Vani’s career spans over five years in the core Human Resource function. Vani has worked with Accenture and IBM as a HR functional advisor. Her experience covers a wide range of strategy, business performance and HR areas, including resource planning, organizational design, performance measurement and reward programs, at executive and junior levels. She has extensively managed multinational clients in planning and implementing HR service centres while at IBM.
InterviewBay is a result of her discussions with a network of top business school friends and colleagues across the world. Working with her husband’s MBA application for HBS, Wharton, MIT, LBS and INSEAD, Vani has understood the importance of mock interviews for MBA applicants, and the inherent need of the direct connection between the School’s alumni and MBA applicants. Vani’s strong experience in HR has seeded the confidence to start InterviewBay.
She holds a Bachelors degree (Hons.) in Business Management with a specialization in Finance, and a Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in Human Resource Management. She is pursuing Masters in International Employment Relations and Human Resources Management at London School of Economics (LSE).
Waziri Garuba, Head of North American Operations
A seven year Wall Street veteran who worked in equity trading for Goldman Sachs and was an analyst on a seven person team managing over $5 billion in assets for Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management division. Prior to Goldman, Waziri was a NASDAQ trader with Merrill Lynch.
In 2007, Waziri received the Morgan Stanley Fellowship, a full scholarship to attend Columbia Business School, and earned his MBA in the spring of 2009. Since graduating business school Waziri has served in various consulting roles to companies such as Alexander West, a tailored men's clothing fashion line, QBID.com an online auction web site, Plutocracy a women's clothing line and Eqao, a Brazilian carbon credit structuring firm. Waziri serves on the board of InterviewBay and The adventures of Ada and Ayo - an African focused media company.
Hiroki Matsumoto, Head of Asia Pacific Operations:
Based in Tokyo, Hiroki manages Asia Pacific operations of InterviewBay. Prior to InterviewBay, Hiroki worked with Cocoroca Corporation for over 9 years. He joined Cocoroca when its sales were below 100 million yen and fewer than 20 employees, and oversaw the growth of the organization to over 4 billion yen in sales, when he left the organization. Hiroki managed sales and marketing operations of Cocoroca in Tokyo. Hiroki holds a bachelors degree in Mathematics from Waseda University, Tokyo.
Courtney Cannon, Sales and Marketing Associate, US:
Based in New York, Courtney is a Sales and Marketing Associate for InterviewBay, focusing on the US market. She recently graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in English. Prior to joining InterviewBay, Courtney interned in the Marketing department of MetLife Insurance Company for three years, working on their Marketing Systems and Diverse Markets teams.
Anna Heery, Social Media Marketing Intern, USA:
My name is Anna Heery. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and am a Junior at Brown University, double-majoring in Economics and Urban Studies. This semester, I am studying in France at the Université de Paris to improve my French. At Brown, I was the co-President and co-founder of Brown Women’s Volleyball Club. Through the process of
starting the club, I learned how to plan a budget, write a proposal, communicate with other organizations and effectively lead a team. This experience gave me hands-on knowledge about management and running an organization. I was also the Social Chair of the Brown Women in Business group, which serves on their Leadership Committee. Through
this group, I have helped organize on-campus Business Education lectures that are open to all of campus as well as help run bi-monthly general body meetings. I am lucky to be a part of InterviewBay, as it is a great idea with an awesome team.
Aleksandra Lange, Social Media Marketing Associate, UK:
Aleksandra is graduating this year from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a degree in Sociology. Her role at InterviewBay is managing social media content as well as building partnerships with business associations and universities. At LSE, she has played an active role as a Student Mentor, as a Marketing Manager of a society, and as a Student Representative. She was a Student Mentor in her second year, where she had to build confidence in newly-arrived students. In the Polish Business society, she regularly coordinated team activities and designed marketing strategies in order to increase turnout to the society’s events. She was a final year student representative of the Sociology Department, which demanded responsibility and building rapport between the departmental staff and the students. In addition to her university experience, she previously interned at Euronews in the Sales and Marketing divisions, where she established client relationships on a daily basis. She enjoys working at InterviewBay, because ‘the product InterviewBay provides has great potential, and therefore, it is a pleasure to find ways to reach our target audience’.
