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Chair
Supriya Uchil is a second year student at Wharton majoring in Strategic and Entreprenurial Management. She has a Masters in Computer Science, worked at Amazon.com for six years in management roles, and is starting a company focusing on loan reduction times in the micro-finance world.
Co-Chair
Raymond Aronoff is a second year student at Wharton majoring in Strategic and Entreprenurial Management. He has a degree in Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida. Prior to Wharton, he served as the CTO for engineering at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Mr. Aronoff was a finalist in Wharton's business plan competition and was recently selected for Wharton's Venture Initiation Program.
Co-Chair
Irene Susantio is a second year student at Wharton majoring in Private Equity/Venture Capital. She holds a MS in Chemical Engineering, previously worked for ExxonMobil and currently is working on a life science startup with other fellow students. She hopes to continue down the entrepreneurial path after her graduation.
Chief Content Officer
Puja Lakhanpal is a second year student at Wharton majoring in Finance and Strategic Management. She has a Masters in Construction Management, and worked for a Chicago based engineering consulting firm. She managed multi-functional teams of professionals in design and construction projects under tight financial and time constraints. Post MBA, she plans to work in management consulting and gain experience of different industries. Later, she plans to focus on her own venture.
Vice President of Content
Vicente C. de Baca is a first year Wharton MBA majoring in eCommerce Management. Prior to Wharton, Vicente led strategic planning efforts at PriceGrabber.com, which he helped sell to Experian for $485 million in December 2005, and was an investment banking analyst in the Industrials group at J.P. Morgan Securities. Vicente graduated cum laude as an economics major from Princeton University in 2002.
Content Panel Director
Jason Barg is a first year student at Wharton majoring in Finance and Real Estate. He has a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration, founded a real estate company, and worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a Crisis Management Consultant, advising clients on complex accounting matters and SEC investigations.
Content Panel Director
Mitchell previously worked as an analyst in the growth equity group at Bessemer Venture Partners. Prior to Bessemer, he worked at UBS Investment Bank, where he was as an analyst in the M&A Group. Prior to his investment banking career, he founded WITSway Corporation, an enterprise software company, which he led from start-up through its B round financing. Mitchell holds a B.A. in Economics from Williams College and is a former nationally ranked alpine ski racer.
Content Panel Director
Sachin Kaushik is a first year MBA student at Wharton majoring in Strategy and Entrepreneurship. Prior to Wharton he spent five years at Reebok India in cross-functional management roles. He has also worked as a consultant with Kurt Salmon Associates on Fashion and Retail projects. Sachin holds a Bachelors in Business Studies and a Masters in Fashion Management.
Content Panel Director
After earning his bachelors in Computer Science, Puneet has worked in multiple operational and managerial roles in the EDA domain. Puneet led the development and go-to market strategy for disruptive technologies in the electronic system level design space. He has worked and consulted for multibillion dollar global companies as well as early and mid-stage start-ups in the Silicon Valley. In his last role Puneet has been working as a change leader to drive design methodologies improvements in consumer electronics design cycle.
Content Panel Director
Michael Pachos is a second year student at Wharton majoring in Finance and Strategy. Michael is a co-founder of GV, a newtork hardware startup with 10MM+ in revenues. He has also work in the Chairman's Office of Samsung as a Global Strategist and at Intel as a lead microprocessor architect.
Content Panel Director
D'laila Pereira is a first year MBA student at Wharton majoring in Entrepreneurial Management and Finance. Before coming to Wharton, she worked at Microsoft and was involved in the launch of Sharepoint Server products in Microsoft Office 2007. She was also involved in leading the marketing effort for TIE (The Indus entrepreneurs)-Seattle chapter.
Content Panel Director
Elsa Said-Armanet is a first year MBA student at Wharton, majoring in Finance and Strategic Management. Before Wharton, she was a Solution Delivery Architect for Texas Instruments (TI) in Europe and Asia, where she advised main corporate customers on the integration of TI's platforms into mobile handsets. Fluent in French and German, she worked in teams comprising more than 40 nationalities.
Content Panel Director
After earning his B.S. in chemistry at Nanjing University in China, Han moved to the US in 1998 and started his graduate program at the University of Chicago. Upon completing his Ph.D. research in 2002, Han joined Rohm and Haas Company as Senior Scientist in the Department of Emerging Technologies. He is credited as inventor of 3 issued and 2 pending US patents. Han is a 1st year MBA at Wharton.
Content Panel Director
Ardis L. Tabb, Jr. is pursuing his MBA at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania with a major in finance and entrepreneurship. Ardis spent four years working in the finance industry and was the co-founder of College Wash LLC. He grew up working in his family business, Tabb’s Enterprises, which is based in Fresno, California. Tabb's Enterprises owns and operates Marsol, a southern cuisine restaurant and Sherwood Meadows, a board and care facility.
Chief Sponsorship Officer
Tony is a second year student at Wharton majoring in Finance. Prior to Wharton, he worked as an investment banker executing M&A transactions in sub-Saharan Africa. He also co-founded an IT start-up and was a board member of another. He plans to spend most of his post-MBA career funding entrepreneurial ventures in Africa. Tony holds a BComm degree and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
Vice President of Sponsorship
William is a 2nd year Wharton MBA majoring in Strategic Management. Having worked for his family enterprise as a sales and marketing manager prior to Wharton, he is no stranger to the ups and downs of entrepreneurial ventures. He plans to be a management consultant post-Wharton to pick up some useful skills that may someday put him back on the entrepreneurial path.
Sponsorship Director
Sudip is a first-year MBA student at Wharton with active interests in entrepreneurship and venture capital. Prior to Wharton, Sudip was an entrepreneur and an engineering manager in the semiconductor industry. Currently, he dabbles in a small start-up in the retail area whenever he finds time from his mid-terms and assignments at Wharton. Sudip holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech and a B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from IIT-Kharagpur.
Sponsorship Director
A first year MBA student at Wharton, Sandeep most recently worked for Magma Design Automation in the Silicon Valley, where he was instrumental in setting up their India operations. Prior to that, Sandeep worked for a couple of semiconductor/design automation startups. He is passionate about technology, web2.0 and finance and hopes to leverage all of them in his next endeavor. He holds a BS in Computer Science.
Sponsorship Director
Anu is a first year student at Wharton majoring in Strategic Management. She graduated with a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2004 and worked at Qualcomm Inc in sunny San Diego, leading the deployment of cutting edge 3G phones in Europe and the US. She loves to travel, take Krav Maga lessons and spends her time raising awareness for the American Heart Association, where she led a team of 100 volunteers organize the 2006 San Diego Heart Walk.
Sponsorship Director
Atul Kumar is a first year MBA student at Wharton with planned major in Venture Capital. Prior to Wharton, Atul worked as a Product Manager at Cisco in their high-end routing business unit. He has a MS and BS in Computer Science.
Sponsorship Director
Mayank is a tech-obsessed first year MBA student who started two companies, Ambient Technologies and Cooliris Inc., the latter recently funded by Kleiner Perkins. Concentrating in entrepreneurship and finance, Mayank intends to be a venture capitalist focusing on seed-funding innovative and disruptive technologies in Web2.0.
Sponsorship Director
Anton Popov is a first year MBA student majoring in Entrepreneurial Management. He holds a BS in Business. He is zealous about science fiction, technology and innovation, and held leadership roles in several startups prior to Wharton.
Sponsorship Director
Anupam, a first year student at Wharton, has a keen interest in Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship. He has spent several years of his career in the Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) industry bringing strategic high-tech products to market, and advising financial and operating clients as a management consultant.
Sponsorship Director
Hesham Wahby has 7 years of experience in the computer and electronics engineering field, including 2 years at a hi-tech start-up, and is currently a first year MBA student with a passion for new technology ventures. Hesham also played a leadership role in organizing the Egyptian Engineering Day; an industrial development and awareness event held in Egypt, which, like the WEC, focuses on entrepreneurship and innovative ventures.
Chief Marketing Officer
Amit is a second-year MBA and has a passion for innovation and fresh ideas. He was previously a marketing and business development manager for Match.com, an advertising agency account executive for Miller Brewing, and most interestingly - a driver of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.
Marketing Director
Shamala is a 2nd year MBA student majoring in Finance and Strategy. In 2006 she co-founded an enterprise-level data integration product solutions startup. Her prior experiences include consulting, technology, product and project management and global blended delivery solutions using outsourcing models.
Marketing Director
Zarja won several national championships in downhill skiing and worked as a certified ski instructor and ski school manager in her native Slovenia while pursuing a law degree at the University of Ljubljana, from which she graduated magna cum laude. She went on to earn a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Chicago Law School before practicing corporate law in Slovenia and Austria and starting a sole proprietorship focusing on providing small Slovenian businesses with legal and tax advice. At Wharton, Zarja is majoring in Strategic Management.
Marketing Director
Josh is a junior Undergraduate student at Wharton, majoring in Marketing and Entrepreneurship and minoring in Psychology (at Penn). With past experience under his belt and a desire to succeed, he has an incredible passion for entrepreneurship and hopes to be a young and successful entrepreneur one day soon.
Marketing Director
Eurie Kim is a first year MBA student at Wharton, majoring in Entrepreneurial Management and Finance. She has a BS in Business Administration from UC Berkeley. As a consultant at Bain and Company and a private equity analyst at Castanea Partners, Eurie has advised on broad strategic, operational and investment related issues. Eurie spend the past year in London, England starting an incubator for fashion designers.
Marketing Director
Leslie Reyes is a second year MBA student majoring in Marketing. Prior to Wharton, she worked as Director of Sales and Business Development for Rosetta Technology Group, a software solutions firm. She now runs her own company, Road Warriors Consulting Solutions, IT placement firm, during her "free" time.
Marketing Director
Saket is first year MBA student at Wharton and holds a B.Tech. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology. Prior to Wharton Saket was a Marketing Manager for NVIDIA, where he helped grow a new business initiative in 3D graphics for arcade and entertainment devices. Saket has also been involved with several mobile and digital media startups and post-MBA he aspires be a social entrepreneur.
Chief Operations Officer
Jeroen van den Berge is a second year at Wharton. He worked for Diageo for 5 years in various roles in Financial Control and Supply Chain Development and was co-chair for last year's Wharton Business Plan Competition. He is entertaining different options for after graduation.
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