Gabriel Kronisch

Investment research, risk systems and financial modeling · Founder, Atlas Keystone LLC

MFIN, Penn State · FMVA · Santa Cruz, California

Experience

Founder & Manager · Atlas Keystone LLC

Jul 2026 – present

Trading-technology and research company. Sole founder and operator.

  • Develop options and equity playbooks with defined risk parameters and systematic post-trade review.
  • Built a multi-agent trading and research pipeline on AWS, with automated strategies running in paper trading.
  • Quantitative research, including mean-reversion and pairs-based approaches; automated reporting and trade tracking in Python.

Senior Financial Support Specialist · Bay Area Community College Consortium

Nov 2025 – Feb 2026

Financial operations for a $69M consortium budget supporting 28 community colleges and 800+ K-12 schools.

  • Wrote a Python script to automate 98 budget change request forms, cutting per-form cycle time by 64%.
  • Processed $27.9M+ in budget transfers and journal entries across 28+ project codes.
  • Handled 138+ reimbursements, 40+ invoices and 64+ credit card reconciliation items, with a 100% acceptance rate from the Business Services Office.
  • Quarterly Perkins indirect-cost invoicing, monthly card reconciliations and weekly budget updates from general-ledger extracts.

Strategy Consultant · Impulse (contract)

Sep 2024 – Nov 2025
  • Weekly strategy sessions with the CEO of a self-improvement app on product, business strategy and UI.
  • SWOT analysis and a long-term business plan balancing engagement and profitability.
  • Designed 15+ UI/UX improvements and advised on freemium monetization and launch timing; 3+ features shipped from these recommendations.
  • Specified habit-tracking milestone logic using moving averages, and a subscription-cap strategy.

Director of Strategic Planning, Finance & Business · Penn State GPSA

Aug 2024 – May 2025
  • Managed and allocated the $108,000 annual operating budget.
  • Reviewed 38+ funding bills with Excel-based sensitivity analysis.
  • Built automated cash-flow metrics and monthly and annual forecasts; found 20+ miscategorized bills.
  • Recommendations supported a successful case for increased future funding.

Treasurer · Business Leaders for Change, Penn State

Aug 2024 – May 2025

Built the budget for the organization's inaugural sustainability events, cut projected costs 25% in live negotiations, and secured 100% of requested funding. Helped run the Earth Day Panel & Pitch Competition.

Financial Officer · Community Action Fund for Equity and Sustainability (CAFES), Willamette

Aug 2022 – May 2024
  • Ran full-cycle financial operations for ~$130,000 a year in student-fee revenue across 49+ grant projects.
  • Created an expense-approval system that brought mischarges to zero and compliance to 100% over two years.
  • Designed a multi-year transition plan for recurring $20–30K grants, redirecting $50K+ toward new projects.

Treasurer · Willamette Events Board

Apr 2023 – May 2024

Managed a $120,000+ annual budget across about 12 large events, with 100% approval on ~$60,000 in funding requests and ~25% lower projected spending.

Treasurer · Japan Studies Student Leaders, Willamette

Aug 2021 – May 2024

Budgets, expenditures and funding requests for the organization's events.

Education

Penn State Smeal College of Business · Master of Finance

2024 – 2025

GPA 3.89. Merit Scholar; CFA Program Student Scholarship. STEM-designated program: financial modeling (Excel, VBA, Python), valuation, portfolio management.

Willamette University · B.A. Economics (departmental honors) and B.A. Japanese Studies

2020 – 2024

Summa cum laude (3.93), Phi Beta Kappa, Dean's Scholar.

Tokyo International University · Business Economics, Japanese Studies

2022 – 2023

Year-long study abroad in Saitama, Japan.

Research

Lead Exposure and Stock Returns in G20 Countries

2023 – present

Working paper. Panel regressions on the Environmental Performance Index's lead-exposure measure and stock returns across G20 countries. Currently being revised.

Do Cultural Factors Explain Differences in Investor Behavior between Japan and the US?

2024

Interdisciplinary senior thesis, Economics and Japanese Studies, Willamette University.

Competitions

CFO · International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition (ICBSC)

Jan – Apr 2024
  • Team won Best Presentation, Runner-up Best Overall Performance and Runner-up Best Documents among international university teams.
  • 167% total revenue growth (22% CAGR) over the simulated tenure, including 90.8% year-over-year growth in year 6.
  • Biweekly capital budgeting, cash-flow forecasting and P&L analysis across 20+ simulated quarters; sensitivity analysis and Bayesian updating on investment decisions.

Team Captain · Humana-Mays Healthcare Analytics Case Competition

Aug – Oct 2024

Analyzed records for about 1.9 million clients (up to 33.6 million rows) with SQL, Python and pandas, including a local neural-network model.

Community

Founder · Financial Literacy Lessons and Financial Literacy Club, Willamette

Nov 2023 – May 2024

Won a CAFES grant and partnered with Central Willamette Credit Union to run a term of open lessons on credit, debt, investing, budgeting and retirement, then founded a club to keep them going.

Honors and certifications

  • Phi Beta Kappa (2024)
  • Willamette Senior Key (2024)
  • Richard M. Gillis Senior Award in Economics (2024)
  • CFA Program Student Scholarship (2024)
  • Oliver C. Brown Scholarship, Economics (2023)
  • Helen Yeomans Luther Scholarship, Japanese Studies (2023)
  • Charles D. Allis Scholarship, Economics (2022)
  • Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA®), Corporate Finance Institute (2026)
  • AI for Business & Finance, Columbia Business School Executive Education / Wall Street Prep (2025)
  • Relational Databases and SQL, Stanford Online (2025)
  • Power BI Fundamentals, Corporate Finance Institute (2025)
  • JLPT N3 (2023)

Skills