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Episode #25: Konrad Kennedy (FTMBA '20) is visiting Haas for the semester on an exchange from the ESADE MBA program in Barcelona where he is the president of the Entrepreneurship Club. Konrad graduated from Warwick University in the UK and subsequently started his career in FinTech in London. After the first startup he joined was acquired by Apple he joined Barclays' leadership rotational ...

Episode #24: Bree Jenkins, industrial engineer extraordinaire, of the FTMBA ’19 class starts from humble roots in the Midwest. She later moved to Georgia with her family to attend high school and college at Georgia Tech. She pursued her passion for math and science which lead her to a career in industrial engineering. Bree fires up while talking about her work at Disney World and for the Disney Cr...

Episode #23: Dilip Patel EWMBA ’20 immigrated from Mumbai (Bombay), India five years ago as a Fractal Analytics Data Science Engineer. He started his career working in the financial industry for big banks like Citi and Credit Suisse. We hear how Dilip transitioned from data science to product management during his time at Salesforce. We learn about product management in the perspective of what you...

Episode #22: We are joined by Adam Brudnick of the FTMBA ’19 program. In this episode, he shares with us what initially drew him to a career in consulting at McKinsey and ultimately to Berkeley Haas. Back in high school, He was inspired to work at the intersection of science and business after watching An Inconvenient Truth which led him to apply to Wesleyan University, well known for its emphasis...

Episode #21: Sommelier and Entrepreneur, Andres Martell EWMBA '19, started off in the United States Marine Corps. Before launching his Vin Ambassador business in the Bay Area, he recounts his over-the-phone wine tasting tradition with his father, which inspired him to recognize a gap in the hospitality industry for wines. Andres shares the journey to becoming a sommelier, the connoisseur of wi...

Episode #20: We start the story of Mike Devlin FTMBA 2019 from a humble background with an Indian tiger mom and an American father. Mike initially walks us through his background in investment banking, private equity, and his passion for tackling our health and healthcare using his unique background and set of skills. Then we learn how Mike was forged from a kiln at the peak of Mount Everest… just...

Episode #19: Today we’re joined by Jaslyn Law of the EWMBA 2020 program and we start off discussing her undergraduate and Master’s degree at Stanford in Environmental and Earth Sciences. We learn about her work on geographic information systems (GIS) in the Bay Area and then pivoting to data-driven analytical marketing roles. We continue to discuss how far biddable online marketing has come and th...

Episode #18: Lou Amayo of the FTMBA 2019 program joins us on this episode to discuss her passion for leveraging Fintech to drive impact into emerging markets and economies. She comes from an industrial engineering background in Peru, where she worked to improve operations for manufacturing processes for a pharmaceutical company. She later joined a Fintech company focused on generating credit score...

Episode #17: Double Bear Brett Li EWMBA ’20 joins us on this episode to provide us poets with some insights into the world of Product Marketing Management (PMM). We discuss how he went from a technical sales role at Hewlett-Packard to the role of a PMM, which works closely with and sometimes blends into the role of a Product Manager (PM). Brett discusses with us in detail about what interests him...

Episode #16: Today we speak with Julia Nechaieva FTMBA ’18 who graduated this summer and will be headed to Google for Product Management. We start off with her background from Ukraine and the beginnings of her career at Innova, the top gaming company in Russia, and then to Yandex, the Google of Russia, before deciding to make the move to Berkeley. We discuss what it was like growing up in what the...

Episode #15: Special Guest Dean Lyons BS ‘82 joins my cohosts Julia Nechaieva FTMBA ’18, Steve Lee EWMBA ’20, and I on the Haas podcast to discuss leadership, intentionality, and culture amongst many things. We discuss why recruiters hire Haas students, how the latent Berkeley Haas Defining Leadership Principles were codified and how they are used to guide the initiatives at Haas. We continue to d...

Episode #14: Maurizio Asperti of the FTMBA 2019 program joins us for a fun chat about his career at one of the Big Three credit rating agencies, Moody’s. We go on to chat about his reservations about getting an MBA while preemptively taking on an investment banking internship before coming to Haas. Then, we hear why Maurizio chose the Haas FTMBA over other top-ranking MBA programs and provides us...

Episode #13: Jen DeAngelis of the EWMBA ’20 class talks with us about her amazing career as a digital marketing expert in the early days of social media and influencer marketing. We discuss how marketing firms and businesses can track online and offline transactions related to social media marketing. We explore how social media influencers and micro-influencers are discovered and the impact of thi...

Episode #12: Farid Hosseini of the EWMBA ’20 class speaks with us about his extensive experiences in Product Management from starting at Microsoft Messenger as a developer to moving into his first PM role at Microsoft Bing. He then went on to LinkedIn to serve as the Product Manager to build out a specific feature of LinkedIn that we all use today, the ability to look up alumni from your school or...

Episode #11: Melissa Mendez Ochoa of the EWMBA ’20 program talks with us about her work at a local non-profit and her involvement with the Berkeley Fellows Program from the sponsoring organization’s side at Oakland Leaf Foundation, a local organization serving K-12 students with important after-school programs. She also talks about a new initiative, the Teacher Fellowship Program, that helps schoo...

Episode #10: Steve Keim Full-Time MBA '19 speaks with us about moving from an undergraduate degree in accounting to finance at Haas. Steve shares with us how he recruited for banking in and out of the Bay Area and he is one of the few students who successfully landed an internship outside of the Bay Area. If you are interested in investment banking or finance recruiting, this is a must-hear ep...

Episode #09: Matt Saverin (EWMBA '20) is one of the many intriguing Haas students with unordinary backgrounds. He grew up training for professional snowboarding, had a stint in entrepreneurship in college, but somehow ended up as an Equity Analyst at Goldman Sachs. His wealth of experience and admirable focus and dedication to his crafts gives a different perspective of a Haas student who know...

Episode #08: I was fortunate enough to catch up with Eppa Rixey before one of our Saturday classes. Eppa (EWMBA ’19) is a Strategic Planning Manager at Lagunitas Brewing Company. We start off by sharing his experiences as a Management Consultant at Bain after his undergrad, making the move into breweries, and choosing Haas to continue his thirst for knowledge. We also talk about the economics of l...

Episode #07: I am joined by Nate Pollak of the Executive MBA 2018 program. Nate’s background started in Management Consulting out of his undergrad and after four years he decided to start a restaurant in San Francisco at the height of the recession. Throughout our conversation, we talk about the type of mindset you need to have and the hustle required to succeed as an entrepreneur. We then turn ar...

Episode #06: Today we speak with Gagan Dhaliwal of the Full-Time 2019 program. He hails from our friendly neighbor, Canada, and comes from a background in medicine. We start off talking about how an MBA made sense for him as a doctor and the role business has in the healthcare industry. We then talk about his time at Haas as an international student, some of his challenges, and his involvement as...

Episode #05: Today we share an episode from Founded@Berkeley with Kourosh Zamanizadeh (EWMBA '18). He is the COO and co-founder of Ping Inc. Awarded 2017’s LegalTech Startup of the Year by the American Bar Association, Ping is an enterprise SaaS company that automates timekeeping for lawyers and provides analytics on time and billing data for law firms. Kourosh shares with us the founders'...

Episode #04: Today I speak with Luca Cosentino (FTMBA '19) who is co-president of the Berkeley Entrepreneurs Association (BEA). We hear about his background from Rome to Berkeley and we discuss the current entrepreneurial ecosystem for Berkeley students. We expand on ideas for improving inter-school entrepreneurship and collaboration by connecting and bringing together the engineering school,...

Episode #03: I'm privileged to be speaking with Mojgan Payombar (IG: art_by_moj ) from the EMBA 2018 program on this International Women's Day. Her journey of breaking barriers and leaving Iran alone to pursue a life in the US is an inspirational story that it's never too late to take risks and question the status quo. We also talk about her commute to Haas for the Executive MBA progra...

Episode #02: In today's episode, we speak with David Zhao (EWMBA '19) and Vlad Rozhkovskiy (EWMBA '19) about their personal paths, challenges, and success with getting into the investment banking route at Haas. They share the determination and dedication needed to break into the highly competitive banking industry. If you'd like to learn more, please join the Finance Club at Haas v...

Episode #01: In today's pilot episode, we speak with Steve Lee (EWMBA '20) to hear about his past and present experiences with management consulting, the perks and pitfalls of traveling the world for work and engaging in meaningful pro bono projects for non-profits. Welcome to OneHaas, a podcast devoted to bringing the Haas community closer together through our stories. I'm your host S...