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VPs of Admissions

The VPs of Admissions are the student arm of the Berkeley Haas MBA for Executives admissions office. As current students, we’re excited to help you get to know the distinctive Haas culture and to share our perspectives about the student experience. 

Class of 2026

Rehan Mir

• Industry:  Management Consulting, Technology, Go-to-Market Advisory
• Function: Go-to-Market Strategy / Strategic Leadership
  
• rehanmir@berkeley.edu 

Rehan Mir is the Senior Principal for Go-to-Market business at Cornerstone OnDemand, where he leads a highly skilled team focused on optimizing Go-to-Market strategies and driving transformative cross-functional alignment. Since joining Cornerstone in early 2024, Rehan has spearheaded strategic initiatives that have streamlined business functions and significantly improved operational efficiency.

With two decades of experience in management consulting, Rehan has held strategic leadership roles at PwC, Wipro, Deloitte, Apttus, and Infosys. His work has consistently enabled clients to reimagine their go-to-market processes, adopt cutting-edge technologies, and achieve sustainable growth. At Apttus and Infosys, Rehan focused on customer relationship management and business process optimization, delivering strategic advisory that resulted in improved client outcomes. He is known for his ability to lead complex global initiatives that deliver tangible results.

Rehan holds an engineering degree in Information Science from India’s Visvesvaraya Technological University. As VP of Admissions at Berkeley Haas, he is passionate about guiding prospective MBA candidates, helping them explore their career paths and build connections within the professional community. He brings a wealth of experience in mentoring and leadership development to his role.

Outside of his professional and academic commitments, Rehan enjoys anchoring social events and spending quality time with his wife and two children in Tracy, California.

Kanika Sharma

• Industry: Biotech/ Life Sciences
• Function: Business Dev and Sales
• kanikasharmabt@gmail.com 

I oversee a vast 5 million square miles across the U.S. and Canada for Revvity's nucleic acid extraction and next-generation sequencing (NGS) business. I love dynamic roles that allow me to navigate multiple responsibilities and challenges simultaneously. The excitement of discovering cutting-edge technologies and being among the first to introduce them to the market is what drives me. Throughout my career, I've been fortunate to take on roles that push me to find innovative solutions in a complex world while competing alongside industry leaders. Let's chat how Berkeley Haas can help you achieve your professional goals.

Kurtis Wong

• Industry: Defense, government
• Function: Tech, Defense, Innovation, Autonomous vehicles, Maritime ventures
• wong.kurtis@gmail.com 

Kurtis is a recently retired Naval Submarine Officer. He has served all over the world and lived overseas, working to build and reinforce alliances with the US’s key strategic partners. Most recently, Kurtis completed his final tour as Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations at US Naval Forces Korea overseeing all US Navy operations in South Korea. Kurtis is a native of the Bay Area and graduated from the United States Naval Academy where he studied Systems Engineering. He has extensive experience in training teams, planning, strategy, operations, and leadership. He developed those skills even further while he earned his MA in Defense and Strategic Studies at the United States Naval War College, working with multi-national partners to hone their strategic thinking and leadership skills.

Kurtis is married to his better half, Victoria, and currently resides in San Francisco. During his free time, he enjoys the outdoors with camping and hiking, video games, and collecting stamps in his passport. He even plans most of his vacations around scuba diving or snowboarding. As he transitions out of the military, Kurtis is seeking new exciting opportunities in Tech, Defense, or AI.

Class of 2025

Angus Lam

• Industry: Higher Education/Medical/Research
• Function: Environment, Heath, and Safety 
• anguslam@berkeley.edu

Angus has served as the Associate Director, Environment, Health and Safety at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), ensuring a safe and healthy environment for all UCSF faculty, staff, students, patients and visitors since June 2024 (with support from the Berkeley Haas Career Management Group). Angus has been a career Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) professional for over two decades. Prior to UCSF,  Angus was the Deputy Environment, Safety and Health Director at SLAC-Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory, supporting a safe and sustainable environment for high energy physics research. Angus was also the ExxonMobil Upstream Operations Integrity Management System Principal, provided EHS guidance to 26 international business units, and preserved ExxonMobil’s ISO 14001 and 45001 accreditation. EHS expertise of Angus is evidenced, from building regulatory capacity in PNG energy and environment sectors, planning oil spill response with Russia Far East agencies, being EHS subject matter expert for industry groups and USCG safety committees for US offshore while with ExxonMobil. 

Angus was a Bioenvironmental Engineering Officer with the US Air Force for 7 years, after receiving his B.S. Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley. While Angus loves to travel and has lived in Hong Kong, UAE, Australia, PNG, Russia and several states within the US, his home is the San Francisco Bay Area.

Randy McClure

• Industry: Government
• Function: Data Analytics
• randlemcclure@berkeley.edu

Randy’s career to date has been rooted in public service at the local level. Prior to his current role as Chief Analytics Officer at the San Francisco Public Library, he spent 12 years working at the San Francisco Controller's Office providing public sector consulting services to agencies as diverse in function as the Police Department, the Public Utilities Commission and the Municipal Transportation Agency. He went "in-house" six years ago at the library, and has spent his time there developing culture around the use of data-driven decision-making in the delivery of public services. John Wooden's famous quote, "Never mistake activity for achievement," comes to mind frequently in his work, as he endeavors to measure meaningful outcomes in bureaucratic systems with little incentive to change. 

In his free time, he has 2 very active little girls (8 and 3) who keep him busy hiking around the Bay Area and Tahoe, doing myriad youth sports and generally just being a #girldad. He is at Haas to learn about leadership and effectuating change through business tools, and is excited to learn through the cohort’s diverse experiences. His academic background includes a BA from Wake Forest University and a JD/MPP from the College of William & Mary. 

Amulya Vishwanath

• Industry: AI Computing/ Semiconductors
• Function: Developer Relations/ Strategic Management 
• amulya@berkeley.edu

Amulya Vishwanath is the Head of DevRel (emerging markets) leading strategic initiatives and partnerships at NVIDIA. Her team is focused on enabling grassroots developer communities, startups, and universities to innovate with NVIDIA AI technologies and tools. Amulya joined NVIDIA in 2018 as the company’s first woman developer marketing lead for deep learning. She has over a decade of industry experience and prior positions at Intel, Molex, and HCL Technologies. Amulya has delivered over 50 industry and academia talks and panels including Berkeley Haas's annual AI and data science summit and mentored ~1000s of professionals and many startups in AI/ ML hackathons and GTM efforts respectively. She holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, and a bachelor’s degree in electronics engineering from India's Visvesvaraya Technological University. Amulya lives in San Francisco with her 2-dogs. Outside work, she's a tech enthusiast who flies AI-enabled drones to capture her travel memories.

As a VP of Admissions at Berkeley Haas, she is passionate about helping brainstorm career paths with prospective MBA candidates and helping make connections in her professional network. She also helps out with co-leading Berkeley Haas VC treks in Silicon Valley with the Venture Capital Club leadership team.

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