David Appelberg
Prior to getting an MBA in 2006, David Appelberg worked in London for online travel agent Expedia.Com as a product manager.
Now David is now working at top-tier consulting firm, Bain & Company as a management consultant with expectations of doubling, even tripling his old London salary in three years.
His reinvention began with a decision in 2005 to relocate from London to his wife’s home town of Melbourne to raise their 13-month daughter and 3-week old son.
Back then, after the move, they lived on their savings and a student allowance for 16 months while David did his MBA full-time. It paid off. He graduated top of his class and was awarded the Clemenger prize.
David decided to do an MBA to improve his career opportunities, to get broader business experience and to develop and grow as a leader. Going into management consulting after his MBAhe has achieved exactly that, being on a learning curve even steeper than the one he experienced at MBS.
He adds that this type of exposure is only possible at top-tier consulting companies.
“There is a huge difference between consulting companies,” he says. “The biggest advantage of the MBS MBA is that all the top-tier consulting companies hold recruitment drives at the school.”
He says that he keeps in touch with a group of students from his year group, through his personal network, however he plans on staying in touch with the broader MBS alumni community through official events for career purposes.
“I intend to use the alumni network to recruit from, and to further my own career sometime down the track,” he says.
He claims another advantage about doing an MBA at MBS is the diversity of the students and faculty.
“I now have friends living all around the world that I can drop-in on whenever I’m travelling,” he says.
