- Harvard MBA
- VP at $5Bn private equity fund
- Previous Experience:
- Investment Professional at Carlyle Special Situations
- Associate at family office investing in emerging markets
- Analyst at Credit Suisse
- Sector experience: Healthcare, Business Services, Consumer & Retail
- Worked in London (5+ years) and NYC
Reviews for this mentor
My mentor had a great impact on me, successfully getting a private equity associate job at a leading middle-market fund. She helped me stay grounded and focused in what can become a very chaotic and stressful recruiting process, and even though we had a handful of sessions together, I think those were very efficient and productive since the tactics and advice she shared were targeted to the specific interviews I had and the specific areas I needed to get better at. I think she's able to draw diverse perspectives thanks to the background she has, and she is always up to speed on the industry and different funds given her network and her own recruiting experiences.
I highly recommend working with this mentor, our sessions have been the best investment I’ve made into my career this year. She gives very detailed and actionable advice, which immediately improved my traction with recruiters and employers, and ultimately led me to secure my dream role.
One of the best investments I had. She is super sharp and very experienced. She can point out where you can work on right way, but in a very nice way. I enjoyed talking with her. That is why I booked my second mock right away. You know a good mock partner when you meet one. Definitely, she should be on your list.
I highly recommend working with this mentor for anyone anyone interviewing for PE opportunities. She was very thorough and extremely helpful in my preparation, providing very detailed feedback and concrete means by which to improve. Her prep style really helps you develop, as she provides specific, live feedback to your interview answer, giving you an opportunity to revise in an iterative setting. I would definitely use her again (indeed I follow up with her periodically as a refresher) and would recommend her to anyone looking for PE interview prep.
The best piece of advice I can give to anyone who is looking for that extra help when it comes to transitioning into investment banking/private equity, needing general career advice, or preparing for interviews is to sign up with her as soon as you can. I registered for a resume review and a 5-hour session, which, overall, is not an insignificant amount of money. But I wholeheartedly believe that I got every dollar's worth from having her as my mentor. She will provide comments and advice without all the dressing and help you each step of the process to get you to where you want to be. In my experience, my mentor turned my resume around a full 360 degrees and is helping me prepare for my interviews.
I recommend you are proactive with what she tells you to do as if it was coming from a doctor because you will profusely thank her by the end. My only regret is that I didn’t sign up quicker!
Working with my mentor was a pleasure and extremely helpful from the start of the consulting engagement. In the middle of my Private Equity recruiting process, I hit a rough patch and she was able to encourage and help me set my mentality properly for the task ahead. Apart from just helping me shift my attitude, she gave me actionable recruiting advice and a great format for practicing interview questions. I also utilized her help for interview practice and she asked extremely applicable and specific questions which I later crushed in my interviews and ultimately landed me in my dream private equity role. I rate her a 10/10 and would recommend her to anyone looking to break into the buyside. Thank you.
We started working together at the beginning of October. She has been absolutely amazing. She has been mentoring me on different career paths and also has been incredibly helpful during my unexpected job search. She is very personable and responds very quickly which I really appreciate especially as my job search has sped up. She has incredible insights / resources and is always upfront with me with regard to feedback / potential opportunities I am looking at. I would 10/10 recommend her to someone!
It has been an invaluable experience for me. I'm currently interviewing with a Private Equity firm, and I have had four mentor sessions with her before my interviews. She provided me with excellent guidance and constructive and honest feedback, which has helped me identify my current strengths and weaknesses and learn to improve.
In addition, she asks me questions more often than simply telling me what to do, and the curiosity makes her relate to me from my perspective. My mentor has a strong background in finance and industry knowledge and is open to sharing her expertise. She is an outstanding mentor, and I would recommend her to anyone looking for professional development.
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The WSO mentor service runs at a very slight profit (~5-10% net margin) in order to help motivate amazing professionals to provide great (free) advice in the forums (many mentors have green "mentor" buttons next to their usernames) which strengthens the entire WSO community. Luckily, there is a surprising number of elite professionals within the WSO community that love giving back to motivated candidates. We also recently automated the mentor matching with an algo that helps reduce the manual work needed on the backend should a requested mentor not be available. Prices range from as low as $57 up to $997 depending on the package you purchase and the mentor you select. Given the success of our service and the number of repeat clients we have, we know that we can afford to run on thin profit margins and serve thousands of applicants. We also know that many of you will follow the advice of our mentors and invest in additional courses and/or services from WSO.
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We have an incredible team of 1,000+ dedicated mentors across top firms all around the world. Our #1 goal is to make sure you are placed in the hands of the most competent and detail-oriented professional in your specific target industry. This coupled with our strict process ensures a smooth and thorough experience. Why do we use actual professionals? The answer is simple: they are the ones ACTUALLY SCREENING APPLICATIONS for their own firms! They know what it takes to make it out of the trash pile and into the interview pile. On top of this, since we have been doing mentor sessions for over a decade across THOUSANDS of clients, we are able to immediately identify a top mentor and feed them more clients to ensure happy customers like you (due to our strict screening process). Our team includes investment bankers at all the top bulge brackets and elite boutique banks as well as private equity, hedge fund and VC professionals at the most prestigious funds. We also have reviewers at the top management consulting firms in the world, elite prop trading firms, top corporate finance roles as well as other related finance careers.
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Too Young / Too Inexperienced: We do NOT recommend our mentor service until you at least have at least some relevant WORK experience that we can leverage. For the young clients out there, this means an internship, ideally in your target or related industry. If you are still in high school, it is unlikely that you have this experience. The earliest we'd recommend doing a mentor session is early freshman or early sophomore year as you prepare for summer internship recruiting. If you have no relevant experience then it probably doesn't make sense to sign up for the service. Our mentors are amazing, but they aren't magicians. If you tell us you really want to be in Investment Banking or Private Equity (for example) and everything in your background points to law or medicine, it's going to be an uphill battle. On the other hand, if you have unrelated experience but you have started the transition process by taking relevant classes and joining relevant clubs and associations, we'd love to work with you. You may not be the most competitive candidate, but we will highlight the most relevant education and functions at your current job that would translate well across industries.
Too Old / Too Experienced: We DO recommend our mentor service for more experienced professionals that are looking to make a transition or have an interview coming up. We have several very senior mentors that can answer the tough questions and make sure you are up to date on the latest trends in your target industry. However, before you move forward, we encourage you to give yourself an honest assessment. If you are looking to make the transition and have not made any steps outside of considering this mentor program, you probably aren't ready. If you've taken steps (education, new degrees, courses, etc) and feel like you're ready, we're on board and eager to help!
Yes, but if you have a negative attitude you are unlikely to have success. If you think a mentor session is an automatic referral, please don't bother to hire us.
Yes, our mentors often do refer our clients for open positions at their firms (over 20%), however, this should not be asked of our mentors to avoid a conflict of interest and it should not be expected as part of the service. It is up to you to impress the mentor if this is your goal, however, we believe you can gain much more out of the experience by being honest about your weaknesses and concerns with the mentor so there can be an open dialogue on how to improve your chances.
The only discounts are for larger packages and more hours purchased at once. This is an incredibly labor intensive 1-on-1 service using finance professionals that typically make well over $200/hr and are doing this primarily to give back.
This is a personal question and the answer is naturally subjective. If you are serious about landing a job in investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, trading, asset management, management consulting or any other competitive industry, it's more than likely that the answer to that question is a resounding "YES".
Career services advisers at your school are not screening applications for interviews...neither are your classmates. If you do happen to have a friend in the industry, are they going to take the hours necessary to give you a realistic mock interview? Odds are that their time is limited outside the office and if they do give you some guidance, it won't be as thorough as our expert mentors. If you look at the competitive nature of recruiting nowadays, why would leave your application up to chance when many of these jobs pay well over $100,000?
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