John Frerichs
MBA 11
MBA 11
Internship:
McKinsey & Company
Seattle, Washington
Previous degree:
BA, Public Policy Studies
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Job prior to Haas:
Associate Director – Global Investment Solutions
UBS Global Asset Management (Americas)
New York
After a four-year career in finance, John Frerichs was ready for a change of pace as he made a career transition to consulting. At Berkeley-Haas, he found "people with so many diverse interests and experiences. My classmates test and prod me to always look at issues from another perspective. It's refreshing."
"UC Berkeley is a different place. Things evolve faster here. There is a different level of intellectual curiosity. The Berkeley-Haas core curriculum is a real whirlwind. It was intense, but just what I needed to get up to speed and prepare myself for my internship."
"The experiential learning opportunities at Haas really attracted me. The projects I've worked on for IBD and Social Sector Solutions give me a real feel for the consultant role. My IBD team worked on how to offer telemedicine to rural villages in Uttar Pradesh, a state near Delhi, in India. It was a great introduction to how to handle a client engagement, just like you would have in the real world, because it is in the real world."
"On our China trek, we visited Google in Beijing just days before the company announced it would no longer filter search results. Talk about being right in the center of things!"
