Alex Pitt is a co-founder and director of Mustard Seed. Mustard Seed is an impact investment firm whose investment philosophy is around supporting visionary entrepreneurs who they believe will generate compelling and sustainable outcomes.
Mustard Seed’s portfolio is very interesting. their investments have been in the areas of economic inclusion, education, environmental sustainability, family and community, and health.
Prior to this, Alex was formerly Senior Vice President at Mubadala in Abu Dhabi, Project Leader with The Boston Consulting Group in New York, Chicago and Dubai, and Investment Banking Analyst with Goldman Sachs in London.
Alex holds an Economics BSc from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Stanford University.
Alex is reachable on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-pitt-a92951/

Episode #027 : Alex Pitt | Stanford MBA | Mustard Seed | Hanging around the hoop

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Payal Nanjiani is one of the world’s few Indian-American globally acclaimed motivational leadership speaker, executive and success coach, and author. She is the founder of the Success Is Within Leadership, whose global platform has developed millions of game-changing leaders, entrepreneurs, and teams. She's also one of America’s most sought-after women's speaker and is active in promoting women in leadership around the world.

Payal is well-known for creating leadership breakthrough experiences that are guaranteed to change results. Her work with individuals, corporates and entrepreneurs have proven to inspire people for immediate change in their behaviours, influencing their results massively and helping them achieve their highest level of success. She has helped several organizations develop world-class coaches and leaders within their company.

She has been featured on global television, Women's business cover page, global magazines, radio talk shows, podcast and more. She is a regular guest speaker on America’s FM show. Payal lives with her motto- 'Success Is Within' and knows that success can be achieved with speed and serenity in any economy.

Payal’s speaking and coaching have largely and positively impacted-

Fortune 500 Companies
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Small and Medium Business Owners
Education Industry
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Corporate Leaders & Teams

Mission: Payal’s mission is to help leaders thrive and succeed in their job and business- for themselves, their people and their teams- regardless of the economy and circumstance. She works towards developing game-changing leaders and entrepreneurs. She served as the President of BPW- A national women organization in America. She is known for cutting through the complexity of leadership in today’s fast-changing environment to uncover the core problems and devise real-world solutions.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/payalnanjiani/

Official Website: www.payalnanjiani.com

Payal Nanjiani – Finish Strong – Acclaimed Motivational Leadership Speaker & Business Coach – Ep #48

Kartik Patiar has done his MBA from SP Jain Institute and has also done an exchange program at ESB Business School in Germany. He has diverse experience in marketing and sales across domains - from industrial engineering in the B2B space to FMCG in the B2C space, to online retail and e-classifieds space in the C2C space. Kartik currently works as Director of National Accounts at Swiggy. Prior to this, he has worked as Senior Manager at Flipkart for 2 years, before which he worked as the Regional Manager at OLX. The other top firms he has worked at are Mondelez International, and Procter & Gamble.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kartikpatiar

 


Director at Swiggy and ex-Flipkart – Kartik Patiar – Ep #47

Garima Bharadwaj has done her MBA from Great Lakes Institute of Management in India. Garima has recently shifted to a new role of leading strategy at an IOT company called Enlite Research. Garima’s previous experience includes leading business development & partnerships at The Moms Co, driving strategic alliances and partnerships at OYO Rooms and Business development for Microsoft Dynamics Practice in APAC region.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/garimabharadwaj/ 


Thriving in the early days of Indian startups – Garima Bharadwaj – Great Lakes MBA – Part 2 – Ep #46

Garima Bharadwaj has done her MBA from Great Lakes Institute of Management in India. Garima has recently shifted to a new role of leading strategy at an IOT company called Enlite Research. Garima’s previous experience includes leading business development & partnerships at The Moms Co, driving strategic alliances and partnerships at OYO Rooms and Business development for Microsoft Dynamics Practice in APAC region.

Living life with no regrets – Garima Bharadwaj – Great Lakes MBA – Part 1 – Ep #45

Michael Schwartz has done his MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business, also known as NYU Stern. Michael has got 10+ years of experience ranging from new product development and asset creation to in-market execution and media planning across retail and online. He has worked on iconic global brands such as Axe, Dove Men+Care, Knorr, Amstel and Philips Norelco. He currently works as Brand Director for Amstel at Heineken.

Michael has been featured in the prestigious Forbes “30 under 30” list in 2016.

Hear what it takes to get into this Forbes list and how Michael's career has progressed and changed since his MBA.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mschwartz/


Episode #027 : Alex Pitt | Stanford MBA | Mustard Seed | Hanging around the hoop

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