OUR COACHING TEAM

20072008 Coach Profiles 

Aastha Gupta

Aastha joined Citigroup as part of the Technology Graduate Programme 2005 and currently works as a business analyst in Fixed Income Derivatives, having also interned there in the Foreign Exchange Technology department.  Aastha graduated with a First Class degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Warwick in 2005

Aastha Gurbax

Aastha is currently studying for an MBA at the Harvard Business School. During her summer at Harvard, Aastha worked at Goldman Sachs (London) in Private Wealth Management and at Wynn Resorts (Las Vegas) as a Strategic Business Advisor. Prior to Harvard, Aastha was a Tax Consultant for High Net Worth Individuals in Deloitte and Touche. She worked in PwC for 3 years in Expatriate Tax and Tax Investigations where she defended high net worth individuals and multinationals facing enquiries/ prosecution from the UK Revenue. She received numerous internship and job offers and uses her extensive interviewing experience to coach people for all areas of investment management, tax and audit. Aastha topped Cass Business School and has graduated with a First Class Honours degree. She completed summer internships with HSBC Derivatives Group, Citigroup, UniCredito Italiano in Milan and Norton Publishing in New York. Aastha has also passed her professional ATT tax exams.

Alex Blake

Alex is currently working for a corporate law firm. Previously, he completed banking internships with Standard Life Investments and UBS Investment Banking Division, as well as a law vacation scheme with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. In addition to general coaching, Alex can provide expert advice on Investment Banking Division and Law.

Alex Channing

Alex studied music at the Royal Academy of Music and graduated from King’s College London with a 1st in Mathematics, and then did a Masters in Applicable Mathematics at the LSE. He now works full-time at Barclays Capital in Structuring Equity Derivatives and Futures Client Relations.

Alexis Alexander

Lex is in her final year of a Modern History degree at the University of Oxford, and was President of the Oxford Law Society last year.  She was successful at interview for all the law internships she interviewed for, and has had a number of vacation schemes at Magic Circle, US and national firms, so has a vast experience of what it is the different types of firm are looking for.   She will start a training contract at a Magic Circle firm in 2009, and is delighted to share her knowledge with anyone who would like a helping hand and perhaps learn something new herself too!

Alistair Cope

Alistair is a professional actor and trained at Mountview Academy Of Theatre Arts gaining a degree in Performance. He has performed in film and television and appeared on stage across the UK. He uses his skills and knowledge in helping clients feel confident and assertive. He teaches interview technique and interview etiquette.

Amala Ejikeme

Amala graduated from LSE in Law. He has extensive interview and applications experience having secured both vacation schemes and training contracts from a number of Magic Circle and leading US firms. He will be commencing his training contract with Allen & Overy in September 2008

Amir Ravan

Amir joined Goldman Sachs as a Commodities Options Trader after successfully converting his summer internship. He has a BSc in Mathematics at Imperial College London, where he came 2nd place in his class. Upon completion of his Bachelors he was awarded the Quarter Share of the University of London Sherbrooke Prize for Mathematics, amongst other prizes for Mathematics and Statistics. During his degree he completed two summer internships, the first being at BNP Paribas within Fixed Income structuring. For the following summer he secured offers (within Capital Markets / Sales & Trading) from Barclays Capital, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, before receiving his offer at Goldman. Outside work and studies Amir is an accomplished pianist and carries a First Dan Black Belt in Karate.

Amy Donahue

Amy has worked as a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton for over three years, mostly in the United States.  She recently received her MBA from London Business School and rejoined Booz Allen's London office.  Previously, she worked at Goldman Sachs (Investment Management Division), Facts Inc (Energy Consultancy), the U.S. Embassies in Singapore and Pakistan, the Asia Pacific Economic Secretariat in Singapore, and an international summer camp in Pulau Besar, Malaysia.  She graduated with an A.B. (Magna Cum Laude) in International Relations from Princeton University and completed a Graduate Fellowship in Asia Pacific Leadership Studies at the East-West Center in Hawaii.  She has also studied at HEC in Paris and conducted free-lance consulting projects in Africa

Anand Somaiya

Anand graduated with a BSc in Economics & Finance from the University of Bristol with 1st class honours.
He has undertaken summer internships in investment consulting at Hewitt Associates and in ECM at HSBC, where he has accepted an offer for the graduate programme starting in Autumn 2007. Since his simmer internship, Anand has taken an intense Spanish course in Barcelona and has since worked in temporary roles at a corporate finance boutique Fox-Davies Capital and Merrill Lynch before commencing his graduate programme at HSBC. He has spent six months in DCM syndicate in London and is due to spend a further six months in EM Origination in New York.

Andy Nelson

After studying Career Development and Management Selection at the Manchester Business School, Andy worked for an entrepreneurial start up company before successfully applying to Accenture to work as an Analyst in the Products Group. Andy is currently working for the Business Consulting team within Accenture and has worked in a broad variety of Strategy, Outsourcing, and Technology projects, bringing wide industry experience to back up his coaching and business mentoring work. Andy has a good understanding of the interview and selection process having previous work experience in recruitment and is happy to coach applicants through the process for any industry and professional service company

Andy Wei

Andy joined the Willis Group as a Trainee Broker in September 2006, having completed an MSc Management at LSE. His previous experience includes a summer internship in Citigroup in Operations, a part-time assistant in the London Office of Bank of Communications in Administration, and a summer internship in Bank of China in its Global Transaction Business. In addition, he landed full-time offers from Citigroup in Operations, KPMG Tax China, and Deloitte Audit.]

Ankit Mehrotra

Ankit joined BNP Paribas as part of the Technology Graduate Programme 2006 in Fixed Income Technology. He currently works as a Business Analyst in the Foreign Exchange department. Ankit also recently passed his CFA Level 1 exam.

Anna Chua

Anna has an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management in Chicago Illinois in 2004. Prior to her MBA, Anna had extensive experience in sales and marketing having worked for 3 years at NESTLE, starting out as a field salesman, followed by becoming a sales representative, regional promotions coordinator and later on as assistant brand manager in the Coffee and Beverages division. After completing her MBA, Anna joined the Boston Consulting Group where she was primarily involved with the company's consumer practice. After 2 years in consulting, she recently made a transition to return to industry, and this time, in the field of fashion and luxury goods. Anna has joined LVMH (Louis Vuitton Moet Henessy)'s watches and jewellery division and is today in charge of marketing for Zenith luxury watches in the UK. Anna enjoys travelling, fashion, cooking, playing the piano, and interior design

Anu Chandra

Anu works as a senior member of the general strategy team at Bain & Co Stockholm office. Previously, he completed his MBA at London Business School. During his MBA, Anu setup a management consulting firm focused on technology media telecoms sectors. The firm's former clients include Reuters, Sony Ericsson and Skype–EBay.

Apurva Udeshi

Apurva graduated from Imperial College with a First Class (Hons) BEng degree in Computing in 2006. He was the recipient of the Prize (Distinguished Status) for the best Individual Project in the BEng Computing course awarded by the Department of Computing, Imperial College. On completion of his degree, he was invited to submit a paper on his research in the area of Performance Modelling. He interned at Merrill Lynch (Debt Trading Technology) in 2005 and Deutsche Bank (Global Markets) in 2006.  Apurva joined Nomura Securities as a Convertible Bond Trader in February 2007. He has had interview experience with numerous investment banks and in addition to general coaching, can provide expert advice in Sales, Trading and Technology.

Avanti Patel

Avanti is a second year MBA student at London Business School.  She is currently working as a summer intern in the European capital markets group at Ares Management. Previously, she worked as an associate at Grove Street Advisors, a private equity fund of funds, and as a senior analyst at Jefferies Broadview in their London and Boston offices, evaluating technology M&A transactions.  She graduated with a B.A. in Economics and Computer Science from Wellesley College and completed a year at the London School of Economics.  At London Business School, Avanti is a Portfolio Manager of the Investment Management club, Treasurer of the Women in Business Club and co-President of the Wine and Cheese Club. She is a 2006 recipient of the Deutsche Bank Scholarship for Women.

Bela Hanratty

Bela is currently in his final year at Trinity College Dublin where he is reading English. Although his academic area is not directly related to finance, he developed an interest through research and utilising contacts to better understand what is involved in a career in the City. Bela secured an internship with UBS Investment Bank in their Prime Services division, and at the end of the ten week programme, he was extended a full-time offer. He is returning in September 2009 on the graduate programme.

Ben Dimson

Ben is currently studying for an MBA at London Business School.  During the summer, he is interning at Lehman Brothers within their Capital Markets Division.  Previously, Ben was a Manager at Accenture, aligned to their Financial Services practice, where he worked for both retail and investment banking clients.  Immediately prior to his MBA, he spent a year running a 60-person outsourcing deal for a major investment bank.  Ben has a degree in Economics & Management from Oxford University, where he won the top thesis prize

Bernhard Umfahrer

Bernhard holds a law degree from the University of Vienna and was one of the top 1% students of his year. He finished his PhD in corporate finance law which he wrote at the University of Vienna and the University of Nottingham. He did placements with the European Parliament, JP Morgan, White & Case and secured full time offers from Clifford Chance, Ashurst, Herbert Smith, SJ Berwin, JP Morgan and Rothschild. Currently Bernhard is working as an investment banking analyst with Rothschild Frankfurt specialising in infrastructure/transport M&A transactions. Bernhard's dissertation won an award by Austrian top 3 law firm Wolf Theiss and is going to be published shortly.

Bertrand Molliere

Bertrand graduated with an MA in Economics & Management from Dauphine University in Paris and obtained a post-graduate diploma in Finance from Cass Business School in London. He has been at JP Morgan for three years working in various areas such as Equity Research, Fixed Income & Credit Research, and most recently in Fixed Income Sales and Trading focusing on various credit and credit derivative products. Bertrand has also interned at UBS in their Corporate Finance / Investment Banking department as well as with Royal Philips Electronics in a similar role.

Bhavik Pandya

Bhavik works in the Tax division at PricewaterhouseCoopers, having successfully completed a summer internship within this area. He is currently working towards his ACA chartered accountancy qualification. He graduated in 2005 with an economics degree from University College London. He has had interviewing experience with top accountancy firms and investment banks. In addition to general coaching, he can provide expert advice on accountancy.

Bose Bamigboye

Bose is currently at Brunel University studying for a degree in Economics BSc, successfully interned with Goldman Sachs in the summer of 2006, and is joining Goldman Sachs Investment Management in summer 2007. Prior to that, Bose worked in the Institutional Clients division at Commerzbank AG for an industrial placement year.

Branavan Pathmanapan

Branavan has a degree in Manufacturing Engineering and did a Masters in Technology Management at the Manchester Business School. He worked for Pilkington Plc as a consultant, and previously with a technology company where he worked on managing and implementing large scale IT projects for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Eon Energy and other blue chips.  He is currently working as a Business Analyst in Operations at AEGON Asset Management, part of the AEGON group.

Camila Detomi

Camila graduated from the best BA school in Brazil, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, and is undertaking an MBA at London Business School. Prior to this, Camila worked for 4 years at BNP Paribas in Asset Management.  She is interning at HSBC IBD in summer 2007.]

Catarina Silva

Catarina is a second year MBA student at London Business School. Before she worked for Roland Berger Management Consultants in Madrid and Lisbon. Previous to that, Catarina worked for over 3 years in Investment Banking in London in the Debt Capital Markets divisions of UBS Investment Bank and Morgan Stanley, and did a summer internship at AT Kearney. Catarina has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Universidade Católica de Lisboa.

Cathy Huang

Cathy is currently reading for a postgraduate degree at Oxford University and will join Goldman Sachs in Risk, Equities Division in Sep 2007. She did a first degree at UCL and has been interned with BearingPoint Consultancy, Hewlett Packard and Lehman Brothers.

Chang Tan

Chang is currently a final year student reading Economics at the London School of Economics. An Alumnus of the Sponsors for Educational Opportunities (SEO) program, Chang interned last summer with JP Morgan’s Credit Hybrids Desk. Upon graduating, he will be joining Lehman Brothers’ Capital Markets Division.

Chee Hong Foo

Chee Hong was a Singapore Government Scholar during his undergrad. He interned as a Commodity Strategist with Barclays Global Investors London Office last summer and was awarded his London Business School MBA degree this year. Chee Hong is currently involved in structured derivatives origination work at Canary Wharf. Prior to undertaking the MBA program, Chee Hong worked for Singapore Airlines where he was fast tracked from a Management Associate to a Corporate Sales & Marketing Manager. Chee Hong also served as an Armored Infantry Platoon Commander in the Army and attained the rank of Assistant Superintendent with the Police Force.

Chloe Zhu

Chloe has joined Lehman Brothers in June, 2006.  She worked in the Global Technology Group under Investment Banking Division in New York from June 2006 to June 2007, and is now working in Mergers & Acquisitions group in Investment Banking Division in London with Lehman Brothers.  She graduated from Smith College, MA, USA in May 2006.  She was one of the three interns at Credit Suisse (prior CSFB), Investment Banking division in Hong Kong in summer 2005.  She was also accepted into Sponsors of Educational Opportunity (SEO)-London and SEO-USA’s Investment Banking Program, and was invited to the Super Day for Goldman Sachs’ Global Finance Summer Analyst Program.  She also received full-time offer from JP Morgan’s Investment Banking Division and was warmly invited to consider opportunities with the Corporate Performance Analyst Program with McKinsey.

Christoph Richter

Christoph graduated with a double degree in European Management during which he studied 2 years at the University of Lancaster and 2 years at ICADE, Madrid. After a summer internship at Deutsche Bank and a 6 months placement with UBS, he joined the Credit Derivatives Structuring desk of a top investment bank as a Graduate Trainee in summer 2007. Christoph has always been passionate about travelling and left Germany at the age of 16 to finish his Highschool in Australia, where he received several academic awards and formed part of the Melbourne University Program for High Achieving students. He speaks fluent English, German and Spanish and enjoys playing the piano and basketball in his free time. Christoph has interviewed with most top tier investment banks for their respective graduate programs, but also has interview experience in other areas such as accounting and management consultancy. He has helped several friends to secure internships and FT offers at Lehman Brothers, UBS, HSBC and Bank of America.

Christy Lee-Layhadi

Christy is currently a final year student in BSc Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In first year, she was the President of the Indonesian Bruneian Society as well as being heavily involved within London Indonesian Student Organisation. During her first year of university, she had spring internships at Goldman Sachs London within the area of Operations, Finance and Technology as well as Deloitte. This was followed by a summer internship at Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking in Indonesia. During her second year, Christy secured a summer internship at PricewaterhouseCoopers within the area of Assurance Banking and Capital Markets, and has received a full time job offer to join them in September 2008.

Chiara Saba

Chiara is a final year MSc in Finance student at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), with one year work experience in China.  One-fifth of her MSc class is going to work in London for the major bulge brackets.  The genuinely competitive environment in which she studied made her able to identify the right skills an I-Banker needs to demonstrate.  She will therefore be happy to help perspective candidates to seriously prepare for the tough interview process.  Chiara interviewed with Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan, and Lehman Brothers.  She interned with Lehman (Capital Markets programme) during the summer of 2007 and she is joining them full-time in July 2008.]

Dan Newton

Daniel graduated with a high 2-1 in law from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2007, having also spent an Erasmus year at the University of Poitiers, France where he received a 'University Degree in French Legal Studies'. He has a training contract at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and is currently studying in London for his LPC. Daniel participated in numerous vacation schemes and mini-pupillages whilst an undergraduate and is equipped to offer guidance on the entire process from choosing the right path, through to the application process and up to the interview itself. Having been College Law Society President whilst at Cambridge he has had the opportunity to meet and talk to a huge range of members of the legal profession.

David Langer

CONFIDENTIAL.  David is currently in his final year studying Maths at Oxford University. Having interned at JPMorgan in Equity Exotics trading during summer 2006 and at Lehman Brothers in Investment Management during summer 2005, David has also done courses in management with CRAC and McKinsey & Co. Sponsored throughout University by Citigroup, he has received full-time offers from Lehman Brothers and JPMorgan but has decided to take some time out after his degree to work for ClickUni, a web-based start-up company he founded in 2005. David offers coaching for sales, trading and research positions at Investment Banks and also advice on how to approach top city firms and secure interviews.

Davinder Bhangra

Davinder is working within Morgan Stanley’s Technology Division

Dean Zhang

Dean is joining the CSFB Prime Brokerage in July 2005, He had work experience with Lehman Brother Prime Brokerage and Beauchamp (Technology provider for Hedge Funds), also worked as a sales consultant for 2 years during his study at Warwick University for one of the biggest direct selling company in Europe. He specialises in cold call coaching and Sales – he initiated relationships with over 100 professionals across the top 15 investment banks and convinced 9 investment banks to see him before the interviews. He was also a junior national champion in swimming in China.

Debbie Leow

Debbie is a third year economics student at LSE.  She secured a summer internship at Morgan Stanley, London, under the Fixed Income Division, and will be returning to Morgan Stanley as an Analyst when she graduates in 2007. She will be joining the Structured Finance Desk a.k.a. SPG (Securitised Products Group).  She has also undergone interviews for Corporate Finance and previously interned in the Assurance Division at Ernst & Young during summer 2005.

Dhiren Joshi

Dhiren joined Barclays Capital full-time as an Equities Derivatives trader in September 2005. He interned at Barclays Capital and figured out how to make the right contacts during his internship and performed to the incredibly high standard that is required to secure a full-time offer.  His background is Mathematics with Computer Science at Imperial.  He has experience in coaching applications going for positions in the Investment Banking Division, Sales, Research, Trading (Exotics, Equities, Fixed Income, Equity Derivatives), Operations and Consultancy roles.  Dhiren has coached over 100 applicants both face-to-face and over the phone during his time with us, and indeed many of the clients he has coached are now working as his colleagues at BarCap and at several major investment banks.

Diogo Vasconcelos

Diogo is currently reading for an MBA degree at London Business School and specialising in Finance and Strategy. His summer internships included L.E.K. Consulting and Cazenove Capital Management (Global Hedge Fund). Prior to this, he worked in Portugal, France and the UK as a structural engineer. He has an undergraduate degree and master in science in Structural Engineering from Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal.

Doug Chan

Doug graduated from Imperial College London with a B.Eng. in Computer Science, and then worked in the financial services industry for Accenture covering Retail Banks, Insurance and Investment Banks across the UK and Europe.  He successfully passed the level one of the CFA examination and is currently in Beijing studying Mandarin.

Ed Crowe

Ed graduated from the LSE in 2006, with a BSc Hons. in Government and Economics. He currently works for Citigroup Investment Banking, having interned there for 14 weeks in summer 2005 and 15 weeks in summer 2006. In summer 2004 he spent nine weeks in the Debt Capital Markets team at Rothschild, and five weeks in the Corporate Finance team.  In addition to general coaching, he can provide expert advice on Corporate Finance, private equity, ECM, DCM, Investment Management and Management Consultancy.  In December 2005 Ed was invited to the McKinsey Corporate Finance summit in Austria.  He has also successfully applied for prestigious student conferences in New York, Paris, Shanghai, Cologne and Sofia, and was President of his University Hall, 2005/06.  In 2006/07 Ed took a gap year and spent 3 months learning Spanish in Argentina and 3 months living and working in a chateau in Bordeaux, France. To date he has coached over 200 clients.

Edna Addai

Edna is currently pursuing CFA, having completed a Masters in Management Science and Operational Research from Warwick Business School in 2005.  She joined Deutsche Bank as an analyst working in Derivatives Settlement and working on Sarbanes Oxley.  She later joined Citigroup as a Tax Supervisor and is currently working as an analyst in Complex Product Service at Credit Suisse. She can provide advice in Banking Operation, Accounting and Equity Research.]

Edouard Jozan

Edouard has a French undergraduate education in engineering, but transferred to finance through internships in finance. On exchange in Germany, he completed an internship with Allianz, the German insurance company, and was offered a full-time position in finance. Working seven years with Allianz in Germany as an asset-liability manager and in France as an M&A officer, Edouard gained strong exposure to investment management and investment banking in Europe. To build his finance skills, he completed the CFA program in 2004. He is currently attending the MBA program at London Business School. During his MBA Summer, Edouard interned with PIMCO, the investment management company.  He enjoys sailing, fitness, field hockey, cooking and travelling.

Enam Rahman

Enam graduated with honours in Medical Science from Birmingham University Medical School and a PhD from University College London. As a student he undertook an internship with a large biotechnology company (Amgen). He then worked for a very successful start-up biotech firm (InPharmatica) before joining Accenture. Whilst at Accenture he has worked with 7 of the worlds top 10 Pharmaceutical companies.

Ellen Tetteh

Ellen is currently studying for a BSc in Accounting & Finance at LSE and will be joining Goldman Sachs Operations Division in 2007 after receiving a full-time offer.

Engin Benli

 

Eraldo Pitruzzella

Eraldo is currently studying for a Masters in Finance at the London Business School. Eraldo's career began in financial technology, working at firms such as Thomson Financial. He later moved into fixed income research at JP Morgan focusing on bond indices. There he began his specialization in fixed income which he is continuing at LBS.

Feli Cannata

Feli graduated with a Masters in Telecommunication Engineering, and then worked for 6 years for Cisco Systems, CA, USA.  He is currently in his final year of an MBA at London Business School

Francisca Antell

Francisca is currently studying for a MBA at the London Business School, and is expected to graduate in 2008. Prior to attending LBS, Francisca was an Assistant Vice President at ABN AMRO in New York City, working in the client coverage group. While at ABN AMRO, Francisca worked on cross-border M&A transactions and debt financing transactions; she was promoted 2 times during her 2.5 years with the company. Prior to working for ABN AMRO, Francisca was an Analyst for Fox-Pitt, Kelton, a small boutique M&A bank focused on financial institutions. Francisca is currently attending London Business School’s Summer Entrepreneurship School and intends to start a business.

Gautam Deshpande

 

Ge Li

Ge graduated from University of Wales Swansea in 2004 with a 1st class degree and Al-Sabaan Prize for top academic performance of the year. In the meanwhile, Ge completed two summer internships in China, and subsequently completed an MSc in Finance with Distinction at Imperial College London in 2005. From the beginning of 2006, Ge started to work part-time in a solicitors firm as well as studying for the ACCA, and has been working for Ernst &Young in Assurance specialising in Financial Services since August 2006.

Giorgio Vintani

Giorgio is currently reading for a Masters in Finance degree at London Business School and intends to specialise in Asset Management and Emerging Markets’ Equities. Prior to this, Giorgio has worked for 10+ years as a Senior Portfolio Manager, Equities, with Deutsche Bank (DWS Investments) and BNP Paribas, ranking in Citywire’s Europe Top 100 Fund Managers in 2005 for the risk adjusted performance of the funds over 2002-2004. As a key account, he developed relationships with and has a thorough knowledge of all the major investment banks. He has also extensive experience in equity derivatives, as he was a buyside trader for three years prior to his tenure as a portfolio manager. Giorgio has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Universita’ Cattolica, Milan.

Gladness Deogratias

Gladness is currently working with Lehman Brothers Operations Division, which she joined in September 2006.  In her first six months, she worked with the Syndicated Loans Agency Desk under the Bank Loan Support team, and then moved to New Issues Money Markets Middle Office as a Trade Support.  She graduated from University of Nottingham Business School with BA (Hon) Accounting Finance Management. During her time as a student, she worked with Deloitte Touché as a summer intern in management consulting. Gladness was also involved with the Student Union through Afri-Caribbean Society as and University Ambassador to Global Career Company facilitating in their both annual and university recruitment summits

Gregory Campbell

Gregory is a final year History Honours student at the University of Nottingham.  He recently completed a summer internship within the Insurance and Investment Management Division of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he is due to start in 2008.  He has had extensive personal contact with all the 'Big Four' Professional Services firms and significant experience in the City.

Hann Liew

Hann is currently working in the Fund-Linked Derivatives Structured Products desk at Barclays Capital (London). Having recently graduated from the London School of Economics in 2007, he has previously interned in Audit at Ernst & Young LLP (Summer 2006), and in Research for equity funds at Dalton Strategic Partnership LLP (Winter 2005). He also has experience interviewing for roles in Corporate Finance, Audit and Investment Management.

Hasan Raza

Hasan is currently in his 3rd year reading Mathematics at the University of Durham. He has completed internships at Deloitte & Touche in Audit and Corporate Tax, and at Ernst & Young in their Transaction Advisory and Economics Departments where he developed a pricing model that was published and is still used in the Economics industry. He has also cold called his way into time on trading floors at Citigroup and Lehman Brothers. Hasan has vast interview experience from a variety of Investment Banks and firms in the financial industry. In his spare time, Hasan writes Economic and Market Reviews for the Durham University Investment & Finance Society, and co-manages a fund that operates primarily in the Equity and FX Markets

Hien Vo

Hien graduated with a First Class degree in Accounting and Finance at LSE. He is currently working in the Investment Banking Division at Bank of America. Prior to that, he interned in the Global Equity Strategy team at UBS Equity Division. He also joined SEO (Sponsor for Educational Opportunity) programme as a part of 2006 class. With 10 offers previously obtained, including internships, work placements and full time jobs, he could offer excellent advice for various positions including Investment Banking Division, Equity Research, Equity Sales/ Trading, Finance and Audit.

Hu Hong

Hu joined Citigroup IBD internship program in 2006, and is going to join JP Morgan IBD next year. He has been interested in finance and consulting since he started his university. Throughout his 4 years at university, he has interned in asset management, strategy consulting, IBD, private equity and hedge fund. And after all these work experiences, he now has a much better idea what he is both really interested in and good at!

James Hutchinson

James is a professional actor. He was born in Newcastle, read English at University College London (2001) and trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (2004).  James specialises in soft-skills and runs workshops for Harrison Careers on presentation, case-study and group-work skills as well as interview technique. He is also experienced in coaching voice projection & clarity, body language and eye-contact skills.

James Lui

James graduated from Imperial College London in 2006 and is currently working for Merrill Lynch Europe as a graduate analyst within the Technology Division.  Prior joining Merrill, he had the opportunity to join Goldman Sachs Technology, Deloitte Assurance and HSBC commercial banking.]

Jason Luo

Jason did his undergraduate degree at Bristol University BSc Economics and Management, and graduated from LSE MSc Operational Research in September 2006.  He joined Barclays Capital Finance Division, and also received offers from Deutsche Bank and Deloitte.

Jatin Lalwani

Jatin is an international student and currently doing his 3rd year at Birmingham University. He has received a full time unconditional offer at Goldman Sachs in Middle Office. He has travelled the world and done jobs and internships around Asia, ICIC Bank( India). He has a good interview techniques which has helped his friends secure positions in other firms.

Javed Khattak

Javed graduated from LSE in BSc Actuarial Science this year. Over the last few years, he has completed 6 summer placements/internships including Deloitte & Touche (Actuarial & Insurance Solutions), ICI (Treasury Dept), Standard Chartered (Consumer Banking/Project based) and a few law firms.  He was awarded best intern at both ICI and Standard Chartered, with the latter offering him a job. He applied for 5 internships for summer 2006 and secured offers from all 5 - PwC, Deloitte, KPMG, E&Y and Procter & Gamble.  He was offered a graduate job directly by the prestigious PwC (without any internship) and has currently joined their Actuarial team in HRS.  Javed wrote 2 articles for 'JOBLINE' (Pakistan's Prime/First Career Magazine), both printed in its October Issue; 1st about the 'Actuarial Profession and its job market/status in the UK and Pakistan' & 2nd about 'All the aspects of life in UK as a student along with detailed description and tips for applying to internships

Jay Haria

Jay is in his third year at the University of Warwick studying MORSE (Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics). He has had two internships so far; one in a retail bank called Imperial Bank Limited in Kenya and one for Goldman Sachs International in London last summer. He was in the Asset Servicing Team while at Goldman Sachs, and is joining GS Operations full-time in summer 2008.  While applying for internships he had several interviews for other divisions as well so is able to impart some knowledge for the other areas as well, including assurance.

Jean Farah

Jean currently works at UBS in Equity Research. He was offered the position after having completed a summer internship with the company. Prior to that, he graduated from Imperial College with a BSc in Applied Business Management and has also interned in Fixed Income in the Middle East.  He has interviewed with most investment banks and has subsequently gained extensive interview practice skills in markets and asset management which he is happy to share with others.

Jeremy Hudson

Jeremy has just graduated with an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, one of the world’s leading business schools. Prior to Kellogg, Jeremy worked at Bear, Stearns in London for 5 years as a Vice President in Equity Research, and 1 year at JP Morgan as an analyst in Technology. He graduated from LSE with a degree in Management Sciences in 1999. He can provide expert coaching for people interested in Equity Research, Equity Sales or applying to business school. He is about to embark on a career in marketing for Yahoo! in San Francisco.