August 2024

August 2024

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Meet a celebrity real estate broker, an ice skater, a data enthusiast, and an international sales executive in our latest #WhyZicklin alumni videos.

Meet Aya Kikimova (MBA, ’11), Zicklin Alum Living Her Entrepreneurial Dream

She left a six-figure job at Microsoft to start her marketing company.

How Zicklin Students Benefit from Baruch’s Tools for Clear Speech Program

Andrea Pelaez-Martinez (PhD, ’24) and Isabel Cho (MS Statistics, ’21) improved their communication and presentation skills..

Zicklin School Wins $500,000 Grant to Address Gender Imbalance in Computing

Faculty (left to right) Tracy Henry (Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance), Radhika Jain (Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics), and Sonali Hazarika, executive director of Zicklin Undergraduate Programs, are the grant’s principal investigators.

Zicklin in the Media

Adjunct lecturer Melanie Paul Austin (PhD, ’25) discussed AI and education on Nasdaq Trade Talks.

Alumnus Jimmy Geffrard (MBA, ’24) interviewed alumnus and adjunct lecturer Danny Park (MBA, ’12; Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics) about his career path.

Alumnus Laye Oumar Koulibaly (MS, ’22) is now senior associate in digital assurance and transparency for PwC.

Alumna Shona Kulkarni (MBA, ’23) is now head, InStep Americas, for Infosys.

Lin Peng, David Krell Chair in Finance (Bert W. Wasserman Department of Economics and Finance), co-authored the article “Face Value: Trait Impressions, Performance Characteristics, and Market Outcomes for Financial Analysts,” which has been recently recognized as one of the most widely read papers published by the Journal of Accounting Research.

Alumna Nikkia Reveillac (MBA, ’05) was a keynote speaker at The Business of Running Events conference in Colorado.

Alumnus Brian Sterling (BBA, ’22) was promoted to senior ratings associate at Moody’s Ratings.

Professor Ana Valenzuela (Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing and International Business) and adjunct lecturer Yuanyuan Zhang (PhD, ’25) co-authored the article “AI and Culture: Culturally Dependent Responses to AI Systems,” published in Current Opinion in Psychology.