Our coaches

Xabi is an operations and strategy consultant with 2 years of experience at McKinsey & Company.

He is an industrial engineer and MBA at IESE Business School. Having successfully gone through McKinsey's recruitment process and coached more than 20 classmates and colleagues that are applying to consulting firms, he can help you overcome the challenging MBB case interviews.

Gaurav is a former McKinsey consultant and a certified Career Transition Coach. Gaurav worked with McKinsey Europe and Asian offices for 2+ years and have always been active in recruitment and mentoring throughout his total 6 years of Strategy Consulting stint. Gaurav has coached and mentored more than 500 consulting aspirants in last 10 years in the capacity of Interview trainer and career coach. Gaurav also conducts Consulting Readiness sessions in leading MBA schools and regularly authors PSTs and business cases for various organizations.

Julie worked as a senior consultant for McKinsey in Boston, MA for 2 years, receiving training on how to conduct interviews. She has helped more than 200 candidates prepare for interviews with top consulting firms (MBB). Prior to joining McKinsey, Julie completed a PhD in Industrial Operations and Engineering at the University of Michigan and a master's in Engineering in Ecole Centrale in Nantes, France. Julie can run sessions in both English and French.

Stephanus was with McKinsey Jakarta office for 2+ years. He was extensively involved in recruiting initiatives, onboarding new hires, and hosting case interview workshops. Stephanus has mentored 30+ candidates, conducted 50+ mock interviews, and helped his mentees get a job in top consulting companies. At McKinsey, he earned an early promotion for his strong performance within the first semi-annual review. He is now reading for MBA Degree in London Business School.

Ravi has substantial management consulting experience with McKinsey & Deloitte in US & India offices. He was playing role of Engagement Manager at McKinsey, managing team of associates & analysts. Being the lead campus recruiter at McKinsey and having interview experiences across McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte & Oliver Wyman - Ravi has a sense of individual firm culture & expectations. He is very passionate about helping candidates crack management consulting & strategy-planning interviews and has coached ~250 candidates so far.

Bernardo worked at McKinsey & Company LatAm office for two years, where he was the go-to consultant for mentoring candidates with diverse backgrounds. Passionate about teaching, Bernardo has given several talks and workshops at leading UK universities and written articles about successfully transitioning from academia to management consulting. 

Prior to McKinsey, Bernardo did a PhD in Immuno-oncology at University College London (UCL) and worked at GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals. He is a dual Brazilian-Italian citizen who loves basketball, travelling, entrepreneurship, DJing and playing the guitar.

Jarred is currently a Bain & Company sponsored student at London Business School. He has spent the last 3 years in consulting at Bain's Johannesburg office in South Africa. Prior to joining Bain, Jarred worked in Oil & Gas for several years across Africa, the Middle East and North America. At Bain, Jarred has mentored many potential candidates and run formal case prep workshops for both beginner and advanced audiences.

Mahvin is a seasoned case interview coach, having worked with hundreds of candidates to help them land offers at elite consulting firms including McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Kearney and others. He has five years consulting experience across BCG and Accenture,  working across South East Asia, Greater China, and East Africa. This included experience within sectors including Financial Services, Private Equity, and the Public Sector.

Stephanie has 4.5 years of consulting experience at BCG and Bain & Company, working as a Consultant based in Johannesburg. Stephanie has served as a coach to numerous applicants to consulting as well as helping new hires adapt to the job, practicing cases and providing guidance on starting a career in consulting. She has also run training workshops to support new consultants in adapting to their roles. Stephanie is now pursuing an MSc in Political Economy at the London School of Economics. 

Madiha is an ex McKinsey & Company Consultant who has passed interviews in major Consulting firms (eg McK, BCG…). She has done 50-100 interviews and coached 20+ people who succeeded in having offers as well.

During her time in Strategy & Management Consulting, the Firm has asked me to act as an interviewer for mock interviews. Prior to her experience at McKinsey, she had worked in Investment Banking and Strategic Marketing. She graduated with a Master in Management from ESCP Europe, the 2nd biggest Business School in France.

Maria has worked at McKinsey for  3+ years where she was a mentor for juniors.  She has been an active member in cases preparation for her MBA cohort, personally coaching  25+ people in the MBA. She has studied Management Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, with an exchange at the University of New South Wales (Sydney)wan.

Clara has 2+ years of experience in McKinsey and Company, where she started her career as a Summer Consultant, before joining full time. She has been actively involved in recruiting, particularly in the pre-screening of high-potential candidates. 

On top of her consulting experience, Clara is passionate about coaching: she teaches a course in the Master in Management program at Instituto de Empresa (IE) in Madrid and she is a coach for the University of Navarra Taking Off initiative for young entrepreneurs. She will start her MBA at MIT Sloan in September 2020. 

Burak's consulting experience spans 8+ projects with key clients across industries and capabilities, including due diligence, profit & loss, digital transformation, commercial excellence and more. He has also worked as part of the recruiting team and interviewed several candidates.

He interviewed several MBB candidates both online and face-to-face as a coach achieving top results.  

He has interview experience in several firms; he was interviewed 20+ times by top management consulting companies including Bain, McK, BCG and ATK, P&G, Unilever, Pfizer and more. 

Juliane worked for 2+ years in the Bain offices in Johannesburg where she acted as a "buddy", offering mock interviews and case workshops for interested applicants. She is a qualified psychologist who practised for ~2 years before completing her Master in Human Resources & Organisation at the Department of Management at the London School of Economics. She has started and built a social enterprise with an annual revenue of ~1 million Rand working with the German government among other funders.

Maxime is a former McKinsey junior engagement manager with 3 years of consulting experience, including interviewing and coaching 100+ candidates. He was based in the Brussels office and conducted missions all around Europe, Middle East and Africa, mostly on strategic topics. Currently, Maxime is a co-founder of a SAAS tech startup in digital marketing.

As a former coach and interviewer for McKinsey, Maxime has extensive experience in coaching and assessing candidates, in both interviewer- and candidate-led formats. He can provide coaching on preparation plan (calendars, resources, best ways to prepare), fit interviews (what to say/not to say) and case interviews.

Raúl is a former senior consultant from the BCG Madrid office, with 4+ years experience in the industry, having worked both in Europe & LatAm markets for retail and energy clients. While at BCG, he served as an interviewer for 1st round candidates, as well as CV/CL screening. He still maintains his passion as an MBB recruiter, having mentored +50 candidates up to date. Raul earned a BBA at the Autonomous University of Madrid and also holds a Bachelor in Medicine, currently is launching a tech startup as Co-founder with 2 other ex-MBB consultants.

Ross is a former Bain consultant from Chicago and currently works in portfolio operations for a private equity firm with 4+ years of consulting experience. While at Bain, he was extensively involved with recruiting, completing over 120+ practice cases and was head recruiter for his undergrad. Ross is an incoming MBA student at Wharton.

Pankaj has spent five years at Bain as well as one year at Accenture. His time at Bain was spread across the New York and India offices, focussing on strategy and implementation projects across industries including technology, private equity, industrials as well as consumer goods. Pankaj interviewed dozens of candidates for Bain, for recruits at both associate and consultant levels. He has been conducting case coaching from his days during B-school, where he was a part of the student career forum, acting as an official career coach and mentor for around 30 students and ran more than 200 mock case coaching sessions, helping them secure offers from MBB, Accenture, Deloitte, Kearney and Booz.

David is a former BCG Project Leader based in New York City. He has extensive experience with the recruiting process at BCG, conducting 100+ interviews and co-leading recruitment efforts for Advanced Degree Candidates (PhDs, MDs, JDs, Masters) in the New York Metro area. Over seven years of coaching and mentoring experience, David has worked with over 150 mentees. David holds a PhD in Neurobiology from Harvard University and a MS in Physics from ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Mehdi is a BCG consultant, with expertise in Digital, Analytics and Consumer Goods & Retail and also having worked in other sectors; including Oil & Gas, Financial Services, Industrial Goods and Public Sector, and across Europe the Middle East and Africa. Previously, Mehdi worked with Procter & Gamble in Morocco and for his startupBawaba. Mehdi himself had 60+ case interviews as an applicant, with offers from all MBBs and other companies including Kearney, Oliver Wyman, Arthur D. Little, Accenture Strategy and Alvarez & Marsal. He ran 200+ case interview coaching sessions with business school students, helping many secure offers. Mehdi holds a Master’s in Business Analytics and Big Data from IE in Spain and a Bachelor's in Engineering & Management Sciences from Al Akhawayn University. He has also studied Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford University and Leadership and Civic Engagement at Roger Williams University.

Stef was a Project Leader with BCG in Brussels, Belgium, where he spent five years and rose to Project Leader after joining as an Associate.

Stef has served both in the Recruitment and Training teams. As part of the Recruitment team, he supported applicants throughout the full recruitment process. As part of the Training Team, he trained 50+ newly-joined Associates, teaching them the skills required for success at BCG. This training experience in particular gives Stef an edge in preparing candidates to impress interviewers with the kind of skills they would expect to see in experienced consultants.

Stef holds a MSc in Business Engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium.

Eleanore has spent three years at Bain Chicago, where she worked on both strategy and operational projects across 5+ industries and led Associate Consultant recruitment at the University of Michigan -  coaching many prospective students throughout the interview process. She is currently on LOA pursuing her MBA at INSEAD, where she has coached many of her colleagues (50+) to help land offers with top-tier firms. Eleanore herself has had extensive experience interviewing with top-tier firms and received multiple offers.

Patrick has 4 years of management consulting experience with BCG. He started as an Associate in the Toronto office before being promoted to Consultant after two years. He worked on projects in North America and Europe, spanning across various industries including Financial Services, Industrial Goods, Consumer Goods and Social Impact. He was part of the BCG recruiting team, conducting first, second and final round interviews. Due to his own educational background in Economics, Management & Public Policy, Patrick has ample experience in helping candidates with non-traditional degrees break into consulting. He has helped many mentees in Europe and North America to successfully prepare for their consulting interviews.

Oleksii has 3+ years of experience as a McKinsey& Company consultant, serving clients on a variety of topics, from operational effectiveness to global transformations and strategy, and generating a combined effect of more than $1bn.

Both at McKinsey and after, Oleksii coached 100+ candidates through the interview process. He focuses on teaching candidates what interviewers are actually looking for, rather than studying frameworks. Oleksii helps candidates to understand what is required from them at every stage of the interview process, across all aspects of case studies and fit or PEI questions.