OUR MISSION
The Berkeley Group is a community of change-makers working to provide tangible and sustainable business advice to local social sector organizations. We believe that nonprofit success is the foundation for creating fundamental social change, thereby improving the realities for all members of society.
OUR STORY
The Berkeley Group was founded in 2003 by four UC Berkeley juniors in Professor Alan Ross’s course “The Social, Political, and Ethical Environment of Business,” at the Haas School of Business. Our founding members saw an opportunity to improve our local community by applying the undergraduate professional consulting model to innovative social sector organizations. Along the way, they built a long standing culture of professional and personal growth for members to form genuine and lifelong bonds. Today, our alumni network has members spread across the United States and all over the world.
The Berkeley Group is the first social sector professional consulting organization and the second consulting organization established on the UC Berkeley campus.
MEET THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Our Executive Committee oversees TBG’s operations and works to create a thriving environment for our consultants
ZIYANA GOVINDJI
President
Major: Global Studies
Minor: Public Policy
Class of 2025
ANNAMARIA THOMAS
VP of Projects
Major: Economics
Class of 2027
RYAN HADDAD
External VP
Major: Political Economy
Minor: Chinese
Class of 2027
GISELLE CARREÑO VP of Development
Majors: Business Administration, Spanish & Portuguese Language and Literature
Class of 2025
NIKHIL BORSCHEL
Internal VP
Majors: Economics, Data Science
Class of 2027
OUR FACULTY ADVISOR
A lecturer and distinguished teaching fellow at Berkeley Haas and the Political Science Department, for 20 years Professor Alan Ross has been supporting TBG. He serves on the Board of Directors for California Common Cause and was awarded the Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2005 and 2013. He has recently founded the Chris Kindness Award.
WHERE WE WORK
TBG members and alumni go on to work, intern, and learn at some of the world’s leading companies and institutions.
2024 Full-Time & Summer Placements
Adidas Amazon (4) Apple Audax Group Bain & Co. Baringa Cool Effect
Davidson Kempner Capital Management Dell Technologies EY Parthenon GEICO
International Rescue Committee J.P. Morgan Makena Capital Management Mastercard (2)
McKinsey & Co. (3) Microsoft Morgan Stanley Pioneer Public Interest Law Center PwC
PwC Strategy& Rockpoint SpaceX Synaptrix Labs UCSF Vista Equity Partners
The Wharton School (3) Harvard Business School (2) Stanford Graduate School of Business
…& more!
2023 Full-Time & Summer Placements
Audax Group Corebridge Financial Ernst & Young EY Parthenon (2) GIC G Squared
KKR LinkedIn Mastercard McKinsey & Co Microsoft (3) The New York Times
Oliver Wyman Partners for Justice Pimco SpaceX Sia Partners ZS Associates
The Wharton School Harvard Law School Harvard Business School NYU School of Law
…& more!
