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GWIB 2012 Officers

Co-Presidents

Kiley Baker

Undergraduate: University of Carolina at Chapel Hill

Pre MBA career: Triage Consulting Group (Atlanta, GA), Senior Associate, 5 years

MBA Concentration: Finance and Entrepreneurship

Email: kiley.baker@mba13.mccombs.utexas.edu

Marissa Kraines

Undergraduate: University of California-Los Angeles

Pre MBA career: Red Bull Records (Santa Monica, CA), Marketing Coordinator

MBA Concentration: Marketing

Email: marissa.kraines@mba13.mccmbs.utexas.edu

 

Co-Vice Presidents of Events

Marian Grone

Undergraduate: CSU Northridge

Pre MBA career: 4 years as a reimbursement program associate in healthcare at Covance in San Diego, CA

MBA Concentration: Strategy Consulting

Email: Marian.grone@gmail.com

Anne York

Undergraduate: Hillsdale College

Pre MBA career: 3 years as research associate in management consulting in Reno, NV

Email: anne.york@mba13.mccombs.utexas.edu

 

Co-Vice Presidents of Professional Development

Elizabeth "EJ" Johnson

Undergraduate: University of Southern California

Pre MBA career: 4 years as a video game sound editor in Los Angeles, CA

MBA Concentration: Marketing Analytics and Consulting

E-mail: elizabeth.johnson@mba13.mccombs.utexas.edu

Colleen Butts

Undergraduate: Arizona State University

Pre MBA career: 5 years as an auditor in public accounting in Los Angeles, CA

MBA Concentration: Brand and Product Management

Email: colleen.butts@mba13.mccombs.utexas.edu

 

Co Vice Presidents of External Affairs

Leslie Pazan

Undergraduate: Brandeis University

Pre MBA career: 4 years as a Marketing Operations Manager at LinkShare Corporation (NewYork, NY), 1 year as a Sales/marketing assistant at Mellon Financial Corporation (San Francisco, CA), 1 year as a Marketing / Development Assistant at The San Francisco Foundation

MBA Concentration: Operations and Information Management

E-mail: leslie.pazan@mba13.mccombs.utexas.edu

Laura McGee

Undergraduate Institution: University of Southern California

Pre MBA career: Ernst & Young, 5 Years, as Senior Analyst

MBA Concentration: Marketing

E-mail: laura.mcgee@mba13.mccombs.utexas.edu

 

 

Co Vice Presidents of Communications

Tina (Meihua) Zhu

Undergraduate: Dalian Nationalities University

Pre MBA career: 1.5 years as Financial Analyst at Accenture, 1.5 years as Financial/Cost Analyst at Intel, 5 years as Regional Business Analyst/Senior Financial Analyst/Country Financial Controller/Financial Manager at EDS/HP

MBA Concentration: Finance

Email: meihua.zhu@mba13.mccombs.utexas.edu

Shina Kim

Undergraduate: Korea University

Pre MBA career: 1 year as a recruiter at Hynix Semiconductor, 4 years as a consultant at IBM Korea

MBA Concentration: High-Tech Marketing

Email: shina.kim@mba13.mccombs.utexas.edu

 

Women in Business Leadership Conference (WBLC) Co Chairs

Meagan Berry

Undergraduate: Texas A&M

Pre MBA career: 4 years as a program manager, project assistant at American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

in Washington, DC

MBA Concentration: Finance

Email:  meagan.berry@mba13.mccombs.utexas.edu

Lara Cottingham

Undergraduate: University of Texas at Austin

Pre MBA career: 5 years as a communication director for the U.S. House of Representatives

MBA Concentration: Energy Finance and Marketing

Email: lara.cottingham@mba13.mccombs.utexas.edu

 

 Vice President Texas Evening MBA Relations

Tanuja Deo

Undergraduate: Pune University, India & University of Massachusetts, Lowell MA

Pre MBA career: 5 years experience in business development in high tech services industry in Bay Area, CA

MBA Concentration: Strategy and Operations Management

Email: tanuja.deo@mba13.mccmbs.utexas.edu

Varsha Dadlani

Undergraduate: University of Texas at Austin

Pre MBA career: 5 years as a hardware engineer worked at Cisco Systems, 3.5 years designing customized chips for networking solutions. Recently, transitioned to a role in Corporate Financial Planning at Dell

Email: Varsha.Dahlani@mba13.mccombs.utexas.edu