Alumnus Thomas
Caleel Named
Director of
Wharton School
MBA Admissions
and Financial Aid
Following an extensive
search, Thomas Caleel,
C'94, WG'03, has been
named Wharton's director
of MBA Admissions and
Financial Aid. Caleel previously
worked for Silicon
Valley private equity firm
Cagan McAfee Capital
Partners, where he served as
a financial analyst for portfolio
companies and raised
public and private funds for
the energy, recycling and life
sciences sectors.
"As a successful entrepreneur,
venture financier
and chief executive, Thomas
Caleel's professional experience
has been wide ranging
and internationally diverse,"
said Anjani Jain, vice dean of
the Wharton School's MBA
Division. "As an alumnus,
he now returns to Wharton
with great enthusiasm for the
opportunity to help shape
the School's future."
Caleel began his career
in 1995 as director of the
Moscow Representative
Office at Heritage Finance
& Trust, a private financial
group based in Geneva,
Switzerland. Between 1998
and 2001, Caleel was a
co-founder of BCI Private
Capital, a holding company
in Denver, CO. While at
BCI, Caleel played a role in
acquiring or founding several
new product lines and new
businesses and served as the
interim CEO of a Russian-Swiss technology venture
that delivers medical information
and mobile phones
to remote disaster areas.
While a student at
Wharton, he was a leadership
fellow, co-chair of the
ethics committee, a graduate
assistant in the MBA
Admissions Office and
a member of the Dean's
Graduate Student Advisory
Committee.
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