Meet our 2020-2021 StartU team!
We're thrilled to announce our StartU team for the 2020-2021 academic year! Despite most university campuses going virtual this year, we are proud to welcome 48 scouts and leads from some of the top entrepreneurial ecosystems nationwide.
Meet our stellar new recruits below!
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University of Chicago / Booth School of Business
Wendy Wang, Booth MBA '21 - Co-Lead
Tori Jones, Booth MBA '22 - Co-Lead
Amira Khatib, Booth MBA '22 - Scout
Jane Boo, Booth MBA '22 - Scout
Jason Brooke, Booth MBA '22 - Scout
Kevin Terhar, Booth MBA '22 - Scout
Nisha Saboo, Booth MBA '22 - Scout
Pablo Zaldivar, Booth MBA '22 - Scout
Sharlene Guiriba, Booth MBA & Harris MPP '22 - Scout
Columbia University / Columbia Business School
Hayley Netherton, CBS MBA '21 - Co-Lead
Leah Oppenheimer, CBS MBA '22 - Co-Lead
Andrew Lee, BS Financial Economics '22 - Scout
Bridie Gahan, CBS MBA '22 - Scout
Jess Schram, CBS MBA '22 - Scout
Julian Fainzaig, CBS MBA '22 - Scout
Rachel Sacks, BS Neuroscience '22 - Scout
Rishi Ratan, CBS MBA '22 - Scout
Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Sloan School of Management
Melissa Forstell, Sloan MBA '22 - Scout
Northwestern University / Kellogg School of Management
Roshni Shah, Kellogg MBA '22 - Scout
Tejitha Rudraraju, Kellogg MBA '22 - Scout
University of Pennsylvania / The Wharton School
Parina Lalchandani, Wharton MBA '21 - Co-Lead
David Klippel, Wharton MBA '22 - Co-Lead
Alexandra LaValle, Wharton MBA '22 - Scout
Andrew Yates, Wharton MBA '22 - Scout
Dylan Hoffman, Wharton MBA '21 - Scout
Gayathri Gururajan, Wharton MBA '21 - Scout
Simmone Seymour, Wharton MBA '21 - Scout
William Wang, BS Wharton & Penn Engineering '22 - Scout
UC Berkeley / Haas School of Business
Michael Caballero, BA Data Science (Honors) '21 - Co-Lead
Gary Yin, Haas MBA '22 - Co-Lead
Alexandria Marx, BA Psychology & BS Business Administration '22 - Scout
Asif Mohammad, Haas MBA '21 - Scout
Lizi Feng, Haas MBA '23 - Scout
Quinn Darling, BS Data Science '21 - Scout
Sandeep Shah, Haas MBA '22 - Scout
Shiva Patel, Haas MBA '22 - Scout
UCLA / Anderson School of Management
Scott Schulkin, Anderson MBA '21 - Co-Lead
Apoorva Tyagi, Anderson MBA '22 - Co-Lead
Dani Alderman, Anderson MBA '22 - Co-Lead
Ana Carolina Scalercio, BA Economics & Global Studies '21 - Scout
Becki Berumen, Anderson MBA '21 - Scout
Eric Fandel, Anderson MBA '22 - Scout
Hideaki Nishioka, Anderson MBA '22 - Scout
Kimberly Dinehart, Anderson MBA '22 - Scout
Liz Perez, Anderson MBA '22 - Scout
Peter Ashton, Anderson MBA '22 - Scout
Sam Bakula, Anderson MBA '21 - Scout
Shalini Garg, Anderson MBA '21 - Scout
National Team
Rima Reddy, Wharton MBA '21 - CEO | Editor-in-Chief
J.P. Bowgen, Booth MBA '21 - COO
Jessica Stokes, Wharton MBA '21 - Marketing & Brand Lead
Diego D'Sola, Wharton MBA '22 & Harvard Kennedy MPA '23 - Podcast Lead