OXFORD VOLUNTEER CONSULTANTS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- VP of Marketing and Communications
Ira has taken leave from medical school in the U.S. to pursue the Saïd MBA this year. These two overlapping academic paths mirror his longstanding work in global health and research interest in improving healthcare delivery. He currently also serves as Chair of the Social Entrepreneurship Oxford Business Network. Following the MBA, he plans to return to medical school to complete his MD before pursuing a career in academic surgery that uses business research methodologies to solve entrenched obstacles to effective patient care.
Job Titles:
- Senior Manager With Accenture 's Capital Markets Management Consulting
- VP of New Project Development
Joe Barakat is a Senior Manager with Accenture's Capital Markets Management Consulting practice, currently on leave for a year to complete his MBA at Saïd Business School. At Accenture, Joe specializes in large-scale transformations with a specific focus on post-merger integration, change management, and business process design for wealth management firms. Post-MBA, Joe plans to focus on helping companies tackle complex strategic issues associated with globalization and the evolution of human interactions.
Mike Navarrete is a 2012 MBA candidate at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He most recently spent the past four years working as a strategy consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton in Washington, D.C. where he worked with clients to apply his expertise in strategy, business process analysis, change management and business transformation. Mike has a strong interest in the emerging partnerships between the business and global citizen sectors and hopes to pursue a career that applies entrepreneurial solutions to address today's most critical problems
Varun Singh is an MBA candidate at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He has six years of experience at Infosys Limited where he consulted a number of global banks in business transformation, change management, and process designs. After the MBA, he plans to focus on creating integrated strategies for businesses that identify effective ways of building business value and social value together.