Age: 27
Sex: Male
Citizenship: South Africa (Indian heritage, but was born in South Africa as was my family for several generations)
GMAT:
740: 49Q | 41V | 6 AWA | 8 IR (taken once, June 2020)
Academics:
- Bachelor of Business Science, dual major in Finance and Accounting at highest ranked university in South Africa/Africa
- 1st class pass, Dean’s Merit List all 4 years, graduated with Honours, finished top 1% of class, faculty scholarship all 4 years
- Tutor for several university faculties: taking 2-3 tutorials of 20-30 students each semester for 3 years across economics and information systems courses - also supported faculties with test/exam administering and essay marking
- Member of a number of on-campus societies; project leader for a business/finance-related society and responsible for coordinating its largest ever intake of new students in a year
Work experience:
3 years MBB consulting:
- Broad industry experience (telecoms, FMCG, marketing, insurance, retail, oil & gas) focusing on strategy and operations, projects mostly based in South Africa. 1 promotion over tenure.
- Extras: volunteer in the recruiting team - speaking at campus presentations, judging case competitions, holding briefing calls for applicants
3 years senior data analyst (current role) at international big data analytics and consulting firm. 1 promotion to date:
- Senior team of the retail consulting team, delivering consumer and market reports to clients across multiple industries based off consumer banking data - a first in the local market. Indirectly managing 2-3 juniors per project
- One project highlight was recently delivering a population-risk model to the National Department of Health of SA to help with their covid-19 vaccine program by identifying locations of at-risk populations and algorithmically determining optimal locations of vaccination sites
- Extras: introduced new L&D system to better track development of analysts and consultants; developed new consulting skills training curriculum which I now deliver on a bi-annual basis
Other EC:
- Pro-bono consulting work for a local social development NGO (2020 to date)
- 2 month exchange to the Palestinian territories to teach english at a local education center (2016)
MBA:
- ST goals: product manager in tech-innovation space (think Google X) to learn how to commercialize and bring niche tech innovations with social focus to market
- Schools: Stanford, HBS, Wharton, MIT, Booth, Berkeley, Michigan, Fuqua, Tepper