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Adam B.

Adam B

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Break into PE | Ex-Citi AVP, distressed PE | Live deal experience

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    London Business School

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    Citigroup

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I help high-potential candidates turn complex backgrounds into the story that gets them the offer. Whether you're targeting a top MBA or Master's programme, breaking into consulting, banking or private equity, or making a difficult career transition, I help you make sense of your experience — and turn it into a clear, credible narrative that interviewers and admissions teams can believe in. My approach goes beyond templates and interview frameworks. We stress-test the decisions behind your story: Why this career? Why this school or firm? Why now? What makes you different? Then we build a narrative that is coherent, specific and genuinely yours — one you can defend with confidence under pressure. I've spent seven years at Citi in EMEA, progressed to AVP, and later went to London Business School as a Merit Scholar, with an Executive Leadership Programme at Oxford's Blavatnik School along the way. I subsequently cleared the case interviews and interned at BCG, reached advanced rounds at other leading consulting firms, and now work in post-merger integration at Accenture following a live M&A deal. This gives me current, hands-on exposure to both strategy and execution — not just knowledge from a previous career. I also know what it is like to take a non-traditional route. I studied Natural Sciences at UCL before moving into banking, business school and consulting. That experience shapes how I coach: your unconventional background doesn't need to be explained away. Done properly, it can become one of the strongest parts of your story. I work with candidates worldwide, with particular experience supporting international applicants and professionals from the Gulf and emerging markets. I speak Arabic and have spent years working with individuals from the GCC. If you have a strong background but struggle to articulate why it adds up to the opportunity you want next, that's where I can help.

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Why You? Building Your PE Interview Story
Why You? Building Your PE Interview Story

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Adam’s Private Equity Qualifications

Experience level: Associate

10+ Private Equity clients

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My private equity experience is hands-on, not adjacent: I worked at a distressed PE firm during my MBA and spent seven years at Citi in EMEA, reaching AVP, building the financial and analytical foundation PE recruiters test for. I've also sat through a real M&A transaction from the integration side at Accenture, so I understand deals as they actually play out, not just as case studies. I coach the full breaking-in process — story, technicals, and the modelling-and-judgment combination PE interviews demand — with direct, no-fluff feedback from someone who's lived the work.

Adam can help with:

Behavioral Interview Prep

Cover Letters

Deal Sourcing

Due Diligence

Financial Analysis

Financial Modeling

General Exploration

Investment Evaluation

LinkedIn Review

Networking Strategy

Portfolio Management

Private Equity Strategy

Promotion Strategy

Resume Review

Skill Building

Technical Interview Prep

Why do I coach?

My edge isn't drilling templates. It's helping you stress-test why you actually want this school, role, or career — the question most candidates never sit with — and then turning the answer into a narrative that is grounded, coherent, and unmistakably yours. I don't believe the strongest candidates are necessarily the ones with the most conventional backgrounds. Often, they're the ones who can make a complex or non-linear path feel intentional. That's the work I enjoy most: finding the thread that connects your experiences, pressure-testing it, and turning it into a story that stands up when the interviewer pushes back. One client came to me after being rejected by two top European universities. We rebuilt her story from the ground up, and she is now interviewing at a top-10 business school with a scholarship on the table. Technique gets you to competent. Clarity and conviction get you the offer.

Work Experience

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Strategy Consultant

Accenture

2025 - Present

Strategy Consultant (Post Merger Integration)

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Associate / Senior Associate

Boston Consulting Group

2022 - 2022

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Assistant Vice President

Citigroup

2014 - 2021

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Associate / Senior Associate

PwC

2013 - 2014

Adam was also given offers to work at

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    UK Civil Service

Education

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London Business School

Master of Business Administration (Merit Scholar)

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University College London, University of London

MSci, Natural Sciences

Adam was also personally admitted to

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    Said Business School (Oxford)

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    INSEAD

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