SIMBARASHE MARIWANDE
Chicago
Summary
Management consultant specializing in strategy and analytics across diverse sectors. Successfully led data transformation projects, enhancing executive visibility and supporting $10M in funding initiatives. Collaborative leader skilled in translating complex analyses into actionable insights and strategic recommendations.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Client Secondment
Fortune 500 Healthcare REIT
Chicago
06.2024 - Current
- Embedded with a Fortune 500 healthcare REIT to support a portfolio-wide analytics and data transformation effort across 1,200 properties.
- Led a portfolio-level analytics workstream, structuring analyses and improving data governance to enhance executive visibility across diverse asset classes.
- Owned analyses and deliverables translating complex datasets into actionable insights, enhancing traditional analytics with generative AI–supported synthesis and reporting.
- Developed client-ready presentations and dashboards using Excel and BI tools, leveraging GenAI for insight summarization and narrative development, uncovering trends that supported $10M in approved funding initiatives.
- Built financial and scenario models to evaluate $3.2M in acquisition value, using GenAI to pressure-test assumptions and explore alternative investment scenarios.
- Collaborated cross-functionally with strategy, investments, facilities, and HR teams to align insights and recommendations, ensuring timely delivery.
Senior Consultant (Strategy & Sustainability)
Telesto Strategy
10.2021 - Current
- Launched and scaled a climate-tech accelerator in Ghana, strengthening venture pipelines and supporting startups in securing ~$10M in funding, using GenAI tools to support market research, customer insight synthesis, and pitch refinement.
- Executed client-facing strategy engagements in real estate, healthcare, and climate-tech, utilizing structured problem-solving, research, analytics, and generative AI tools to guide growth and transformation decisions.
- Led multi-workstream consulting engagements, structuring ambiguous problems, prioritizing analyses, and translating insights into clear strategic recommendations for senior leaders.
- Led discrete workstreams end-to-end, partnered with cross-functional client teams, and delivered polished, executive-ready analyses and presentations.
- Developed financial models, capital planning assessments, and KPI frameworks, employing generative AI to enhance hypothesis generation, scenario analysis, and integration of complex datasets.
- Mentored and managed junior team members, fostering collaboration, strengthening analytical rigor, and introducing responsible GenAI workflows to improve research efficiency and output quality.
Program Lead / Engagement Manager
U.S. Department of State
01.2024 - 02.2025
- Led a U.S. government–funded, strategy-focused consulting engagement supporting early-stage startups in Ghana, with a mandate to improve market understanding, customer discovery, and growth execution.
- Synthesized qualitative and quantitative findings into actionable growth and go-to-market recommendations, contributing to one startup scaling from $200K to $4M in revenue.
- Developed clear, compelling deliverables and presentations using GenAI-assisted storytelling techniques, facilitating capital readiness and enabling a startup to secure $1.2M in NGO grant funding.
- Secured funding for Climate Tech Accelerator program, driving innovation in sustainable technologies.
- Owned workstreams from research design through delivery, applying generative AI alongside traditional research methods to enhance insight generation and decision-making.
- Conducted primary and secondary research, including interviews, surveys, and ethnographic methods, augmented by GenAI tools to synthesize customer feedback, identify patterns, and accelerate insight development.
- Coordinated multi-stakeholder engagement with academia, entrepreneurship ecosystems, and public-sector partners to align objectives and enhance execution.
Education
Master’s degree - business Analytics & AI
Hult International Business School
San Francisco01.2021
Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering
University of Cape Town
Cape Town01.2019
Skills
- Strategy Consulting
- Complex Business Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Quantitative Analysis
- Generative AI
- Predictive Analytics
- Data Visualization
- Due diligence
- Consumer Analysis
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Project Delivery
- Team Leadership
- Organizational Development
- Operating Model Design
Personal Information
Title: Associate Consultant
Volunteer Experience
- Mentor & Speaker, Climate & Youth Entrepreneurship
- Tinokwirira school for the disabled
- Remember and Give
- Cape Town soup kitchen
Languages
- English
- French
- Shona
- Afrikaans
Links - Linkedin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simbarashe-mariwande-200604181/
Timeline
Client Secondment
Fortune 500 Healthcare REIT
06.2024 - Current
Program Lead / Engagement Manager
U.S. Department of State
01.2024 - 02.2025
Senior Consultant (Strategy & Sustainability)
Telesto Strategy
10.2021 - Current
Master’s degree - business Analytics & AI
Hult International Business School
Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering
University of Cape Town