Student Ambassadors - International

The Darden MBA international student ambassadors welcome your questions! Feel free to email them about their experiences at Darden, but please keep in mind that they are not able to assess your chances of being admitted to Darden.

Africa | Asia | Australia | Europe | Latin America | Middle East | North America

AFRICA
Country	Name & Email	Undergraduate Education	Previous Industry	Post-Darden Plans
Ghana	Rahul Sapra	Rutgers University	Financial Services	Consumer and Retail Banking
Nigeria	Lolade Olamide	University of Ibadan	Oil & Gas Production	General Management & Entrepreneurship

ASIA
Country	Name & Email	Undergraduate Education	Previous Industry	Post-Darden Plans
Bangladesh	Rezaur Rahman	University of Virginia	Energy Advisory and Consulting	Management Consulting
China	Jing Huang	Sichuan Xihua University; Arizona State University (masters)	Financial Services	Consulting or Finance
	Sharon Jiang	Shanghai University of Finance and Economics	Manufacturing	Strategy, M&A, and Financial Services
	Carrie Ke	Beijing Foreign Studies University	Financial Services	Internal Audit
	David Li	Shanghai University of Finance & Economics	Auditing	General Management
	Sonia Shi	Beijing University of Posts and Tele-communications	FMCG, business analyst	Financial Services
	Matt Yu	Tsinghua University	Accounting	Investment Banking
	Rongling You	Hamilton College	Government	Corporate Finance
India	Gokul Chandrasekaran	National University of Singapore	Government	Strategy Consulting
	Adi Jain	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Lighting Management/ Consumer Electronics	Lighting Management/ Consumer Electronics
	Shikha Khetrapal	Delhi College of Engineering	Consulting/ Finance	Investment Banking/ Corporate Finance/ Private Equity
	Abhilekh Kumar	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Software in Banking	Investment Banking/  Corporate Finance
	Niraj Nath	National Defense Academy (India)	Military	Consulting/ General Management
	Anshul Sharma
	Sid Sinha	Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee; University of Texas, Austin (MS)	Transportation Consulting	General Management
Japan	Takahiro (Taka) Kumamoto	Keio University	Manufacturing	Manufacturing
	Eiji Nakano	University of Tokyo	Engineer at a liquefied natural gas terminal in Tokyo	Return to the same company
	Toso Toda	University of Tokyo	Venture Capital	Asset Management
Philippines	Jo Gotianun	University of the Philippines & University of Asia and the Pacific	Pharmaceutical Retail Entrepreneur	Financial Services, Insurance
	JR Picazo	Ateneo de Manila University	Information Technology Consulting and Outsourcing	General Management & Corporate Finance
Singapore	Gokul Chandrasekaran	National University of Singapore	Government	Strategy Consulting
Taiwan	Eliza Chen	National Taiwan University	Media/ Entertainment	Marketing, Finance, & Non-traditional
	Sung-Min Chuang	National Taiwan University	Food & Beverage Industry; Marketing Function	Biomedical Industry; Marketing Function
	Jeremy Lo	National Chi-nan University	Sony (Digital Still Image Camera Product Manager)	Marketing, Entrepreneurship
Thailand	Yuwanart (Rung) Ongkosit	Chulalongkorn University	Automotive	Supply Chain Management
	Thatchanon Tanalarpipat	Chulalongkorn University	Plastic Manufacturing	Investment Banking

AUSTRALIA
Country	Name & Email	Undergraduate Education	Previous Industry	Post-Darden Plans
Australia	Peter Rouse	University of Sydney	Public Policy	General Management

EUROPE
Country	Name & Email	Undergraduate Education	Previous Industry	Post-Darden Plans
Austria	David Schnepp	University of Michigan	Financial Consulting	Marketing in consumer electronics or automotive
Belarus	Veronika Ermolenko	Belarussian State Economic University	Audit (Financial Services)	Finance (Treasury), Corporate Development
Bulgaria	Nick Madjourov	University of London	IT	Marketing/ Strategy/ Entrepreneurship
France	Pauline Robin	Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier; University of New Brunswick (Masters)	Water Industry with GE	General Management with Danaher
Germany	Landry Ngambia	University of Karlsruhe	Automotive, Software Engineer	Financial Services, I-Banking, Private Equity, or Corporate Development
Ireland	Patrick Ryan	University of Limerick	Project Manager for an Engineering Procurement Construction Contractor	Clean Tech/ Non-Traditional Energy
Italy	Michele Andreini	University of Padova	Consulting, Automotive and Aerospace Industries	General Management
	Giorgio Brusa	Universita Bocconi	Investment Banking
	Fabio Costa	Politecnico di Torino, University of Illinois at Chicago	Automotive, Aerospace	General Management
	Irene Mastelli	Bocconi University	Investment Management, Institutional Sales	Investment Management and Private Wealth
Netherlands	Melisa Vis	University of Miami	Restaurants/ Entrepreneurship	Entrepreneurship
Poland	Ania Nowicka	Uniwersytet Slaski	International Development Consulting
Portugal	Duarte Libano Monteiro	Universidade Nova de Lisboa – Faculdade de Economia	Banking	Banking or Corporate Development
	Andre Santos	Universidade Nova de Lisboa	Consulting	IT Company Marketing Manager
Russia	George Shapovalov	Moscow State University	IT sector (both software and hardware), Banking, and Financial Consulting	Energy sector or industry as a general manager and eventually an entrepreneur
Spain	Miguel del Valle Gomez	Universidad de Cantabria	Renewable Energy	Finance, Treasury Department
	Ignacio Penalver	Univesidad Complutense	Corporate Finance	Investment Banking
Turkey	Erdinc Danaci	Bogazici University	Finance, Data Analyst	Corporate Finance/ Operations
United Kingdom	Nicki Allen	University of Edinburgh	Non-profit	Non-profit management
	Sven Iversen	University of Warwick	Tele-communications/ Medical Device/ Venture Capital	Return to Venture Capital after period in industry

LATIN AMERICA
Country	Name & Email	Undergraduate Education	Previous Industry	Post-Darden Plans
Brazil	Sergio Braga	IBMEC S.A.	Consumer Goods	Corporate Finance
	Adriano Maesano	Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado	Sports Marketing/ Finance/ Jeans Manufacturing	Entrepreneurship / Private Wealth Management
Chile	Jorge Soto	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	Territory Manager/ Business Plan Analyst/ Consultant for an IT Startup	IT in Finance sector
Colombia	Sergio Pelaez	Purdue University	Real Estate Development and Construction	Management Consulting
Honduras	Julio Molina	Texas A&M University	Management Consulting	Management Consulting or General Management
Mexico	Jorge Calvo	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey	Private Banking and Financial Services	Wealth Management or Private Banking
	Ricardo Lopez Zorrilla	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey	Consulting	Real Estate Development
	Alejandro Sanchez Abarca	Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey	Corporate Strategy for a Manufacturing company	Energy/ Utility Industry
Peru	Francesca Parodi	University of Lima	Marketing	Marketing

MIDDLE EAST
Country	Name & Email	Undergraduate Education	Previous Industry	Post-Darden Plans
Israel	Guy Edais	I.D.C Hertzlia	Hi-Tech Consulting	Entrepreneurship
	Nastia Root	The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology	Technology, Software	Technology/ Product Management
	Oren Root	Ben-Gurion University	High-Tech, Software	Product Management/ Strategy
	Or Rothschild	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Consulting	Strategy/ Finance

NORTH AMERICA
Country	Name & Email	Undergraduate Education	Previous Industry	Post-Darden Plans
Canada	Andrea Cross	McMaster University	Health Care	Health Care, Function: Marketing or Consulting
	Daniel David	Queen’s University	Information Technology	Finance
	Michael Di Felice	Schulich School of Business, York University	Finance-Risk Management	Entrepreneurship

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