Student leaders play a vital role in the planning and execution of WE Launch! These 2nd and 3rd year students will be with you throughout WE Launch and will give you first hand information about your life as an EWMBA student. Get to know them!
Blue Cohort Reps
Gold Cohort Reps
Axe Cohort Reps
Oski Cohort Reps
Lux Cohort Reps
VPs of Incoming Student Experience
Blue Cohort Representatives
Janani Ramakrishnan
Blue '24
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: Connect to Janani via LinkedIn
Current Occupation: Product at Webex
Immediate MBA Goals: Product Leadership – Entrepreneurship
Fun Fact: I grew up in the Middle East surrounded by a ton of mountains. At one point I was living under a rock both literally and metaphorically.
What I’m most excited about WE Launch: The whole thing!!
Sam Wear
Blue '24
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: Connect to Sam via LinkedIn
Current Occupation:Director at Community Playgrounds, Inc.
Immediate MBA Goals: Move abroad, first choice is Hong Kong.
Fun Fact: I’m the Blue Social Rep for 2024. I work for a family business.
What I’m most excited about WE Launch: Getting to know everyone and facilitating deeper connections within the cohort.
Gold Cohort Representatives
Rachel Leong
Gold ’24
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: Connect to Rachel via LinkedIn
Current Occupation: BizOps
Immediate MBA Goals: Chief of Staff
Fun Fact: My eyebrows are microbladed.
What I’m most excited about WE Launch: I’m excited to help the Class of 2025 transform from strangers to friends in one epic weekend.
Aidan Rogers
Gold ‘24
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: Connect to Aidan via LinkedIn
Current Occupation: Corporate Finance at Ross Stores
Immediate MBA Goals: Explore several career paths I am interested in and figure out which is best for me in the next stage of my career
Fun Fact: I am a triplet and my older brothers are twins
What I’m most excited about WE Launch: Getting the Class of 25 excited about Haas! It’s a special three years in the program and I can’t wait to share everything the incoming class has ahead of them to look forward to!
Axe Cohort Representatives
Shruti Sethi
Axe ’23
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: Connect to Shruti via LinkedIn
Current Occupation: GPU Semiconductor Arch
Immediate MBA Goals: Working with Cloud / Data center Product
Fun Fact: I learnt driving a motorbike in continuous pouring rain (5 hours of driving practice in rain!)
What I’m most excited about WE Launch: Excited to meet all the new and capable individuals joining Haas!
Oski Cohort Representatives
Cynthia Kuan
Oski ’24
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: Connect to Cynthia via LinkedIn
Current Occupation: Program Manager at RARE-X (non-profit health tech)
Immediate MBA Goals: Pivot to Health Tech / Bio Tech private sectors as non-technical program manager
Fun Fact: I was an English major in college and has a Master’s degree in Theatre. I haven’t met anyone at Haas with a similar background, except for Leadership Communications coaches.
What I’m most excited about WE Launch: Meeting the incoming students and launching their first Haas experience!
Yuguang Yuan
Oski ‘24
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: Connect to Yuguang via LinkedIn
Current Occupation: An enterpreneur of a series-A robotics startup
Immediate MBA Goals: Start a new startup during the MBA program
Fun Fact: My company is Alibaba’s supplier and was invited to Taobao’s double 11th day in 2019.
What I’m most excited about WE Launch: WE Launch started a brand new life for me and I am honored that I can stay together with you when it starts yours.
Lux Cohort Representatives
Zhilian Liu
Oski ’24
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: Connect to Zhilian via LinkedIn
Current Occupation: Business Development Manager
Immediate MBA Goals: Pivot to High Tech
Fun Fact: Double Bear
What I’m most excited about WE Launch: Providing a memorable experience for the incoming students
Keely Pollack
Oski ‘24
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: Connect to Keely via LinkedIn
Current Occupation: Product Strategy + Operations
Immediate MBA Goals: Make a successful career pivot + strengthen quant skills
Fun Fact: I get the hiccups every day.
What I’m most excited about WE Launch: Meeting all of you brilliant incoming Haasies! Let’s make this a memorable kickoff together.
VPs of Incoming Student Experience
Khoa Dao
Oski '24
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: Connect to Khoa via LinkedIn
Current Occupation: Math & Physics Teacher
Immediate MBA Goals: Pivot to Tech
Fun Fact: My favorite food is banh nam, which is a savory banana wrapped rice dumpling filled with pork and shrimp, unique to Hue in the central part of Vietnam!
What I’m most excited about WE Launch: Meeting new folks and learning about how awesome everyone is!
Shyamali Jayashankar
Gold ’24
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: Connect to Shyamali via LinkedIn
Current Occupation:Program manager at Scribe Therapeutics
Immediate MBA Goals: I am an explorer at Haas, trying to figure out where I want to be
Fun Fact: I am self teaching myself to play the keyboard and sing along to my favorite Indian tunes !
What I’m most excited about WE Launch: To ring in the batch of 2025 with all the excitement and fun that Haas has to offer them and to welcome the first ever batch of Lux students to Haas ! 🙂
Dom Williams
Blue ‘24
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: Connect to Dom via LinkedIn
Current Occupation: Early Stage Projects at X
Immediate MBA Goals:Startups and entrepreneurship
Fun Fact:I spend a lot of free time on home improvement projects
What I’m most excited about WE Launch: Meeting the next class of Haasies and inspiring them to make an impact while they’re here.