Katherine Chung / President
NYU JD/MBA 2011
VP Teams 2009-2010
InSITE Rightframe Team Advisor Fall 2009
InSITE Cutcaster Team Spring 2008
Katherine Chung received her BA in Economics from the University of Chicago. Prior to NYU, she was a management consultant at Archstone Consulting. She provided strategic advice, operations network analysis, and strategic sourcing to companies in industries such as consumer product goods, quick-service restaurant, heavy equipment manufacturing, and industrial distribution. During the summer of 2009, she interned at Hughes, Hubbard & Reed where she focused on corporate transactions.
Seth Goldman / VP Partnerships
Stern MBA 2011
InSITE Krossover Intelligence Team Fall 2009
Prior to NYU, Seth worked as an associate at Prospect Capital, a private equity and mezzanine debt investment company in New York, where he evaluated new deals and monitored existing portfolio companies across a variety of industries. Prior to Prospect, he worked as a consultant at Oliver Wyman, where he did projects with many of the largest global financial institutions. Seth holds an AB from Dartmouth College.
Daniel Harman / VP Sourcing
Columbia MBA 2011
InSITE [me] & goji Team Fall 2009
Prior to this Columbia, Dan founded Harman Motive, Inc., an automotive performance parts manufacturer and service center in Torrance, CA. His duties included general management, product development, and online marketing. This past summer, he was a marketing intern at Zhong-An Finance, a micro-finance and investment bank based in Schenzen, China.
Alessandro Presti / VP Operations
Columbia JD/MBA 2013
Alessandro is a JD/MBA candidate at Columbia Law School and Columbia Business School. Prior to Columbia, Alessandro was a management consultant at Oliver Wyman, where he advised clients in the media, transportation and private equity industries. Alessandro also spent five months in Chile with Endeavor, a non-profit dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets, where he advised a digital media company on its growth strategy. Alessandro graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in History and Economics.
Michael DiBenedetto / VP Events
Columbia MBA 2011
InSITE Catchafire Team Fall 2009
Prior to Columbia, Michael co-founded a web startup called Qwidget, where he focused on product and business development. In 2007, he associate produced and directed the marketing and distribution of “Hometown Baghdad,” a web video series that went on to win three Webby Awards and gain critical praise from such outlets as the LA Times, the Today Show, Nightline, NPR, and the Times of London.
Jonathan Cooper / VP Alumni
Stern MBA 2011
InSITE Rightframe Team Fall 2009
Prior to Stern, Jon worked in mergers and acquisitions for five years at both Duff & Phelps and Grant Thornton Corporate Finance where he provided strategic positioning advice, financial analysis and client and buyer relationship management. During this time, Jon’s teams completed the sale of corporate clients in a variety of industries, including technology, healthcare, renewable energy and consumer products. This past year, Jon worked for Solaya Energy, LLC, a start up providing diversified renewable energy services.
Benjamin Kabak / VP Communications
NYU JD 2011
InSITE Krossover Intelligence Team Fall 2009
InSITE Maestro Market Team Spring 2009
InSITE Rightsflow Team Fall 2008
This summer, Ben interned with Judge Sidney H. Stein of the Southern District of New York. Last year, he worked with the legal department at NHL Enterprises. Prior to law school, he spent two years working in the legal department at MLB Advanced Media, the Internet arm of Major League Baseball. As the Legal Coordinator at MLB.com, Ben was responsible for overseeing the company’s extensive online rights enforcement efforts. He also served on an industry-wide coalition aimed at fighting online video piracy. Ben is also an editor of two popular blogs: River Ave. Blues is the leading independent Yankee blog, and Second Ave. Sagas explores the world of the New York City subways. Ben graduated from Swarthmore College with a BA in History and Political Science.
Shirley Xu / VP Special Operations
Columbia MBA 2011
InSITE Tigerbow Team Fall 2009
Prior to CBS, Shirley was a Senior Analyst in Digitas’ Strategy & Analysis group, where she advised American Express and IBM on their digital marketing and commerce strategies. She has also worked with numerous digital entrepreneurs on their capabilities, business models, and marketing strategies. Prior to Digitas, she worked at Grey, as a Media Planner. Shirley has a BS in Finance and Marketing from NYU Stern with a minor in Journalism and Mass Communications.
Omar Haroun / VP Columbia Recruiting
Columbia JD/MBA 2012
InSITE Catchafire Team Fall 2009
Prior to law school, Omar received a BA from the University of California Berkeley in Economics, and a second BA from in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University. Omar founded two student groups at Columbia Law School in his first year — Law Students for Social Enterprise and the Columbia Gastronomy Society. Over the summer of 2009, Omar was a Summer Associate at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in San Francisco. Omar will spend the summer of 2010 as a Summer Associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati in Palo Alto.
Nick Hurley / VP NYU Recruiting
Stern MBA 2011
InSITE Krossover Intelligence Team Fall 2009
Nick received his BA from Boston College where he studied Philosophy and American Studies. He is currently an intern at DFJ Gotham Ventures. Prior to business school, Nick worked in middle market private equity at Allied Capital where he worked on control equity and mezzanine debt transactions in various industries. Before joining Allied, Nick was an analyst in Citi’s Investment Banking Division where he advised power generation companies and utilities on mergers and acquisitions and financing opportunities. He began his career as a consultant in KPMG’s Business Due Diligence Group where he advised strategic and financial buyers on the strategic and financial attractiveness of acquisition targets in niche industries. Nick remains involved with several non-profit organizations including New York Professional Advisors for Community Entrepreneurs (“NYPACE”) and he serves as the head of alumni relations for his class at Boston College.