Carmen Das-Grande is a Senior Financial Analyst at Zendesk supporting the Finance & Strategy team. She graduated from Wheaton College (MA) with a degree in Economics in 2015.

One of her favorite parts of the UC Davis Part Time MBA so far has been getting to know her diverse cohort of classmates.

Her main reason for becoming an ambassador was the hope of being able to pass along the community energy to prospective students.

Muttika Chaturabul is a, Employee Relations Analyst on the Human Resources team at Blue Shield of California.  Prior to joining Blue Shield of California, Tika was a Program Manager at the University of California, Berkeley specializing in organization development and learning, program management, and leadership coaching and training for over 8 years.  She received her Bachelor’s in Social Welfare at UC Berkeley and is pursuing her Master of Business Administration at UC Davis Graduate School of Management (GSM).

Yasaman (Yasi) Dehnavi (Vice President) is a 2021 MBA candidate at GSM, interested in General Management and Marketing. She grew up in Iran and completed her undergraduate studies in Industrial Engineering and operational research at Amirkabir University of Technology.

She has experience in oil and gas industry and is currently working in a telecommunication company as a Project Manager.

In her spare time, she enjoys going to the gym, cooking traditional Persian food and traveling to new places.

Meagan Travlos joined the Bay Area Ambassador program in her first quarter to give back to the GSM community and help incoming students transition smoothly.

A Bay Area native, Travlos completed her undergraduate degree in sociology at Mills College in Oakland, California. She most recently worked at the Oakland Zoo as an education program manager, bringing together her love of kids and her passion for wildlife conservation. She hopes to bring business acumen to the non-profit world and create lasting change for our environment. 

Alexandro Perez-Tovar has a background in production manufacturing working for Diamond Foods, TESLA, and ultimately at Blue Diamond Growers. He received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering B.S. at the University of California, Merced in 2014. In his spare time, he’s an active member of the Central Valley community helping advise undergraduates at CSU Stanislaus and UC Merced.

Sheena Tsang has a background in education management. She joined the Bay Area Ambassador Program in order to meet a diverse pool of prospective candidates and was inspired by her own interaction with one of the ambassadors when she shadowed a class. 

Tsang is a Bay Area native of the San Jose area. She attended UC Davis as an undergraduate and loved the atmosphere of students helping each other to succeed. She currently works in the education management sector where she engages in client services, runs group trainings, and oversees a small team of teachers and tutors.

Leo Ma is Business Development and Sales for Blume Global. Coming from many years of non-business roles in global manufacturing industry, the UC Davis MBA prepared him for a successful transition into an Enterprise Sales Career. In appreciation of such career transformation, Ma joined the Ambassador Program to extend that impact to new students. 

Ma received his bachelor’s degree from UC San Diego in Management Science with a minor in Accounting. He is a U.S. Army War Veteran and has lived abroad in Iraq, Japan, China and South Korea.