Bret Costain

Product Manager Sustainability and ESG

Deloitte

Mar 2023 - Current (2 years 3 months)

- Strategic advisor to Deloitte’s Sustainability Strategic Growth Offering team to lead the development of world-class software products, including shepherding a product through the discovery, design, build, test, deployment, & maintenance. - Developed the market strategy and product strategy to help sell and deliver services within the offering. - Worked with market-facing groups to identify and prioritize the market’s biggest problems.

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Product Manager – ESG Research

Friends of the British Council

Dec 2019 - Current (5 years 6 months)

- Leading the development of research of corporates, trusts and foundation to identify high priority pursuit target for global operation of the British Council. - Developed recommendation engine to match projects with over one thousand likely funding partners across 11 areas of focus and over 120 countries.

Founder, Product Manager

Florida Immigrant Coalition FLIC

Aug 2018 - Current (6 years 10 months)

- Leading the development language learning tools for English and Spanish learners. - Developed natural language processing tools to convert subtitles, lyrics, books, and periodicals into language learning assets.

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Director of Operations and Product Manager

Yewno, Inc.

Feb 2017 - Feb 2018 (1 year 1 month)

- Managed global team processing of high value content including metadata analysis and ingestions. - Deployed machine-learning and computational linguistics to analyze content to extract concepts, and discern patterns and relationships, to make large volumes of information more effectively understood. - Increased content from 70 million documents to over 200 million including over 40 publishers and 200 web crawlers and implemented new quality assurance program based on Six Sigma principles.

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Managing Director, Business Development

Pharos Organization

Feb 2007 - Current (18 years 4 months)

- Leading the US operations of investment bank in Mexico focused on middle market companies across multiple sectors in Mexico and Latin America. - Services include consulting, debt and equity capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, project finance and restructuring.

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Vice President, Structured Credit Product Management

DRAKE & MORGAN, CORNEY & BARROW, JAMIES, GIRAFFE

• Product Manager, MORCOM Access: Led development and global roll-out of global custody system supporting cash and securities clearing. • Product Manager, Structured Credit Marketing: Established structured credit desk integrated with ABS syndicate targeting domestic and international investors. Developed and managed execution of over $10 billion of securitization and credit derivative products.

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Head of Structured Credit and Project Finance

Jefferies & Company

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Head of Structured Credit Products

Westmoreland Capital Management

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Director of Digital Scholarship Product Management

Gale a Cengage Learning Company

• Developed NLP assisted search tool using concept extraction to create personalization to improve search results • Led design and development of the award-winning Gale Digital Scholar Lab, a cloud-based platform providing access to clean, analysis-ready text content from multiple sources and access to powerful natural language processing tools from multiple providers.

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