I'm an  ex-McKinsey consultant turned startup founder specializing in all things data, market research, and due diligences. 
After studying Economics at Yale I was an analysts at McKinsey where I worked on advanced analytics projects. I founded Higher Data, a data company focused on the cannabis space that was acquired in 2020, and Viscacha Data, a data company tracking retail sales. 
My top-3 strengths include:

• Market research and quick synthesis of vast amounts of qualitative and quantitative data
  
• Data collection and cleaning
  
• Due diligence & business strategy from ideation and pricing to implementation and operations
  

• "We enjoyed having [Loften] on our team as a smart associate who added a lot of value. [He] had deep mastery of the material and were able defend positions you took well and eloquently speak about them to [the client]." -- Managing Partner, strategy consulting firm
  
• "The data you collected and dashboards you built were amazing. Three or four times better than expected." -- Senior Associate, PE fund
• "[Loften] proved himself invaluable within the first few days... I'd be happy to have [Loften] on any of my projects in the future." -- Founding partner, pricing consulting firm
  
•  "I can always rely on [Loften] to drive [his] work stream with minimal oversight and produce great output, often ahead of schedule" -- Engagement Manager, strategy consulting firm
  
• "[Loften] is great at taking amorphous info from a variety of sources, quickly forming a hypothesis and defending it well... [He] pushed the team in a constructive way and was a valuable to have as a resource and coach" -- Analyst, strategy consulting firm