Amol Amin is a member of the class of 2011 majoring in Finance and Real Estate. After being President of his high school community service club, he decided to join the Social Impact Consulting group in order to combine his interest in business and passion for helping other in his community. Amol was born and raised in a small town called Tiffin, Ohio. Amol loves to play tennis, snowboard, and find exciting places to eat. He has previously worked for the Social Impact Consulting Group as a consultant for 2 semesters and also worked for a real estate firm as an investment analyst last summer.
 

Cathy Gao is a member of the Class of 2010, majoring in Finance and History. After completing many hours of community service in high school, Cathy realized that she wanted to go beyond the traditional model of community service. The Social Impact Consulting Group appealed to her because it allows students to leverage business skills in order to generate a larger social impact. Last semester, Cathy was a member of the GESU Institute project and this semester, she serves as the project leader for the GESU project. In her spare time, Cathy enjoys reading and online shopping. At Penn, Cathy serves as the Associate Panel Director of the Capital Markets Panel for WCBS, plays co-ed intramural volleyball, and is a member of Wharton Women.
 

David Lin is a member of the Class of 2010, majoring in Finance and Biophysics. He strongly believes in the ability of SIC to create social value because SIC consultants help non-profit organizations on a macro-level rather than a micro one. The further opportunities to exercise classroom-based business knowledge in real world settings was also a strong draw. Aside from SIC, David does endocrinology research at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and plays for the Penn Badminton Team.
 

Akash Shah is a member of the Class of 2010, majoring in Finance, Entrepreneurship and South Asian Studies. He decided to join the Social Impact Consulting Group to learn more about the intersection of social impact and real-world business skills. Akash was born and raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and is a member of Penn Dhamaka. Last semester, Akash was a member of the GESU Institute project. This semester, Akash serves as the project leader for the Enterprise Center project. This summer, Akash will be studying abroad in Bombay.
 

Trang To is a member of the Class of 2009, concentrating in Marketing and Management. She joined Social Impact Consulting (SIC) because she believed that it would give her a unique outlet to utilize and apply her skills from the classroom while giving back to the community. Trang served as a consultant in the Fall 2007, Big Brothers Big Sisters Project and is currently the project leader for the Spring 2008, Healthy Times Project. In her free time, Trang enjoys traveling and trying new restaurants. Her previous work experience includes being the Student Director of a Wharton summer program, Leadership in the Business World (LBW) and this summer, she will be in New York doing General Management Consulting at Oliver Wyman.
 

Yulu Ying is a member of the Class of 2010 and a dual degree student in Materials Science Engineering and Finance. Yulu joined Social Impact Consulting to best apply his interdiscinplinary studies while making a social impact in the Philadelphia community. Yulu believes this group provides a unique experience in merging business knowledge and social impact. Last semester, Yulu worked on the Healthy Times project and looks forward to continue working with them this semester. At Penn, Yulu is also a member of Wharton China Business Society.
 

Amy Zhang is a member of the Class of 2010, concentrating in Marketing and Management. She joined the Social Impact Consulting Group to contribute to the Philadelphia community and learn about consulting practices. Last semester, Amy was a member of the Family Care Solutions project. This year, she is serving as project leader. Amy was born in China and moved to the U.S. when she was 10. She currently resides in Irvine, CA. In her spare time, Amy enjoys singing, traveling and shopping. At Penn, Amy also serves as a research assistant for the Management and Real Estate departments. This past summer, Amy worked under Account Management at Young and Rubicam Brands.
 

Nien-he Hsieh is an Associate Professor in the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research is in ethics and economics. The focus of his research is the justified exercise of managerial authority. Within this area, topics of research include authority and work, the provision of assistance by multinational corporations, and incommensurable values and justified choice. He teaches courses in ethics and corporate responsibility and serves as Book Notes Editor for the Business Ethics Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Business Ethics. For 2007-2008, he will be a Faculty Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
 

Sarah Kaplan is Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Formerly an innovation specialist for nearly a decade at consulting firm, McKinsey & Company in New York, she completed her doctoral research in Management of Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is author of the New York Times business bestseller, Creative Destruction (Currency-Doubleday, 2001), challenging the notion of sustainable competitive advantage, the myth of excellence and the appropriateness of emulating best practice (with co-author Richard Foster).
 

Professor Diana Robertson is a visiting professor in the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her current role, Professor Robertson served on the faculties of the Goizueta Business School, the Wharton School and London Business School. She completed her Ph.D. in sociology at UCLA. Professor Robertson's research interests center on issues in business ethics, particularly the impact of the firm on employee decision-making about ethical issues. Her work examines how organizations influence the ethical behavior of employees through formal ethics initiatives, such as codes of ethics, and via other organizational variables, including organizational structure, pressure to perform, and compensation and control systems. At present she is exploring how salespeople and purchasing agents respond to organizational variables as they make decisions about the ethical issues faced in their day-to-day work. Additional research focuses on exploration of the theoretical basis of ethics codes and cross-national differences in corporate codes of ethics.
 

Katherina Rosqueta is the founding Executive Director of The Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania. Before accepting her appointment at the Center in the Spring of 2006, Kat spent five years as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where she served clients in the areas of strategy development, capability-building, and post-merger management. While at McKinsey, she led several employee volunteer initiatives to support consultant involvement on nonprofit boards. Prior to joining McKinsey, Kat worked for ten years in community development, nonprofit management, and venture philanthropy. She served as a founding team member of New Schools Venture Fund; founding executive director of Board Match Plus, a San Francisco program dedicated to strengthening nonprofit boards; and program manager of Wells Fargo's Corporate Community Development Group. She has held numerous volunteer and civic leadership positions including board president of La Casa de las Madres (San Francisco's oldest and largest shelter for battered women and their children); chair of the United Way's Bay Area Week of Caring; and co-founder and executive committee member of the Women's MBA Network. Kat received her B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.