Mikhail Glukhov — Valuation, financial modelling, and the data work behind them.

Experience

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USC Marshall — Finance & Business Economics Nov 2025 – Present

Research Assistant to Professor Rodney Ramcharan
What I did
- Built a Python ETL pipeline — regex and NLP parsing of OCR text on AWS SageMaker — that expanded the search universe to 1.3M+ ProQuest TDM Studio newspaper records and processed 500K+ documents in the latest extraction run into 887K structured rows of advertised bank rates, products and terms.
- Designed a rule-based confidence-scoring and audit-flag system with LLM-assisted document verification to isolate research-grade observations — 35K+ matching-ready and 14K+ analysis-ready offers — preserving source-text snippets so every row can be checked by hand.
- Rebuilt the search queries around period advertising language, increasing 1950–1980 coverage by 152% (248K to 625K rate observations).
- Deliver written reports and statistical summaries to faculty each research cycle.
Method and scale only. No dataset, findings or sample rows are published pending the principal investigator's clearance.
Voglio Nov 2025 – Present

Core Team — Growth & Strategy
What I did
- Built the company's 3-year pro forma model in Excel — linked revenue, CAC, COGS and P&L schedules — projecting $4.4M of Year-3 revenue across subscription and venue-advertising streams, supporting a $325K seed raise.
- Modelled unit economics — CAC, LTV, churn and app-store fee impact — and market sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM) underpinning the investor deck.
- Led a 3-person team through a VC-style pitch, assigning workstreams across product, market and financials; advanced past the first round of USC's New Venture Seed Competition.
- Co-led three international marketing campaigns across European cities, including experiential activations, and recruited and onboarded two interns.
Figures published with the company's consent. The $4.4M figure is a projection prepared for a private fundraise, not realised revenue.
Brave — early-stage consumer startup May 2025 – Sep 2025

Marketing & Outreach Intern
What I did
- Built and maintained the outreach database and wrote an automation script that generated personalised messages from it, contacting 550+ influencers, engineers and partner organisations.
- Sourced and screened the founding technical team, including two CTO-level engineers; organised partner calls and closed one influencer partnership.
- Built partnerships with university IT clubs and student networks.
Internal growth multiples from this role are omitted: they were self-reported by a private company with no external source.
USC Global Investment Society Sep 2024 – Present

Member — Investment Academy
What I did
- Investment Academy, Feb–Jun 2025: led a 4-member team pitching Overweight on Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC), building a 10-year DCF with a WACC build, perpetuity-growth and exit-multiple terminal values and sensitivity analysis, alongside an EV/Revenue and P/E comparable companies analysis.
- Analysed six years of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow performance via Capital IQ to underpin the investment thesis.
- Explore Program, Sep 2024 – Jan 2025.

Work

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Each page states its question, method, assumptions, data source and as-of date, and ends with what I would do differently. Valuation work is an academic exercise, not investment advice.

Education

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University of Southern California — Marshall School of Business May 2028

BS Business Administration (STEM-designated) · GPA 3.84 / 4.00 · Dean's List

Coursework

Advanced Business Finance · Financial Accounting · Applied Business Statistics · Microeconomics · Macroeconomics · Operations Management

Languages

English — Fluent
Russian — Native
Mandarin — HSK 3

Certifications

CFA Level ICFA Institute — Candidate — exam scheduled February 2027
DCF ModelingWall Street Prep — Completed
Accounting Crash CourseWall Street Prep — Completed
Bloomberg Market ConceptsBloomberg — In progress

Skills

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DCF valuationNorthrop Grumman pitch — 10-year model, dual terminal value
Comparable companiesNorthrop Grumman pitch — EV/Revenue and P/E against six defence primes
WACC buildNorthrop Grumman pitch — CAPM cost of equity, capital-structure weighting
Sensitivity analysisNorthrop Grumman pitch — WACC against terminal growth and exit multiple
Pro forma modellingVoglio — 3-year linked revenue, CAC, COGS and P&L schedules
Unit economicsVoglio — CAC, LTV, churn, app-store fee impact
Market sizingVoglio — TAM/SAM/SOM behind the investor deck
Capital IQNorthrop Grumman pitch — six years of financial statements
FactivaRamcharan research — historical source retrieval
Bloomberg TerminalBloomberg Market Concepts, in progress
Excel modellingVoglio pro forma and the Northrop Grumman DCF
Python — pandas, ETLRamcharan research — 500K+ documents into 887K structured rows
Regex and NLP parsingRamcharan research — OCR text extraction from newspaper scans
AWS SageMakerRamcharan research — pipeline execution at scale
JupyterLabRamcharan research — analysis and statistical summaries
Process automationBrave — outreach database and message generation

Each skill names where it was used. The square is that employer's colour.

Tools

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Contact & key docs

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