Alice Dinu

Alice Dinu

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Co-Founder
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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  • Saris AI
    Co-Founder
    Saris AI
    Jun 2023 - Current (3 years 2 months)
    Building AI agents to streamline back-office workflows for banks and credit unions
  • Ready Education
    Co-Founder - Vice President Student Sucess & Research
    Ready Education
    Oct 2018 - Aug 2021 (2 years 11 months)
    Managed and de-risked Pre and post-M&A transactions on the financial and customer engagement side. Lead customer M&A platform transition within 14 months. Speed and execution are core to a successful M&A. Build data strategy to measure Student outcomes ROI like retention and engagement by developing research-based analysis across internal engagement and institutional data within FERPA compliance. For example, I collaborated with teams of researchers to establish predictive AI models to measure the sense of belonging and its predictive impact on retention and engagement. Developed customer discovery processes to identify product-market fit of new product lines and established cross-sell pipeline to drive net churn across a unified custom
  • Ready Education
    Co-Founder - Vice President of Customer Success & Board Member Director
    Ready Education
    Jan 2011 - Oct 2018 (7 years 10 months)
    Build and scaled B2B and B2C user acquisition and retention strategies for 400 Educational institutions across 4 million students. She established repeatable processes for B2C customer acquisition by getting 90% user adoption among the target audience within two months of product launch, creating a unique competitive advantage within the industry. We fostered a culture of relentless innovation and gratefulness among the CS team members. The team focused on delivering high-impact value to the communities we were serving. A sense of purpose and drive was the daily atmosphere. Developed customer journey across enterprise stakeholders such as functional user, CIO, VP, and president levels. Championed effortless and frictionless customer onb
  • Ready Education
    Co-Founder
    Ready Education
    Jun 2010 - Aug 2021 (11 years 3 months)
    Mobile app for student and social life!
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    Equities trader NYSE, NASDAQ
    Swift Trade
    Jan 2009 - Jan 2010 (1 year 1 month)
  • Dawcolectric
    Project Accounting & Administration
    Dawcolectric
    Sep 2007 - Sep 2008 (1 year 1 month)
    • Provided executive level administrative support to the project manager (started with 44 employees which increased to 700 employees) • Managed and coordinate on site administrative assistants. • Assigned as the main contact and resource person for the all administrative, accounting, travel and HR tasks for our client Sitie&Braid and our Montreal’s head quarter office • Created an efficient travel lodging system for turnaround of 700 Employees • Project was based at CNRL Fort McMurray, Alberta
  • Nakisa
    Junior Accountant
    Nakisa
    Jun 2007 - Sep 2007 (4 months)
    Summer position
  • Readers Digest
    Auditing Assitant
    Readers Digest
    Jan 2005 - Jan 2006 (1 year 1 month)
    2005, 2006 Summer Position
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  • McGill University
    Marketing & Neuroscience
    McGill University
    Jan 2009 - Dec 2012 (4 years)
  • University of Toronto  Woodsworth College
    Commerce
    University of Toronto Woodsworth College
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    Forbes 30 under 30 - 2015
    Forbes Inc
    Jan 2015
    Forbes 30under30 2015: Education
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    Using machine learning to predict student retention from socio-demographic characteristics and app-based engagement metr
    Scientific Reports Nature Portfolio
    Jun 2023
    In this study, we built AI models to predict student dropout after the first semester using data from over 50,000 students at four US universities and community colleges. Unlike most research that relies only on grades or demographics, our models also captured students’ experience and connections, things like social networks, event participation, and engagement with university services through a mobile app. The results: Up to 88% prediction accuracy (AUC) Models trained at one university worked well at others Meso-level “student experience” data significantly improved predictive accuracy compared to traditional metrics. This work shows how AI can power early interventions to support at-risk students, a mission that continues to inspire my c
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