Pauline Santos

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Partner at Driftwood Partners · Healthcare · venture capital, healthtech

Driftwood Partners
Manila, Philippines · PHT (UTC+8)
17+ years experience
INSEAD Singapore
English, Filipino
Investing
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Partner at Driftwood Partners, backing healthcare companies. Previously an operator for 7 years before investing. Marathoner (3 so far).

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in iOS apps
  • Questions about iOS apps
  • Working sessions on regulation
  • Second opinions on venture capital decisions
Please don't message about
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack

Replies on weekends

Skills
biotechhealthtechregulationventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $25k cheques into pre-seed healthcare in India and SEA

Cheque size
$25k
Stages
Seed
Sectors
IOS apps
Geographies
US and Europe
Lead or follow
Lead
Decision time
10 business days
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Usually the first cheque in. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

Manila, Philippineshealthtechventure capitalregulation
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Experience

  1. Partner
    May 2022 - Present
    Driftwood Partners · 4 yr 5 mo · Contract · Manila, Philippines
    • Wrote the regulation service that now handles 25 million requests a day.
    • Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 309ms to 68ms.
    • Rebuilt onboarding in SwiftUI and lifted day-one retention 4%.
  2. Finance Manager
    Mar 2020 - May 2022
    McKinsey & Company · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Manila, Philippines
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $185 million raise.
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 4% for 7 straight quarters.
  3. Financial Analyst
    Apr 2017 - Mar 2020
    Maybank · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Manila, Philippines
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $146 million raise.
  4. Senior Financial Analyst
    Feb 2014 - Apr 2017
    NAB · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Manila, Philippines
    • Saved $5 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  5. Finance Manager
    Apr 2010 - Dec 2013
    Foxconn · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Manila, Philippines
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 4% for 5 straight quarters.

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Education

  1. INSEAD Singapore
    MBA, Business Administration
    2008 - 2010
  2. Monash University
    BCom, Finance
    2000 - 2004

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