Brandeis University Admissions contact: Office of Admission International Business School 415 South Street Waltham, MS 032 Waltham Massachusetts 02454-9110 USA T: +1 781 736 2252 E: admission@lemberg.brandeis.edu W: www.brandeis.edu/global Dato Sandroshvili MBA International Country of origin: Georgia Career history Dato Sandroshvili is vice president at Citigroup Global Markets Investment Banking division in London. He focuses on providing strategic advisory, M&A, and capital raising services to Energy companies in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Japan, and the Former Soviet Union. Dato has been at Citigroup London since his graduation in 2001 and has also spent several months in the company's New York offices on an extended rotation. The Curriculum IBS has built a balanced curriculum, and it has offered me all the tools that I need for my job. Since I work in the financial industry, courses in accounting and finance have benefited me directly. As an investment banker, however, I have to focus on companies' strategy, as well as softer people issues, both of which were covered in the curriculum. In addition, with the flexibility of cross registering, I took a special negotiations class at Babson, which was also extremely useful. Most career tracks today require knowledge in many areas, and Brandeis has given me a platform in all the important areas that I need to build on in order to grow. Most importantly, the school has given me a global network of alumni, which I have used number of times, on which I can rely.