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Portrait of Amy Kao

Honor Society® member

Amy Kao

Google for Work Apps Team - Summer Intern at Google

  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • Business Administration
  • Class of 2017
  • Edison, New Jersey

Member since June 2016

About

Amy is currently pursuing her MBA degree at the Yale School of Management and will graduate in May 2017. She interned at Google in Singapore on the Google for Work Apps team for the summer. Prior to Yale, she worked as a Management Consultant within Deloitte’s Strategy and Operations team servicing clients across the pharmaceutical and financial services industries. Recently, she has returned from Shanghai, China as a Global Fellow working on an Emerging Market Growth Strategy project for a leading pharmaceutical company. Outside of her professional career, she serves as the Founder and Chairman of the International Music and Arts Society, a global non-profit organization dedicated to bringing enriching music programs to local and global communities.

Passionate about creating positive change through social impact, Amy has volunteered and provided pro-bono consulting services for educational and community development projects in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Panama, China, Italy, France, and Taiwan. In her spare time, Amy enjoys traveling, scuba diving, training for marathons, walking the runways of New York Fashion Week, and serving as a role model to impact youth as a local titleholder of the Miss America Scholarship Organization. Amy is extremely interested in the intersection of business and development, and looks forward to becoming a global leader in the social impact arena.

Education

  • Yale School of Management

    MBA

    2015 – 2017

  • Oxford University

    Study Abroad

    2010

  • Carnegie Mellon University

    Business Administration/Policy Management

    2008 – 2012

Honors and awards

  • NJ Governors Jefferson Public Service Award Recipient 2016

    Selected among hundreds of applicants as the Ambassador Award recipient, who has served as an outstanding public service ambassador for the state of New Jersey.

  • Miss Connecticut U.S. International 2016

    Crowned as Miss CT USI 2016 and represented CT at the Miss United States International Pageant in Orlando, Florida - officially national prelim pageant to Miss International Pageant held in Tokyo, Japan.

  • Facebook Hackathon Winner 2015

    Winner of Facebook Hackathon Case Competition to develop an app to revolutionalize Facebook's current features and functionality. Selected as 1st price winner among 13 other business schools (judging panel consistent of Facebook CIO and product managers).

  • ASPIRE's Outstanding Woman of the Year Award 2010

    Selected out of 200 applicants for outstanding community leadership; Delivered speech at the annual Asian Women Leaders Conference.

  • Liberty Mutual Responsible Scholar 2010

    Selected as 1 of 5 students across the nation to receive a $10,000 award for founding a non-profit organization on campus with a global impact.

  • Goldman Sachs Scholar and Award Winner

    Selected by Goldman Sachs Committee to receive $10,000 scholarship for outstanding performance and potential in the financial services industry.

  • Connecticut 40 Under 40

    Named Connecticut's 40 Under 40 list, by Connecticut Magazine

Goals and interests

Career goal

Social Enterprise and Non-Profit Management Consulting

Graduate school interests

Social Enterprise: This past year, I traveled to South Africa and had the opportunity to work with local entrepreneurs on their business plans to drive triple bottom line growth. This upcoming semester, I have been accepted into Yale's Global Social Enterprise course and will have the opportunity to work with micro-entrepreneurs and grass-root organizations in India to help them empower their business and grow their triple bottom line.

Technology: This summer, I am an intern at Google on the Google for Work Apps team in Singapore.

Outside the classroom

Scuba diving; Traveling the world; Speedcubing; Chess; Shopping; Exploring different cuisine; Serving as the spokesperson for the developmentally disabled community in NJ

Experience

  • Google for Work Apps Team - Summer Intern

    Google

    May 2016 – Aug 2016

  • Management Consulting - Strategy and Operations

    Deloitte Consulting

    Aug 2012 – Aug 2015

  • Investment Banking - Summer Analyst

    Wells Fargo

    May 2012 – Aug 2012

  • Sales and Trading - Summer Analyst

    Citigroup

    May 2011 – Aug 2011

  • Personal Market - Claims Specialist - Summer Intern

    Liberty Mutual Insurance Company

    Jun 2010 – Sep 2010

  • Office of the Child Advocate - Summer Intern

    New Jersey State Department

    Jun 2009 – Aug 2009

Volunteering

  • Chairman and Founder

    International Music and Arts Society

    Jan 2010 – Present

  • Founder

    People to People International, Carnegie Mellon Chapter

    Sep 2008 – May 2012

Languages

  • English (US) Advanced
  • Chinese (Taiwan) Advanced
  • Chinese (Simplified) Advanced
  • French (France) Beginner

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