Testing ideas and meeting brilliant people. I have grown up in insurance and see my fate as tied to it; interested in software and AI, have a strong finance and sales background with a passion for startups. Very excited to work on the intersection of these things.

Maxims I strongly believe in:

  • "Excellence is the capacity to take pain." - Isadore Sharp
  • "The most successful people are ruthlessly truth seeking" - Arav Kumar
  • "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with" - Jim Rohn
  • "The biggest risk is not taking any." - Zuckerberg

Building

SalesNav.io

A site to turn natural language into an optimized power search for linkedin sales navigator. Designed to help SDRs and AEs spend less time and effort building lead lists while increasing their quality.

Previously

Claro

A website to help find quality insurance agents via reviews and social proof. Moved on due to inbound not being the ideal form for agents. Will return to this project in the future.

Pitch video

Site demo

Coming Soon

  • Prediction Market Making Algorithms

    Building in stealth.

  • Preferred Partner Network

    A referral system for insurance agents to use.

  • Slate

    A new kind of playing card case. Designed for Cardists.

Andrew Milnes

Boston, MA | (603) 289-4494 | milnes.a@northeastern.edu | LinkedIn

Education

B.S., Business Administration

Sep 2023 — May 2027

Northeastern University, D'Amore-McKim School of Business · Boston, MA

Achievements: Northeastern Entrepreneurs Club, Dean's List · Coursework: Corporate Finance (FINA 3301), Financial Management for Managers & Advisors (ACCT 2301), Statistics

High School Diploma

May 2023

Proctor Academy · Andover, NH

Achievements: Honors Roll

Academic Projects

Valuation & Comparable Company Analysis

2025 — Present

Northeastern University · Boston, MA

Drafted comparable company reports and valuation analyses for public companies in Corporate Finance (FINA 3301) and Financial Management (ACCT 2301), synthesizing financial statements, KPIs, and trading multiples into investment-ready writeups. Built comps tables and sensitivity outputs (EV/EBITDA, P/E, net debt, WACC assumptions) in Excel to support pricing ranges and recommendation narratives.

Always-On Calendar & Notion Dashboard Display

2025 — Present

Raspberry Pi · Boston, MA

Built a Raspberry Pi kiosk display that renders a live calendar view and daily schedule dashboard, combining Outlook/Google Calendar views with a rotating Notion page for planning. Configured a headless Linux setup with Chromium kiosk mode, persistent startup scripts, and display tuning for an always-on wall dashboard.

Experience

Founder

Nov 2025 — Present

Salesnav.io · Boston, MA (Remote)

  • • Built Salesnav.io with React and Node.js, quickly mastering the frameworks to develop a workflow-automation platform that encodes LinkedIn Sales Navigator search facets into shareable, repeatable targeting logic, reducing SDR searches from 8 to 2
  • • Implemented secure user authentication and session management using Supabase Auth (email/password), adding role-based access patterns and protected routes, eliminating login-related support tickets
  • • Deployed and hosted the production web application on Vercel, configuring environment variables, build pipelines, and custom domain routing, achieving 100% uptime and enabling weekly releases without downtime
  • • Integrated Groq-hosted LLM inference to power AI-assisted facet generation and targeting suggestions, cutting response latency to under 200 ms and improving prospect-match quality as reported by early users
  • • Executed a targeted LinkedIn outbound campaign leveraging ZoomInfo to message 100 qualified prospects and converting 6 into active product users (6% conversion) through iterative copy testing and follow-up sequencing

Student Ambassador

Nov 2025 — Present

Perplexity AI

  • • Built and automated a daily LinkedIn content pipeline for Perplexity AI, publishing 7 posts/week and maintaining consistent ambassador-led distribution
  • • Implemented an automated LinkedIn posting workflow that drove 5+ conversions per month (sign-ups/engagement) from organic social traffic

Project Management & Process Optimization

Jul 2025 — Dec 2025

Coverys · Boston, MA

  • • Mapped and optimized the Facilities renewal workflow through 12+ stakeholder interviews and process mapping, delivering 480+ annual labor hours in efficiency gains by applying analytical skills
  • • Coordinated underwriting intake/triage implementation by aligning UW leadership, running daily standups, and supporting Salesforce workflow enhancements that improved routing and reporting
  • • Improved cross-team underwriting operations by resolving notification issues, strengthening onboarding documentation, and enabling UW access to interactive Power BI dashboards for enhanced data visualization of loss-run and claims-reserve metrics

Founder

Jun 2024 — Nov 2024

Claro · Boston, MA · www.claro.insure

  • • Conducted user discovery with 4 small business owners and 20 insurance agents via Zoom, acting as primary communicator and synthesizing findings in Excel using pivot tables and data visualization charts to identify pain points and validate MVP feature priorities
  • • Presented the startup pitch at Cambridge AI Hacks (Harvard) and the Northeastern Husky Startup Challenge through the Northeastern Entrepreneurs Club, engaging potential investors and receiving positive feedback that guided further product refinement

Deal Origination Analyst

Jun 2023 — Sep 2023

Virtual Insurance Pro · Remote

  • • Launched a multichannel marketing campaign, sourcing and negotiating a partner vendor's agency lead list database via Pitchbook and using Excel pivot tables to organize the data, which expanded the lead pool and helped create a $2M opportunity pipeline
  • • Followed up with warm leads to build a $2M opportunity pipeline through disciplined outreach, qualification, and pipeline tracking using SQL-based CRM reports

Summer Associate

Jun 2022 — Sep 2022

INEX Capital · New England (Hybrid)

  • • Earned the Corporate Finance Institute (CFI) Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA) certification and applied DCF and comparable company analysis in Excel, which enabled the team to assess and shortlist viable deal opportunities
  • • Built and vetted DCF, debt-service, and ratio analyses; prepared pro forma P&Ls and valuations for 7 multi-million dollar real estate opportunities to prioritize acquisitions
  • • Calculated WACC assumptions, loan amortization schedules, and investor return metrics (IRR, cash-on-cash) shared with equity partners to support investment decisions

Summer Analyst

Jun 2020 — Sep 2021

INEX Capital · New England (Hybrid)

  • • Converted physical financial statements into a searchable digital filing system using OCR scanning and SharePoint; standardized naming conventions and retrieval workflows, which significantly reduced document retrieval time
  • • Reconciled bank statements and improved transaction recording accuracy by analyzing ~$1M of subsidiary revenue and aligning entries across the three financial statements
  • • Optimized a loan amortization model to produce more accurate annual debt-service outputs for portfolio reporting
  • • Owned investor reporting by calculating IRR and core performance metrics; developed a dashboard spreadsheet to track control-investment positions and returns
  • • Performed bookkeeping and financial statement review in QuickBooks; organized loan agreements and lease documentation in Adobe Acrobat to reduce errors and improve auditability

Core Competencies

Technical: Supabase Auth, Vercel Hosting/Deployments, REST APIs, Git/GitHub, SQL (joins, aggregations), Python (automation/scripting), AI Automation

Data & Analytics: Excel (PivotTables, Power Query/Power Pivot), Power BI, KPI dashboards, Data modeling, Workflow automation, Data Visualization, Analytical Skills

Finance: DCF, Comparable Company Analysis, 3-statement fundamentals, WACC, IRR, Debt schedules/amortization, Pro forma P&L, Scenario/sensitivity analysis

Product/Growth & Ops: User interviews, MVP iteration, Stakeholder management, Process improvement, SOP documentation, Outbound prospecting & sequencing, Salesforce operations, n8n, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo, Pitchbook

Certifications & Interests

Licensed Property & Casualty Insurance Producer · CFI Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA) · CCIM Financial Spreadsheet Analysis Course · Microsoft Excel Power User: Excel from Beginner to Expert · PADI Open Water Scuba Diver · Tastytrade/Tastyworks Options Trading Certification