Mariam Tigane

I've been in my field for two years now, working as the operator and CEO of Maya Kodi, a consulting firm I founded after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania. I work at the intersection of strategy, finance, and operations, partnering with C-suite executives and leadership teams to plan out their goals, deliverables, and success metrics. I work directly not only with leadership teams but also their finance teams, building out yearly plans, understanding reporting cadences between staff and leadership, and planning for the long term. On the AI consulting side, I help organizations build sustainable infrastructure for their operations by infusing and recommending up-and-coming AI tools to ensure smooth operating. What I love most about my work is that I can provide relief to founders who are super stressed out. I'm coming from the outside, particularly focused and specializing in scale, and I feel like I'm really providing relief - this is one less thing they have to think about, and it's a robust strategy. Before founding my consultancy, I had stints in investment banking, research, and nonprofit spaces, though all were internships. The driving force behind pursuing entrepreneurship post-grad rather than the conventional route of consulting or banking was my experience founding an organization previously and building it out to be sustainable so that even after I left, it's still running. That experience taught me that I wanted to work on building things that last.