Ed Woodcock ’04, McKinsey & Company
Career Conversations
A conversation with Ed Woodcock, a senior expert at McKinsey & Company. Ed spent over 20 years at McKinsey, specializing in the transformation of corporate business functions such as finance and human resources. His expertise spans shared services strategy, enterprise cost reduction, and function benchmarking; he has worked with Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and public-sector organizations. In addition to his client work, he serves as a McKinsey recruiting lead at Yale SOM, providing valuable resources to students exploring consulting careers. Ed is interviewed by Megan Grossman ’25...
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Rahul Bhide ’22, Impact Engine
Career Conversations
A conversation with Rahul Bhide, a vice president at impact-oriented venture capital and private equity firm Impact Engine. Rahul specializes in economic opportunity investment sourcing, diligence, and support. Before joining Impact Engine, he worked on the strategy and impact team at the philanthropic organization Omidyar Network India. He’s spent time in the United States fintech industry and started his career as a strategy consultant at Bain. Rahul is interviewed by Cléa Wang ’26 of the Impact Investing Club.
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Logan Disch ’21, Google
Career Conversations
A conversation with Logan Dish, a strategy and analytics associate at Google. At Google, Logan works on the Planning, Analytics, and Insights Team in PeopleOps and is doing a product management apprenticeship with Google Maps. Logan joined Google in July 2021 after completing an MBA internship there the summer prior. Before SOM, he worked for five years as a senior analyst at Analysis Group in Washington DC, working to create financial and economic models to value technology products and patents in litigation. Logan is interviewed by Jackie Peszynski ’24 of Yale SOM’s Data Analytics...
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Parag Jalan ’18, Teach for India
Career Conversations
A conversation with Parag Jalan, director of Government Relations at Teach for India. Parag is a social sector leader with 12 plus years of experience in public health, education, and philanthropy across multiple countries in the Global South. Parag is an ex-McKinsey consultant who has worked with BlackRock, Clinton Health Access Initiative, and One Acre Fund. Parag is interviewed by Pooja Rai ’24 of Yale SOM’s Consulting Club.
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Nate Heller ’09, MoPhones
Career Conversations
A conversation with Nate Heller, a Yale SOM alum with over two decades of experience in international social enterprise and development, including stints with the Peace Corps and the UN. Nate has spent 12 years building innovative distribution and finance channels for poor consumers in West Africa. Nate co-founded PEG Africa, a distributed renewables FinTech that revolutionized access to clean energy, touching the lives of over a million people. His recent venture, MoPhones, aims to make high-quality mobile phones accessible. Nate is interviewed by Jivika Mangwani ’25 of Yale SOM’s Net...
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Will Brackenheimer ’08, Guggenheim Partners
Career Conversations
A conversation with Will Brackenheimer, a managing director at Guggenheim Partners. His uniquely diverse leadership experiences include transaction execution, client management, recruiting, training, and staffing to help Guggenheim’s middle market investment banking effort in Chicago. Will is interviewed by Aytaj Damirchibayli ’24 of Yale SOM’s Finance Club.
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Jessica Gallegos ’16, Google
Career Conversations
A conversation with Jessica Gallegos, a product manager at Google. Jessica works on Google Research’s Generative AI or Perception team, a future-oriented team that develops technologies to help machines perceive images, sounds, and other sensory data to understand the world. Jessica joined Google in 2015 and has worked on a variety of topics related to responsible technology, including solutions to mitigate issues like online misinformation, user safety and mental health concerns, and bias in AI. Prior to pursuing her MBA at Yale, Jessica worked at the World Bank and a variety of other...
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Tom Ascheim ’90, Pith & Pixie Dust
Career Conversations
A conversation with Tom Ascheim, a longtime media executive. Tom recently co-founded the consulting firm Pith & Pixie Dust with fellow executive Tricia Melton. Prior to launching the firm in 2023, he served as president of global kids, young adults, and classics at Warner Brothers, where he led the global strategy for prominent brands like Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Turner Classic Movies, and Boomerang, in addition to three animation studios and the Harry Potter franchise. Before Warner Brothers, Tom was president of the cable network ABC Family, now Freeform, which he led through its...
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Lynn Eisenhart ’06, Gates Foundation
Career Conversations
A conversation with Lynn Eisenhart, deputy director of the Gates Foundation’s $2.5 billion Strategic Investment Fund. Over the past decade at the Gates Foundation, Lynn has also served as a financial services program officer and advisor to Melinda Gates. Before Gates, she served as the vice president and group product manager at Washington Mutual and the senior manager of corporate strategy at T-Mobile. Lynn is interviewed by Neha Jain ’24.
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Andrew Golden '89, Princeton University Investment Company
Career Conversations
A conversation with Andy Golden, president of the Princeton University Investment Company, known as Princo. Andy became the third president of Princo in January 1995. During his tenure, Princo’s endowment market value has grown from under $4 billion to nearly $40 billion. He previously worked as a senior associate in the Investments Office at Yale University. Andy is interviewed by Sharan Subramanian ’24.
info_outlineA conversation with Alia Aziz ’14, a director at UBS Asset Management. Alia is an investment analyst on the U.S. large and mid-cap growth equity strategies team, as well as on the digital transformation equity strategy team, with coverage primarily on consumer sectors. Alia was the founding analyst at Spyglass Capital Management, a concentrated U.S. mid-cap long-only growth fund that launched in 2015. She started her career as the sole analyst at Edgewood Management, a concentrated U.S. large cap long-only growth fund.
Alia is interviewed by Sharan Subramanian ’24.