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… is directly business strategy and corporate strategy. And second, the new to a different part of my career, which is corporate development and M&A. So advising them on the next big venture that we should go into within the country as well as beyond South Africa.
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… Georgia, and my background is in retail operation and recently transferred into procurement supporting the US government. I am one of the Black Belt cohort for the June last this summer. And also I’ve done about 30 case so far, and within the past month I had interviewed with McKinsey and also confidence interview with Cognizant coming up this weekend. So I’m excited to be here today. This is my first human capital case, so we’ll see how it goes.
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SEAN: Yeah, happy to. I figured it’s one way to give back. I stole a lot of information from you guys, so – (laughter).
NAMAAN: Well, Sean, do you mind just starting off with a little bit about your background; your undergrad experience and maybe why you chose Deloitte S&O over some of the other options that you had?
SEAN: Yeah, sure. So I went to a large Midwestern state school, part of their undergraduate business school. And so I wasn’t 100% sold on consulting for a while. I was looking at banking, corporate finance, a …