Hira Fernando Email & Phone Number

Nyon, VD, CH

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Created a technology-based career platform to deliver Careerly services and products more efficiently and untethered to one physical place. The sub-platforms are www.careerlynetworks.com, www.careerlynetworks.net (mandarin Chinese) and www.careerlyuniversity.com. The latter is specifically set-up to partner with University Career Service Offices and help.

Washington, United States

Seeing Careerly's unusual strength and unique positioning in Spring 2020 in a world forced to go virtual with many institutions of higher-ed struggling to pivot, Thelan invested in and acquired 45% of Careerly Networks and incorporated it as a new entity under the Thelan umbrella. Ms. Hira Fernando remains CEO of Careerly (rebranded back to the original.

Washington DC

• Coached over 625+ private clients (typically those making single or double career switches) with a 78% success rate for clients obtaining a new role at a preferred employer and/or a 20-30% pay increase even when that.
• Delivered over 120 career talks, events, speaking engagements, and workshops globally (roughly 52% online); this includes content creation, programming if it's a series, teaching, and managing large events/classrooms.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Led two major teaching/coaching assignments for JHU. 1) Taught a series of career webinars for John Hopkins Undergrad, which serves a population of over 6000+ students. 2) Retained by JHU Finance & Applied Mathematics Dept for individual coaching for graduate and PhD students interested in financial engineering and data science careers.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

-Career advising, career management strategies, and interview coaching for Georgetown MSB's 275+ MBA students (both First Year summer internships and Second Year full-time), with a focus on roles in banking, finance, corporate finance, and corporate strategy. -Career development workshops on targeted topics, for example "Nailing the U.S. Job Search for.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Cawley serves 6500+ undergraduate students across all schools - Georgetown college, MSB, the School of Foreign Service and other schools. We support the University's main career center with specialized coaching for students on the finance/banking and consulting career tracks respectively. About 80% of our work is individual coaching, while 20% is teaching.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

-Career advising + international career strategy for the #1 globally ranked School of Foreign Service's 900+ Masters students. Focus on international finance, banking, project finance, and corporate finance.-Have developed and delivered career workshops on targeted topics, for example "Nailing the U.S. Job Search for International Students" and "How to.

Boston And Washington DC

• Authored or co-authored 45 pieces of proprietary, primary, and original research, including collaborating on the high-profile Gartner Hype Cycles on Sustainability and Green IT and Smart City Technologies respectively.
• Led 70+ analyst/research calls. One of two analysts covering two major topic areas: i) enterprise sustainability, carbon management, and green supply chains, and ii) talent management, organizational development, and.
• Lead analyst running the Sustainability Forum for Fortune 500 supply chain clients; included marketing and branding the Forum, presentation and content design, and securing high-level co-presenters.
• Presented at or moderated panels at international supply chain and green business conferences, including the flagship Gartner Supply Chain Summit in 2010 and 2011.
• Advised over 40 Fortune 500 clients on their green business strategies and sustainability policies; assessed company risks (and opportunities) from energy efficiency, greenhouse gases, water scarcity, and waste.
• Presented latest Gartner research to major Asian clients on improvements to their talent management strategies, organizational development plans, and critical emerging market talent issues.

Washington DC

• Played a leading role in defining and launching a new line of research funded by Goldman Sachs and HSBC applying Wall Street valuation and financial analysis methods to complex environmental issues.
• Managed three analysts on a full research pipeline- overseeing seven major publications, for each managing the budget and WRI’s review process, as well as design and layout, publication, launch, and outreach.
• Served on stakeholder panels for Wachovia and Dell, reviewing and contributing comments to their respective environmental policies on energy use, water use, GHG emissions, recycling, and waste management.
• Part of WRI’s judging team for the FT/IFC Sustainable Banking Awards in London; expertise on all major financial institution in the world working on integrating sustainability to financial bottom line. RESEARCH areas.

Washington DC

• Developed and implemented a business plan and delivery strategy for the $120 million Community Development Carbon Fund. Involved close cooperation with staff in all six World Bank geographic regions.
• Worked across power, energy, and transport sectors to incorporate carbon finance components into 27+ World Bank projects, and to mainstream the carbon finance product into the World Bank lending program.
• Participated as a full member of the operations team in a half a dozen carbon finance projects as they went through the World Bank Project Cycle - preparation, appraisal and supervision.

Washington DC

• Assisted senior staff on large urban infrastructure projects in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. In-depth understanding of how the Bank lends money to support complex development objectives.
• Worked thorough the Bank lending cycle - country strategy and identification, preparation, appraisal, approval, and implementation; sat in on a $240M loan negotiation for a Shanghai urban environment project.
• Edited, reviewed, contributed to official Bank documents such as the Project Concept Note, the Project Information Document, the Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet, and the Project Appraisal Document.

London, UK

Geneva, Switzerland

Geneva, Switzerland

Mba, Strategic Management

Activities and Societies: Lead Writer, Wharton Journal

Master Of Laws - Llm, International Business

Llm, International Business Law

B.Sc. (Econ), Government And Law