# Manini Desai > MBA/MPH Candidate at Berkeley Haas | HealthTech x Strategy Location: Berkeley, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/manini ## Work Experience ### Strategy and Business Development Intern @ Doximity Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### MBA Consultant @ Blue Shield of California Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Oakland, California, United States ### MBA Consultant @ Clinic by the Bay Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 ### UX Consultant @ Unknown Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Help companies design and launch innovative products and experiences. Projects required UX research, wireframe development, prototyping, user testing, and collaboration with engineering teams. ### Product Designer + Growth Lead @ iTherapy, LLC Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 Product designer on EASI-AS team building AI-powered speech analysis to cut 5-hour clinical assessments to 15 minutes for Speech Language Pathologists NSF Phase II SBIR Award #2133148 - Federally validated innovation https://easi-as.com/ ### Technical Account Manager, Senior Associate @ Place Exchange Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States • Project managed cross-functional technical integrations, owned API testing, and handled client relationships for a portfolio of 14 DSP and SSP partners in the digital OOH advertising space • Created the Technical Account Management team documentation in Confluence to streamline team processes and create alignment across cross-functional teams on responsibilities of the role • Built auto-updating database of client screens using SQL to reduce media planning errors by 60% for Sales ### Rotational Analyst @ ION Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States • Built and optimized 3 chatbot programs using JavaScript for internal company-wide use, cutting internal data extraction time for fixed income support team by half • Created data mapping tool using Python for a database of thousands of support cases per month, improving support quality and providing greater visibility to C-suite management • Led 6 global consulting engagements as program manager which improved client relationships, created upsell opportunities and led to contract renewals which ultimately generated more than $500,000 in new business during the six-month long rotation • Pitched ION’s consulting program to four clients and secured clients nationwide • Client services analyst for ION’s lead treasury solution software, triaging and responding to customer inquiries on cash management issues in software ### Account Manager @ ION Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area • Promoted to Account Manager with responsibility over 3 commodities accounts with combined annual contract value of more than $400,000 • Foster customer relationships during biweekly or monthly health checks with clients • Project manage customer diagnostic initiative by coordinating calls, completing data validation, and tracking and communicating progress to upper management • Maintain customer data in Salesforce and team SharePoint site with up to date key client information • Develop and disseminate marketing materials to customers and track marketing campaigns through Salesforce ### Lean Consulting Intern @ Sutter Health - Palo Alto Medical Foundation Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA ### Research Assistant at Ohlstein Lab @ Columbia University Medical Center Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Ohlstein Lab • Worked on independent project to determine the importance of migration of progenitor cells in the midgut damage response using RNAi and other gene silencing techniques to disrupt actin formation ### Research Assistant at Kornberg Lab @ Stanford University School of Medicine Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Kornberg Lab • Contributed to lab’s major project studying the role of condensing in mitotic polytene chromosomes in Drosophila • Took images used for presentations that showed the effect of increased temperature on Cap H2 expression in the polytene chromosomes in two strains of drosophila • Presented the groundwork for this experiment to Nobel Laureate Roger Kornberg ## Education ### Master of Public Health - MPH in Health/Health Care Administration/Management UC Berkeley School of Public Health ### Master of Business Administration - MBA University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Economics Barnard College ### Bachelor's degree in Economics Columbia University ### Saratoga High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/manini-desai --- Source: https://flows.cv/manini JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/manini/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13