Best & Brightest MBAs: Class of 2017

Members of Poets&Quants’ Best & Brightest MBA graduates of 2017

CLASS OF 2017 BEST & BRIGHTEST MBAs

Name	School	Hometown	Employer
Sally Lambert	MIT (Sloan)	Concord, MA	Undecided
Lauren Montagne	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	Raleigh, NC	Bain & Company
Jamen Kyle Miller	University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	Hickory, NC	Clark Realty Capital LLC
Adam Maddock	Northwestern (Kellogg)	Ellicott City, MD	T-Mobile
Jared Scharen	Northwestern (Kellogg)	Ellicott City, MD	eRetirements.com
Sylvia Banda	Notre Dame (Mendoza)	Carmel, IN	Dimensional Fund Advisors
Abigail Oduro	Notre Dame (Mendoza)	Accra, Ghana	Corning
Ward Wolff	New York University (Stern)	San Francisco, CA	Undecided
Matthew Nordman	Ohio State (Fisher)	Columbus OH	Nationwide Insurance
Tada Yamamoto	Ohio State (Fisher)	West Chester, OH	McKinsey
Ashley Thomas	Oxford (Said)	Colorado Springs, CO	Undecided
Andrew Brennan	University of Pittsburgh (Katz)	Pittsburgh, PA	Global War on Terror Memorial Foundation
Lamis Sleiman	Purdue University (Krannert)	Zahle, Lebanon	Amazon
Ravi Teja Jagarapu	Purdue University (Krannert)	Visakhapatnam, India	Undecided
Caitlin Crotty	Rice University (Jones)	McLean, VA	Deloitte Consulting
David A. Distant	University of Rochester (Simon)	Hartsdale, NY	Citi
Jorge Rosales Carpio	University of Rochester (Simon)	Lima, Peru	Simon-Kucher & Partners
Michael Jay Orr	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	Corona, CA	Hershey Company
Kate Archibald	Stanford GSB	Denver, CO	Undecided
Federico Mossa	Stanford GSB	Sardinia, Italy	Netflix
Sebastian Serra	Stanford GSB	Mexico City, Mexico	Undecided
Timothy Carreon	University of Texas (McCombs)	Dallas, TX	Amazon
Caitlin Goodrich	University of Texas (McCombs)	Seattle, WA	Deloitte Consulting
Isabel Chirase	Texas A&M (Mays)	Amarillo, TX	Deloitte Consulting
David St. Bernard	University of Toronto (Rotman)	Scarborough, Ontario	Bennett Jones LLP
Alex Walker Turner	University of Toronto (Rotman)	Burlington, Ontario	McKinsey
Hady Barry	U.C. Berkeley (Haas)	Conakry, Guinea	Undecided
Kelly Deutermann	U.C. Berkeley (Haas)	Healdsburg, CA	U.S. Coast Guard
John Moore	U.C. Berkeley (Haas)	Chino Hills, CA	Bain & Company
Grace Guo	U.C. Davis	Chifeng, China	AT&T
Christian Johnson	U.C. Irvine (Merage)	San Clemente, CA	Edwards Lifesciences
Lynn Compton	UCLA (Anderson)	Boulder City, NV	McKinsey
Colleen Thomas	UCLA (Anderson)	South Holland, IL	Accenture Strategy
Helen ‘Mollie’ Hartung	USC (Marshall)	Los Angeles, CA	Amgen
Laju Obasaju	USC (Marshall)	Bellmore, NY	AT&T
Caroline Collins	Vanderbilt University (Owen)	Bloomfield Hills, MI	Microsoft
Buzz Becker	University of Virginia (Darden)	Bixby, OK	Hexagon Energy
Molly Duncan	University of Virginia (Darden)	Greensboro, NC	McKinsey
Lydia Islan	University of Washington (Foster)	Riverside, CT	Boston Consulting Group
Vanessa Kritzer	University of Washington (Foster)	Seattle, WA	Microsoft
Joshua Rodriguez	University of Washington (Foster)	Killeen, TX	Goldman Sachs
Markey Culver	Washington University (Olin)	St. Louis, MO	The Women’s Bakery
Conn Q. Davis	Washington University (Olin)	East Prairie, MO	Bain & Company
Kyle Brengel	Wharton School	Richmond, VA	McKinsey
Mary Gamber	Wharton School	New Canaan, CT	The Bridgespan Group
Saba Shafi	Wharton School	London, UK	Undecided
Jessie Wright	University of Wisconsin	Minneapolis, MN	New York City Ballet
Kaitlin Koga	Yale SOM	Pearl City, HI	Undecided
Claire Lee	Yale SOM	Seattle, WA	Deloitte Consulting
Katy Mixter	Yale SOM	Weston, MA	Boston Consulting Group