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Thank you to our amazing Industry Mentors who have graciously volunteered their time to help undergraduate women learn more about investing and finance! Many of the Industry Mentors have spent significant time helping out with the Investment Projects that each team has worked on over the past couple weeks!

PAYAL GANDHI joined Lehman Brothers in October 2005 and is currently a junior research analyst following companies within the broadcasting, outdoor advertising and yellow pages industries. Prior to business school, Payal was an associate in the Corporate Strategy & Development group at JPMorgan Chase for three years, supporting the CFO and Treasurer of the firm, where she focused on internal M&A and financial analysis projects. She also previously worked at a healthcare informatics start-up company called MDPad post-undergraduate and has held internships in various sectors including retail, media, financial services, non-profit, government and oil & gas. Payal earned a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.

KRISTINA KAZARIAN graduated from Wellesley College '05 with a double major in Economics and Political Science and was also a member of both the Lacrosse and Field Hockey teams.  At Fidelity, she started off covering small/mid cap packaged food and vitamins/nutritional supplements. Over her first year she also picked up agriculture and meat processors, ethanol, and a couple beverage companies.

NAYOUNG KIM graduated from Brown University in 2002 with a BS degree in Applied Math-Economics. While in college, she was inducted as a member of Omicron Delta Epsilon for outstanding achievements in Economics, elected representative of Korean Cultural Club, and was a member and mentor of WiSE.(Women in Science and Engineering). Her work experience includes serving as a Research Analyst for the IT sector of Samsung Investment Trust Management Co., Ltd. in Seoul, Korea. Ms. Kim is currently a 2008 candidate for her MBA at Harvard Business School where she is a member of the Asia Business Club, Investment Club(Alpha Fund), and Luxury Goods & Design Business Club.

MORGEN PECK graduated from Harvard 2003 with a BA in Economics with Honors.  She worked most of her undergrad (~40hrs/week) as a research assistant to HBS Professor Paul Gompers with focus on proxies & corporate governance. She started at Fidelity in Fall 2003 focusing on small cap consumer stocks (like Smuckers), then moved up her market cap exposure by looking at supermarkets (like Whole Foods).  She covered consumer for 2.5 years, then made the move this past spring to the small cap team (looking at companies under $2B) with focus on healthcare services & medtech (less so pharma & biotech). She has looked at roughly 100-150 stocks over her career at Fidelity. She just passed level 3 of the CFA exam and she is eagerly awaiting her charter. She has no desire currently to go back to business school, but she says that it could always change. She wants to ultimately manage diversified money at Fidelity. Other interests include running (trying to run Boston Marathon this year) and reading (mostly "dorky finance books") and spending time with her family.

RAMONA PERSAUD is an analyst at Fidelity who also manages a select fund focused on banks.  She is in her fourth year at Fidelity.  She started at Fidelity out of the Wharton School, prior to which she worked for four years at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.  Her undergraduate degree is in engineering.  She has covered 4 industries in 2 sectors (cyclicals and financials) and managed 2 select funds.  While she was in business school, she worked for T Rowe Price (summer internship) covering media and Turner Investment Partners (during school) as an assistant analyst.

SOPHIE VALLAT graduated from Columbia Business School in 2005.  Prior to business school, Sophie worked at Lehman Brothers in London in the Investment Banking Telco group.  After business school, she worked at Lehman in New York, first in Investment Management (software sector) and Equity Research (specialty pharma sector).  She did her undergraduate at Paris & Imperial College.

GREG VASSE is an equity research associate at Lehman Brothers focusing on small and mid-cap banks. Particularly, he follows thirteen East Coast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest based institutions and performs research on industry-wide issues, such as regulatory and accounting revisions, nontraditional mortgage products and interest rate cycles. Prior to joining Lehman brothers in January 2006, Greg was an investment banking analyst with Needham & Company where he worked on M&A, equity and convertible transactions for technology companies. Greg graduated cum laude from Babson College with concentrations in finance and economics. He grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan and he enjoys competitive sailing, fishing and skiing.

CHRISTOPHER WANG currently works in the Investment Banking Division at Lehman Brothers. Christopher's prior experience includes working at Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, and UBS. Christopher is a graduate of Harvard University.