Aurna Mukherjee

• Won 1st place in a private equity case competition; identified Abercrombie & Fitch as a take-private investment opportunity • Conducting financial analysis (revenue growth, EBITDA, margin trends, KPIs & LBO modeling) to assess acquisition viability

Project Lead • Led second-semester consulting project with Insomnia Cookies, synthesizing research on app & engagement and flavor/packaging trends & provided feedback to 5 consultants who presented strategic recommendations to the VP of Digital Commerce • Sourced Insomnia Cookies & drove club mentorship program, alumni day, internship promotion, and mentoring for 50+ students Consultant • Chosen as 1 of 14 analysts (300+ applicants) for GitHub’s AI Copilot engagement, focusing on product strategy and positioning • Led competitive analysis of AI coding tools (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT) & conducted 100+ student interviews to identify key feature priorities (explainability, reliability, speed), informing recommendations to improve Copilot’s onboarding personalization

• Conducted interviews with high-profile political figures for Brown Political Review, the largest political journal in the Ivy League • Led a feature interview with a Broadway actress on the strike’s impact on performers’ livelihoods and cultural dialogue on equity in the arts

• Accepted into an eight-month-long preparatory investment banking course; small group meetings to further industry knowledge • Expanded technical abilities in financial topics: accounting, valuation methodologies, discounted cash flow analysis, M&A, LBO

• Chosen as 1 of 15 interns (600+ applicants) for internship with Y-Combinator backed budgeting, investing, and coaching startup • Drove user acquisition through 5 app campaigns & delivered feedback from 30+ user interviews to inform product feature optimization

Selected to participate in the multi-week virtual summit with a 10% acceptance rate offered by Goldman Sachs to undergraduate business students consisting of networking, technical skill expansion, and exploration of career opportunities at GS.

Selected as part of Dell STEM Aspire program, a mentoring program developed for female students in third level education, studying STEM subjects. It is a strategic diversity program created to address the gender gap in the IT industry by encouraging and empowering female students in higher education studying STEM subjects to complete their studies and find rewarding careers in the field.

• Hosted a Datathon with IBM Austin with 50+ participants, analyzing breast cancer care inequities using platforms Kaggle & GitHub • Organized virtual datathon workshops on exploratory data analysis & predictive modeling, and career sessions for 200+ participants

• Served as project lead, sourcing 50% of clients and defining the engagement’s scope & timeline to ensure measurable outcomes • Drove Blueverse’s Texas restaurant expansion through market analysis, feature testing, and creation of a 200+ restaurant partner database • Finalist (top #5) in PwC/ConocoPhillips national case competition, semifinalist (top 7%) in PwC national case competition

Diversity Programs: Roland Berger HERizon, Susquehanna Growth Equity Discovery, D.E. Shaw Vector, Morgan Stanley Early Insights, FTI Consulting IMPACT, SMBC Explore, Accenture Elevate to Innovate, BCG Bridge to Consulting, Dell STEM Aspire

Four-year interdisciplinary arts and science honors major with a senior thesis