John Anderson
Columbia MBA 2013
Prior to Columbia, John was metformin side effects an officer in the US Army. John has conducted three deployments to Iraq, most recently from November 2010 to May 2011. John is currently working in a project to create an entrepreneurial class in Iraq by providing training, mentorship, and start-up capital Iraqi entrepreneurs. John received his B.A. at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he focused on Chinese studies and Maoist ideology in post-Mao China.
Arunabh Batra
Columbia PHD 2015+
Arun is a National Science Foundation fellow and PhD candidate in Applied Physics at Columbia University. His research at Columbia focuses on fundamental properties of Carbon nanotubes, and applications in bio-sensing, chemical sensing, and next-generation computing devices. He is also a fellow at Columbia Technology Ventures, where he evaluates new technologies for licensing and tech-transfer opportunities. He is very active in promoting science literacy among communities and students, and leads many science education projects around the NYC area. He is also an instructor at Columbia’s Science Honors Program. Arun has a BS in Physics with a Minor in Math from UCLA, and a Masters degree in Applied Physics from Cornell University, where he worked on organic lighting devices and solar cells.
Alejandro Chahin
NYU MBA 2013
Prior to Stern, Alejandro started a real estate venture focused on developing multipurpose commercial warehousing units. Additionally, he worked as a Project Manager at Intermoda, an apparel production and wholesale firm specialized in the Central American region. At Intermoda, he led a lean management transformation emphasizing lead time reduction and supply chain optimization. Alejandro holds a B.S. in Industrial & Operations Engineering from The University of Michigan.
Austin Clements
NYU MBA 2013
Austin is a first year MBA at NYU Stern School of Business where he specializes in Finance and Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Before business school Austin founded and managed Pi Digital Media, a Los Angeles based firm that focused on the design and development of websites and mobile applications. Through this company Austin established the digital presence of over 80 clients ranging from startup entrepreneurs to national non-profit organizations. Prior to founding Pi Digital, Austin worked in investment management, managing relationships with high net-worth and institutional clients on a team with $1.5B in assets under management. Austin received a B.A. degree in Business Marketing from Morehouse College.
Andrew Ellis
NYU JD 2013
Andrew is a physician and a second year student at NYU School of Law interested in mergers & acquisitions, venture capital, and other corporate transactions in the life sciences industry. He received his B.S. in Biology from Baylor University and his M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine as a BU/BCM Medical Track Scholar. While at BCM, Andrew engaged in two years of orthopedic surgery research and helped create a method for evaluating the morphology of the human femur using 3D reconstructions of CT scans. After medical school, he deferred acceptance to NYU School of Law to complete one year of General Surgery residency at BCM. In addition to his medical background and a developing knowledge of corporate law, he brings experience as a small business owner after starting and running a successful specialty catering company during undergraduate school. Next summer, Andrew will be a summer associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto, California.
Daniel Fort
Columbia PHD 2014
Dan is a PhD student in Columbia’s Department of Biomedical Informatics. He also has degrees in Biochemistry and Health Systems Management. Prior to Columbia, he spent five years working for a federal contractor in the research and development division. There he specialized in model design and parameterization for consequence projection applications.
Josh Goldman
NYU JD 2013
Josh is a second-year student at the NYU School of Law, where is an InSITE Fellow and a staff editor of the NYU Journal of Environmental Law. He graduated with honors from Cornell University in 2007.
Adam Kalamchi
Columbia MBA 2013
Prior to enrolling at Columbia Business school, Adam worked in technology private equity at ATIC, an Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund. Before that, he spent three years at McKinsey & Company focused on consumer packaged goods and private equity transactions. Adam has also co-founded a non-profit, an internet start up, and acted as an adviser to several start ups. Adam received his B.A. in economics from Harvard College.
Don Kim
NYU MBA 2013
Prior to attending business school, Don founded a mobile app company called Garlic Dumpling and developed several well-received apps. He founded the company while still employed at Nokia, where he had worked for three years as a software developer lead, managing full-time developers and contractors. He joined Nokia as part of an acquisition of a startup called Twango. Don was the first employee at Twango, a startup that provided a media (photos, videos, etc.) sharing platform in the heyday of the “web 2.0″ era. Don received a B.S. in computer science from the University of Washington.
Pallav Kosuri
Columbia PHD 2013
Pallav is a Fulbright scholar and PhD candidate in Molecular Biophysics. Prior to joining Columbia, Pallav completed his Masters in Physics at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research. At Columbia, he has developed a new form of microscopy enabling the detection of biochemical reactions with atomic resolution. This research is now being commercialized in collaboration with instrumentation manufacturer Luigs & Neumann. Pallav is also a research fellow at Columbia Technology Ventures, where he works with the development and marketing of intellectual property.
Mark Krafft
Columbia MBA 2013
Mark brings to InSITE significant experience in assisting entrepreneurs achieve their financial and business goals. Prior to Columbia Business School, Mark spent five years with Barrington Associates (nka Wells Fargo Securities Middle Market Group), a boutique investment banking firm, where he advised entrepreneurs and private equity firms in equity capital raises and divestitures, among other transactions. After leaving Barrington Associates, Mark spent the summer with Innovate Partners, a venture capital and growth equity firm in Southern California. At Innovate Partners, Mark evaluated early-stage investments and provided advisory support to portfolio investments in the consumer, business services and technology segments. Mark received a Bachelors of Arts degree in Economics from Amherst College, where he graduated with distinction. Mark is an R.C. Kopf Fellow at Columbia Business School.
Zach Lane
Columbia JD/MBA 2013
Zach is a J.D./M.B.A. candidate at Columbia University. Prior to entering graduate school, he advised a number of different startups through the Reynolds Scholars program at NYU. He also served as the Content Manager of JustMeans.com, a startup focusing on helping companies to communicate with consumers about environmental and social issues. Since coming to Columbia, Zach has served as the president of the social enterprise organization at the law school. He also has experience working on a variety of legal issues for early stage startups and angel investors.
Richard Liang
Columbia MBA 2013
Before attending Columbia, Richard was an associate at Sentinel Capital Partners, a middle-market private equity firm with $1.25 billion of capital under management. Here, he worked with founders of growing companies in the aerospace & defense, business services, and healthcare industries to reach the next stage of development. Prior to Sentinel, Richard was an investment banking analyst at Jefferies & Company in their Consumer Products practice, where he advised on mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, and debt & equity financings. Richard graduated from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, where he earned a B.A. in Economics with a minor in Financial Mathematics.
Maya Mandel
Columbia MBA 2013
Prior to attending Columbia Business School, Maya was the Product Manager for Charging and Smart Energy Management at Better Place, the leading global service provider for electrical vehicles. In addition to her responsibilities for the end-to-end charging solution to be commercially deployed in Israel, Denmark and Australia, Maya also had a leading system-architecture role in stabilizing the system and preparing it for real-world operations. Prior to her work at Better Place, Maya was a captain in the Israeli Defense Forces, where she received the IDF Chief of Staff Outstanding Officer Award for the Israeli 60th Independence Day. Maya graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan College of Engineering (2004), where she was also a member of the Women’s Swimming & Diving team and served as a student-athlete representative on the Advisory Board on Intercollegiate Athletics.
Megan McGill
Columbia MD/PHD 2013
Megan is an MD/PhD candidate at NYU School of Medicine in the department of Biomedical Imaging. Her research focuses on using both structural and functional MRI to identify brain abnormalities in patients with epilepsy. She has also worked in several clinical settings throughout New York. Megan is CEO and co-founder of DiabeticWin, a mobile gaming application that is being developed to help patients with Diabetes improve disease control. She graduated magna cum laude from University of Pennsylvania where she studied neuroscience, chemistry and music.
Christopher Moore
NYU MBA 2013
Prior to business school, Chris was stationed overseas as a Special Operations Intelligence Officer in the United States Air Force working on counterterrorism and crisis response operations. While deployed to Afghanistan, he led targeting missions against Taliban and Al-Qaeda leadership cells for multinational special forces. Chris graduated magna cum laude from Florida State University’s ROTC program where he studied modern languages and worked as a legislative aide in the Florida House of Representatives.
An Nguyen
Columbia PHD 2014
An is a PhD candidate in biomedical engineering at Columbia University. Her current research focuses on bone cell biomechanics with the ultimate goal of identifying new therapeutic targets for bone loss disorders, such as osteoporosis. Outside of the lab, An has gained experience in large firms, start-ups, and venture capital funds, including the New York City Investment Fund, University City Science Center and Celera Genomics. In pursuing her passion in translating technologies from bench to bedside, An has received master’s degrees in medicine and mechanical engineering from Stanford University and bachelor’s degrees in finance and bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
Lila Pla Alemany
Columbia MBA 2013
Lila is an entrepreneur with extensive experience in raising funds for media and artistic projects. Prior to her MBA at Columbia Business School, she founded and led an independent film and theatre production company in Barcelona. She wrote and produced several films, documentaries and theatrical shows (including a documentary feature film that was nominated to Best Catalan Film in 2007), for clients such as the Catalan National Public broadcasting network, Amnesty International, the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Catalan National Theatre. In her spare time, she has been collaborating with the Catalan Foundation for Children with Cancer. Lila holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University (First Class Degree) and a MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics. She also holds the first cycle of a BA in Law from the Open University of Catalonia.
Eric Rinder
Columbia JD 2014
Eric brings a diverse background of knowledge to InSITE, with experience in both finance and project management. Prior to attending Columbia, Eric worked at Madhouse Munchies, a regional healthy snack foods producer, on a small team dedicated to overhauling the company’s operational structure. Eric’s role was concentrated on revising the company’s sales and marketing efforts. He then went on to work as a financial analyst at Headwaters MB, where he specialized in sell side advisory work for middle market companies. Eric holds a B.A. in Economics with a concentration in Finance from the University of Virginia.
Amrish Singh
NYU MBA 2013
Before joining Stern, Amrish was a Senior Consultant at Deloitte advising clients in financial services and healthcare. He has experience in strategic roadmap development, technology-enabled enterprise finance transformation and enterprise data governance. Prior to Deloitte, Amrish worked at SAP Research and focused his efforts on strategic projects in SAP’s on-demand line of business. While at SAP, Amrish also filed three patents for innovations in the application of cloud-based technologies to support enterprise software services. Amrish is an avid technologist and has previously published research papers in machine learning, written a book chapter on social aspects of information organization and founded Testmojo.com. He holds a Master of Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Information Technology from Germany.
Kevin St. John
NYU MBA 2013
Prior to starting at NYU Stern, Kevin worked as an associate in the equity sales trading division of Credit Suisse. Based in San Francisco, Kevin was the primary coverage of numerous hedge funds and mutual funds on the west coast. Utilizing resources at Credit Suisse, he provided company research, trade ideas, capital commitment, and risk management for stocks (US & International), options, and ETFs. Currently, he is the cofounder of OurTailgate.com and he sits on the board of directors at the Timothy Carlon McWilliams Jr Foundation. Kevin holds a B.A. in Economics from Hamilton College.
Zak Schwarzman
Columbia MBA 2013
Prior to Columbia Business School, Zak spent six years launching and raising institutional funding for international and economic development ventures. Most recently, Zak worked as a senior associate with Seedco, designing and raising over $25 million for job training and small business lending programming, with an emphasis on the green economy. Previously, Zak worked as the Central and South America Regional Field Director for the Obama campaign, designing and executing a pilot initiative to organize American voters living abroad in Latin America. In 2007-2008, he co-founded a community development site for the international development organization Manna Project International, whose board of directors he now chairs. He earned a B.A. In Political Economy with a minor in Business from Tulane University in 2005.
Jonathan Taylor
Columbia MBA 2013
Jonathan is a first year student at Columbia Business School interested in investing in media and technology businesses. Prior to attending Columbia, Jonathan was a senior financial analyst at American Express, where he worked on a turnaround strategy for the Global Travel Services business unit. Prior to American Express, Jonathan spent two years at Morgan Stanley, where he performed due diligence and evaluated early-stage financial technology investments for a $400 million fund. Jonathan received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Emory University.
Marianna Zaslavsky
Columbia MBA 2013
Marianna joined InSITE in Fall 2011. Prior to Columbia Business School, Marianna worked for four years at Citi Private Bank, first as an Investment Strategy Analyst and later as an Associate Banker. She advised and evaluated investment portfolios, including private equity and hedge fund allocations, for clients in the ultra high net worth market. In addition, she advised on structured lending strategies and trust and estate planning. Marianna has also been involved in two mobile app start-ups, managing their strategic development and capital raise efforts. Marianna is originally from Ukraine and was raised in Boston. Marianna has a B.A from Columbia University, Columbia College.