Faculty of Business - John Molson MBA International Case ...

Krannert School of Management - Purdue University
Mauricio S. Puente (Coach)
Mauricio Puente is a certified Lean Six Sigma professional with
experience in the manufacturing, transactional and service sectors.
He has a track-record of being a proven Sensei at all levels of a Lean
Six Sigma deployment, capable of leading change at the strategic and
tactical levels. He is currently pursuing an MBA from the Krannert
School of Management at Purdue University, where he has taken on
several leadership roles within the school. His expected graduation
date is May 2012. puentem@purdue.edu
Teresa Taylor Sekine (Coach)
Dr. Teresa Taylor Sekine teaches at Krannert School of Management,
where she also is the Area Coordinator for Managerial
Communication. Teresa taught English and Political Science for
five years in Japan. She also taught classes for the United Nations
Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Upon
returning to the states, she completed her Ph.D. in Educational
Leadership at The University of Alabama. Her dissertation study
on emerging characteristics of female administrators piqued her
interest in gender studies and leadership development. She joined
the Krannert team after a brief stint in Purdue’s English Department.
Having lived in a foreign country herself for several years, Teresa
values and stresses cross-cultural communication and the global
business environment in her classroom. She has won the Krannert
MBA Core Teaching Award in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Teresa’s research interests include cross-cultural communication,
corporate storytelling, and gender studies. This is Dr. Sekine’s
fourth year to coach the Purdue team at the John Molson MBA
International Case Competition.
tsekine@purdue.edu
Brandon Sturm (Competitor)
Brandon is a second year MBA concentrating in Operations and
Supply Chain Management at the Krannert School of Management.
He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from
Western Michigan University. Brandon worked for twelve years
as a manufacturing engineer for two different metal fabrication
companies, Justrite and Borroughs Corporation. He worked
on projects to improve current production processes as well as
developing new processes. This past summer he interned for
Emerson in Product Planning to reduce SKUs and contribute to a
major cost reduction program. sturmb@purdue.edu
Aashima Agarwal Jain (Competitor)
Aashima is a second-year MBA student concentrating in Strategy,
Finance and Business Analytics. She graduated from Indian Institute
of Technology (IIT) Delhi with a Director’s medal in 2006 with
From left to right: Mauricio Puente (Coach),
Teresa Sekine (Coach), Brandon Sturm, Aashima Jain,
Saurabh Arora, Anja Do, and Austin Owens
a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Biochemical engineering and
Biotechnology. She worked in management consulting with KPMG
Advisory Services focusing on projects in process improvement,
business planning, financial modeling, etc. She is a certified Six
Sigma Green Belt. Recently, she interned with the Financial Planning
and Analysis group at United Airlines to provide strategic decision
support to multiple revenue divisions of the newly merged company
(with Continental Airlines).
aashima@purdue.edu
Anja Do (Hai Anh) (Competitor)
Anja is a double degree Graduate student at Krannert School of
Management and ESCP Europe specialising in Finance and Strategy. In
2009 she graduated from Warwick Business School with a Bachelor
of Science in Management with honours. She then began working
for HSBC Investment Bank in London on Foreign Exchange, Money
Markets and Commodities desk and then covered risk management
for Treasury, Management Reporting and Reconciliation teams. Last
summer she interned with Bloomberg L.P. in Financial Products Sales
where she provided consulting services for clients on the Bloomberg
terminal, promoted new functions and searched for prospective
clients.
do4@purdue.edu
Austin Owens (Competitor)
Austin is a second year MBA student at Purdue concentrating
in Finance. He did his undergraduate studies at Montana State
University and spent his time studying finance, chopping firewood
and working as a carpenter. Prior to grad school he worked in a data
management role for a small start-up company while studying for the
CFA exams and most recently worked in the energy industry. Austin
supplements his nerdy love of finance with a healthy enjoyment of
reading, cooking, running and woodworking.
owens24@purdue.edu
Saurabh Arora (Alternate Competitor)
Saurabh is a first year MBA student at Krannert School of
Management, concentrating in Operations and Strategic
Management. He graduated in 2006 from Punjab Engineering
College (P.E.C), Chandigarh with a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics
and Electrical Communication Engineering. He joined Aricent after
his graduation and worked on mobile applications from 2006 to
2008. Then he joined Cisco systems and worked there for 3 years
before coming to Krannert for pursuing his MBA. At Cisco Systems,
he was involved with the quality assurance department and focused
on defect management for Cisco products.
arora14@purdue.edu
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