“I highly recommend Zaharo to all future employers or business associates. I was in the same 3rd period group with Zaharo as part of the IE MBA program and I find her to be diligent, responsible and capable when it comes to group work. In person, I was impressed by her presence and her articulation skills. She also comes across as determined and highly motivated. Overall, Zaharo has the clear hallmarks of someone who will succeed and is definitely someone whom you would want on your team, or alighted with your business interests. ”
About
Hi! I'm Zaharo and I founded Right Hand Talent, a search firm focused on placing…
Contributions
Activity
Experience
Education
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IE Business School
Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, IE Fellow Award, Ethics Class Representative
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Volunteer Experience
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Mentor
Draper Startup House Accelerator
- Present 2 years 9 months
Science and Technology
DSH Accelerator fosters and funds early-stage startups, providing an environment where passion, creativity, and a desire to change the world collide.
10 startups are chosen for each cohort, and participants live amongst other entrepreneurs to foster innovation and an expansion of ideas. Through the DSH accelerator programs, entrepreneurs gain the resources, tools, and experiences they need to take their company to the next level. -
Chief of Staff
Westlake Innovation Fund
- Present 3 years 5 months
Education
The Westlake Innovation Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization, was launched to support the efforts to bring authentic, rigorous entrepreneurial education to Westlake High School students in Austin, Texas (Eanes Independent School District). We recruit volunteer, real-world entrepreneurs and business experts to serve as mentors and coaches to guide the students through the Westlake Business Incubator course (https://www.eanesisd.net/academics/innovation/wbi).
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Pro Bono Consultant
Taproot Foundation
- 1 year
Education
The Taproot Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that engages design, marketing, IT, strategic management, and human resources professionals in pro bono service projects to build the infrastructure of other nonprofit organizations.
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Mentor
StreetWise Partners
- Present 6 years 6 months
Economic Empowerment
StreetWise Partners pairs business professionals with mentees who are unemployed/underemployed in order to provide them with the skills, resources, and access to networks they need to secure and maintain employment.
Publications
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Mechanisms of slower nitric oxide uptake by red blood cells and other hemoglobin-containing vesicles.
The Journal of Biological Chemistry
Abstract:
"Nitric oxide (NO) acts as a smooth muscle relaxation factor and plays a crucial role in maintaining vascular homeostasis. NO is scavenged rapidly by hemoglobin (Hb). However, under normal physiological conditions, the encapsulation of Hb inside red blood cells (RBCs) significantly retards NO scavenging, permitting NO to reach the smooth muscle. The rate-limiting factors (diffusion of NO to the RBC surface, through the RBC membrane or inside of the RBC) responsible for this…Abstract:
"Nitric oxide (NO) acts as a smooth muscle relaxation factor and plays a crucial role in maintaining vascular homeostasis. NO is scavenged rapidly by hemoglobin (Hb). However, under normal physiological conditions, the encapsulation of Hb inside red blood cells (RBCs) significantly retards NO scavenging, permitting NO to reach the smooth muscle. The rate-limiting factors (diffusion of NO to the RBC surface, through the RBC membrane or inside of the RBC) responsible for this retardation have been the subject of much debate. Knowing the relative contribution of each of these factors is important for several reasons including optimization of the development of blood substitutes where Hb is contained within phospholipid vesicles. We have thus performed experiments of NO uptake by erythrocytes and microparticles derived from erythrocytes and conducted simulations of these data as well as that of others. We have included extracellular diffusion (that is, diffusion of the NO to the membrane) and membrane permeability, in addition to intracellular diffusion of NO, in our computational models. We find that all these mechanisms may modulate NO uptake by membrane-encapsulated Hb and that extracellular diffusion is the main rate-limiting factor for phospholipid vesicles and erythrocytes. In the case of red cell microparticles, we find a major role for membrane permeability. These results are consistent with prior studies indicating that extracellular diffusion of several gas ligands is also rate-limiting for erythrocytes, with some contribution of a low membrane permeability."Other authorsSee publication
Languages
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Spanish
Limited working proficiency
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Greek
Limited working proficiency
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