Post by Marya Unwala
Strategic Finance Product Manager | Haas MBA | Physical AI
💙Excited to announce that I've graduated from University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business with my MBA💛 An MBA is not only a career journey, but one of personal learning and growth. Thank you to everyone who was kind enough to help me grow in my time here: - Brian Bordley, Riddhi Khanna, Sanjay Velappan taught me everything I needed to break into VC as a Berkeley SkyDeck Venture Fellow - Sean Foote, Jules Maltz, Alejandra Vergara whose class Venture Capital and Private Equity helped me understand how to run my own firm and in an increasingly complex world challenged me to find the type of leader I want to be. - Renzo Viale and I started a new tradition for the Berkeley Haas Venture Capital Club with an inaugural VC summit on campus. -Matt Rappaport and Jannik Heinen started UC Berkeley's first Robotics Summit focused on commercial robot applications. - Modar Alaoui, Jesica Chavez 🤖🎙️, Lisa Her getting to work on the inaugural Humanoids Summit and getting the opportunity to invest in robotics - All my classmates at Haas - from different countries, backgrounds, careers, I've gotten to learn so much from you A huge thank you to those who my amazing mentors: Karen Ty, Elizabeth Francis, Mike Quigley and Jess Jankowitsch who helped push me to do the work to apply for the MBA. Y'all changed my life. Lastly, thank you to my friends and family who kept me sane during these crazy two years: Fatima Unwala, Ishaq Unwala, Ali Unwala, Kathryn Holbert, Eric Miller