Taewan Yoon, CFA

Columbia MBA/MS | Enterprise AI | Financial Technology

The intersection of frontier AI and enterprise finance is still being defined — I’m drawn to that. I translate what the best models can do into strategies that institutions can actually deploy, and I’m always working to understand both sides more deeply.

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Agentic Systems, AI Strategy | MBA/MS at Columbia

Columbia MBA/MS. Built and scaled Claude’s NYC builder ecosystem from 0 to 1,000+ members. Leading the AI Club and AI Startup Challenge, and founded BRAIN NYC—a startup network tackling the hardest business challenges with frontier AI.

AI strategist, product manager, and startup community builder. Shipped agentic workflows as a Manus AI Fellow and co-founded AI-native fintech startup (acquired by a major insurance firm). Mentor at CFA Society New York.

Writing

Thinking through AI — systems, products, and the questions worth asking

What Senior Business Leaders Actually Ask About AI

I guest-lectured to Directors and C-suite leaders at Columbia’s executive AI program. Their questions — about liability, talent, and competitive advantage — reveal where leadership’s mind actually is on AI right now.

Mar 17, 2026 15 min read AI Strategy

How I Learn Anything with AI

The feedback loop that used to require study groups, office hours, and weeks of iteration now happens in real time. How arguing with Claude turned six weeks of Causal Inference into a repeatable system for learning anything technical.

Mar 12, 2026 9 min read AI Strategy

Connecting Local to Global: Inside Mistral AI's Worldwide Hackathon

7,000+ applications, 1,000+ builders, 7 cities, $200K+ in prizes — inside Mistral AI’s first worldwide hackathon, from the judge’s seat at the New York edition.

Mar 3, 2026 9 min read Community

Connecting Local to Global: Inside Mistral AI's Worldwide Hackathon

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Projects

March 2026 Data Science

Causal Inference — Interactive Study Guide

A single-page interactive web app covering causal inference from potential outcomes to Double ML, with canvas visualizations, KaTeX formulas, and a full method comparison framework.

September 2025 AI Systems

AI Pipeline for Quantitative Finance Research

Built a LightRAG pipeline that transforms 4,000+ academic papers into a queryable graph vector database, surfacing contrarian investment strategies with 2.4x more comprehensive responses than naive RAG.

Events

Building the Future of Finance with Claude — Columbia Executive Education

Mar 17, 2026 Columbia Business School

GDG NYC Build With AI Hackathon — Google Cloud Labs x Columbia Business School

Mar 8, 2026 9:00 AM — 9:00 PM Columbia Business School, 665 West 130th Street, New York

Mistral AI Worldwide Hackathon — New York

Feb 28, 2026 — Mar 1, 2026 Verci Flatiron, New York

Claude Code Workshop — Digital Product Management Lab

Feb 23, 2026 Columbia Business School

AI Club x Iterate NYC Hackathon

Feb 14, 2026 Columbia Business School

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Contact

Selectively pursuing enterprise AI roles — developer relations, product management, solutions architecture, and go-to-market — where deep FinTech expertise and hands-on AI deployment experience create measurable business value.