Max Charnas is a junior in the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. Max is pursuing a BSBA with a specialization in Finance. Max was accepted into the highly selective Fisher Futures Investment banking program. Through this program and Wall Street Prep, Max became certified in financial and valuation modeling. In addition, Max is enrolled in the selective Honors program at Ohio State. As a freshman, Max attended The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was elected to be on the First Year Focus Council, the only student government for freshmen. As a sophomore transfer to OSU, Max joined the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity and was elected Assistant Exchequer (treasurer).

This past summer Max interned at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management in Upper Arlington. Amongst his varied tasks, Max prospected high net worth clients while evaluating their companies’ retirement plans. In addition, Max researched high growth potential equities utilizing Morningstar reports and other Merrill Lynch resources to make investment recommendations. As Assistant Exchequer, Max organized sweatshirt sales for the Kappa Delta Slapshot Hockey tournament to support Prevent Child Abuse America, raising over $2000.

Chip Gerstenmaier is a junior at The Ohio State University, majoring in Finance with a minor in Spanish. As a sophomore, Chip was selected to participate in Fisher Futures, a selective program for students pursuing investment banking. He is certified in financial modeling and valuation through Wall Street Prep. Chip is also one of the thirty students selected to partake in the Honors Cohort Program, a program that emphasizes real-world application of business skills focused on experiential learning, team work, presentation skills and exposure to Fortune 500 companies. Throughout his college career, Chip has been highly involved outside of the classroom. As a sophomore, he was elected as President of the Professional Development Program, a 30 member business organization designed to help underclassmen grow and develop key skills that lead to successful business careers through weekly workshops.

Chip returned home to Richmond, VA during the summer of 2011 for an internship with Davenport & Company LLC, the largest independent investment firm headquartered in Virginia. As an intern in the asset management department, he was delegated the responsibility of creating a new pitch book displaying the risks of portfolio concentration, which was used to bring new clients to Davenport. Chip also assisted a buy-side analyst with analysis of various companies in Davenport’s Midcap Equity Portfolio. .

Navi Kang is a junior from Twinsburg, Ohio, majoring in Finance and Financial Math. Navi is a member of Fisher Futures and Chimes Junior Honorary. As a sophomore, Navi interned at UBS in wealth management, where he interfaced with various advisory groups and portfolio managers to serve institutional and high net worth clients. Additionally, Navi represented the Ohio State team at an undergraduate investment competition at the Ross School of Business, where he led a team of three to analyze a major electronic payment solution company. Beyond his passion for the markets, Navi is the head of current financial news at Buckeye Capital Investors and helps serve the community with Chimes.

This past summer, Navi interned in Hong Kong as a business analyst, where he worked on a project in collaboration with Parker Hannifin. As part of the business scope, he delivered short and long-term Social Media and CSR plans for Parker Hannifin, specific to the Asia Pacific headquarters. Navi also has experience in financial and valuation modeling having completed the Wall Street Prep program.

Ye Lu is a junior at The Ohio State University specializing in Finance, Economics and Actuarial Science. He is currently a member of the Fisher Futures investment banking program. Outside of the classroom, he is the Vice President of Community Services of Delta Sigma Pi and the Vice President of Finance of Global Business Brigades. Beyond student organizations, Ye co-founded and is currently managing an investment fund with other two students at University of Michigan and University of Toronto.

This past summer, Ye interned with Ziegler Capital Markets in the Religion & Education group. As an intern, Ye engaged in the preliminary debt coverage ability research and bond pricing modeling of a $10m deal. He also assisted in building a preliminary credit rating model and a financial information database of over 120 charter schools.

Currently, Ye is interning with Goodrich Asset Management, where he is responsible for analyzing market trends, back-testing investment models and computing rates of return for existing customers.

Kateryna Parke is a junior at The Ohio State University, double specializing in Finance and Accounting with a minor in Economics. During her sophomore year, she was selected to participate in the 15th Honors Cohort Program which focuses on team work, real-world business projects, and exposure to Fortune 500 companies. Outside of the classroom, she has been involved with founding the Ohio State Chapter of Global Business Brigades, a global non-profit organization which focuses on empowering rural areas of Panama and Honduras through student lead consulting. This past September marks the first ever Ohio State trip to Panama through this new organization.

Last summer, Kateryna interned with JPMorgan Chase in their Columbus offices as a financial analyst intern in the corporate sector. During her summer working for Chase, she worked in the financial planning and analysis group for Central Transaction Operations, and evaluated the financial plans for 51 business cases that will impact the 2012 budget.

Mutian Rui is a second year Finance and Accounting major in the Fisher College of Business. As a freshman, he was accepted to the Fisher Futures Investment Banking Program and has received Wall Street Prep certification in financial modeling. He started an A Cappella singing group during his first quarter at Ohio State and, as its President, successfully recruited over twenty performers and sourced high-profile performances for the group at Ohio State and around Columbus. Additionally, as Internal Director for Students Consulting for Nonprofit Organizations, Mutian oversees five student-run consulting engagements with non-profit clients around Ohio. Finally, he is serving as Treasurer for the Asian American Association, developing financial controls to accurately track annual cash flows of more than $10,000.

This summer, Mutian interned as an analyst in Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc’s Global Supply Chain division. At Hill-Rom, he identified software redundancies in the supplier relationship management process, successfully reducing annual overhead by more than $250,000. In addition, Mutian designed and created models using Excel and VBA to project inventory levels for 20,000 raw material parts. Finally, he cemented the work he did over the summer by producing detailed user manuals for the models and training employees in using and updating the new tools.

Shailee Upadhyay is a junior in the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. Shailee is pursuing a BSBA with dual specializations in Finance and Accounting. During her sophomore year, Shailee was accepted into the highly selective Fisher Futures Investment Banking Program.

Shailee started an internship in the summer of 2008 with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mumbai, India as an articled trainee in the assurance department and continued through the summer of 2010. During her two year experience as an assurance intern, she performed basic audit duties for more than 15 business entities. She carried out various sampling techniques to test the effectiveness of the internal controls for revenue, expense and asset management cycles. She also prepared variance analysis reports and documented audit evidence in the MyClient database.

Robert Aurand is a junior in the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. Robert is pursuing a BSBA with dual specializations in Finance and Economics. As a junior, Robert was accepted into the highly selective Fisher Futures Investment Banking Program. As part of this program, Robert became certified in financial and valuation modeling through Wall Street Prep. Robert was also accepted into the highly selective Honors Cohort Program which focuses on leadership, team building, presentation skills, and community service through a partnership with a focus company. In his first two years, Robert was active in the Common Cents Investors Group and the Alpha Lambda Delta/Phi Eta Sigma Honorary Society.

This past summer, Robert interned with Time Warner Cable in the finance department of the business class segment. As an intern, Robert evaluated and approved capital expenditures of up to $50,000. He also assisted in the audit of a new commercial IRR model and worked to develop a standard regional process for handling the Universal Service Administrative Company’s E-Rate Program, which provides discount cable service to schools and libraries.

Carl Ghandhi is a junior at The Ohio State University, double majoring in Finance and Accounting with a minor in Economics. As a sophomore, he was accepted into the Honors Cohort Program, which emphasizes leadership, team building and presentational skills through an intensive year-long program consisting of real world business partnerships. Throughout his college career, he has been highly involved outside of the classroom. He is currently the President of Fisher Ink, a professional business magazine, and the Vice President of Finance for the Fisher Citizenship Program, which helps first-year students integrate into the Fisher College of Business.

During the summer of 2010, Carl interned with Ernst & Young, where he was exposed to shadowing experiences in the Assurance practice and worked with the National Employment Tax Division to advise a client concerning their unemployment tax policies. He was also the recipient of the 2010 Ernst & Young minority Scholarship. Over the summer, Carl received his certification in Valuation and Business Modeling from Wall Street Prep.

Currently, Carl is interning with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, where he is responsible for analyzing market trends, participating in conference calls with portfolio managers and collating pitch books.

Rebecca Reed is a junior at The Ohio State University specializing in Finance and Accounting with a minor in Economics.  Rebecca is also one of the thirty students selected to partake in the Honors Cohort Program, a program that emphasizes real-world application of business skills focused on experiential learning, team work, presentation skills and exposure to Fortune 500 companies.  When she is not in the classroom, Rebecca is highly involved in the Fisher College of Business community.  She dedicates a significant portion of her time to an organization that she co-founded in 2009, Students Consulting for Non-Profit Organizations, where she works to secure quarterly consulting projects with local non-profits and manages the team leads for each engagement throughout the quarter.  In addition, she is involved with the student service organization, FisherCARES, serving as the service chair coordinating student volunteering at the Franklin County Dog Shelter every month.

During the summer of 2010, Rebecca interned with PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York City in the Financial Services Tax Department.  During her eleven week internship, she was delegated the responsibility of completing over 2,000 tax returns and was recognized for her high performance by being placed on a special client engagement to expand PwC’s services to a prestigious financial service firm.  In 2010, Rebecca was also a recipient of the Fisher College of Business Scholarship and the Mitte Community Service Scholarship.

Mintai Wang is a junior at The Ohio State University, majoring in Finance and Financial Mathematics with minors in Economics and French. She is part of a highly selective Honors Contract program where she works on consulting projects for local non-profits and a Fortune 500 corporation. Mintai is the President of the Purchasing and Supply Management Association, and she serves as the Vice President of Business Development for the Ohio State Chapter’s AIESEC, the world’s largest student-run not-for-profit organization that pursues interconnecting the world through creating international exchange opportunities. Mintai has lived in China for nine years and Japan for five years before coming to the United States. She brings a global business perspective, and her international experience has helped her become easily adaptable to new environments. This past summer, Mintai shadowed at securities and futures companies in China, where she learned about the Chinese financial services industry and the financial markets in China. She is also certified in financial modeling and valuation through Wall Street Prep.

Xiaoyu Xu is a junior in the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University. Xiaoyu is pursuing a major in Accounting and a minor in Mathematics. As a sophomore Xiaoyu was accepted into the Fisher Futures Investment Banking program and the Accounting Honors Program. Outside of the classroom, she is a peer advisor in the Fisher Undergraduate Programs and Advising Office, and is the Technology Chair of Fisher Cares, which is a student organization focuses on community service. Xiaoyu spent the past summer working for Bank of China Limited, one of the four major banks in China, as an accounting and finance intern. She rotated in different departments where she assisted in customized financial services to serve the needs of multiple corporate and individual clients, aided corporate clients in global trade with a focus on import trade financing, and helped with daily and monthly financial statement processing. Xiaoyu also received certification in financial valuation and modeling from Wall Street Prep this past summer.

Evan is a junior Finance major in the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. In his sophomore year, Evan was selected to be a member of the Fisher Futures Investment Banking Program. Outside of the classroom, Evan is on the Finance Committee of the Undergraduate Business Council, and he also serves as a Vice-President of the Buckeye Capital Investors club, which focuses on discussing current trends in the securities markets.

This past summer, Evan interned at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. In the finance department, he was in charge of reviewing over $250 million worth of fund accounts to determine that they were being expensed correctly while also contributing to the A-133 audit of the grants and contracts department. In addition, Evan also spent time studying abroad in Hong Kong meeting with various businesses, visiting the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Hong Kong Monetary Authority and attending lectures at the Polytechnic University in order to obtain a grasp of business practices in this emerging market.

David Jusseaume is a senior in the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University. He is planning to graduate in December 2010 with a major in Finance and a minor in Economics. David is part of the exclusive Fisher Futures Investment Banking Program, which is designed for talented students interested in investment banking. Also, through the Wall Street Prep training program, he recently became certified in financial and valuation modeling.

Last summer, David interned in the finance and accounting department at Arthur Middleton Capital Holdings, which is the highly successful parent company of several direct marketing subsidiaries. Later in the summer and into autumn, David interned in the wealth management division for Merrill Lynch’s main office in Columbus, Ohio. Currently, David leads OSU Tees, LLC, as the creator and partner of this student based apparel company.

Sean Roach is a third year student from Cleveland, Ohio and is triple majoring in Finance, International Business and Spanish. He is a member of Honors Contract and Fisher Futures: highly selective programs reserved for only the top students at Fisher. Outside of class, he holds officer positions in three student organizations and is a captain of a competitive traveling sports team. He recently worked at Merrill Lynch in a personal wealth management department where gained experience in the investment sector. Next year, he will finish his degree after a study abroad in Madrid studying at one of Spain’s most renowned business schools, Universidad Pontificia Comillas.

Abinav Sankar is a junior in the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University pursuing a degree in finance as well as minors in statistics and economics. As a sophomore, Abinav was accepted into the highly selective Fisher Futures Investment banking program. Outside of the classroom, he manages his own stock portfolio (trading equities and options) and has posted positive returns for the past 7 years. He is also heavily involved with Undergraduate Finance Association, Buckeye Capital Investors and Common Cents Investment Group. Furthermore, Abinav is an owner and technician of Burning River Technology Services, a company that he is a co-founder of.

Last summer, Abinav worked at Merrill Lynch in the equity capital markets division. As an intern, he was responsible for tracking various stocks, commodities, option chains, and indices in addition to conducting equity research and valuation. Prior to working at Merrill Lynch, Abinav worked at Ameriprise Financial where he assisted financial advisors in creating and organizing financial plans for various clients.

David Wilkes is a junior at The Ohio State University, double majoring in Finance and Accounting with a minor in Economics. He was selected to be a member of the Honors Accounting Program as a sophomore. He was then accepted into the Honors Cohort Program, which emphasizes team building, presentation skills and real-world application of coursework through coordination with Fortune 500 focus companies. Throughout his college career, he has been highly involved outside of the classroom as a member of The Ohio State University Honors Student Advisory Board, Ohio State Honors Collegium, Presidential Host Program, and FisherCARES volunteer organization.

David interned during the summer of 2009 with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was selected as a member of their Talent Development Program and exposed to PwC’s Assurance and Tax lines of service. After displaying an aptitude for financial services, David’s engagements focused upon the Assurance and Business Advisory Services sector. He worked alongside junior and senior management, auditing second quarter SEC filings for private and publicly traded clients. He has been recognized nationally as 1 of 74 students to receive the PricewaterhouseCoopers eXceed Minority Scholarship, and he was later honored as a 2009 Ernst & Young Minority Scholarship recipient.