Jamie Friedman
What makes a good idea work in practice?
I'm a Harvard MBA student with six years of experience across investing, strategy, and operations at Credit Suisse and TPG, including a strategy externship at A-Gas, a TPG portfolio company. I'm interested in corporate and product strategy, partnerships, and go-to-market in technology.
About me
At TPG, I enjoyed working with senior stakeholders and understanding how they thought about their businesses: what customers needed, where growth could come from and what held it back, and how to weigh competing priorities. Investing let me explore those questions across companies and industries.
During my externship at A-Gas, I put those ideas into practice, working across teams to build tools, rethink pricing, and develop growth plans. I particularly enjoyed bringing different perspectives together and translating analysis into decisions and action. After my MBA, I want to bring that experience to a long-term operating role, helping a high-impact company grow and better serve its customers.
Operational & Strategic Impact
Building an AI pricing tool
A-Gas | Chief of Staff to CEO, Americas
Procurement pricing relied on a manual process that slowed high-volume bids. I led the build-out of an AI/ML tool that translated nine qualitative variables into a pricing model with a minimum-margin constraint.
I secured global CEO and board support through regular business-case reviews and coordinated commercial, TPG operations, and Salesforce teams to launch a pilot.
Pilot launched across five sales districts, with model calibration underway ahead of a planned US-wide rollout.
Rethinking a $180M+ contract bid
A-Gas | Chief of Staff to CEO, Americas
A $180M+ government customer contract was up for re-bid. I owned the repricing work, bringing together a cross-functional team across sales, operations, and finance to rebuild the approach and protect margins against cost inflation and changing regulation, demonstrating that the prior bid pricing approach risked $10M+ in losses.
- Protected against $10M+ in potential losses
- Reframed contract pricing strategy
Building a new market entry strategy
A-Gas | Chief of Staff to CEO, Americas
I mapped a market opportunity, prioritized customer sub-segments, and partnered with TPG's AI team to create an interactive market map. I worked with the Head of Business Development to create the entry strategy and supporting business case for leadership and the board. I also identified gaps in how A-Gas tracked customer data by industry, and flagged the changes needed to measure progress and guide the strategy's rollout.
Supported a new market entry strategy with $15M+ in potential annual earnings
Deepening corporate partnerships
TPG Rise Climate | Rise Corporate Coalition
I led engagement with the Rise Corporate Coalition, connecting approximately 30 corporate investors with TPG's portfolio companies to explore commercial partnerships.
I shaped programming around members' business challenges, including how to integrate new technologies into their supply chains, and brought senior executives together to pursue deals.
3+ commercial and investment deals from coalition relationships. 6 events with 100–200+ executives each.
Key Project
Automating HBS
I automated the admin of business school with AI agents, then built a website that teaches my classmates to do the same.
Building my own tools
Life gets busy at HBS, so I handed the recurring admin to AI agents: a daily study bot that pulls cases from Canvas, and a Chief of Staff web app that brings my classes, Canvas deadlines, recruiting, email and class participation into one page with a built-in agent.
Helping classmates build their own
I then built a guide so classmates can set up their own, written for people who have never used a terminal. They can start with a no-code daily study bot (under 15 minutes), set up a no-code version of the web app (about 15 minutes), or build the full app in Claude Code (two to three hours).
Community Impact & Leadership
On the junior board, I helped launch a workforce development pilot. Honor Your Dreams advances economic mobility for low-income youth through paid workforce opportunities, mentorship, networking, and scholarships.
On the Marketing & Operations Committee, I developed a marketing campaign to champion the organization's sustainability mission. BloomAgainBklyn rescues unsold and once-used flowers and turns them into arrangements for vulnerable New Yorkers.
I led the NYC chapter's team of 30 professionals and wrote and secured a $6K grant for a nonprofit supporting low-income students. Highwind is a volunteer-run venture philanthropy group that connects young professionals with grassroots nonprofits.
Interests & Fun Facts
Hiking
Favorite hikes: Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the Dolomites, Mt. Batur in Bali, and Dune 45 in Sossusvlei, Namibia
Podcasts
Favorites: Acquired, The Economist Weekly, and Morning Brew Business
Reading
Favorites: The Sympathizer and The Goldfinch
Chess
Hometown
Boulder, CO
