Comstock's annual salute to extraordinary women breaking barriers and rising to the top
UC Davis Sacramento Part-Time MBA student Preet Ahluwalia, owner and chief investment officer of GNP Capital Partners, graces the cover of the March 2022 Comstock's. Read her experience pivoting in business and empowering women entrepreneurs.
Assistant Director, Master of Professional Accountancy
Kari Heidrick has been with UC Davis for over two decades, including 14 years as a program representative at UC Davis Professional and Continuing Education, Business and Leadership Department, and seven years as the business development manager with Conference and Event Services. Most recently, Heidrick joined the Graduate School of Management (GSM) as the Assistant Director of the Master of Professional Accountancy (MPAc).
Tech4Good North America Lead, Accenture Labs
Vivek Khetan is an artificial intelligence scientist and Tech4Good North America lead at Accenture Labs, San Francisco. His projects focus on automatic knowledge graph extraction, understanding event causality expressed in the text, and common sense reasoning. He also collaborates with the United Nations on the use of knowledge graphs for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“Two things stood out to me about the MPAc program—the 100% job placement rate, and the two-week orientation program that provided networking opportunities, recruitment and interview preparation, and much more. Lastly, I had a very positive experience interviewing for the MPAc program with William Orta and Professor Will, and got the impression that MPAc faculty care deeply for their students.”
“The reasons that brought me to UC Davis MSBA were the program’s location, practicum project, employment report, and the MSBA Staff support since the interviews and mainly after admission.”
“I chose the UC Davis MSBA program since the course is based out of San Francisco and with that comes the exposure to a diverse set of networking opportunities and a chance to work with top companies in the Bay Area via the yearlong practicum project.”
“I chose GSM for a combination of factors. I liked how the administration responded to all my questions before the program. I had a great interview experience with Johns Lyon of the MSBA program where he not only took my interview ,but also gave me important suggestions. Finally, UC Davis is an old and renowned institute that has a massive alumni base, which is always helpful."
During the interview process I came to understand UC Davis would be significantly more flexible in allowing me to focus units on my unique career background, educational gaps and goals than other MBA programs.
Alumni Association acknowledges peer and lecturer for service to community
Gary Lew, a consultant in the aviation finance industry who also serves as lecturer for UC Davis Graduate School of Management, has been recognized with the 2021-22 Outstanding Service Award.
Award-winning media executive recognized for her international leadership and impact
Emmy and Tony-award winning senior media executive and GSM alumna, Jennifer Vogt MBA 03, is the recipient of the 2021-22 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Graduate School of Management’s Alumni Association.