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SPEAKERS

PETE JOHNSON, Director of Admissions for the Full-Time MBA Program, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. Pete joined the University of California-Berkeley MBA Admissions office in 1999, and has been director of International Admissions for the full-time MBA program Berkeley since 2001. From 1992 to 1999, he was director of admissions at Golden Gate University. Before that, he was an admissions officer at Pacific University. Johnson has a BA. in German from Pacific University and an MA in International Relations from Golden Gate University.

SOOJIN KWON KOH is the Admissions Director, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.  She joined the admissions team in 2004 after a five year stint as a consultant in the Strategy and Operations practice at Deloitte. She began her career as a budget and policy analyst in Washington, D.C., working for the Senate Budget Committee, House Appropriations Committee and the Department of Commerce. She received an MBA from the Ross School of Business, a Master in Public Policy from Harvard, and  a BA in Economics and Political Science from Yale University. Soojin is an avid runner, with five marathons (including two Bostons), and two triathlons under her belt.

ROSEMARIE MARTINELLI is the Admissions Director, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.  She assumed her current position as Associate Dean for Student Recruitment and Admissions at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Busienss  in May 2005. Prior to coming to Chicago, she was Director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid for five years at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she led the team that transformed the MBA admissions process, focusing on transparency, effective communications and engagement of key constituent groups in the admissions process (alumni, students and corporate partners).  Martinelli  received both her undergraduate and master’s degrees in vocal performance from Northwestern University, spending the first 15 years of her career as a professional opera and concert singer.

GRAHAM RICHMOND, co-founder, Clear Admit, has spent over ten years in the field of MBA admissions. He began his career in the mid 1990’s with an educational software startup offering application software products to business school applicants and admissions officers.  He left to get an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. At Wharton, he worked as a student admissions officer, and, after getting his degree, worked for  Wharton as an Admissions Counselor. After leaving the Wharton admissions office, Richmond co-founded Clear Admit with Eliot  Ingram.  Richmond holds a BA in Art History from Swarthmore College and an MBA from the Wharton School.