Investing
Private Equity · Venture Capital
What I bringValuation and deal analysis
Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
Asks the questions. Builds the models. Understands the people.
I've always been curious about why people and companies make the choices they do. Valuation is where that curiosity found its numbers: every model is a set of assumptions about the future, and those assumptions drive real decisions. I'm completing my Master of Quantitative Finance at UC San Diego's Rady School of Management, where I use data and AI tools to test assumptions faster and present them more clearly.
MK
MQF Dec '26Master of Quantitative Finance, Rady School of Management, UC San Diego
SaaS → FinanceWorked at a software company, understanding the product's every feature and why it matters
BachemCorporate Finance Intern, Summer 2026
CFA L ILevel I Candidate
Selected work
Projects
Where I'm headed
Areas I want to work in
Valuation rigor, data fluency and an eye for how people decide.
Valuation & Corporate Finance
M&A · Corporate Development · FP&A
What I bringFinancial modeling grounded in research
Financial Technology
Fintech · SaaS
What I bringData and AI tools, plus product understanding
Work
Projects & case studies
Each project opens into a short case study with the question, the approach, the real figures and what we concluded. All of these were team projects at UC San Diego.
Experience
Where I've worked
Education
UC San Diego
Dec 2026
Master of Quantitative Finance
Rady School of Management
- Investment Analysis, Corporate Finance, Valuation, Financial Risk Management, Data Science for Finance, GenAI for Business
Jun 2024
B.A. Economics · B.S. Business Psychology
UC San Diego
Tools
- Excel · financial modeling
- Python · SQL
- SAP · Tableau
- PowerPoint
- Claude Code · Codex
Competencies
- Valuation & DCF
- Financial statement analysis
- Capital budgeting (NPV, IRR, payback)
- Variance & cost analysis
- Forecasting & planning
Credentials & leadership
- CFA Level I Candidate
- Financial Statement Analysis & Corporate Valuation, Training The Street
- VP of Event Planning, Rady Finance Club
- Executive Board, Women in Business
MK
About
Numbers, and the people who decide with them.
I came to quantitative finance through economics and business psychology. That pairing still shapes how I work. I care about the model, and I care just as much about how a decision-maker will read it.
At UC San Diego's Rady School I've worked in teams to value Snap after its IPO, design a currency hedging program for Aspen Technology, measure how flight cancellations hit Delta's margins, and build an AI-assisted private equity screening tool. This past summer I interned in corporate finance at Bachem, where I built cost center reports, forecast assumptions and capital investment cases with NPV and IRR.
A good model makes a decision easier. It should never make it for you.
I help run the Rady Finance Club's events as VP of Event Planning. I'm happiest where analysis meets a real decision, which is why I'm looking at private equity, venture capital, valuation, corporate finance and fintech product roles.
On the court
Tennis
On the trail
Hiking
On the map
Traveling
Contact
Let's talk about the next deal.
I'm finishing my MQF in December 2026 and looking for full-time roles in private equity, venture capital, valuation, corporate finance and fintech.
Emailmarina.kanner@rady.ucsd.edu
LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/marinakanner ↗
Based inSan Diego, California