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Age:30, Indian originUS resident
Work experience: 10 years in Information technology (2 years in technology, 4 years in program management and 4 years in business development and global delivery). 7 out of 10 years worked in Canada and UK. 1 year in US
Current role: Client Partner , Large IT consulting/solutions company
Key Responsibilities:
- P/L owner for 4 global business relationships worth 40 Million USD, team geographically spread across in US/South Africa/UK/India.
- Business development strategy involving understanding of customer's business & IT strategy and align offerings accordingly
- Execution of business development strategy including leveraging product partners such as CA, Microsoft, Salesforce etc.
- Preparing a large team to align with customer IT strategy including competency planning involving training of existing resources, hiring new talents and creating center of excellence to leverage larger organizational capabilities
- Managing business relationships with CFOs/CIO & other customer executive leadership
- Establish and execute governance & account management
- Establish and run innovation and proactive problem solution centers addressing customer's critical business/revenue impacting/customer experience problems
- Staying ahead in the technology world by keeping up to date on new technology trends, industry trends etc. to retain credibility as trusted advisor for the customer senior management

Education:
Bachelor of Engineering, top 10 university in India. 3.4 GPA
Executive certificate in Strategy & Innovation, Sloan school of management, MIT
Graduate of leadership development program in my company

Other activities
- Business partner in a Import/export business in India (importing oceanspray and other US products into India) 2011 to current
- Founder and President of a non -profit organization working in Anti-corruption (2005 to 2010)
- President of students union, 2004 to 2005

GMAT : 720

Dream schools : Stanford GSB, MIT Sloan one year program
Other targets : Wharton , Carnegie mellon, Richard IVEY EMBA (Canada)

Please provide me a honest and realistic opinion of my acceptance at my dream and target schools

You have a competitive profile for the Sloan Fellows program at MIT and the Stanford Fellows program. Your other targets are also good. You didn't say what you want to do with the MBA so I can't recommend other possibilities, but these are good.

Best,
Linda

Appreciate your review/time & interest Linda. I would like to be in consultative sales function but have a great appetite to be leading game changing large business transformation across industries. I clearly see a gap in my skills to thoroughly understand all business function to convert business objective into robust IT strategy & showcase the earned business value to pursue such large transformations. In addition, although I am almost an entrepreneur in my current job function with a backing of a large organization, I still lack the kind of confidence that would take to put up case for a CEO to pursue a multi billion transformation. I am looking at the program to equip me in these areas specifically and hence chose Stanford and MIT which are strong tech realms.

Sloan Fellows sounds like a good fit. You may also want to consider Kellogg or Tuck.

Best,
Linda