Linus Li

Team Leader, Team Canada Director of Sponsorships and Outreach

International Economics Olympiad (IEO)

2026-07 - Present

- Appointed Team Leader for Team Canada's 2026-27 cycle and to the 6-person Canadian Economics Olympiad organizing committee, with scope across sponsorships (C$14k accrued), contest development, and delegation preparation - Served on the IEO OpenTrack 2026 jury evaluating live finalist presentations alongside Executive Board members

Finance & Revenue Operations Intern

Xello Inc.

2026-05 - Present

- Created the cluster architecture, segmentation methodology, and success criteria for an American K-12 school district ideal-customer-profile model, resolving a ~12,900-district national base into 39 addressable segments and 6 routing clusters - Recommended concentrating sales coverage on the higher-ARR-density segments the model isolates, which showed order-of-magnitude ARR variance across clusters; coverage has since shifted toward the model's top-tier clusters - Built the consolidated standard and functional P&L statements now in company use with revenue by product line on one view and operating expense by department on the other, with year-over-year variance, gross margin, and ratio analysis - Analyzed a renewal book of ~2,800 opportunities across 60+ territories, categorizing 370+ loss records to surface realization patterns and churn drivers, and presented the implications to the customer success team for retention strategy - Ran A/R collections on outstanding invoices, sourcing client-side accounts-payable representatives through Salesforce

Board of Directors (Prev. Chief Operating Officer)

FUSE Society

2025-09 - Present

- Proposed and led the creation of Innovate48, a national case competition placing participants in a private equity associate's role; coordinated academia, marketing, and logistics on a 2-week build timeline, drawing 500+ registrants across Canada - Designed the case itself: a simplified LBO model with full financial and qualitative statements across 150+ documents and 40+ spreadsheets for 4 fictional target companies, with scoring criteria weighted toward reasoning over aesthetics

Competitor, Team Canada

International Economics Olympiad (IEO)

2025-04 - 2026-07

- Selected twice to the 5-person Canadian national team—1 of 5 nationally in both years, on a top-3 national score in 2026—in a competition scored across economics (100 points), financial literacy (50), and a team business case (50) - Earned individual Gold in both years, placing 8th of 263 finalists from 55 countries and territories in 2026, up from 22nd of 258 in 2025, with the Best in Economics honor for a top-10 finish in the most heavily weighted section - Business Case - 3rd worldwide (2026): sole author of the team's 8-sheet financial model for a proposed Alberta industrial development zone, with capex benchmarked against 4 global comparables and a phased revenue build - Private returns (13.2% IRR against a 7.57% built-up WACC) held on a separate ledger from public fiscal cost-benefit; scenario-tested to a conditional go recommendation, alongside a concurrent federal reversal on infrastructure policy - Business Case - 1st worldwide (2025): built the revenue and pricing side of a 24-hour infrastructure DCF for a Caspian rail crossing, rerouted through Turkmenistan after ruling the case route as infeasible at 250m in depth; team 2nd overall - Priced tolls at parity with the incumbent ferry cost per ton so volume never depended on shippers paying a premium; ran a 7-year adoption curve against capex benchmarked at ~$680M/km across 9 global spans, to a 24.8-year payback - Led on-site preparation for a 2026 delegation as its sole returning member, running the team's only 2 practice cases and a syllabus review after schedule conflicts eliminated all rehearsal before arrival; team placed 3rd overall while taking 3 golds