Meet some new members of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School MBA Class of 2028 in this installment of our Real Humans: MBA Students series.
To start, Jubelo Oyeniran arrives at Carey with a foundation in accounting and finance and an entrepreneurial track record. After earning degrees in accounting and forensic accounting and investigative finance, he worked in public accounting while building Kairos Nexus Global, a TEDCO-backed company connecting businesses with pre-vetted talent across emerging markets. A former junior Olympian, NCAA athlete, child actor, and professional emcee, Oyeniran hopes to combine his financial expertise with the strategy, leadership, and business development skills he has developed as a founder. Next, Alim Kodirov, MD, brings an international healthcare perspective shaped by experiences across Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Turkey, and other parts of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia. A physician who spent six years directing international operations for Medicana Health Group, Kodirov came to Carey to deepen his understanding of healthcare management and bridge the worlds of medicine and business.
We also meet Amina Tipu, who is expanding her business toolkit after building a career at the intersection of healthcare, consulting, technology, and program management. A psychology graduate of Binghamton University, she worked as a management engineer at Montefiore Medical Center before moving to Mathematica, where she progressed from advisory services analyst and project manager to IT program manager. Then, Maria Theodore comes to Carey from biopharma investment banking, where she spent two years viewing the life sciences through a financial and transactional lens. A Harvard College graduate who concentrated in Classics and Biology—and a former Division I and Team USA fencer—Theodore is pursuing her MBA to broaden her perspective on the strategic and innovative sides of healthcare. Carey’s intersection of business, healthcare, and global public health, along with opportunities to engage across Johns Hopkins, made the program especially attractive. Post-MBA, she hopes to work at the intersection of healthcare, innovation, and business strategy, with interests in global health and emerging technologies.
Demontre Buckson brings five years of financial markets experience as a trading analyst at the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco. A Howard University finance graduate and former collegiate football player, Buckson is using the MBA to add expertise in corporate finance, strategy, sustainability, data analytics, and leadership to his capital markets background. He is targeting investment banking and corporate finance, particularly sustainable and international finance, infrastructure, financial institutions, and public finance. Finally, Kristen Min is making the transition from the laboratory to the business side of healthcare. A Haverford College biology graduate with a concentration in biochemistry, Min spent three years at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia researching the genetic and epigenetic regulation of blood disorders while also managing aspects of laboratory operations. Her research experience sparked an interest in how scientific discoveries are funded, commercialized, and scaled, leading her to pursue an MBA that could complement her scientific training with finance and strategy.
Together, these six students reflect the interdisciplinary character of the Carey MBA Class of 2028. While their paths to Johns Hopkins range from scientific research and medicine to banking, technology, entrepreneurship, and financial markets, they share an interest in expanding beyond their existing expertise, learning from the wider school community, and applying business skills to complex challenges across industries and around the world. Read on for their stories.
