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I am a technology junkie, currently trying to jumpstart the mother of all business - forklifts and forklifts operations. For 2.5 yrs I worked at travel technology start-up Everbread, where I learned all aboutthe world of GDSs, AVL, COS, POS, WTFs and all  the three-letter abbreviations of this crazy industry. Prior to that, I slaved away as a consultant in NYC and LON (Opera Solutions), where, put in pure consultese, I worked on a number of Fortune 500 companies, improving their bottom line.

In all seriousness, I did some good work for a telco company, a top aluminum provider, and even a bathroom fixtures manufacturer among the typical suspects of banks, retailers, and others. I guess I learned how to crunch numbers in excel and do power point slides to the point where it mattered to me whether the bullet point was 80% dark blue and whether I can trigger a picture change in a cell through vlookups (by the way -- possible).

Naturally, I was all prepared for my professional life with my B.A. in Government from Harvard, Class of 2007, but nevertheless I was (and still am) really proud of my thesis work on the UN and Humanitarian Interventions. I enjoyed reading Kant, Plato, Mill and Rawls, and I honestly hated "Dinosaurs and their relatives", but science, art, and overall, education, require a bit of sacrifice.

This fall I am going to pursue an MBA degreet at INSEAD, Singapore campus and I am excited to see what crazy stuff I am going to get myself into after graduation.

All in all, I have had an amazing trip so far, both geographically and professionally and I love to brag about it on twitter, facebook, and other social media, so if interested, use the links below.