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). 

Ashwin Suresh is a passionate and enthusiastic data analyst with over 2 years of industry experience. He is currently working as a product data analyst at Epic for kids, where he is focused on helping grow the teacher side of the product. Before this, he worked in the data team of unicorn start up Bird, working on service center efficiency. Prior to that, he graduated from UC Davis with a Master's degree in business analytics where he was in top 10 of his class. During his engineering days he managed to start a couple of ventures of his own.

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Anna Shen is currently a data science lead at Square, working on growth and measurement science. Prior to her current role, she started the centralized data science team at Curology and successfully scaled it to a team of 8. Anna was also the first growth marketing hire at Curology, and one of the early marketing hires at Instacart. Professionally, her passion is to be the bridge between business problems and technical solutions. She obtained her M.S. in Business Analytics from UC Davis in the inaugural class of 2018 while working full-time. In addition to the MSBA Advisory Board, she is

Equipped with a Masters in Business Analytics, Sonic Prabhudesai currently works at Facebook as a Client Solutions Manager supporting Facebook’s advertising clients by helping them market themselves better using data. Prior to this he worked at the intersection of business strategy and analytics for world's largest brokerage firm, Charles Schwab. He graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from BMSIT, Bangalore, India during which he co-founded a student career platform called Campus Diaries. He was also a professional badminton player until his early 20s. In his free time, Prabhudesai spends time

Swati Vaishampayan MSBA 20 is currently a Data Scientist at PayPal, focusing on Collections Strategy. She has previous experience as a Risk Analyst at PayPal India and Business Analyst at ZS Associates. During her time at UC Davis she was actively involved as an Executive Student Assistant and a member of the Directors’ Student Advisory Council. In her free time she enjoys hiking, playing board games, and singing Indie and Bollywood.

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2020 MSBA alumna, Swati Vaishampayan is currently a Data Scientist at PayPal, focusing on Collections Strategy. She has previous experience as a Risk Analyst at PayPal India and Business Analyst at ZS Associates. During her time at UC Davis she was actively involved as an Executive Student Assistant and a member of the Directors’ Student Advisory Council. In her free time she enjoys hiking, playing board games, and singing Indie and Bollywood.

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An alumna of the UC Davis MBA Class of 2017, Ana is a finance manager at Amazon. She has served in leadership roles in finance department of various multinational companies include Mars Petcare and Procter & Gamble.

During her time at UC Davis, she was involved in the governing student body, the Associated Students of Management (ASM). There she served as the Director of Finance and Operations. She also volunteered in the GSM Ambassador program as the International Co-Lead, and served on the board of two student-run clubs (Entrepreneurship and Innovation Association and Women in Leadership)

Darin LaFramboise, UC Davis 07, has spent over a decade working in the tech industry for firms that include Facebook, Atlassian, and currently Auth0. His career has been focused on data analytics and product strategy, as well as developing product strategies to create platform ecosystems and multi sided marketplaces. 

At AuthO, an emerging identity and security platform, Darin transitioned from Analytics and Strategy to Product Management, leading the Ecosystem team.

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