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Meet the Board 

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Eric Zheng 
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President

 

Finance & Information Systems '24 

ascend.umd@gmail.com

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Amrutha Gandham 
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Executive Vice President

 

Information Systems '24

ascendumd.execvp@gmail.com

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Richard Nguyen 
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VP of Operations


Marketing '24

ascendumd.ops@gmail.com

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Young-A Kim
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VP of External Affairs


Finance & Marketing '25 

ascendumd.external@gmail.com

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Kodai Ogawa 
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VP of Internal Affairs

Accounting & Information Systems '24 

ascendumd.internal@gmail.com

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Riya Mehta 
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VP of Finance


Finance & Information Systems '25

ascendumd.finance@gmail.com

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Ezekiel Gunawan 

Co-VP of Marketing


Operations Management & Business Analytics '26

umdascend.marketing@gmail.com

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Joey Wu
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Co-VP of Marketing 

Information Systems & Finance '26

umdascend.marketing@gmail.com 

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Veronica Kim
She/Her
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VP of IT


Information Science '24

ascendumd.it@gmail.com

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Cindy Wu 
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VP of Diversity & Inclusion


Accounting & International Business '24

ascendumd.divinc@gmail.com

Meet the committee 

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Grace Liao 
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Internal Committee Member 

OMBA & Information Systems '26

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Prutha Patel 

Operations Committee Member

Finance '24 

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Joycelyn Cheung 

Internal Committee Member 

Accounting and Finance '25

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Tiffany Lee 

Marketing Committee Member 

Information Systems '26 

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Tara Anders

External Committee Member

Economics '25 

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Rucha Shete 

D&I Committee Member 

Finance and Computer Science '26

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Meet Our faculty advisor 

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Dr. Jim McKinney
He/Him
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Faculty Advisor

 

jmckinne@umd.edu

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