We are ONE Haas, an alumni-run podcast for the Berkeley Haas Community. With 40,000+ Alumni and 1400+ Haas MBA students on campus every year, there is more to this network than meets the eye. We hope to bridge that gap ever so slightly and introduce you to people you never knew you had in your Haas network. Thank you for tuning in to this Berkeley Haas Podcast!
*OneHaas Alumni Podcast is a production of Haas School of Business and is produced by University FM.*
Episode #42: We speak with Soh Kim, a PhD '13 alumna who did her research on Open Innovation Ecosystem: Chez Panisse Case which encompassed Food Innovation. She was guided under Henry Chesbrough through the Berkeley Haas Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/onehaas/donations
Episode #41: Today, we're joined by Claire Veuthey, of the Executive MBA class of 2019. She shares with us her multinational background and influences that led her to pursue a career helping investors better integrate environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) factors into their decisions. Episode highlights: Studied international relations in Geneva Went on to King's College in London for her Master's in War Studies and Conflict Transitioned into a career in Environmental, Social, an...
Episode #40: In this first episode of the OneHaas Alumni podcast, we are joined by Manish Chandra, Evening MBA ’95, who is the Founder & CEO of Poshmark. Prior to Poshmark, Manish founded and sold Kaboodle to Hearst Corporation in 2007. Prior to that, Manish held executive positions at Versant, Versata, and Sybase. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/onehaas/donations
Episode #39: In this last episode of the OneHaas current student podcast, we're joined by our Here@Haas host Paulina Lee and OneHaas host Sean Li. This episode will mark the transition of the OneHaas podcast into the Alumni Podcast. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/onehaas/donations
Episode #38: Host Sean Li talks to current MBA student Ana Simones. They discuss the multiple careers and degrees she had before starting at Haas, how she’s making the most of her time (even with 3 teenage kids!), and what she’s up to in quarantine. Episode Highlights: Ana speaks six languages and studied linguistics for her undergraduate and Master's degrees. She went on to start her Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) She pivoted into storytelling and fi...
Episode #37: Today we're joined by Arthur Tong, EWMBA '20. We recorded this episode about a year ago near the end of the second year of our program but what Arthur has to share in this episode is as on point at that time, as it is today. Having stood the tests of time, he provides excellent advice and guidance for current, incoming, and prospective students. Episode Highlights: Arthur shares what brought him to Haas He has an affinity for Design Thinking shared with his sister who went to the D-...
Episode #35: In the 35th episode of OneHaas, co-hosts Sean and Ray talk to current EWMBA student Finley Harckham (‘22). They discuss his background & interest in policymaking, commuting to Berkeley from LA, and making the most of the Haas community’s knowledge and expertise. Episode Highlights: Finley grew up in Greenwich, CT, and had initial interest in public policy, working on a Congressional campaign immediately out of college. Later, Finley interned for Ecologic Solutions, a startup mak...
Episode #34: In this 34th episode of OneHaas, hosts Sean and Ray talk to current EWMBA student Jarrett Wright (‘22). They discuss his upbringing, background in real estate, his time in prison, and how he has been making the most of his time at Haas. Episode Highlights: Jarrett also went to Berkeley for his undergrad and majored in Rhetoric. He knew from the start that he eventually wanted an MBA. He founded a real estate company when he was 19 and earned his first million within 30 months, ran t...
Episode #33: Host Sean Li talks to MBA student Steffi Decker (‘20). They discuss her background in digital marketing for political campaigns, how she ended up at Haas, and how to reflect, identify your goals, and adjust how you spend your time accordingly. Episode Highlights: Steffi built and ran a digital marketing agency in DC focused on policy and advocacy back in the late 2000s when nobody but the young upstarts knew anything about digital. During the 2010 campaign, a big local company saw t...
Episode #32: Host Sean Li talks to David Corfield FTMBA'19. They discuss his company LifeWork, how he became an entrepreneur and ended up at Haas, how business skills are transferable across industries, and more. Episode Highlights: David grew up in Essex, about an hour outside of London, and began his entrepreneurial experience with a company called Folder Monkey that created custom folder systems for students, but it quickly got shut down. In his first year at McKinsey, he was thrown feet firs...
Episode #31: Jason Syu, EWMBA ’19, was born in the US and due to family reasons grew up in Taiwan for the majority of his formative years. He moved back to the US in high school and received his degree in Electrical Engineering at Ohio State University. After college, Jason went on to work for Texas Instruments starting in manufacturing and acquisitions, and later in automotive semiconductors, specifically in Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS). He then transitioned into his current role as a ...
Episode #30: Samantha Tannor (FTMBA ’20) joins us today to talk about her career in food, the FTMBA experience, and Tannor’s Tea, her own plant-based superfood concentrate company. Sam graduated from college at USC and went into the grocery industry as a District Manager at ALDI, a low-cost grocery chain. She talks about how that experience helped prepare her for life as an entrepreneur, how Haas has helped, and her love for matcha. We get to hear some fascinating details on Tannor’s Tea around ...
Episode #29: Double Bear Dana Zhang, EWMBA ’21, shares with us her upbringing from China to LA. She then went on to study economics for her undergraduate degree at Berkeley and joined Wells Fargo early in her career as a relationship manager for international banking partnerships. Dana then continued on to Lending Club in a similar capacity helping Lending Club pivot from a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending service to connecting with banking institutions to offer more lending services for clients. We d...
Episode #28: Having been passed the torch from his predecessors to make Haas more Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive, Evan Wright FTMBA ’20, shares with us the importance of these initiatives at Haas and beyond. Evan starts his humble roots, born and raised, in Southeast Washington D.C. He was educated in the DC public school system until 9th grade when he received a full scholarship to attend the well-known Sidwell Friends School, a school attended by the likes of children of the President of th...
Episode #27: Harry Goldberg, MBA/MPH ’20, hails from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He studied biology at Emory University and joined Deloitte as a strategy consultant in healthcare after graduating. Healthcare has been a big part of his life, leading him to internships in HealthTech VC and Verily - an Alphabet subsidiary. His interests also pushed him towards pursuing the intensive dual degree Masters in Business Administration and Masters in Public Health program. Harry shares with us what the dual...
Episode #26: Austin Yoder, EWMBA '21, was born in New York but grew up in Hong Kong and Jakarta. He studied Chinese at Georgetown University and proceeded to move to Taiwan shortly after graduating to start a tea company amongst other entrepreneurial endeavors. Austin currently works at the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies (CES) where his team puts out research reports on Search Funds. Check it out here ! Austin continues to pursue his passion for entrepreneurship and came to Berkeley...
Episode #25: Konrad Kennedy (FTMBA '20) is visiting Haas for the semester on an exchange from the ESADE MBA program in Barcelona where he is the president of the Entrepreneurship Club. Konrad graduated from Warwick University in the UK and subsequently started his career in FinTech in London. After the first startup he joined was acquired by Apple he joined Barclays' leadership rotational program where he focused on product management and helped launch the world's biggest bank-run FinTech commun...
Episode #24: Bree Jenkins, industrial engineer extraordinaire, of the FTMBA ’19 class starts from humble roots in the Midwest. She later moved to Georgia with her family to attend high school and college at Georgia Tech. She pursued her passion for math and science which lead her to a career in industrial engineering. Bree fires up while talking about her work at Disney World and for the Disney Cruise Lines in Florida, where she helped manage everything from the logistics of thousands of costume...
Episode #23: Dilip Patel EWMBA ’20 immigrated from Mumbai (Bombay), India five years ago as a Fractal Analytics Data Science Engineer. He started his career working in the financial industry for big banks like Citi and Credit Suisse. We hear how Dilip transitioned from data science to product management during his time at Salesforce. We learn about product management in the perspective of what you’re building, and most importantly why you’re building it, and whether there’s a real business case....
Episode #22: We are joined by Adam Brudnick of the FTMBA ’19 program. In this episode, he shares with us what initially drew him to a career in consulting at McKinsey and ultimately to Berkeley Haas. Back in high school, He was inspired to work at the intersection of science and business after watching An Inconvenient Truth which led him to apply to Wesleyan University, well known for its emphasis in arts and sciences. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, Economics, and Music and...
Episode #21: Sommelier and Entrepreneur, Andres Martell EWMBA '19, started off in the United States Marine Corps. Before launching his Vin Ambassador business in the Bay Area, he recounts his over-the-phone wine tasting tradition with his father, which inspired him to recognize a gap in the hospitality industry for wines. Andres shares the journey to becoming a sommelier, the connoisseur of wines, and the challenges he faced launching his business. He walks us through some knowledge of wine regi...
Episode #20: We start the story of Mike Devlin FTMBA 2019 from a humble background with an Indian tiger mom and an American father. Mike initially walks us through his background in investment banking, private equity, and his passion for tackling our health and healthcare using his unique background and set of skills. Then we learn how Mike was forged from a kiln at the peak of Mount Everest… just kidding. I initially heard about Mike running across the country in 90 days from his fellow classma...
Episode #19: Today we’re joined by Jaslyn Law of the EWMBA 2020 program and we start off discussing her undergraduate and Master’s degree at Stanford in Environmental and Earth Sciences. We learn about her work on geographic information systems (GIS) in the Bay Area and then pivoting to data-driven analytical marketing roles. We continue to discuss how far biddable online marketing has come and the traceability of paid marketing results for large corporations versus small players. We then hear a...
Episode #18: Lou Amayo of the FTMBA 2019 program joins us on this episode to discuss her passion for leveraging Fintech to drive impact into emerging markets and economies. She comes from an industrial engineering background in Peru, where she worked to improve operations for manufacturing processes for a pharmaceutical company. She later joined a Fintech company focused on generating credit scores for people in developing countries without credit history by using alternative data such as psycho...
Episode #17: Double Bear Brett Li EWMBA ’20 joins us on this episode to provide us poets with some insights into the world of Product Marketing Management (PMM). We discuss how he went from a technical sales role at Hewlett-Packard to the role of a PMM, which works closely with and sometimes blends into the role of a Product Manager (PM). Brett discusses with us in detail about what interests him in the PMM role and its impact on product and, ultimately, the organization. He continues to break d...
Episode #16: Today we speak with Julia Nechaieva FTMBA ’18 who graduated this summer and will be headed to Google for Product Management. We start off with her background from Ukraine and the beginnings of her career at Innova, the top gaming company in Russia, and then to Yandex, the Google of Russia, before deciding to make the move to Berkeley. We discuss what it was like growing up in what the outside world classifies as the “Russian-side” of Ukraine so that we can learn more about what it w...
Episode #15: Special Guest Dean Lyons BS ‘82 joins my cohosts Julia Nechaieva FTMBA ’18, Steve Lee EWMBA ’20, and I on the Haas podcast to discuss leadership, intentionality, and culture amongst many things. We discuss why recruiters hire Haas students, how the latent Berkeley Haas Defining Leadership Principles were codified and how they are used to guide the initiatives at Haas. We continue to discuss the macro-implications of codifying culture and the chemistry it creates within an ecosystem,...
Episode #14: Maurizio Asperti of the FTMBA 2019 program joins us for a fun chat about his career at one of the Big Three credit rating agencies, Moody’s. We go on to chat about his reservations about getting an MBA while preemptively taking on an investment banking internship before coming to Haas. Then, we hear why Maurizio chose the Haas FTMBA over other top-ranking MBA programs and provides us further insights into the full-time MBA experience. Maurizio also shares advice on how to get the mo...
Episode #13: Jen DeAngelis of the EWMBA ’20 class talks with us about her amazing career as a digital marketing expert in the early days of social media and influencer marketing. We discuss how marketing firms and businesses can track online and offline transactions related to social media marketing. We explore how social media influencers and micro-influencers are discovered and the impact of this advertising platform. We also get an in-depth view of how social media user data is accessed and u...
Episode #12: Farid Hosseini of the EWMBA ’20 class speaks with us about his extensive experiences in Product Management from starting at Microsoft Messenger as a developer to moving into his first PM role at Microsoft Bing. He then went on to LinkedIn to serve as the Product Manager to build out a specific feature of LinkedIn that we all use today, the ability to look up alumni from your school or organization. Next, he went on to explore Product Management at a higher level at Yelp and joined t...
