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.

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 is a former McKinsey consultant who has coached 500+ aspirants for McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Oliver, Deloitte & other boutique consulting firms' interviews.

While at McKinsey, he worked on Strategy, Sales, Marketing & Operations projects across Banking, Retail, IT services & Automotive sectors, in the US & Indian offices.

Post McKinsey, Ravi has been part of multiple Tech startups across retail e-comm & health-tech domains, in strategy & business leadership roles.

Julia has 4.5 years of management consulting experience with McKinsey where she worked on Strategy, M&S, DD and operations improvement projects in Retail, Pharma, Banking and Oil and Gas industries. Julia worked in Moscow, Paris, South Korea and South Africa offices. She then moved to LinkedIn as Senior Strategy and Operations adviser to the Sales leadership team.

Julia has wide experience in coaching (50+ interviews) and mentoring candidates as she was official McKinsey mentor for candidates who won business competitions. She also interviews candidates for consulting roles.

Jacopo is currently a BCG sponsored MBA candidate at Columbia Business School, graduating class of May 2019. Prior to joining Columbia Business School, he has been Associate at BCG Milan Office for 2.5 years. His experience at BCG has been mainly focused on supporting Industrial clients in a vast array of projects, from Operations to Corporate Development. In addition, he has gained relevant experience supporting Private Equity, Industrial, and Energy clients in both sell side and buy side due diligences. Before joining BCG, he obtained his undergraduate degree at Bocconi University and then completed his studies with a Master in Management at London Business School. He has extensive experience in case-interviews and has successfully helped several candidates achieve their dream consulting job.

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 was an Associate Consultant at Bain Chicago for 2+ years before transitioning to work as a Portfolio Operations Consultant for a New York Private Equity firm – eventually bringing his total consulting experience up to 4+ years. Ross was extensively involved with recruiting at Bain, completing over 120+ practice cases and acting as head recruiter for his undergrad. As a coach, he has conducted 400+ mock interviews, working with beginners and veterans alike and receiving consistently excellent feedback. Ross holds a Master’s in Engineering from UPenn and recently returned to complete his MBA at Wharton. He will join Meta in New York as a Data Scientist in Fall 2022.

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.

Ben is a Bain consultant with experience in various industries such as telecommunications, financial services and private equity. While at Bain, Ben was involved in Bain's recruitment efforts across Southeast Asia. Having been an interviewee, interviewer and now an experienced coach, he will be able to share key insights and tips on what differentiates a good candidate from a great candidate and how to secure that dream consulting offer. 

Kevin is a former Bain consultant out of Chicago and Boston and currently attends Wharton for his MBA. While at Bain, he was extensively involved in recruiting and consistently assisted undergraduate and graduate students. With additional experience as a coach at his undergraduate university, Kevin has given over 150+ practice cases in preparation for all major firms (MBB, etc.) and feels confident helping applicants at all skill levels.

Shankar is a consultant in transition (he is moving from McKinsey to Bain). He has worked extensively in strategy, operations and digital consulting practices, and enjoys exploring different geographies as a part of his work.

He has conducted multiple candidate interviews at his consulting firm, and also coached many (20+) from his alma mater for case interviews. He has interviewing experience across a multitude of MBB and boutique consulting firms.

Hired as an “Advanced Professional Degree” (non-MBA) -engineering background.

• Nine years at McKinsey in US, Europe and Asia
• Leader in Operations and High Tech practices
• Lead MIT and non-MBA recruiting
• In addition to case preparation, I'm a certified McKinsey Assessor (I've done real interviews)
• Transitioned from McKinsey directly into executive operating role at tech companies

Here's the typical candidate I help: been a while since MBA, or maybe they never went to business school - so rusty on cases or were never introduced to them, working full-time - so prefer early/late/weekend hours, need very targeted support - don't have time to read through lots of case books, etc.
How I help: While some candidates will also have “technical interviews” (e.g., data science, expert roles), I'm focused on the two "generalist" aspects of the interview: (1) Problem-solving case and (2) Personal Experience interview.

Simo spent 3.5 years at BCG, working across Western Europe and Africa on projects in mining, financial services, agriculture and the public sector. As a high-performer, he was promoted to Senior Consultant on the fast track, six months ahead of his peers. Simo was heavily involved with the BCG recruitment team and has since coached 40+ candidates to secure offers at McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Oliver Wyman, Roland Berger, Strategy&, AT Kearney, Emerton, Monitor Deloitte and LEK. As a candidate himself, he succeeded in 12 out of 13 interviews with MBB and Tier1 firms at BCG, Emerton and Strategy&.

Simo holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Civil Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne and is currently on a LOA from BCG to pursue his MBA at INSEAD.

Carlos is a former BCG Project Leader based in Chicago and joined as an Associate in 2014. He has extensive experience with the recruiting process at BCG, conducting numerous Round 1 interviews and leading recruitment efforts for Pride@BCG. With over eight years of coaching and mentoring experience, Carlos has worked with over 200 candidates including undergrads, MBAs and case coaching mentees. Carlos holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a BS in Economics from The Wharton School.

Benjamin has 8 years of consulting experience, starting off at Kearney SEA before spending the last 5 years at BCG SEA where he was a Principal. At BCG, Benjamin was fast promoted twice (Consultant to PL; PL to Principal) and was also selected to be a CEO Ambassador (internal secondment). Benjamin has a wealth of case experience across multiple functions (Strategy, Operations, Transformation, Due diligence) and industries (PE, TMT, Public Sector, Consumer, Tech). While focused on SEA, Benjamin has also done cases in the Middle East, North Asia as well as South Asia.

At BCG, Benjamin had ~5 years of experience as an interviewer and has interviewed >100 candidates from interns to research analysts to post-MBA candidates. Having come from a non-traditional background himself, Benjamin can offer practical tips for lateral/experienced hires and non-traditional candidates.

Benjamin graduated with a B.A. (First Class Honours) in History from the National University of Singapore.