The Untitled Thinkers Project


Ryan Cummins
Prior to Untitled Thinkers, Ryan Cummins served as senior video producer for Seed Magazine, Picturelab, and BigThink.com, as well as resident cultural anthropologist for Sponge Agency in Chicago. Before that Ryan was the first director hired by Kevin Wall to create the introductory messaging for the international Live Earth - S.O.S. concert series. His work was used to gain the participation of Vice President Al Gore, numerous corporate sponsors, and over 150 music superstars.

Ryan began his directing career with Anonymous Content after multiple stints working for Amy Pascal, Chairman of Columbia Pictures, Sid Ganis, President of the Academy Awards, and Oscar-nominated director Spike Jonze.

ryan@untitledthinkers.com

GianPaolo Procopio
GianPaolo Procopio holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University where he worked under the supervision of the world-renowned scientist Stephen Hawking. His research, fully funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was devoted to the fundamental questions about the origin of the universe, the properties of Black Holes and the existence of extra-dimensions. As VP of the Cambridge University Italian Society he was responsible for managing the accounts of the society, as well as undertaking initiatives to acquire sponsorship and financial resources. He most recently worked in the Financial Service Industry as an interest rates derivatives trader at UBS Investment Bank in London.

gianpaolo@untitledthinkers.com

Elena Kim
Elena Kim is the Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Entertainment Management Association, a student organization at UCLA Anderson School of Management, where Elena is getting her Entertainment MBA. Prior to business school, she founded a catering company, putting together a highly qualified management team, setting up legal, financial, operational business processes. She has 6 years of investment banking experience working across multiple departments in Alfa-Bank, the largest privately owned bank in Russia. She established trading on European derivative exchanges for the bank, executed structured finance projects, participated in various IPO and M&A deals.

elena@untitledthinkers.com

Jason Ma
The prodigy of the team, Jason is an 09' graduate from Brown University who pipelined directly into UCLA Anderson's School of Management. Prior to his arrival at Anderson, co-founded Minds-in-Motions Electronics - a technology start-up that aims at commercializing EEG, a brainwave reading technology within the toys industry. Jason has worked primarily on developing market research and managing investors/client relationships for MiME, specifically with Hasbro, the company's major client.

jason@untitledthinkers.com

Veronica Vasquez
Veronica Vasquez currently serves as a Business Support Lead within Bank of America's Home Loans & Insurance Sales Strategy team, providing senior leadership teams with internal business consulting, project management, and sales & marketing strategy expertise. While with Bank of America, Veronica has been responsible for designing consultative selling profile tools for the Bank's sales force to identify product cross-sell opportunities, developing and launching national sales campaigns to lift product sales, and producing customer communications to increase customer retention rates. Veronica has also served with the City of Pico Rivera as Coordinator of the Career Preparations & Opportunities Program, a summer-youth program that targets recent high school graduates to provide hands-on work experience within a local government setting. Additionally, she has experience as a litigation consultant, serving with the firm Navigant Consulting and specializing in econometric and statistical analysis to quantify client damages in legal disputes.

veronica@untitledthinkers.com


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