MBA Candidate 2009
Sameer Karnik is pursuing his Master of Business Administration degree at The Marshall School of Business at The University of Southern California. His primary focus is on finance with a minor in management.
By honing his business acumen through an MBA, Sameer wants to parlay his technical, analytical and organizational skill set, from his experience in drug development, into industry functions that demand qualified excellence.
As a Summer Associate at KPMG LLP's Economic and Valuation Services, Sameer reviewed and built financial valuation models, gained experience in interacting with auditors and regulators and constructed detailed client deliverables. As part of KPMG's Transfer Pricing services he valued the advertising and marketing intangible asset of a global corporation and constructed a business case for its transfer to a different tax jurisdiction. Sameer was awarded the Bravo award for exceeding expectations and for timely completion of projects.
After earning his Bachelor of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering from D J Sanghvi College of Engineering, Sameer successfully pursued his Master of Science in the same field at Stony Brook University.
Sameer spent the next three years on Long Island as an Associate Scientist at Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals, Inc. At this dynamic cancer research firm he designed, implemented and analyzed in vivo and in vitro experiments in the pursuit of less toxic chemotherepeutic anti-cancer drugs.
Building on his analytical and statistical knowledge, Sameer also perfomed all the data analysis demanded by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as part of Cornerstone Pharmaceutical's Investigational New Drug (IND) Application and required for presentations to investors. Being a 'power user' of database and statistical software like Microsoft Excel, Sigma Plot, Graphpad Prism among others, he was able to streamline the data collection, analysis and graphing process and eliminate sources of error.
Last updated on Sep 16, 2008