Careerly Coach Team
Unparalleled diversity in background and culture, breadth of industry coverage, and depth of career expertise. And as dedicated to your success as we were when we were going through the same process for ourselves.
Finance
Included here: investment banking, sales& trading, asset management, corporate banking, and corporate finance.
Operations/ Supply Chain
Included here is: All World Bank, IFC, IDB, IMF, United Nations roles; NGO, Idev roles; policy & research roles.
Consulting
Included here is strategy consulting, MBB, Big Four, internal consulting, non-profit consulting, and tech consulting
Marketing / Brand
Included here is: All World Bank, IFC, IDB, IMF, United Nations roles; NGO, Idev roles; policy & research roles.
Tech / Product
Included here: product marketing, product management, IT roles, cybersecurity, Fintech, Edtech, and tech startups
Data Science / Analytics
Included here is: All World Bank, IFC, IDB, IMF, United Nations roles; NGO, Idev roles; policy & research roles.
Int'l Dev
Included here: World Bank, IFC, IDB, IMF, United Nations roles; USAAID, development contractors, NGOs, fieldwork
Legal & Public Policy
Included here is: All World Bank, IFC, IDB, IMF, United Nations roles; NGO, Idev roles; policy & research roles.
Hira
Fernando
Hiranya (Hira) Fernando has 15+years in industry before she decided to put all that experience to good use and founded Careerly. Hira leads the finance vertical and covers all banking and financial services, sell side, buy side, as well as the corporate finance function. She also covers public finance and project finance and thus overlaps with our idev vertical - international development, clean energy, sustainability, CSR and green business. Hira's employers have included Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, the World Bank, the World Resources Institute, AMR Research, and Gartner. As a Career Specialist, she has served at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business and the School of Foreign Service, UVA's Darden School, Johns Hopkins University and Catholic Univesity among others.
MBA, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
B..Sc. and L.LM, London School of Economics & Political Science
Naveen
Ravishankar
Naveen is a Senior Product Manager at Amazon working on cutting edge fintech solutions for the Amazon Wallet product line. Previously Naveen was at Citi, as a Vice President in product management for payments. Naveen joined Citi’s leadership development rotation program after graduating with his MBA from Georgetown. He worked on internal consulting and product management teams as part of his rotations. He has considerable in the trenches experience with the recruiting process as an international student, successfully facing climbing over the obstacles he faced at each stage - internship/CPT, OPT, and eventually full H1-B sponsorship. Earlier in his career, Naveen was a consultant at Oracle implementing financial products for major banking clients in the Asia Pacific region.
MBA, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Will
Benway
Will Benway is a Senior Associate at Duff & Phelps in the Valuation Services group. Will joined Duff & Phelps as an Analyst in May 2016 and was promoted after 9 months.. At Duff & Phelps, Will supports clients with valuation needs, and mergers & acquisitions advice. He interacts routinely with CFOs, Controllers, senior finance and accounting professionals, as well as the corporate development and strategy teams. Prior to joining Duff & Phelps, Will worked for 5 years as a management consultant in the construction and engineering sector.
MSF, Georgetown McDonough School of Business; B.Sc. Civil Engineering, Northeastern University.
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MBA, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Meena
Chockalingam
Meena's experience includes 3 years at Silicon Valley startups and 6+ years in Big 4 Consulting. She worked as a Senior Associate in PwC's Risk, Fraud and Compliance Practice, before joining fintech startup AppZen in Silicon Valley. As Associate Director she advises on overall strategy, as well as leading client account management and marketing. She's the first industry hire at AppZen, a growing artificial intelligence startup that's pre-Series A. Previously, at PWC, Meena traveled around the world fighting corporate fraud and making companies more compliant (ask her for some stories!). She has also successfully led cross-functional teams of up to 60 staff and managed teams effectively on a global scale.
MBA, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Olivier
Rochedreaux
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MBA, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Anjana
Agarwal
Anjana has 18+ years of experience in leading marketing and business analytics teams in retail, CPG and consulting. In her current role as Director, Customer Insights and Analytics, she heads the analytics team at a Seattle based late-stage startup, that uses big data and predictive technologies to support top retailers like Walmart. She has previously worked at Amazon, Albertsons, Home Depot, GE Commercial Finance, and FICO in various roles related to marketing analytics and business strategy. Her specialties include Student analytics, consumer insights, digital marketing, ecommerce, loyalty marketing, business intelligence, and product management.
MBA, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvannia
M.Sc. Marketing, University of Lucknow; B.Sc. Physics, University of Kanpur
Nandini
Mullaji
Nandini is a Business Analyst at McKinsey and Company, focusing on public and social sector in the Washington DC office, Even at this young age, she's already handled a wide range of consulting experiences, mostly in strategy roles for Ashoka, Sweetgreen, Georgetown University, the Indian Government, and the Department of Education. The two accomplishments that Nandani is the most proud of are having founded the India Innovation Lab and a literacy nonprofit in India respectively.B.S. Georgetown University School of Foreign Service; MBA. Stanford Graduate School of Business (Expected; Class of 2021)
MBA, Harvard School of Business, Harvard University
BA, Georgetown University
Shruti
Akkepeddi
Shruti has 6 years of experience that spans three major industry segments: consulting, e-commerce, and communications. She got her MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in 2015. In her last role, she worked as a management consultant in a Big 4 company where she specialized in public sector focused consulting. Pre-MBA, she worked in the sales and client management team at a payment gateway firm, managing the firm's biggest e-commerce clients, as well as being a key communications advisor to leading technology brands.
MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
B.Sc. Economics, Delhi University.
Sreekanth
Veerapandian
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MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
B.Sc. Economics, Delhi University.
Natasha Barnes
Natasha is a Cyber security professional with 7 years of experience in information assurance and cyber security for private and public sector clients. Currently a Manager in the Aronson Technology Risk Services Group, Natasha is the IT Audit Manager and lead assessor for the IT portion of financial statement audits plus System and Organization Controls (SOC) readiness audits. She also oversees Governance, Risk and Compliance consulting engagements through business and practice development in addition to client delivery.
Previously Natasha worked at PWC for 5+ years, recruiting first into the summer internship program and then landing a full-time offer for 5 1/2 years.
B.S. Security and Risk Analysis, Pennsylvania State University
B.A. Public Relations and Advertising, Pennsylvania State University
Bhargav Shukla
Bhargav has over twenty years of tech/IT experience in several industries, including shipping Lines Management, Pharmaceuticals, and Communications. Bhargav has worked on everything from design to implementation to managing platforms and systems supporting business units. At Microsoft he served as an advisor to multiple enterprise customers ensuring successful project execution and increased adoption of IT systems through stability and drastically reduced reactive management. At KEMP Bhargav leads cross functional teams and manages technology alliance with partners including Microsoft, VMware and others. Bhargav has been awarded the prestigious Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Azure and Servers/Services categories for four years running.
MBA, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
B.Sc. Economics, Delhi University.
Ashim Agarwal
Ashim has about 4+ years of experience in Consulting, in the Banking & Finance vertical. At Capgemini Inc, one of the largest global consulting firms, he started out as a Junior Associate and worked up to more senior level positions; most recently Ashim was the Lead Developer & Designer on several multi-million dollar projects for clients like Capital One and Australia New Zealand Bank, with a specific focus on architectural design, strategic implementation, and overall project management for new portfolio launches. He has have worked with both incoming junior associates and senior-mid-level employees, liaising across different cross-functional teams. One of his major assignments was guiding a team of 5 Junior Associates on the optimization of one of the biggest data analysis platforms at ANZ, through an inter-mix of strategy, marketing, and functional design approaches.
MBA, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Stelina Maltezou
Stelina has almost half a decade of experience in international development, and is currently with the World Bank. She is a Project Management Consultant in the prestigious and relatively new Technology & Innovation Lab at the Bank. Stelina's team explores the potential of disruptive technologies like blockchain for developing countries and also what these and other technologies mean for multilateral institutions like the World Bank that have a financing component. Prior to joining the World Bank, Stellina was a Business Development Associate for a fintech startup in Washington D.C., and also Project Manager for the Delphi Economic Forum, an NGO dedicated to socio-economic development in Europe. Prior to that, she worked for the Wall Street Investment Guide, producing investment reports covering 20+ developing countries around the globe.
MA International Relations & Economics, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
B. Sc. International & European Studies, University of Piraeus
Monica Sanders
Monica's industry experience includes seven years as an attorney in government and international development, and eight years spent as a journalist working on international issues. It was her experiences abroad and an Emmy award for 9/11 journalism that inspired her transition to international development work. In her roles with USAID, the U.N., and the American Red Cross, Monica successfully helped resolve more than ten cases involving repatriation of remains post-conflict, helped arrange a trans-border equipment agreement, and launched a legal capacity building program in Sub-Saharan Africa.
JD Fellowship, Harvard Law School
JD, Catholic University of America
L.LM International Business Law, University of London
Cassandre Theano
Cassandre has 10 years of experience in nonprofit and human rights fields, as well as 7 years of experience in litigation, advocacy, negotiations.
Cassandre is currently an Associate Legal Officer for Equality and Inclusion at the Open Society Foundations (The Justice Initiative), focusing on citizenship and equality. She leads the litigation and advocacy work related to the restoration of citizenship rights for Dominicans of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic, Black Mauritanians in Mauritania and various ethnic minorities in Côte d'Ivoire and Kenya. Before joining the Open Society Justice Initiative, Cassandre consulted on human rights reports for submission before the United Nations, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the Human Rights Commission for various non-profit organizations. Cassandre was also a litigation associate practicing commercial and insurance litigation at Anderson Kill & Olick P.C., Prior to that Cassandre was a Law Clerk to the Honorable Malcolm Graham at the Massachusetts Appeals Court.
MA, Politics and Culture, New York University
BA International Relations and French Literature, New York University.
Mariam Nek
Mariam Nek has 5 years of experience in the nonprofit sector in various capacities, including one-on-one client coaching, project management, operations, marketing, and fundraising. She started working with Friendship Place’s AimHire Job Placement Program as a full-time intern and within 5 years became Director of the entire AimHire Program. She manages a team of 6 full-time staff and 20 pro-bono coaching and job advice professionals to provide career coaching and job placement to disadvantaged populations in the DMV area. While at Friendship Place, Mariam built the AimHire program from a $120,000, 100% privately funded program to a close to a $1 million nationally recognized program. This involved designing broad strategic goals and implementing several sub-programs, as well as analyzing data and trends to see how best to scale and serve as many participants as possible. Stanford University, BA Psychology
BA Psychology, Stanford University
Christine Chase Locklear
Christine Chase Locklear has over 15+ years of professional experience in environmental and sustainability consulting. She has managed the certification department at Green Seal as well as the third-party certification of the ENERGY STAR Labeled Products program with ICF International. She was the Task Order Manager of a $5 million 5-year federal contract with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Christine has managed 20+ member teams of auditors, engineers, and subcontractors, and currently owns her own consulting firm where she specializes in green building, green product certification, and sustainable chemical policy. Christine is Certified Project Manager Professional (PMP).
MPA, Environmental Management and Policy. Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA); Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Science, University of Virginia.
MBA, Environmental Management and Policy, Columbia University
BA Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia
Connie Prostko-Bell
Connie can help any candidate interested in the CSR, sustainability and environmental performance space. With 20+ years of experience, she is especially knowledgeable on one key area that's seeing a ton of hiring activity lately: the technology solutions piece. This is the part that helps companies understand and select the best IT/ tech products to track energy, water, efficiency footprints. The "Big Data" that's produced from all that tracking is also creating jobs in the data science and analytics vertical, specifically focused on CSR and Sustainability.
Connie is currently at Arcadis, a publicly-traded consultancy for natural and built assets. Connie advises major global corporations in high tech, chemicals, food & beverage, pharma, electronics, and manufacturing. She drives strategy for the Information-Driven Performance Practice, which advices on issues of governance, technology, data science, and compliance. Connie also has entrepreneurial experience, having grown a supply chain stewardship tech solution from zero to over $1 million in 12 months and leading a start-up entity to bring a first-of-its-kind sustainable solution to market.
MBA, Georgia Tech
Clyde McGraw
Clyde McGraw has 6+ years of commercial real estate experience in development, acquisitions, finance, and brokerage. He is currently a Development Associate with JBG Smith Properties, the largest owner and developer of commercial real estate in the Washington D.C. metro area. At JBGS, Clyde manages major retail and residential development projects including design, financing, entitlement, and leasing. Previously, Clyde worked in acquisitions for both Invesco Real Estate and a DC based real estate private equity firm. Additionally his MBA specifically has a real estate finance focus. He started his career with Cushman & Wakefield in New York where he was an investment sales broker.
MBA, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Internal Team
Our team is eager to learn, open to new ideas and technologies and adaptable to the fast-changing and increasingly complex world we live.
Hiranya Fernando
Founder & CEO
Melissa Knee
Head of Operations
Michael Salsbury
Head of Advisory
Jenny Gaboff
Marketing & Social Media
Robin Osbourne
VP of Technology
Jon Lohr
Communications & Outreach
“With every coaching session I do, every workshop I teach, I try to bring something new. Not just teach the big idea that thrills but also frameworks and key actionable takeaways so that participants, especially students, can learn “how to fish for themselves” in their career journey.”
Hira Fernando, Coach and CEO, Careerly
