Capital Special Situations ($24.3bn AUM). Will evaluate investments across structured equity, opportunistic credit, rescue financing, and asset-backed situations spanning performing and stressed corporate capital structures.

New York, NY · Jun 2026 – Aug 2026

Wrote and presented a capstone credit memo to the Investment Committee, built on covenant and indenture analysis and the pricing of multiple trade expressions.
Underwrote credits through quality-of-earnings work, re-cut comparable sets, and sum-of-the-parts recovery waterfalls.
Supported coverage across a list of credits, running industry and sell-side diligence calls and maintaining the models and IC decks.

Philadelphia, PA · Jan 2025 – May 2026

Founded a food-tech startup using robotic cookers and a smart locker system, backed by the Wharton Venture Lab VIP Incubator, to address food waste, inequity, and unhealthy eating and spending habits in the $30bn+ U.S. college dining market.
Raised $80K+ in non-dilutive grant and prize capital, including a Wharton Innovation Fund Grant, and led a team of 10+ engineers, school partners, and suppliers from prototype through supplier onboarding to a deployed MVP.
Closed NEIA as launch customer on a three-year contract.

Remote (Shanghai / Los Angeles) · Jul 2025 – Oct 2025

Built U.S. and EU market-entry diligence for a robo-auto infrastructure portfolio company, including bottom-up TAM, regulatory mapping, and competitor benchmarking across the $100bn+ robotaxi sector, informing CEO and board expansion decisions.
Supported a five-year operating model for a car wash expansion, running sensitivity and scenario analyses across volume, pricing, and EBITDA drivers, contributing to the approval and launch of two U.S. pilots.

Arlington, MA · May 2025 – Aug 2025

Scaled Leader Link, a capital-matching platform connecting founders with 50+ VC/PE investors and accelerator partners, increasing deal flow by $5M and guiding venture debt vs. equity solutions.
Sourced and supported financing decisions for 10+ clients across franchising and controlled-environment agriculture, stress-testing AUV, four-wall EBITDA, payback, yield, and capex intensity.

Philadelphia, PA · Jun 2026 – Jul 2026

One of 6 teaching assistants for Professor Adi Wyner's Moneyball Flex. Held office hours on R, regression, and statistical inference for a 15-student cohort and mentored four teams from project design through final presentation.

Philadelphia, PA · Aug 2025 – Present

Tutor undergraduates and first-year seminars on research papers, course assignments, and application essays, as 1 of 15 fellows chosen in the class for a CCCC Certificate of Excellence writing program.

Philadelphia, PA · Aug 2024 – Present

Compete for Penn in the Ivy League Championship and All-American Intercollegiate, with three top-10 individual finishes (Alex Lagowitz, Wildcat, and Roar EE Invitationals).
35+ hours a week in season. Lead weekly skills challenges and organize monthly community service, including West Philly youth golf clinics and Jewish Relief Agency food packing.

Activities: Fellowship of Christian Athletes (Co-President), Venture Lab VIP Fellow, Penn Capital Partners, Penn Athletics Wharton Leadership Academy, Phi Gamma Delta, Penn Taiwanese Society, Wharton Sports Business
Honors: Blackstone Future Leaders (2025), Make A Play Foundation Student and Pro Bowl Fellow (2024 to 2025)
Community: Sow Good Now (student mentor), Jewish Relief Agency (food packing), AJGA Leadership Links fundraising
Skills: Mandarin Chinese (fluent), financial analysis, data and AI diligence, deal sourcing and founder outreach, stakeholder communication
Interests: Golf, basketball, social entrepreneurship, cello, Tokyo jazz, collecting snow globes, Taiwanese food, watching figure skating