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Team:
Jinny Lung (jlung@chicagobooth.edu)
Born and raised in Connecticut, Jinny received her BA in Political Economy and minor in Business Administration with honors from the University of California, Berkeley. While at Berkeley, Jinny spent a semester at Sussex University in the UK and traveled extensively throughout Europe. After college, Jinny decided to stay in the Bay Area as a corporate finance consultant in the communications industry. For five years, she engaged in a variety of due diligence, profit improvement, and merger integration projects for private equity, banking, and corporate clients. Jinny’s extensive travels around the world solidified her desire to engage in global issues such as poverty and women’s rights and to seek out unique cultural interactions. She would like to use her MBA experience to expand her professional network at global NGOs and nonprofits and hopes to pursue a career in the international development field after Booth.
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Geetha Tedakapalli (geetha@chicagobooth.edu)
Geetha is from Chennai, India and has an undergrad degree in business from BITS Pilani, India. Prior to Booth, she worked for three years as an Analyst with a boutique consulting firm, Everest Group. Geetha is particularly interested in developing sustainable social enterprises in emerging markets and has been an active member of Chicago Global Citizen since September 2009. As a part of the CGC Consulting projects, she had the opportunity to work with Millennium Promise in Africa to kick-start a Dairy farming business and travel to rural Mali as a part of the project. Geetha enjoys reading, karaoke and travel and hates formal multi-course dinners.
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Peggy Hsii (peggy.hsii@chicagobooth.edu)
Graduated from the University of Maryland double majoring in Information Systems and Logistics. After graduation, she worked within the consulting industry at both Accenture and PricewaterhouseCoopers' Advisory practice in Washington, D.C. Additionally, she was an AmeriCorps volunteer in Biloxi, Mississippi where she aided long-term disaster relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina. She also spent some time formulating Visions Into Action, a non-profit partnership that organizes charity functions supporting a variety of issues including literacy, disaster relief, and the fight against terminal illnesses. Peggy is a 2010 Random Walk trip leader and enjoys traveling, good food, snowboarding, frozen yogurt, music, and fashion.
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Annie Marx (amarx@chicagobooth.edu)
Prior to attending Booth, Annie worked in at a firm specializing in the marketing of private equity funds to various institutional investors. Before that, she worked as part of the in-house marketing team for a large hedge fund based out of New York City. She attended Trinity College Dublin from 2002 to 2006 and graduated with a double major in philosophy and sociology. This past summer, Annie interned at the Grameen Bank in Dhaka, Bangaldesh, learning about the micro-credit system from the ground up. She will intern in the corporate finance department of Avon Products in New York this summer. In addition to international development, she is interested in travel within eastern Europe, skiing, and learning more about Chicago’s diverse culinary scene.
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Collin Thomas (cthomas1@chicagobooth.edu)
Collin joined Chicago Global Citizens to learn more about social entrepreneurship opportunities in West Africa. He grew up outside San Francisco and graduated from Carleton College in 2005 with a BA in economics. Prior to Chicago Booth, Collin worked in antitrust and intellectual property economics at MiCRA, an economic consulting firm in Washington, D.C. and taught piano at the Sitar Arts Center, a nonprofit music and arts organization. Outside of school, he enjoys wandering through developing countries, racing triathlons, and speaking very poor French.
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Connie Chung (conchung@chicagobooth.edu)
Connie joined Chicago Global Citizens to actively pursue her passion for improving the outlook of international infrastructure through the skills developed at business school. She participated in a Fall consulting project based in Haiti and traveled to the on-site location during her Winter Break. Connie earned her undergraduate degree in 2005 from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley with a double major in Business Administration and Economics. Post-graduation, she moved back to her hometown of Los Angeles and worked for three years with Deloitte & Touch, LLP in the assurance practice and for a year with BDO Consulting in the litigation practice. Connie is a CPA license candidate in the state of California. Connie spends her free time attending urban art gallery openings, snowboarding, traveling, and reading non-fiction (and the occasional fiction) books.
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