Amelia DeSorrento

Hi, I’m Amelia.

In my career, I’ve started a B2B tech company, a higher education social enterprise, a viral card game, and a couple organizations supporting female tech founders. Through these experiences, I’ve built multifunctional teams, developed partnerships, raised venture funding, launched marketing initiatives, written contracts, shipped code, and learned a whole awful lot. Now I’m working as a management consultant in the commercial nuclear sector.

Experience

  1. Desoco

    Commercial Nuclear Consulting

    2023–Present

    If you’re asking yourself: How did Amelia go from tech startups to nuclear consulting? Well, I’m still figuring that one out, too… But now I spend my days advising nuclear developers and suppliers on market strategy, customer engagement, and go-to-market planning. Most of my work has been for utilities, Fortune 500s and nuclear developers. It’s fascinating — I’m having a blast.

  2. Capital One

    Director, Product Management

    2019–2023

    After several years in startups, Capital One was my first “big girl job,” as I like to call it. There, I worked on projects like project managing a major international integration, leading our Card innovation portfolio, launching an apprenticeship program to bring folks from our branches and call centers into product roles, and redesigning and relaunching our interview/casing for product managers. I had the best time there, and I miss it often!

  3. Hatch Apps

    Cofounder & Chief Operating Officer

    2015–2019

    I had the amazing opportunity to cofound a tech startup bringing transparency, speed, and price stability to the software development industry. We were named Tech Startup of the Year by Technical.ly DC in 2017, and listed in Entrepreneur among Amazon and SpaceX as one of 20 companies investors were excited about in 2018. There, I built and managed a team of 23 developers, marketers, designers, and salespeople, and played a key role in raising $2.3M in investment dollars. I also secured press coverage in TIME, Fox Business, Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Washington Business Journal. It was an incredible learning opportunity.

  4. Student Language Exchange

    Founder & Executive Director

    2013–2015

    Immediately after graduating college, I developed a national initiative to diversify language learning in US education. There, I trained and supported 100+ volunteers throughout the Northeast. I also developed partnerships with leading language education organizations, was asked to serve as plenary speaker at ACTFL’s 6,000-person national convention, and was profiled in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Prior to my departure, we had launched programs in 32 languages (e.g. Bengali, Thai, Swahili) at Brandeis, Brown, Columbia, Tufts, Williams and Vassar. For this work, I was awarded a Halcyon Fellowship and C.V. Starr Social Innovation Fellowship.

Side hustles

Honors

Publications

Nuclear Scaling Initiative

Harvard Business Review

Fast Company

The Atlantic

Education

University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business

MBA, class of 2024

I completed my MBA with concentrations in Finance, Data Analytics and Technology in a Top 10 business school — while balancing work and parenting, which was a bit of a hot mess. At graduation, I was selected by my wonderful professors to receive the Faculty Award for Academic Excellence. I was also fortunate enough to be selected as a Batten Scholar and Forté Fellow, and to have my full tuition covered by Capital One (thanks, Uncle Rich!).

Brown University

BA, class of 2014

I majored in Portuguese and Brazilian studies (v practical) and graduated with a cumulative GPA of 3.97. I caught the entrepreneurial bug while there, serving as a TA for Leading Social Ventures (an application-only course for student entrepreneurs) and receiving a C.V. Starr Social Innovation Fellowship for entrepreneurship. I was also the recipient of the Social Innovation Leadership Award, the Joslin Award, a Citation for Fostering Understanding, and an Inspire Grant.

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I <3 new friends. Shoot me a note about cool things you’re working on or reasons we should chat. And please don’t be spammy or weird. I tend to get a lot of emails, so I apologize if I don’t respond right away. Looking forward to our hang :)

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