# Axel Malone

**Investment Banking Off-Cycle Analyst** — London, United Kingdom

> Finance professional with aerospace and defence M&A experience, currently pursuing an MSc in Financial Analysis at London Business School after completing a BSc in Economics with honours from the University of Montreal.

Career Archetype: **Launchpad Artisan** (HS-MX) — One of the first Launchpad Artisans on Saywise

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/axel-malone

## Experience

### Investment Banking Off-Cycle Analyst, Seabury Capital (2025-10 – present)
London, United Kingdom · Worked on four aerospace and defence M&A mandates across EMEA and North America, managing buy-side and sell-side processes. Coordinated buyer diligence, prepared transaction materials including teasers and CIMs, and built valuation analyses using DCF, trading comparables and precedent transactions. Developed an LLM-assisted workflow that reduced weekly M&A report compilation time from 2 hours to 45 minutes.

### Private Equity Summer Analyst, Auctor Group (2025-01 – 2025-05)
London, United Kingdom · Screened 20+ acquisition candidates across the UK and France for a food-robotics startup, narrowing targets to six for diligence. Prepared investment-committee memos on shortlisted targets with three-statement, DCF, LBO and sensitivity analysis. Analysed portfolio-company staffing costs and identified margin opportunities from aligning labour intensity with demand.

### Mergers and Acquisitions Analyst, Super.com (2023-01 – 2023-05)
Toronto, Canada · Developed a screening framework for 30+ North American BNPL companies, normalising inconsistent public disclosures into comparable fields. Analysed M&A strategies and outcomes across 20 technology companies and presented recurring strategic patterns to VP of Corporate Development.

### Research Analyst - Portfolio Strategy Desk, Canaccord Genuity - Global Capital Markets (2022-09 – 2022-12)
Montreal, Canada · Built and tested a random-forest machine learning model on macroeconomic and market data to analyse price movements across 10+ sector ETFs.

### Clerk, Clinique de cardiologie George-Dumont (2021-01 – 2021-01)
Dieppe, New Brunswick, Canada · Implemented custom software improving document processing speed by 50%

### Lifeguard, Ville de / City of Dieppe (2017-01 – 2020-01)
Dieppe, New Brunswick, Canada

## Education

### Masters in Financial Analysis, London Business School (2024-09 – 2026-06)
Finance Club, PE/VC Club, Fintech Club

### Bachelor of Science with Honours in Economics, Université de Montréal (2021-09 – 2024-06)
GPA 3.9 / 4.3, Dean's List 2021-2024

## Skills

Office Operations, Office Support, General Office Work, Lifesaving, Python (Programming Language), Investment Research, Financial Modeling, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Financial Analysis, Market Research, Market Mapping, Academic Research, Econometric Modeling, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, DCF Analysis, Trading Comparables, Precedent Transactions, Three-Statement Modelling, LBO Analysis, Sensitivity Analysis, SQL, English, French

## Credentials

- **Passed CFA Level 1** — CFA Institute (issued 2023-08)

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