Our coaches

Jacopo is currently a BCG sponsored MBA candidate at Columbia Business School, graduating class of May 2019. Prior to joining Columbia Business School, he has been Associate at BCG Milan Office for 2.5 years. His experience at BCG has been mainly focused on supporting Industrial clients in a vast array of projects, from Operations to Corporate Development. In addition, he has gained relevant experience supporting Private Equity, Industrial, and Energy clients in both sell side and buy side due diligences. Before joining BCG, he obtained his undergraduate degree at Bocconi University and then completed his studies with a Master in Management at London Business School. He has extensive experience in case-interviews and has successfully helped several candidates achieve their dream consulting job.

Mahvin is a seasoned case interview coach, having worked with hundreds of candidates to help them land offers at elite consulting firms including McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Kearney and others. He has five years consulting experience across BCG and Accenture,  working across South East Asia, Greater China, and East Africa. This included experience within sectors including Financial Services, Private Equity, and the Public Sector.

David is a former BCG Project Leader based in New York City. He has extensive experience with the recruiting process at BCG, conducting 100+ interviews and co-leading recruitment efforts for Advanced Degree Candidates (PhDs, MDs, JDs, Masters) in the New York Metro area. Over seven years of coaching and mentoring experience, David has worked with over 150 mentees. David holds a PhD in Neurobiology from Harvard University and a MS in Physics from ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Mehdi is a BCG consultant, with expertise in Digital, Analytics and Consumer Goods & Retail and also having worked in other sectors; including Oil & Gas, Financial Services, Industrial Goods and Public Sector, and across Europe the Middle East and Africa. Previously, Mehdi worked with Procter & Gamble in Morocco and for his startupBawaba. Mehdi himself had 60+ case interviews as an applicant, with offers from all MBBs and other companies including Kearney, Oliver Wyman, Arthur D. Little, Accenture Strategy and Alvarez & Marsal. He ran 200+ case interview coaching sessions with business school students, helping many secure offers. Mehdi holds a Master’s in Business Analytics and Big Data from IE in Spain and a Bachelor's in Engineering & Management Sciences from Al Akhawayn University. He has also studied Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford University and Leadership and Civic Engagement at Roger Williams University.

Stef was a Project Leader with BCG in Brussels, Belgium, where he spent five years and rose to Project Leader after joining as an Associate.

Stef has served both in the Recruitment and Training teams. As part of the Recruitment team, he supported applicants throughout the full recruitment process. As part of the Training Team, he trained 50+ newly-joined Associates, teaching them the skills required for success at BCG. This training experience in particular gives Stef an edge in preparing candidates to impress interviewers with the kind of skills they would expect to see in experienced consultants.

Stef holds a MSc in Business Engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium.

Patrick has 4 years of management consulting experience with BCG. He started as an Associate in the Toronto office before being promoted to Consultant after two years. He worked on projects in North America and Europe, spanning across various industries including Financial Services, Industrial Goods, Consumer Goods and Social Impact. He was part of the BCG recruiting team, conducting first, second and final round interviews. Due to his own educational background in Economics, Management & Public Policy, Patrick has ample experience in helping candidates with non-traditional degrees break into consulting. He has helped many mentees in Europe and North America to successfully prepare for their consulting interviews.

Simo spent 3.5 years at BCG, working across Western Europe and Africa on projects in mining, financial services, agriculture and the public sector. As a high-performer, he was promoted to Senior Consultant on the fast track, six months ahead of his peers. Simo was heavily involved with the BCG recruitment team and has since coached 40+ candidates to secure offers at McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Oliver Wyman, Roland Berger, Strategy&, AT Kearney, Emerton, Monitor Deloitte and LEK. As a candidate himself, he succeeded in 12 out of 13 interviews with MBB and Tier1 firms at BCG, Emerton and Strategy&.

Simo holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Civil Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne and is currently on a LOA from BCG to pursue his MBA at INSEAD.

Carlos is a former BCG Project Leader based in Chicago and joined as an Associate in 2014. He has extensive experience with the recruiting process at BCG, conducting numerous Round 1 interviews and leading recruitment efforts for Pride@BCG. With over eight years of coaching and mentoring experience, Carlos has worked with over 200 candidates including undergrads, MBAs and case coaching mentees. Carlos holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a BS in Economics from The Wharton School.

Benjamin has 8 years of consulting experience, starting off at Kearney SEA before spending the last 5 years at BCG SEA where he was a Principal. At BCG, Benjamin was fast promoted twice (Consultant to PL; PL to Principal) and was also selected to be a CEO Ambassador (internal secondment). Benjamin has a wealth of case experience across multiple functions (Strategy, Operations, Transformation, Due diligence) and industries (PE, TMT, Public Sector, Consumer, Tech). While focused on SEA, Benjamin has also done cases in the Middle East, North Asia as well as South Asia.

At BCG, Benjamin had ~5 years of experience as an interviewer and has interviewed >100 candidates from interns to research analysts to post-MBA candidates. Having come from a non-traditional background himself, Benjamin can offer practical tips for lateral/experienced hires and non-traditional candidates.

Benjamin graduated with a B.A. (First Class Honours) in History from the National University of Singapore.

Tauseef is a management consultant (Principal+) with 7+ years of experience at Boston Consulting Group. He worked at BCG's Boston, NJY, NY and Austin offices in the US and Amsterdam internationally. Tauseef works with BCG clients globally on topics around Digital and AI transformation, and Growth and Innovation. During this time, Tauseef was involved with projects in a multitude of industries including Healthcare, Consumer, Industrial Goods, Technology, and Financial Institutions.

Prior to BCG, Tauseef received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, where he also founded and led a medical device incubator (now in 10+ cities). Having received multiple MBB offers and been involved in recruiting at BCG for several years, Tauseef can guide you through any challenges you might face with MBB case interviews or the wider selection process.