Education: magna cum laude at private midwestern liberal arts university. Attended Tuck School of Business' Business Bridge Program. Majored in Humanities.

Family business. Financial Services Industry. Company has $60+ billion assets under administration (not management). Company associates with over 70 billionaire families. Global footprint, with 15% of business coming from outside US. My roles is project manager. (a) Co-led company’s real estate expansion, which took two years, totaled $7.5 million and 12,000 square feet. Assessed company's square footage needs in 5-, 10-, and 20-year increments. Negotiated lease, prepared lease with attorney, designed space with architects, worked with general contractor. (b) Created and co-lead company’s cyber committee. This has led to: an increase in cyber audits; an incident response plan, which acts as a blueprint to follow in case the company were to be breached; employee training for phishing; revamped IT policy; two-factor authentication; a SOC/SIEM system (which acts as fire alarm if hacked); logging (which tracks who hacked you); etc. I co-lead quarterly meetings and produce agenda. (c) Created and manage company's online anonymous suggestion box, allowing employees to provide feedback to company, which has led to company changes in: paid-leave policy; employee involvement in charitable giving; and a twice-a-year memo from the CEO, helping to explain company developments to employees, hopefully increasing employee engagement. (d) write company fee letters to clients, explaining the rationale for why a fee increase is warranted. Led to $50,000 in annual recurring revenue. Complete success rate. (e) fulfill role of director to small American-Asian corporation that provides services for bridging the communication gap between foreign clients and American administrators, who work at family business. (f) interact with clients and clients' advisors regularly.

Post-MBA? short-to-medium-term, work in the management consulting world. Gain multi-industry exposure. Work on some of businesses' hardest problems. Work as a team. Work in a global, professional setting. Challenge myself to develop personally. Interact with clients. Then, package my MBA and management consulting experiences and head back to family business to help co-run the company of about 125-150 employees. Ultimately, with the goal of leading the company. Expand the company's global footprint. Broaden the services we currently provide to clients.

Q: Is round 2 (rather than 1) okay for applying to HBS? Any other schools I should consider applying to? Thank you!