Bruins in Business Networking Night: Featuring Sharpe Fellows

Emily Tseng '13

At FTI Consulting, Emily has led high-impact client engagements in strategy-led transformations, merger integrations, financial advisory, due diligence—primarily within the technology sector. She has supported internal strategic initiatives and driven transformation programs across the Strategy, Transformation, and Transactions practices.

Emily is also actively involved in practice development, actively contributing to recruiting, L&D, culture committee, and Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging (DI&B) initiatives. Passionate about social impact, Emily has also led a pro bono consulting engagement, including creating a cost-to-serve model to support nonprofit expansion, developing ESG metrics, and launching a live reporting dashboard.

Prior to joining FTI, Emily worked in PwC’s Financial Due Diligence practice, following her earlier experience in the Audit practice.
During her time at PwC, she primarily served clients across the entertainment, media, technology and communications sectors.

She holds a B.A. in Economics with a minor in Accounting from UCLA and is a licensed CPA in the state of California.

Outside of work, Emily is a dedicated fitness enthusiast who loves discovering new restaurants, experimenting with new recipes, getting lost in a good book, and spending quality time with family and friends. She’s also an avid traveler—recent adventures include Cape Town, the Maldives, and Taiwan, with Cabo, Milan, Lake Como and Deer Valley on her horizon.

Jim brings deep knowledge of Aerospace and Defense supporting corporate and financial sponsor clients operating at all levels of the Aerospace and Defense value chain, with a focus on competitiveness.  Jim integrates ~10 years of industry experience at a Defense Prime (in Program Management and engineering roles) with nearly 20 years of consulting experience in Aerospace & Defense. He specializes in strategy-based transformation, corporate strategy / corporate development, acquisition support, and improving company and product competitiveness.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Jim held consulting leadership roles at KPMG (U.S. Aerospace & Defense Practice Leader), PwC Strategy& / formerly Booz&Co (U.S. Aerospace & Defense Strategy Practice Leader)

Prior to consulting Jim worked at Defense Prime for nearly 10 years with roles in Program Management and Engineering (Jim held an SSBI clearance for over 20 years).  Jim also held engineering roles at Berkeley Space Science Laboratory. Jim earned his MBA from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his Masters of Science from the Samueli School of Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).  Jim holds a bachelors of science degree in mechanical engineering from University of California, Berkeley.

Kyle Kearney '16

Kyle works closely with entrepreneurs and management teams on M&A and capital markets transactions across a variety of industries, including apparel and lifestyle brands, direct-to-consumer-brands, and consumer services. In addition to his transactional duties, he is actively engaged in various firm-building activities, including recruiting and Intrepid’s new analyst training program.

Before joining Intrepid, Kyle worked at Duff & Phelps on middle-market M&A, restructuring and transaction opinions. He has also worked at Citigroup’s Corporate & Investment Bank covering Latin America as well as in commercial banking and commercial real estate. Kyle also received his B.A in English from the University of California, Los Angeles.

In 2014, Congresswomen Grace Napolitano and Judy Chu awarded him the United States Congress’ highest award for American youth, a Congressional Award Gold Medal.

Kyle is an avid outdoorsman and loves learning about and experiencing new cultures, a result of having traveled to over 50 countries across five continents.