Andrew Milnes

Testing ideas and meeting brilliant people. I have grown up in insurance and see my fate as tied to it; interested in software and AI, have a strong finance and sales background with a passion for startups. Very excited to work on the intersection of these things.

Maxims I strongly believe in:

  • "Excellence is the capacity to take pain." - Isadore Sharp
  • "The most successful people I know are ruthlessly truth seeking" - Arav Kumar
  • "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with" - Jim Rohn
  • "The biggest risk is not taking any." - Zuckerberg

Building

SalesNav.io

A site to turn natural language into an optimized power search for linkedin sales navigator. Designed to help SDRs and AEs spend less time and effort building lead lists while increasing their quality.

Previously

Claro

A website to help find quality insurance agents via reviews and social proof. Moved on due to inbound not being the ideal form for agents. Will return to this project in the future.

Pitch video

Site demo

Coming Soon

  • Insurance License

    Studying to pass in the coming month.

  • Preferred Partner Network

    A referral system for insurance agents to use.

  • Slate

    A new kind of playing card case. Designed for Cardists.

Andrew Milnes

linkedin.com/in/andrewmilnes1

Education

BS in Business Administration - Finance

Expected May 2027

Northeastern University, D'Amore-McKim School of Business · Boston, MA

GPA: 3.41 · Dean's List · Northeastern Entrepreneurs Club

High School Diploma

May 2023

Proctor Academy · Andover, NH

Rock-Climbing · Cross-Country Running · Alpine Ski Team · Robotics · Movie Club President · Dorm Leader · Honors Roll+

Experience

Project Management and Process Optimization

July — December 2025

Coverys

  • • Mapped and optimized the Facilities renewal workflow through 12+ stakeholder interviews, delivering a current-state summary that identified 480+ annual labor hours in efficiency gains
  • • Coordinated underwriting intake/triage implementation by aligning UW leadership, running daily standups, and supporting Salesforce workflow enhancements that improved routing and reporting
  • • Enhanced cross-team underwriting operations by resolving notification issues, improving onboarding documentation, and enabling UW access to PowerBI dashboards for loss-run and claims-reserve visibility

Founder

June — November 2024

Claro · www.claro.insure

  • • Conducted in-depth interviews with 4 small business owners and 20 insurance agents to identify pain points, gather insights, and validate product features
  • • Presented pitch at Cambridge AI hacks at Harvard and in the Northeastern Husky Start Up Challenge as part of the Entrepreneurs club

Summer Analyst / Sales Development Representative

June — September 2023

INEX Capital · Manchester, NH

  • • Launched a multichannel marketing campaign, finding a partner vendor to purchase an extensive agency lead list database from, and following up with warm leads to deliver an opportunity pipeline of $2 million

Summer Analyst

June — September 2022

INEX Capital · Manchester, NH

  • • Passed Corporate Finance Institute's Financial Modeling and Valuation Analyst certification and practiced DCF and Comparables valuation methods
  • • Vetted DCF, debt payment and ratio analyses, along with pro forma P&Ls and valuations of 7 multi-million-dollar real estate leads for a buy-side broker

Summer Analyst

June — September 2021

INEX Capital · Manchester, NH

  • • Analyzed roughly $1 million of subsidiary revenue for more accurate recording of transactions
  • • Optimized the company loan amortization spreadsheet to return more accurate and specific annual data
  • • Routinely calculated and delivered IRR and other investor metrics to equity partners in real estate portfolio
  • • Developed a dashboard spreadsheet for the company to view RE control-investment positions and returns

Summer Analyst

June — September 2020

INEX Capital · Manchester, NH

  • • Performed basic bookkeeping and reviewing of company and subsidiary financial statements
  • • Organization of loan agreements and RE lease documents

Skills

Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, QuickBooks, SEMrush, Salesforce, PowerBI

Certifications

CFI Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst · CCIM Financial Spreadsheet Analysis Course · Excel Power User "Microsoft Excel from Beginner to Expert" · PADI Scuba Certified · Tastyworks Options Trading

Interests

Scuba Diving · Skiing · Watches · Cardistry