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COMPANY PROFILE - Our Team

Kaihan Krippendorff
Kaihan is the President of the Strategy Learning Center and the author of the "The Art of the Advantage – 36 Strategies to Seize the Competitive Edge". He was a consultant and manager at McKinsey & Company. Prior to McKinsey, Kaihan held senior management positions in the banking, retail, consulting, and non-profit sectors. He earned his MBA from Columbia Business School and London Business School, his BSE in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and his BSE in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Engineering. He is a faculty member of entrepreneurship at Florida International University. He lives in Miami, Florida and speaks English, Spanish, and German.
E-mail: kkrippendorff@strategylearningcenter.com

AnaMaria Rivera

AnaMaria is the COO of the Strategy Learning Center. She has over 15 years of management and consulting experience including three years as the President of a 1,500-person corporation. She was a consultant with McKinsey & Co. where she focused on helping companies solve strategic and organizational problems. She is an International Professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, teaching in the Specialization in Finance and Specialization in Marketing Programs. AnaMaria earned her BS in Industrial Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, and her MBA from Harvard Business School. She is fluent in English and Spanish.
E-mail: arivera@strategylearningcenter.com

Tereza Sommerfeld

Tereza Sommerfeld is a Director of the Strategy Learning Center and is responsible for European operations. She was a consultant with McKinsey & Co. and the HayGroup working in Europe and the US advising Fortune 500 companies on strategy and leadership issues. She has designed and facilitated international training programs for top and middle management on leadership and strategic issues. She has additionally advised several companies on how to enter the Czech market. She holds an MBA in business administration and law and is a qualified German lawyer. Her research interests include the role of strategic thinking skills in leadership development and organizational barriers to innovation. She is fluent in German, English and Czech with basic command French and Spanish.
E-mail: tsommerfeld@strategylearningcenter.com

Beatriz Marin
Beatriz Marin is a Senior Associate with the Strategy Learning Center based in the New York City area. She has over 10 years of experience in marketing and business to business sales as a key account manager of the largest retail food chains in Colombia. She earned her BS in Industrial Engineering and her Master degree in marketing from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. She is fluent in English and Spanish.
E-mail: bmarin@strategylearningcenter.com

Faculty and Special Advisors

Our clients’ needs sometimes demand specialized expertise. In such cases, we tap our network of academics, executives, and consultants.

Jill Hellman

Jill Hellman is a Special Advisor to the Strategy Learning Center. She spent the first decade of her career leading strategy, training, and project teams and departments for three Fortune 500 companies. Over the past fourteen years she has worked with organizations in the US and Japan across multiple sectors, including financial services, automotive, retail, commercial real estate investment, healthcare, education, non-profit, professional services, legal, government, consumer electronics, and pharmaceutical. Jill is also an international speaker who has addressed a wide range of audiences from line employees to CEOs. She currently is completing an international executive MBA program at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Brad Hoover

Brad is a Special Advisor to the Strategy Learning Center. His background includes a career in management consulting with McKinsey & Co., where he collected experience in growth, market entry, innovation, and sales strategy for Fortune 500 clients. At the former Arthur Andersen, Brad led the development of an intranet application used by Goldman Sachs and others to execute corporate mergers and acquisitions. Brad also started an architectural services firm during his undergraduate tenure at Cornell University, where he graduated with a BS in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering. In his limited spare time, Brad enjoys activities including cycling, downhill skiing, and aviation.