Dreamers and do-ers, we are a Team of success stories ourselves. Just take a look at the bios of a few of our featured consultants, each of whom has something to offer you. Let’s Meet:
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Margaret
STATS: Masters Degree, New York University, lecturer, New York University
A native of Los Angeles, Margaret has been an international MBA application advisor since 2000. Margaret began her professional career in broadcasting, as a radio personality in Los Angeles, eventually moving into the field of publishing. Prior to joining the MBA world, Margaret managed a publishing company in New York, and worked for over a decade at Condé Nast Publications. Most recently, she was the founder and director of an Arts NGO in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Margaret has successfully worked with every type of client imaginable, with a very high percentage receiving merit scholarships. Her clients can now be found on the alumni rosters of every top school.
Be sure to ask Margaret about her first paying job…as an opera singer!
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Lisa
STATS: MBA, Texas Christian University, BBA Management from Texas A&M University, Director of Admissions at Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University
Lisa has over 15 years of professional experience recruiting, advising, coaching and placing both MBA students and graduates. In her role as Director of Admissions for the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, she led the university’s admissions efforts for both the MBA and MBA for Professionals programs. Lisa chaired the admissions committee three out of six years and administered the program’s over $2 million in scholarship funds. She is a frequent speaker on the admissions process, recruiting strategies, and the MBA value proposition.
During Lisa’s tenure at Rice, she also served as the Associate Director of Career Planning in the Jones School’s career center working with recruiters, conducting career development seminars, and coaching MBA students on their career development and search strategies. Prior to joining Rice University, Lisa advised MBAs and masters students in career development and search strategies at the Mays School at Texas A&M University where she also evaluated applicants to the MBA program.
Lisa spent over five years in corporate human resources in the consulting, energy, and manufacturing industries. Her human resources experience includes university relations and recruiting and employee relations and programs.
Ask Lisa to share some scary stories from her HR and admissions days, and be sure to hear about her experience riding a rebellious horse in the Chilean mountains.
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Erika
STATS: MBA, Harvard Business School. Served as HBS Admissions Ambassador. BBA with high distinction at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, spent the first two years in University Of Michigan’s Honors College where she was named Angell Scholar.
Not only has Erika published a book (Zero-Sum Game: The Rise Of the World’s Largest Derivatives Exchange, Wiley-2010), she was also the Managing Director of Marketing at the Chicago Board of Trade. In that role, Erika was responsible for the exchange’s heavily trafficked web site, a multi-million dollar ad budget and all product marketing materials. Erika’s gift for written gab has helped her clients earn acceptances and scholarships from: Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Kellogg, Chicago Booth, UC Berkeley Haas, and many more.
Erika loves traveling and has visited all seven continents. Be sure to ask her about the time her tour group helped rescue passengers from a sinking ship in Antarctica!
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Kate
STATS: BA, Harvard University, MA Columbia University, Admissions Committee Columbia Business School
Kate served in the MBA Admissions Office at Columbia Business School for over five years. In her capacity as an Associate Director, Kate advised applicants daily and reviewed hundreds of applications per cycle. She was also an applicant interviewer, a liaison to other offices within the School, and a CBS representative at events around the world. Kate managed several recruiting and operational projects for the Admissions Committee.
After Columbia Business School, Kate transitioned into campus recruiting and training at Evercore, a leading independent advisory investment bank. Throughout her almost three years at Evercore, Kate managed analyst recruiting from top undergraduate institutions as well as assisted in the recruitment of post-MBA associates.
5
Seher
STATS: MBA, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, BS University of Virginia in Economics, with Distinction.
Seher has a strong client-service background, having spent much of her career as a Management Consultant with Deloitte Consulting in their Washington DC office. At Deloitte, Seher focused on Financial Services, Energy, and Telecom engagements. Her area of expertise was Strategy and Operations. During her time as a consultant, Seher worked extensively with clients to develop customer retention strategies, and optimize existing business processes. She also spent a significant amount of time connecting strategic and business imperatives with technology solutions. In addition, Seher co-authored Deloitte’s Point of View white paper on mobile content viability and Mobile Virtual Network Operators.
In addition to her work as an MBA adviser, Seher enjoys cooking as well as choreographing and dancing to Bollywood music. Ask Seher to explain how she married the same man three times in three different countries!
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Dawn
STATS: MBA, Harvard Business School, with concentrations in finance and marketing, BBA, Pace University, magna cum laude, scored in top 2% of program
Dawn has spent more than 10 years successfully advising clients in admission to top MBA programs.
Outside of her work in admissions consulting, Dawn has experience in financial services, management consulting, media and entrepreneurship. Previously, as a vice president at Warner Bros., she focused on mergers and acquisitions, business development, strategy, marketing, and new ventures. She has also worked in private equity for several global funds and as a management consultant in the entertainment group of Booz Allen Hamilton.
Dawn has assisted clients from a variety of backgrounds and industries attain their MBA dreams including: management consulting, finance, private equity, investment banking, entertainment, digital media, technology, engineering and entrepreneurship.
Be sure to ask Dawn to tell you about the time she was leading a $10 billion Mergers & Acquisition meeting and walked out with an offer for a movie. Or at least let her wow you with her incredible multiplication tables skills!
