MEET THE MBA CLASS OF 2027

MBA Student	Business School	Hometown	Undergraduate Alma Mater	Last Employer
YJ Lin	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	Austin, TX	University of Houston	Dell for Startups
Marianna Shakhnazaryan	University of Chicago (Booth)	Hawthorn Woods, IL	University of South California	National Gallery of Art
Julianne Nordhagen	Columbia Business School	Boca Raton, FL	University of Southern California	U.S. Navy
Camila Alves Guilarducci	Cornell University (Johnson)	Santos Dumont, Brazil	Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto	Siemens
Ali Almail	Dartmouth College (Tuck)	Kuwait City, Kuwait	Kuwait University	Public Institute for Social Security
Cecilia Dolan	Duke University (Fuqua)	New York City, NY	Fordham University	Pacific Northwest Ballet
Varun Sheel	Emory University (Goizueta)	Amherst, MA	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Professional Songwriter
Bianca Ellis	Georgetown University	Silver Spring, MD	Towson University	Citigroup
Connor Elkin	Harvard Business School	Jupiter, FL	University of Florida	U.S. Air Force
Meghna Gandhi	HEC Paris	Delhi, India	Institute of Chartered Accountants of India	Macquarie Group
Aastha Gupta	IIM Ahmedabad	Mumbai, India	Delhi University	Rusk Media
Baishali Debadarshini	IIM Bangalore	Dhenkanal, India	CET, Bhubaneswar, Odisha	Maruti Suzuki India Limited
Ketan Malhotra	IIM Calcutta	Ambala Cantt, India	National Institute of Food Technology	Anheuser-Busch InBev
Oliver Zeidler	IMD Business School	Munich Germany	University of Applied Science (Munich)	Deloitte
Adam Saxe	Indiana University (Kelley)	Dayton, OH	Miami University (OH)	Wynn Las Vegas
Amani Fancy	INSEAD	Muscat, Oman / London, UK	University of London	Tawoos LLC
Jeff Liu	Ivey Business School	Shanghai, China	Renmin University of China	Deutsche Bank
Freya Twigden	London Business School	London, UK	University of Edinburgh	FIX8 Kombucha
Kyla Sherap	University of Michigan (Ross)	Denver, CO	Colorado College	Guild
Chloe Brown	MIT (Sloan)	West End, NC	MIT	McKinsey & Company
Olivia Manousos	New York University (Stern)	Verona, NJ	College of William & Mary	Deloitte Consulting
Jeffery Obiagu	North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	Abuja, Nigeria	Seton Hall University	EY-Parthenon
Alfred Jackson	Northwestern University (Kellogg)	Rock Hill, SC	Loyola University of New Orleans	Arch Grants
Ikenna Egbosimba	University of Texas (McCombs)	Little Rock, AR	University of Arkansas at Fayetteville	Business Intelligent Solutions LLC
Melody Ward	U.C. Berkeley (Haas)	Brooklyn, NY	Duke University	Google
Brennan Hart	UCLA (Anderson)	Pasadena, CA	New York University	PepsiCo, Inc.
Autumn Boutin	USC (Marshall)	New York City, NY	Harvard University	Massachusetts General Hospital (Also a MD candidate at USC’s Keck School of Medicine)
Ashley Allen	University of Virginia (Darden)	Orono, MN	Macalester College	Marvel Comics and DC Comics
Amos Jackson III	Wharton School	West Palm Beach, FL	Howard University	The Office of Barack & Michelle Obama
Rachel Autumn Lee	Yale SOM	Los Angeles, CA	UCLA	Walt Disney Company

Editor’s Note: This year, Poets&Quants will be profiling some of the most promising MBA students at nearly 50 top business schools, including the programs featured above. Please note that Stanford GSB submits Class of 2027 candidates in the spring.

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