Leavey School of Business Student Spotlights
Learn more about the programs, internships and impact of Leavey students:
Brendan Plunkett '24, a Finance major and Management Information Systems minor from Saratoga, California, is involved with the Santa Clara Venture Capital Club, Ciocca Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship's Venture Virtuoso Program, ACE Leadership Program, Peer Career Consultant (PCC) Program, and Santa Clara Investment Fund. He has interned as an analyst at Santa Clara Ventures, as an Impact Investing intern at the Miller Center, a Growth Intern at Fintech Startup, and a summer associate at Boston Consulting Group. After graduation, Brendan will be returning to Boston Consulting Group. Click here to read Brendan's PCC blog.
Jasmine Lam ’24, Management Information Systems major and Retail Studies minor, from San Ramon, California, is involved with the Chinese Student Association, Barkada, Bronco Academy of Mentorship (BAM) and Club Tennis. At the business school she is part of Delta Sigma Pi Business Fraternity, Leavey Ambassador Program and is a Peer Career Consultant (PCC). Jasmine worked as a Digital Assurance and Transparency Intern (DAT) at PriceWaterhouse Coopers (PwC) in San Francisco. Post-grad, she will be returning to PwC as a DAT associate.
Ahiti Juarez '24, Finance major and Real Estate minor from Los Angeles, California, is a co-president of the Latinx Student Business Association (LBSA) and a senior analyst with the Santa Clara Investment Fund (SCIF). He is part of the University Honors Program, LEAD Scholars Program, and a Leavey Ambassador Program. In his free time plays intramural sports. He had internships with KPMG and Vista Equity Partners. After graduation he will be returning to Vista Equity full-time as a Private Equity Analyst.
Dzidzo Lassey '26, Accounting major and Studio Arts minor from Columbia, Maryland is an SCU Student Ambassador, and a member of Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity, Peer Advising Program, Student Affairs Committee, African Student Association, Igwebuike, and Acapella. She is also a LEAD Scholar. She will be interning at Deloitte Discovery Audit & Assurance in the summer of 2024. Click here to check out her cool art portfolio.
Dylan Bear ’24, Finance & Psychology majors and Economics minor from Yarrow Point, Washington. He is part of the Peer Career Consultant Program, Leavey Scholars Program and Delta Sigma Pi Business Fraternity. He is also a member of Alpha Sigma Nu and Beta Sigma Gamma honors societies. Outside of the business school Dylan is involved with Into the Wild, Bronco Academy of Mentorship (BAM), and KSCU, the student-run radio station. Dylan worked as a Rotational Finance intern at T-Mobile in the summer of 2022 and as an Office of the CEO intern the summer of 2023. After graduation he will be returning to T-Mobile as an Executive Business Operations Manager in the Office of the CEO at T-Mobile.
Natalia Rey-Liemann '24, Marketing major and Retail Studies and Entrepreneurship minors, from Miami, Florida has been part of many programs, including the Leavey Community Fellows. Click here to read her blogs. She is also a co-president of SCU Women in Business and a research assistant at the Consumer Behavior Lab. As a graduating senior is excited to be part of the Senior Leadership Academy (SLA). She has interned at Perigon Wealth Management as a Business Development Intern and at Locals Insight, a recommendation-based travel app founded by two passionate Santa Clara female graduates.
Sparsh Garg '25, Finance and Computer Science majors with Entrepreneurship minor, from San Jose, California is a current LSB Community Fellow at the City of San Jose's Office of Economic Development as the Business Development Associate, click here to read his blog. He is also part of the Hackworth Fellowship, the HCI Lab, University Honors Program, ACE Leadership Program, Leavey Scholars Program, and Alpha Sigma Nu. Currently he is interning as the NASA Ames Researcher & Project Leader at SJSURF & NASA Ames Research Center.
Jenna Solis ’24, Finance major and Management Information Systems minor from San Jose, California, is serving as 2023-24 SCU Student Body Vice President and is part of the Leavey Ambassador Program and is a First and Second Year Peer Advisor. She worked as a Content Marketing Intern at Palo Alto Networks in the summer of 2022 and as a Financial Analyst Intern at Cisco in the summer of 2023. After graduation, Jenna will be returning to Cisco to start their two year rotational program, LIFT: Leaders in Finance and Technology.
Calvin Miller '24, Management Information Systems major and Business Analytics minor from San Jose, California, is part of the Peer Advising Program, member of the SCU Sports Business, Santa Clara Spikeball and is a Santa Clara Peer Educator. He has worked in video operations and data collection for the San Jose Giants and is currently a program lead for the San Francisco 49ers, running one of their non-profit sales programs. Calvin plans to continue with the 49ers post-grad in a business analytics role.