Meet Our Team

Introducing some of the brilliant minds in Crimson's network of expert Strategists!

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MBA & Finance / 2+2

Caitlin A.

Caitlin is a veteran consultant with admits to top programs across the US, UK, and EU, priding herself on her unique method of developing the personal narrative. Caitlin completed her MBA in Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford Saïd and holds graduate-level writing distinctions from Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford professors. As a consultant, Caitlin focuses on strategy and operations development for both non-profit and for-profit organizations in the United States, England, and South Africa, from investor-side analyses to developing IP for a social venture capital firm’s accelerator program.

MBA

Fjorda Kazazi

Brian is a specialist admissions consultant for top programs in law, business, and public policy. His research interests focus on Bitcoin and civil liberties, and he completed an MA in Social Sciences from UCLA before pursuing a JD at UC Berkeley. In addition to gaining personal admission to multiple Ivy League law schools, he’s supported clients in gaining admission to programs at Yale, Duke, UC Berkeley, Cornell, and many more.

MBA, MOD

Isaiah Yim

Brian is a specialist admissions consultant for top programs in law, business, and public policy. His research interests focus on Bitcoin and civil liberties, and he completed an MA in Social Sciences from UCLA before pursuing a JD at UC Berkeley. In addition to gaining personal admission to multiple Ivy League law schools, he’s supported clients in gaining admission to programs at Yale, Duke, UC Berkeley, Cornell, and many more.

MOD

Daryn Howland

Brian is a specialist admissions consultant for top programs in law, business, and public policy. His research interests focus on Bitcoin and civil liberties, and he completed an MA in Social Sciences from UCLA before pursuing a JD at UC Berkeley. In addition to gaining personal admission to multiple Ivy League law schools, he’s supported clients in gaining admission to programs at Yale, Duke, UC Berkeley, Cornell, and many more.

PhD, MBA

Jeremy K.

From building startups to changing the health insurance industry, Jeremy has built a robust career straddling business and healthcare. He has served as Managing Partner at Revere Partners (the first and only Venture Capital fund for oral health), sat on the boards of several dental and healthcare startups, and discovered a new protein featured in JCell—to name a few initiatives. Formerly on the Chicago Booth admissions committee, Jeremy has supported dozens of applicants to business programs. He holds an MBA from Chicago Booth and a DMD from Tufts.

MBA, DMD

MBA & Finance / Vets

Andrew T.

Brian is a specialist admissions consultant for top programs in law, business, and public policy. His research interests focus on Bitcoin and civil liberties, and he completed an MA in Social Sciences from UCLA before pursuing a JD at UC Berkeley. In addition to gaining personal admission to multiple Ivy League law schools, he’s supported clients in gaining admission to programs at Yale, Duke, UC Berkeley, Cornell, and many more.

JD, Harvard

Daniel Kruger

Brian is a specialist admissions consultant for top programs in law, business, and public policy. His research interests focus on Bitcoin and civil liberties, and he completed an MA in Social Sciences from UCLA before pursuing a JD at UC Berkeley. In addition to gaining personal admission to multiple Ivy League law schools, he’s supported clients in gaining admission to programs at Yale, Duke, UC Berkeley, Cornell, and many more.

PhD

Computer Science & Machine Learning

Francis C.

Frank is a senior PhD candidate in Computer Science at MIT, having completed his Master’s at MIT and undergraduate degrees in both Computer Science and Economics at University of Maryland. He works within the Networks and Mobile Systems group in CSAIL, and as a researcher has collaborated with students and faculty from Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, Princeton, and more, developing a balanced perspective on the academic cultures at institutions throughout the US. In addition to his research, Frank has worked as a software engineer, both at small startups and a FAANG company. He enjoys taking a holistic, career-driven approach with candidates.

PhD Candidate

Eric S.

Dr. S.’s background is in machine learning, system theory, computer systems, communications systems and bioinformatics. He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a minor in applied mathematics and has several publications unifying the theory of finite field wavelets with the theory of error control codes, along with publications related to bioinformatics, machine learning algorithms, and neural networks. Dr. S. is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Morgan State University and previously served as a lecturer in Cornell’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Latest projects include working on machine learning techniques for financial data analysis and blockchain applications.

PhD

Jeanne-Marie Jackson

Brian is a specialist admissions consultant for top programs in law, business, and public policy. His research interests focus on Bitcoin and civil liberties, and he completed an MA in Social Sciences from UCLA before pursuing a JD at UC Berkeley. In addition to gaining personal admission to multiple Ivy League law schools, he’s supported clients in gaining admission to programs at Yale, Duke, UC Berkeley, Cornell, and many more.

DNA

Law

Brian B.

Brian is a specialist admissions consultant for top programs in law, business, and public policy. His research interests focus on Bitcoin and civil liberties, and he completed an MA in Social Sciences from UCLA before pursuing a JD at UC Berkeley. In addition to gaining personal admission to multiple Ivy League law schools, he’s supported clients in gaining admission to programs at Yale, Duke, UC Berkeley, Cornell, and many more.

JD, UC Berkeley

Laura Kenner

Brian is a specialist admissions consultant for top programs in law, business, and public policy. His research interests focus on Bitcoin and civil liberties, and he completed an MA in Social Sciences from UCLA before pursuing a JD at UC Berkeley. In addition to gaining personal admission to multiple Ivy League law schools, he’s supported clients in gaining admission to programs at Yale, Duke, UC Berkeley, Cornell, and many more.

MOBY

Jedidiah Thompson

Brian is a specialist admissions consultant for top programs in law, business, and public policy. His research interests focus on Bitcoin and civil liberties, and he completed an MA in Social Sciences from UCLA before pursuing a JD at UC Berkeley. In addition to gaining personal admission to multiple Ivy League law schools, he’s supported clients in gaining admission to programs at Yale, Duke, UC Berkeley, Cornell, and many more.

MBA, DMD

Electrical & Mechanical Engineering

Kapaya K.

Kapaya works as a Principal Software Engineer at Oracle on the JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET) team, an open-source collection of JavaScript libraries used by thousands of web developers within and outside of Oracle. Born and raised in Zambia, he currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan and is deeply familiar with cultural transitions in the pursuit of higher education and a career in the US. Kapaya earned both his BS in Computer Science and Engineering and his MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

MEng

Harry Begg

Brian is a specialist admissions consultant for top programs in law, business, and public policy. His research interests focus on Bitcoin and civil liberties, and he completed an MA in Social Sciences from UCLA before pursuing a JD at UC Berkeley. In addition to gaining personal admission to multiple Ivy League law schools, he’s supported clients in gaining admission to programs at Yale, Duke, UC Berkeley, Cornell, and many more.

DNA

Political Science & International Relations

Harry B.

Harry is currently a DPhil and researcher in political science and economics at the University of Oxford, where he previously completed an MA in English. Having begun his journey in the humanities, Harry retrained as a social scientist and completed an MSc in Political Science and Public Policy at University College London (UCL). In addition to this, Harry has served as a Junior Fellow, Government & Public Policy, Science, Technology & Society (STS) at Harvard University.

DPhil

Hai-Vu P.

Policy analyst, government relations specialist, and researcher, Hai-Vu’s interests are in climate change and renewable energy policy. As a Fellow for the Fulbright-Clinton Fellowship, she liaised between Peruvian and US colleagues and worked for the Supervisory Organization of Investments in Energy and Mines (OSINERGMIN), which regulates investment projects and fees for Peru’s energy and mining sectors. She took this work further and now advises on legislative impact and strategic planning as governments seek to respond to climate change. Hai-Vu completed her MA and PhD at the University of Southern California and holds a BA from Yale University.

PhD

Ahmed F.

Ahmed is a practicing lawyer with expertise in international law, international relations, and global governance. His personal experience straddles the US and UK: Ahmed hearned an LLM in International Law (First-Class Honours) from Cambridge, a Master of Laws from Harvard, and a Diploma in Law from University of London. Professionally, he enjoys academic settings and has worked in everything from think tanks to universities and NGOs.

LLM, Cambridge

Konatsu Nishigai

Brian is a specialist admissions consultant for top programs in law, business, and public policy. His research interests focus on Bitcoin and civil liberties, and he completed an MA in Social Sciences from UCLA before pursuing a JD at UC Berkeley. In addition to gaining personal admission to multiple Ivy League law schools, he’s supported clients in gaining admission to programs at Yale, Duke, UC Berkeley, Cornell, and many more.

MBA

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