Jon Bergamo

Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management

“Perpetual optimist, outgoing, and creative with a passion for building connections and supporting my communities.”

Hometown: Cheshire, CT

Fun Fact About Yourself: I’ve been to 153 Dave Matthews Band concerts.

Undergraduate School and Major: Northeastern University, Music Industry

Most Recent Employer and Job Title: Good Harbor, Head of Digital Marketing & Community Engagement

What has been your favorite part of Nashville so far? Why? Nashville always has something going on. I’m a huge concert lover, and Music City lives up to its name. I’ve experienced so much incredible live music from small bars to The Ryman.

Aside from your classmates and location, what was the key part of Vanderbilt Owen’s MBA programming that led you to choose this business school and why was it so important to you? A huge part of what led me to Vanderbilt was the resources surrounding the academic experience. The Leadership Development Program and Executive Coaching has already had a huge impact on helping me dive deeper into how I want to grow as a leader and define my personal brand in a team and in an organization.

What course, club or activity have you enjoyed the most so far at Vanderbilt Owen? My favorite course has been Leading Teams & Organizations, a unique class we take in Mod 1 with Professor Tim Vogus. It introduces everything from frameworks on motivation and culture to team development. It was an insightful class led by student discussion, engaging cases, and simulations. The course teaches us on day one how to form and norm our project team. Through the mod, I think it shapes all of us with the psychological safety we create for each other to challenge ideas and explore all sides of a topic.

Describe your biggest accomplishment in your career so far: Building and leading the digital marketing and fan engagement that helped carry the band boygenius to their three GRAMMY wins and six nominations in 2024. It was a year-long effort of extensive collaboration, planning, and creativity across our team. I’m proud to have been a champion for engaging fans throughout the project and helping bring all three artists’ communities together. Getting to see that work culminate first-hand in their fans self-organizing a human pride flag out of colored paper and cell phone lights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre was one of the most impactful moments of my career.

Describe your biggest accomplishment as an MBA student so far? Helping pull off our annual Cosmo Week as a Student Government Senator on the DEI Committee. Cosmo Week celebrates our international students through a student speaker series called, “Humans of Owen,” faculty panel, events, and more. It coincided with an early celebration of Diwali at our weekly Thursday Closing Bell. We had an amazing turnout this year, and I think it made Owen feel even more connected.

What has been your best memory as an MBA so far? The Vanderbilt vs Alabama home football game. For one, not every MBA gets the SEC experience! To be a part of a historic game? That’s something else entirely. It was surreal to be at that game with my classmates, and it’s something none of us will forget.

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