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KKR Private Equity Case Competition Kick off
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Donna Hitscherich
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Professor Donna M. Hitscherich currently serves as a senior lecturer of Finance, director of the Private Equity Program, and a Bernstein Faculty Leader at the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School. Professor Hitscherich’s courses include Corporate Finance as well as the elective courses Business Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Advanced Corporate Finance. In 2002, she was nominated for the Dean’s Award for Innovation in the MBA Curriculum for her presentation of the Advanced Corporate Finance course. She also received the Executive MBA Commitment to Excellence Award from the Berkeley-Columbia EMBA program graduating classes in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 and the Commitment to Excellence Award for EMBA-Americas graduating classes in 2014 and 2017. She was also a BRIDGE Fellow for academic year 2014–2015—Building Relationships with Industry and Defining Graduate Education in Business (BRIDGE)—at Columbia Business School based on an endowed gift which the School allocates each year for faculty members who are working on new initiatives aimed at building relationships with industry practitioners.
Professor Hitscherich has also served as a lecturer in law and accounting at Columbia Law School. From 1988–1990, she was an assistant professor of law at St. John’s University School of Law, where she taught Federal Securities Regulation and Legal Ethics.
Prior to her present position as a senior lecturer at Columbia, Professor Hitscherich had a career in investment banking, holding positions at CS First Boston, J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc., and Banc of America Securities. At J.P. Morgan, she helped found the takeover defense team and served as a senior member of the advisory review committee, which was responsible for all of the M&A fairness opinions issued by the company. As a managing director in the mergers and acquisitions group of Banc of America Securities, she was secretary of the firm’s fairness-opinion review committee and a major contributor to the firm’s training programs for managing directors and associates. Prior to her investment banking career, Professor Hitscherich was a corporate lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
In addition to an MBA from Columbia Business School, Professor Hitscherich received a BS and JD from St. John’s University and is a NYS certified paramedic.
Michael Hillmeyer
Columbia Business School
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mhillmeyer/
As an independent consultant, Michael Hillmeyer has been working with small IT & Healthcare companies since 2004, advising them on strategy, capital raising options, valuation, and restructuring. He has also assisted lower middle market PE funds in their due diligence of potential targets. Michael works with the Private Equity Program at Columbia Business School, where he has contributed to original academic research on the market, co-authored an academic case study (on Burger King & 3G Capital) and helped to put together the Private Equity Fellows Program, a selective honors program for second year MBA students interested in the private equity industry.
Michael is a contributor to the Modern Consensus blog, where he writes about blockchain technology and its applications. Michael was a Director and Chief Financial Officer of Avantogen Oncology Inc. from 2007 to 2014. He joined Avantogen as part of the company's restructuring and was instrumental in its strategic transaction with SciClone Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Michael was a senior sell-side equity research analyst at Merrill Lynch, covering the IT Hardware and IT Distribution industries. In 2003 he was a named member of Institutional Investor magazine’s second ranked IT Hardware team.
Michael holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering degree from The Cooper Union. At Columbia University, he earned an MBA (Finance, International Business) and a Master of International Affairs degree. He has also studied at the University of Lausanne HEC in Switzerland.
Greta Larson
Columbia Business School
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gretalarson/
Greta E. Larson is Senior Director of the Private Equity Program at Columbia Business School. She interfaces with alumni, industry professionals, and students who are working in, or aspire to work in the field of private equity. Greta works closely with the PE Fellows Program and the KKR Competition for MBA students, and plans and facilitates the program's annual Deal Camp in Montauk.
Aside from her role at the Private Equity Program, Greta is a success coach for executives who are part of Columbia's VC PE program with Emeritus.
Prior to joining the Business School in October 2008, Greta worked at University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. She holds a B.A. in Music from San Francisco State University and a Masters of Public Administration degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
Annie McMullen
Principal
KKR
Annie McMullen (New York) joined KKR in 2021 and is the Head of Campus Recruiting. Prior to joining KKR, Ms. McMullen was the Global Head of Campus Recruiting for the asset management and global investment research divisions at Goldman Sachs, where she spent seven years in various campus recruiting roles. She worked as a development officer in Georgetown University's Office of Advancement from 2008-2013. Ms. McMullen graduated with a M.S.Ed in Higher Education from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and with a B.S. in Marketing from Lehigh University in 2007.
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