PORTFOLIO · 2026
JACK
CHUNG.
Chemical engineer.
Commercial strategist.
Incoming LSE.
I build systems that turn complexity into clarity,
in molecules, in markets, and in data.
DEFINE
THE SYSTEM.
UNDERSTAND
THE VARIABLES.
MAXIMISE
THE OUTPUT.
This is how I approach everything, from reactor design to pricing strategy.
NOTTINGHAM, UK · ROOTS
Grew up in the English Midlands.
Biology A*, Chemistry A, Mathematics A.
ILM Level 2 Leadership · Royal Air Force Cadets.
Grade 8 Drum Kit.
Already thinking in systems.
UNIVERSITY OF BATH · 2022–2026
BEng CHEMICAL ENGINEERING (HONS) WITH PLACEMENT
FIRST CLASS HONOURS · 71%
FROM MOLECULES
TO MARKETS.
The method never changed. Only the system did. I took the same thinking into a glass tower above London.
LONDON BRIDGE
THE SHARD · LEVEL 20
JUNE 2024 - JUNE 2025
NEW VENTURES DIVISION
COMMERCIAL ANALYST INTERN · 2024–2025
0+
SKUs FORECASTED
Improving accuracy. Enabling sharper revenue targeting. Amoy & Las Chicas brands. World Cuisines at Kraft Heinz.
0%
REDUCTION IN REPORTING TIME
Four product categories. Three major retailers. 2–3 days of work → 10 minutes. Every single week.
PRICING STRATEGY
RE-ENGINEERED
A bespoke VBA-powered market simulation tool. Modelling cross-product elasticity across thousands of SKUs. From intuition to data-driven econometrics.
GO-TO-MARKET
STRATEGY
Financial insight synthesised into executive briefings for senior leadership: Revenue Growth Management, pricing, and portfolio decisions.
“Without a doubt the best intern I have worked with.”
THE SHARD · 2024–2025 · END SCENE
E-COMMERCE ANALYST · CEN-UK · NOTTINGHAM · 2025
A high-growth SME. Four thousand products.
No demand planning. No analytics. No infrastructure.
The entire forecast lived in one person’s head.
NO SILOS.NO SYSTEM.
SO I BUILT ONE.
THE MACHINERY, FROM SCRATCH
on Shopify, Google & eBay
system CEN had ever run
tracking, for the first time
I found a working-capital leak hiding in poor inventory management and closed it, demand planning wired straight into sales data. This is where I learned the mechanics beneath the P&L: how a business actually converts stock into cash.
SENIOR CONSULTANT · 180 DEGREES CONSULTING · 2025
THE
BRIEF.
Hospices of Hope: end-of-life care across the UK and Romania. Ten weeks to build them a revenue strategy. A team of four consultants to lead and mentor.
- WK 00The whole roadmap, sprint-designed over one weekend
- WK 03Market research & due diligence
- WK 07Targeting & outreach strategy
- WK 10The pitch deck, delivered to the client
HOSPICES OF HOPE · WEEK TEN
GOOD WORK,
GROWING.
I taught the team to turn dense analysis into advice a non-technical client could act on, and ran it to deadline. Client-facing strategy in service of end-of-life care. The work I want more of.
DEPLOYED · PRODUCTION
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION CONSULTANT · KNITSTER LDN · 2026 · SOLE
THE BUILD.
ONE CONSULTANT.
TEN DOMAINS.
A knitwear factory running production on paper and memory hired one consultant to digitise all of it. The machine knits a row a week: five rows, then live.
The costing engine is a financial model, I just built mine in code instead of Excel. Sole consultant, a real client, shipped under pressure: the same muscle an analyst uses to take a business apart and deliver on a deadline.
PRODUCT & PROCESS DESIGN · UNIVERSITY OF BATH · 2026
THE ENGINEERINGUNDERNEATH.
Before any of the commercial work, there was the discipline that taught me to think this way. First: a full commercial plant on paper, designed with a team of eight.
GROUP DESIGN · TEAM OF 8 · “LYCOTEA”
A COMMERCIAL PLANT, DESIGNED FROM ZERO.
A facility producing 24 million litres a year of a lycopene-enriched functional beverage for the Chinese market, recovering lycopene by supercritical CO₂ extraction at 373 bar in a closed, solvent-free loop.
Peng-Robinson, Chrastil, Sovová, Hinze: the models were the easy part. The decision was commercial: a full DCF, NPV and sensitivity analysis that found CapEX the parameter the whole project hinged on.
The plant was the team's. The unit that came next was mine alone: six weeks, one machine, every decimal defended.
INDIVIDUAL DESIGN · HTST PASTEURISER · SIX WEEKS · SOLO
72.00 °C.
FIFTEEN SECONDS.
EXACTLY.
My unit on the LycoTea line: 4,041 litres an hour of a heat-sensitive beverage. Hot enough to satisfy Chinese food law. Gentle enough that the lycopene survives. Out at 4.00 °C for aseptic filling.
THE SHORTCUT DESIGN · TEXTBOOK ASSUMPTIONS, FOLLOWED FAITHFULLY
0
Plates. In one heat exchanger.
19,489 m² of steel — nearly three football pitches of it.
Flow so slow the heat-transfer coefficient collapsed to 4.37 W m⁻² K⁻¹.
And it degraded all the target compound.
RIGOROUS DESIGN · MATLAB · FIRST PRINCIPLES
SO I REBUILT
THE PHYSICS.
The exchanger cut into nodes along every plate. At each one: coupled energy balances, temperature-dependent properties, fouling, degradation kinetics — solved simultaneously with fsolve. No guessed coefficients. No averages.
SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS · EVERY PARAMETER AGAINST THE OUTPUT IT GOVERNS
THEN I TURNED
EVERY DIAL.
plate thickness cut to 1.5 mm
width-to-length ratio 2.5 → 2.0
across 32 vendor units, R² 0.84
channel gap tightened 2.5 → 1.7 mm
Chevron corrugation swept to 30°. Regeneration efficiency screened from 0.75 to 0.90 against one-to-five pass configurations. Two passes won.
Plates in the final pack — 8-plate two-pass regeneration · 2 heating · 4 cooling · one 0.976 m holding tube
Every section’s pressure drop inside the 0.2–0.8 bar envelope. Same duty. A machine a thousand times smaller.
MECHANICAL DESIGN · ANSYS GRANTA · AUTODESK INVENTOR FEA
THEN I TRIED
TO BREAK IT.
- 316L stainless steel — screened across price, CIP acid–alkali attack, and embodied CO₂. 36% stronger than 304 at 72 °C.
- 2.33 × 10⁶ N of gasket compression driven into the frame plate. It flexed 0.000 mm — 0.24% of its thickness.
- 1,000× the operating weight loaded onto the guide bar — 53.5 meganewtons. It moved 0.0057 mm.
THE RESULT
0%
Of the lycopene survives the machine
Define the system. Understand the variables. Maximise the output. Here it was literal: six weeks, one unit, from governing equations to a machine that could be built, priced, and trusted.
THE PERSON
I grew up in Nottingham, studied chemistry,
built pricing models in The Shard,
and I’m headed to LSE to understand
everything I still don’t know.
- GRADE 8 DRUM KIT
- FIELD HOCKEY · SCHOOL, CLUB & UNIVERSITY
- PHOTOGRAPHY & VIDEOGRAPHY
- HALF-MARATHON RUNNER
- 180 DEGREES CONSULTING · SENIOR CONSULTANT
- DUKE OF EDINBURGH · BRONZE
- ILM LEVEL 2 · LEADERSHIP · RAF CADETS
- TEENTECH FINALIST · 2018 · FUTURE OF TRANSPORT
CAPABILITIES
FINANCIAL MODELLING
→DCF · NPV · Monte Carlo · FMCG P&L · Scenario Analysis
QUANTITATIVE ANALYTICS
→Forecasting · Elasticity Modelling · EPOS Data · VBA · Python · MATLAB
PROCESS ENGINEERING
→Heat-Exchanger Design · Numerical Optimisation · HAZID · LOPA · P&ID · FEA
COMMERCIAL STRATEGY
→Go-to-Market · Pricing Strategy · Revenue Growth Management · Portfolio Streamlining
TECHNOLOGY DELIVERY
→Full-Stack Engineering · PWA Architecture · System Design · SQL · Offline-First
CONSULTING & LEADERSHIP
→Client Management · Team Leadership · Sprint Planning · Executive Storytelling
PLATFORMS & TOOLS
→Excel (Advanced) · VBA · Tableau · MATLAB · Shopify · Circana · Kantar · Mintel
SEPTEMBER 2026 · INCOMING
LONDON
SCHOOL OF
ECONOMICS
2022 - 2026
UNIVERSITY
OF BATH
2015 - 2022
LOUGHBOROUGH
GRAMMAR SCHOOL
NEXT CHAPTER · SEPTEMBER 2026
JACK
CHUNG.
mail@jackchung.uk
linkedin.com/in/jack-kt-chung