2026 Best & Brightest Executive MBAs

MBA Student	MBA Program	Hometown	Employer
Jessica M. Griffin	Arizona State (W. P. Carey)	Phoenix, AZ	Marriott
Nathan Neufeld	Baylor University (Hankamer)	Calgary, Canada	The 10FOLD Group Inc.
Britney Greene	Brigham Young University (Marriott)	Las Vegas, NV	Brigham Young University
Athan Fox	University of Cambridge (Judge)	NA	Ever Resource
Fat Kit Lau	China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)	Hong Kong, China	Stanley Black & Decker
Sharan Chawla	University of Chicago (Booth)	Frankfurt, Germany	Zenco Consulting
Ka-hing (Ken) Ng	University of Chicago (Booth)	Hong Kong, China	GPTX Investment Management
Theodore “Theo” Davidson	Columbia Business School	Brooklyn, NY	Accenture
Melissa Linares	Cornell University (Johnson)	Scarsdale, NY	Lina Concierge MedSpa
Maria Surinach	Cornell University (Johnson)	Cedar Knolls, NJ	Surinach & Co.
Mike Valdes	Cornell University (Johnson)	Newport Beach, CA	BKM Capital Partners
Sardana Mikheeva	Duke University (Fuqua)	Yakutsk, Russia	Japan Remotely
Alexis D. Smith, M.D.	Emory University (Goizueta)	Atlanta, GA	University of Arizona-Phoenix
Georgina Catafal Tardos	ESADE Business School	Bellaterra, Spain	Suvoda
Piera Gallo	ESCP Business School	Turin, Italy	Stellantis
Tra Linh TRAN	ESSEC Business School	Paris, France	French Ministry of Economy and Finance
Bridgett Willis	University of Florida (Warrington)	Elkton, MD	NA
Cam Pegg	Fordham University (Gabelli)	Brisbane, Australia	Critical Mass
Raqeeb Haque	Georgetown University (McDonough)	Bethesda, MD	NA
Michele Lillard	University of Georgia (Terry)	Marietta, GA	C0ca-Cola Company
Jimmy Swartz	Georgia Tech (Scheller)	Atlanta, GA	The Swartz Company
Simone PESCE	HEC Paris	Alessandria, Italy	Deloitte Paris
Amal Haq	IE Brown Executive MBA	Washington, D.C.	U.S. Department of State
Saulo Santana	IESE Business School	Potsdam, Germany	Axel Springer SE
Adriana Kiedzierska-Mencfeld	IMD Business School	Namyslow, Poland	Rezon Bio
Lindsay Thompson	Imperial Business School	Gloucester, MA	Bank of New York
Jeckin Kirti Chheda	Indian School of Business	Mumbai, India	Silverline Logistics Pvt Ltd.
Dr. Megan Kalambo	Indiana University (Kelley)	Roseville, CA	University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Selina Helenius	INSEAD	Zürich, Switzerland	Indical Bioscience
Jonathan Ng	INSEAD	Sarawak, Malaysia	Yeung Lok Group of Companies & Allied Dental Group
Mat Moakes	London Business School	London, United Kingdom	OVO Energy / OVO Home Services
Jaclyn Field Mathai	University of Maryland (Smith)	Kingsburg, CA	Walt Disney Company
Anjali Mishra	McGill-HEC Montréal	Montréal, Canada	Société de transport de Montréal (STM)
Steven Cole-Schwartz	University of Michigan (Ross)	Seattle, WA	Inatai Foundation
Ed Mamou	University of Michigan (Ross)	Birmingham, MI	Royal Oak Recycling
Aris Singleton	Michigan State (Broad)	Detroit, MI	Thank God It’s Natural (tgin)
Tina Lenneman	University of Minnesota (Carlson)	Hopkins, MN	Boston Scientific
Miriam Daucher	National University of Singapore and UCLA (Anderson)	Singapore	Mercer
Johan Gozali	National University of Singapore	Singapore	GovTech Singapore
Kenneth M. Esser, Jr.	New York University (Stern)/TRIUM	Bordentown, NJ	Hackensack Meridian Health
Crystal Law	New York University (Stern)	Edison, NJ	Latham & Watkins, LLP
Francisco Javier Martinez-Torres	North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	Chapel Hill, NC	Dompé US
Slgi Jolissaint	Northwestern University (Kellogg)	Houston, TX	Phillips 66
Carlos Ortega	Northwestern University (Kellogg)	Mexico City, Mexico	HSBC
Abigail (Abby) Anderson	Notre Dame (Mendoza)	Farmington, WV	Viatris
Leslie Kim	Ohio State (Fisher)	Syosset, NY	Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Diego Salama	University of Oxford (Saïd)	Cochabamba, Bolivia	United Nations University
Alishia Stevenson	University of Pittsburgh (Katz)	Cooperstown, PA	Wesbury
Kathleen Perley	Rice University (Jones)	Houston, TX	AdaIR
Arnab Roy Choudhury	Rutgers Business School	Springfield, NJ	U.S. Soy Export Council
Denise Graciela Cosentino	Santa Clara University (Leavey)	San Jose, CA	Cosentino Coaching & Consulting LLC
Jay Moon	Southern Methodist University (Cox)	Allen, TX	NA
Sarah Scharf	University of Tennessee (Haslam)	New Jersey	Rutgers Cancer Institute
Sarah Prescott	University of Texas (McCombs)	Austin, TX	EliseAI
LaToya Jordan	Texas A&M (Mays)	Pearland, TX	JERA Americas
Adetoro Abass	University of Toronto (Rotman)	Toronto, Canada	Util-Assist Inc.
Thuy Nguyen	U.C.-Berkeley (Haas)	Albany, CA	Motional
Craig Norris	U.C.-Irvine (Merage)	Irvine, CA	Muir North Corporation
Mathangi Srinivasan	U.C.-San Diego (Rady)	Singapore	Illumina, Inc.
FanNa Fan	UCLA (Anderson)	Tianjin, China	Sesame Workshop
Tyler Tetreault, MD	USC (Marshall)	Moorestown, NJ	Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Mitchell Dabling	University of Utah (Eccles)	Salt Lake City, UT	HDR Engineering Inc.
Corbitt Huseth	Vanderbilt University (Owen)	Memphis, TN	Veritas Ratings
Temi Oyewunmi	University of Virginia (Darden)	Leesburg, VA	Airbus
Luke Parker	Warwick Business School	Hitchin, United Kingdom	Google Cloud
Hannah Roosevelt	University of Washington (Foster)	University of Illinois	Seattle Children’s Hospital
Rony Takchi	Washington University (Olin)	St. Louis, MO	Geneoscopy Inc.
Katelyn Garcia	The Wharton School	Annapolis, MD	U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia
Gerald Glover III, Esq.	The Wharton School	Philadelphia, PA	Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Charles William Lentz, Ed.D.	The Wharton School	Doylestown, PA	New Hope-Solebury School District
Olesya Afanasyeva	Yale School of Management	Calgary, Canada	Orion Steel Group

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