25 Under 25 Program

Coming from an entrepreneurial family, Pedro Breviglieri Nader was always encouraged to think of how things should be. That driving principle pushed him to take a gap year after high school where he traveled the world to find his purpose. While he lived alone in Europe and worked on his own web design company, he found that purpose: he wants to influence change by helping others achieve their full potential.

The business analytics and information systems major aims to graduate in May as a King O’Neal scholar, an honor that recognizes a 4.0 grade point average. Throughout his time at USF, he’s held true to his purpose and centered himself on being a selfless leader who gives back to the community.

In his first year, he joined HEXA Consulting, the first Florida chapter of Junior Enterprise. The student-run business gave Nader the opportunity to help local businesses develop their websites and digital marketing strategies.

Other servant leadership roles include mentoring first-year students in the Bulls Business Community and offering a helping hand to international students who were finding a home away from home at USF, as he did.

He completed two consecutive co-ops at Bristol-Myers Squibb and an internship at Goldman Sachs. He was able to use his tech skills in business intelligence and machine learning to develop an automation tool that eliminated about two hours of daily work. And as graduation approaches, he’s already accepted a job as a technology consultant for Ernst & Young, where he will be helping businesses achieve their full potential.

When faced with hardships, Maria del Carmen Perez-Soto doesn’t turn away. Instead, she adapts, takes the uncomfortable route, and finds passion in purpose. That purpose is to create an environment in the technology industry where all women, like herself, can thrive while preserving their identities.

A senior in the undergraduate Business Analytics and Information Systems program, Perez-Soto is set to graduate in May. Among her proudest accomplishments, she completed internships at Goldman Sachs and Americanas SA, served in university-wide leadership roles, and volunteered within the local community.

As a USF Ambassador, she is an official representative of USF where she advocates for students. As the director of administration, she leads logistics and manages event attendance for all Ambassadors on the Tampa campus.

She also serves as a resident assistant at Horizon Hall, where she engages with students and supports their transition to college “so that they can find their own purpose.”

It’s in that role that she has grown into a confident, well-respected leader and mentor among her peers and residents.

“Maria brings a restorative lens to help her residents solve problems when they seek her out. She is both creative and reflective when engaging with her peers,” writes one of her residential life supervisors.

Perez-Soto is proud of all that she has accomplished at USF and is grateful for the opportunities the university has given her. After graduation, she will join Carnival Cruise Line as an analyst in the company’s Miami office.

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Kha Do believes leadership is a valuable skill best used to inspire and guide others toward a common goal. That means showing others how to apply data science and machine learning to solve real-world problems.

Among his most useful data science projects: he built a machine learning model that predicted the availability of rooms for reservations at the USF library, a fake news classifier, and a Parkinson’s disease classifier.

As vice president of the Data Science Club at USF, he introduced over 100 students to the basic pipeline of a machine learning project by co-hosting workshops using Python. 

While machine learning is important, he also believes in building stronger cultural bonds. He co-founded the Vietnamese International Students Association at USF as a way to help new international students from his home country adjust to college life in the U.S.

Do personally experienced culture shock and homesickness when he first arrived in America and is hoping a stronger connection will make students feel more welcome and supported. 

The USF senior is on track to graduate in May and earn dual degrees in business analytics and information systems and quantitative economics and econometrics. 

This summer, he will be a data management intern with Bank of America. Do has interned at the bank since 2022, serving as a data analyst, analyzing predictive indicators and identifying key drivers for the most impactful social media campaigns by examining data of more than 20 million mentions of the company.

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Juliana Almeida was accepted into the Judy Genshaft Honors College after receiving around $50,000 in scholarships. She joined the Brazilian Student Association at USF as a marketing analyst, where she used social media to connect with hundreds of students and market a series of events that raised over $15,000 in sales, an experience that made her fall in love with her major. Almeida is a junior and a double major in marketing and integrated public relations and advertising.

Shortly after, she became one of the five founders of the largest student-led Brazilian conference in Florida, BRASA Connect. There, Almeida executed a marketing strategy that brought USF’s international community together – the event sold over 200 tickets and brought students from all over the country.

This year, Almeida was the chief marketing officer for USF Student Government. Through that role, she impacted people from different backgrounds on a larger scale. One of her favorite campaigns focused on food insecurity and led to over 400 items being donated to the Feed-A-Bull pantry. A program advisor described Almeida as someone who is “guided by empathy and compassion for others.”

“She has so much pride when she speaks about community excellence and how she made a positive impact within her community,” he wrote.

Almeida has served as an intern twice, once for Panasonic North America and once at Marriott Vacations Worldwide. This summer, she will intern in IBM’s Marketing Summer Internship program in New York City.

Juanita Garzon counts herself lucky. The daughter of Colombian and Brazilian parents, she comes from a multicultural environment where moving between countries, languages, and cultures is second nature. From her diverse background, she has gained adaptability and social skills that have helped her thrive at USF. She has used her time at USF to grow professionally, thrive academically, and give back to her community.

In 2019, she founded the Youth Adventure Camp in Bogota, Colombia. The summer camp serves as a refuge for displaced children affected by the armed violence between the country’s government and the rival insurgent groups.

That experience sparked a personal interest in business management. At USF, Garzon joined Delta Sigma Pi, a professional co-ed business fraternity. She serves as the chapter’s national fraternity advisor where she approves the finances of other collegiate chapters in the southern region.

Garzon is a finance and econometrics double major with an international studies minor. Since January, she has worked as an advisor support specialist at Florida Financial Advisors, helping support clients assess their financial needs. This summer, she heads to New York as a summer analyst intern in the Wealth Management division at Bank of America.

With so many exciting opportunities on the horizon, Garzon is looking forward to facing, and adapting, to the next challenges.

A self-described “clueless immigrant kid,” Jose Daniel Coronel came from Venezuela to the U.S. six years ago not knowing much about American society. He struggled to speak fluent English. He knew nothing about universities or professions.

What he did know was that he was at a major disadvantage and that he would have to play catch up to overcome the linguistic, cultural, and educational barriers to make him competitive with his peers.

Fast forward six years, and he has a lot to be proud of.

Coronel is on track to graduate in May with dual degrees in accounting and business analytics and information systems. He also has an audit job lined up at Ernst & Young, one of the largest accounting firms in the world.

While at USF, he completed two internships with prestigious accounting firms — Ernst & Young and Grant Thornton. During his internship with Grant Thornton, he helped develop a service idea called Purple Paladins that won a regional competition.

Coronel has a quiet strength that has led peers to vote him into leadership roles with student organizations, including Beta Alpha Psi, an internationally ranked accounting honors organization.

“You couldn’t find a more well-rounded college student,” said one of his accounting professors. 

In May, he will be the first in his family to graduate from an American university.

Even with a promising career ahead of him, he continues to work on improving his skill set and giving back to the USF community, a community that has helped him grow academically and professionally from that “clueless immigrant kid.”

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Jennifer Moeder has been involved in several programs that have shaped her academic and professional career. She landed an internship with the Bowie Baysoxs Minor League Baseball team as a freshman and became the Director of Funds for her sorority Delta Gamma, as a sophomore. She was also selected to be a member of the Bulls Business Community and the Business Honors Program (BHP). Through the BHP, she wrote her undergraduate thesis about “Modernization and Legacy Events” and was inspired to volunteer at the Super Bowl LV, hosted by the Tampa Bay Sports Commission. 

These experiences inspired her to apply to graduate school and through the Vinik Sport & Entertainment Management program, she has participated in various community events in the Tampa Bay Area, such as the Tailgate Taste Fest, Special Olympics Florida, and numerous 5Ks for local charities. She also served as Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Wells and other professors providing support on research projects. 

As a result of her work ethic, she was offered a Graduate Fellowship for the Tampa Bay Sports Commission and Event Development Institute (EDI) where she was responsible for the operations and logistics of major events, managing vendor/client relationships for all EDI events, managing hospitality suites for the Valspar Championship, and coordinating all participants in Pete Alonso’s Battle for the Bay. 

In addition to these achievements, she also was on the winning team of the National Sports Forum’s Case Cup competition, a competition for graduate students in high-performing sports management programs throughout the country. 

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Brad Cecil is already a USF alumnus, having earned a bachelor’s degree in business management in three years. He is on track to graduate in May with an MBA. 

Cecil has learned to strike a delicate balance between academics and athletics as a member of the USF Football team. Though he dedicates more than 20 hours a week to football, he strives to be more than “just an athlete.”  He was elected by players and coaches to serve as team captain three years in a row — a title he earned by leading by example on and off the field. The offensive lineman was named to Athlon’s All-Conference Fourth Team and is an Honorable Mention All-AAC student-athlete. He serves on USF’s Inclusive Excellence Committee and has been on the USF Athletics honor roll several times.

Cecil also serves as the representative for the football team on the Student Athlete Advisory Committee where he advocates for the student-athletes at USF. He says he is committed to being the voice for the team when it comes to rules, regulations, and policies that affect student-athletes’ lives.

Off the field, Cecil is proud of his work with Big Man Big Heart. Cecil has leveraged his name, image, and likeness options, and with others, helped to raise over $425,000 for the charity. His specific campaign is with Bode Wyatt, a 7-year-old Bulls fan who is battling Leukemia. Cecil’s campaign has not only helped Bode and his family, but also given them a behind-the-scenes look at USF’s athletic facilities, practices, and games.

Hunter Atteberry believes in the fearless pursuit of education. He also believes in constantly pushing himself to take on challenging projects to develop a new skill or learn about a new topic.

The recent USF alumnus earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing and is in his first year of graduate school in the Vinik Sport & Entertainment Management program, where he is pursuing two master’s degrees.

Some of his successful projects include spearheading a six-person team that created a million-dollar marketing campaign for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission. 

He produced a talent retention plan for the PGA Tour Superstore and collaborated with international students to give a presentation on how the influences of U.S. ownership affected Wrexham FC.

Outside the classroom, he looks for volunteer opportunities to expand his skill set. He volunteered with the Tampa Bay Sports Commission to gain a better understanding of marketing and event management. Atteberry also logged volunteer hours at the United Soccer League and staffed a youth tournament where he helped kids grow as better teammates, leaders, and friends through soccer.

Atteberry is currently an intern at WMT Digital, a marketing agency that manages paid and unpaid social platforms for sports organizations. He learns new ad management platforms, creates digital marketing campaigns, analyzes campaign performance data to construct recaps for company partners, and builds new processes that improve the entire company.

He says it’s a job that challenges him every day as he continues his fearless pursuit of learning. 

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When not in class, Hailey Mathieu can usually be found on the front lines of service, giving back to the most vulnerable in the community.

When Hurricane Irma devastated her hometown of Naples, Florida in 2017, she started volunteering with the American Red Cross. She started a Red Cross Club in high school to provide relief to families who suffered losses in the hurricane.  

That commitment to service continued into college. At USF, she joined the American Red Cross Club. There she took on numerous leadership roles, serving as president for the 2021-2022 year.

She led a Missing Maps initiative to train volunteers on how to map areas using satellite imagery. The American Red Cross Club project helped add vulnerable communities that were missing from disaster preparedness maps used by first responders.

She also spends time bringing warm blankets to veterans at the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital. Her grandpa, a veteran, inspired her love for giving back to the nation’s heroes.

Aside from helping disaster victims and veterans, she spent time helping new and transfer students get acclimated to USF as a Peer Advisor Leader with the USF New Student Connections program.

And since January, she has volunteered as an undergraduate researcher at the USF Health Byrd Alzheimer’s Center and Research Institute. 

Mathieu is pursuing a bachelor’s degree in management and, after graduation, plans to complete a second bachelor’s degree in biomedical sciences to become a doctor where she will be on the front lines of serving the community.

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As a freshman on the St. Petersburg campus, Fabrizio Petrozzi chose to participate in the Innovation Scholars program because it provided opportunities for students to explore their interests early on without committing the time and effort typically needed for an internship.

That exploration led him to become a resident assistant for USF Housing, where he supervised a building on the St. Petersburg campus with 370 residents.  He responded to emergencies, handled conflicts and led mediation efforts, and enforced policies. He also planned events, fostered a sense of community, and strived to create an inclusive and welcoming environment for those who called the dorm home.

Academics matter to the Judy Genshaft Honors College student, evidenced by his 3.98 grade point average and his participation in nearly a dozen intellectual and cultural events designed to broaden students’ understanding of varying disciplines and other perspectives.  He participated in another dozen such events through the St. Pete campus’ Chancellor’s Leadership Council.

The bilingual student put his research skills to work outside of campus, serving as a survey translator for a team conducting an inquiry into hurricane evacuations. He translated surveys and worked closely with the team lead to ensure that consistent, appropriate terminology was used.

He began his USF experience by exploring and his collegiate career has come full circle as he is now a mentor in the UMatter program, providing students with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to explore higher education and campus life. He has supported 13 students in UMatter.

Chase Crist has a hand in sports every day.

Whether it’s in her coordinator role at Fanatics Brands or as a graduate assistant for the Vinik Sport & Entertainment Management program, she has a front-row seat to promoting the sports industry.

As the sponsorship services coordinator for Fanatics Brands, she runs the business-to-business sales for major league teams in the MLB, NFL, MLS, NBA, and NHL. She helped generate $2.7 million in sales in six months.

As a graduate assistant, she helps to promote and recruit students for the nationally ranked Vinik Sport & Entertainment Management program.   

Not only is Crist a student in the program, but she also serves as the director of community and alumni relations for her cohort. In that role, she helps coordinate guest speakers and networking opportunities to connect her classmates with the program’s alumni.

While Crist loves sports, she needed to find an outlet that had nothing to do with athletics. That’s when she found Come to Jail with Me, a volunteer group that makes weekly visits to local juvenile detention centers.

She said the experience has been a raw, life-changing one. She hopes her visits make the juveniles feel like they are seen, heard, and loved, and that there is hope for the future.  

“My heart breaks every time I walk in there and I started this journey hoping to be a light for them,” she said. “But the reality of it is, every single time I leave, I am better because I spent time with them.”

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Caroline Keller Vieira is a highly driven professional with a passion for personal growth, community service, and making a positive impact. She graduated with her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude, double majoring in International Studies and Criminology. Seeking further education and career advancement, she is now pursuing a master’s degree in management with a concentration in human resources.

Personal development and financial independence are two things that Keller Vieira has always sought. She began her career as a desk clerk for USF’s Housing and quickly worked her way up to the position of operations assistant. Today, she has been promoted once more, serving as an assistant housing services coordinator, providing support to USF’s Housing’s professional staff team from a human resources perspective.

Strong people skills and work ethic helped Keller Vieira land a coveted internship with Tesla in 2023. She is taking remote classes and working full-time as a recruiting intern for supply chain, sourcing talent, and building candidate pipelines. In the short time she’s been with Tesla, she has connected with over 80 candidates, promoting the best candidate experience she can. 

Before Tesla, Keller Vieira held roles with several student organizations, which she credits with helping prepare her for her internships. She was an international relations manager for Junior Enterprise USA and a marketing director for HEXA Consulting. She also interned with Congresswoman Kathy Castor and volunteered with Feeding Tampa Bay, supporting the community that welcomed her. Today, Keller Vieira wants to serve as a positive influence on those who surround her.

Alex Smith loves finance. As a concurrent degree student, he is pursuing degrees in finance with a concentration in real estate and entrepreneurship and innovation, maintaining a 3.89 grade point average and participating in dozens of professional development opportunities. 

His experiences are impressive. Last summer, as a sophomore, he interned on Wall Street in New York as an investment banking summer analyst, a role that allowed him to collaborate with professionals to conduct financial analyses and evaluations for tech companies in various stages of development. He is a fellow for Diversity Leaders in Finance, a rigorous alternative investments workshop with weekly training sessions related to financial modeling, accounting, and corporate finance. He participated in a Bloomberg Financial Research externship, too, and his resume lists another dozen competitive development experiences with companies such as Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Guggenheim.

Smith’s list of service is equally impressive. He was a vice president of the USF Real Estate Society, where he coordinated weekly meetings. He is a member of the Student Investment Club, where he served as a research associate.  He also is a member of the Accounting Society and has served as an ACE tutor. In his hometown Cancun, Mexico, he volunteers at the National Telethon Center, serving children with severe impairments. In 2022, Smith received the Dean’s Advisory Board Leadership Award from the USF Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance. The annual honor recognizes business students who exemplify strong leadership through serving in leadership roles within the university or involvement in the community. 

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Aisha Bazlamatci has found a way to combine her loves — business, medicine, and music. She is a business management major on a pre-med track who takes an interdisciplinary approach to her academics, research, leadership, and community service.

But what do music research, mitochondrial dysfunctions, social media marketing to prevent drug overdoses, and volunteering at a student-run clinic have in common? Bazlamatci found a way.

As a paid research assistant, Bazlamatci spends many hours in the USF Music Research and Testing Lab. She administers tests to patients, scores and inputs the data, and writes papers and abstracts about the research findings. She also serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences at USF where she helps with the editing of journal submissions.

In 2022, Bazlamatci led a systematic review of mitochondrial dysfunctions in Alzheimer’s disease as the assistant leader for the Undergraduate Research Society at USF.

And she is the social media and marketing director for Prevent Overdose, a student organization that works to reduce overdoses among USF students and in the broader community. She also finds time to volunteer at the BRIDGE clinic, a free student-run clinic at the USF Morsani College of Medicine that serves uninsured adults in the community.

As a vice president of the Asian Students in America student organization, she builds relationships with local businesses to help find sponsorships for their banquets for charity.

Bazlamatci says each of these experiences has helped her grow, build meaningful relationships, and contribute to the health and well-being of her community.

As a survivor of abuse, Cindy Montalvo knows first-hand the sacrifices her mom has made. As a Brazilian immigrant in America, her mom was able to remove them from an unsafe environment and work hard to give Cindy a better life, even managing to become Disney World Passholders for over a decade.

Her mom’s dedication inspired Montalvo to take on more leadership roles and ultimately led her to enroll at the University of South Florida during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

In her short time at USF, Montalvo has joined many campus organizations that have allowed her to empower women, promote diversity, and help those around her. She is co-president of the Women in Business Society, the marketing chair of the Latin American Student Association, and serves as a Resident Assistant committed to creating a safe and assistive space for her peers.

Now a senior majoring in business analytics and information systems with a concentration in cybersecurity, Montalvo has come full-circle from her traumatic past. She was accepted into the 2022-2023 Disney College Program, a competitive national internship program at the happiest place on Earth.

“The Disney College Program will allow me to work at a place where my mom and I were always able to enjoy the magic of the rides and characters during our hardest times. I will be able to use my business analytic skills to make an impact with a company that has brought much joy to my life,” she said.

Gregory Harvey, a Judy Genshaft Honors College student, has maintained a record of high academic achievement while involving himself with numerous extracurriculars.  

He is a gifted musician who has performed with numerous ensembles at USF. Harvey was part of the Herd of Thunder Marching Band for two seasons, serving as Mellophone Section Leader in one of them. He also has played in the Rumble Pep Band and USF’s Symphony Orchestra. The director of bands uses words such as tenacious and driven to describe Harvey.  

Harvey is also president of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, leading and participating in many community outreach events benefiting kids, seniors, and cancer patients through music.  

As passionate as he is about music, Harvey is equally passionate about sports analytics. He previously worked with Fifth Quarter, Inc., as a content creator. His visualizations were shared by top analysts at Sports Illustrated and ESPN and he also authored 20+ sports research articles. He currently serves as a data tracking manager and content creator for USF’s baseball team. 

Harvey also currently works with Baseball Cloud, a firm that uses data and analytics to increase opportunities for young athletes. The developing company needed an intern to help build its online brand and with sports research. They offered Harvey the job on the spot, an atypical practice for coveted sports analytics internships. Harvey excelled and was soon hired to stay on part-time. He has been credited with helping the company grow its online following ten-fold during his tenure with the company. 

Christina Marshall works hard at balancing multiple leadership roles within USF student organizations. Yet she still manages to put 100 percent effort into her coursework, internships, and campus job. Those who know Marshall have described her as a self-motivated “true leader” with a “heart of gold.”

Marshall interned at the Children’s Cancer Center, a nonprofit organization supporting families affected by pediatric cancer, assisting with program communication and marketing.

She has been a sports marketing intern with USF Athletics for over a year. She’s passionate about creating an amazing fan experience, whether it’s managing a marketing table or interacting with fans during halftime activities.

She was selected to be in the Raymond James Marketing Mentorship Program, where she learned from senior leaders about marketing within the financial services industry.

Marshall serves as co-executive vice president of the American Marketing Association chapter at USF. She helps coordinate events to enhance the professional development of the group’s 90 members. She was previously the creative director at AMA, using her content creation skills to design graphics for the organization.

As the marketing coordinator for the USF Women in Business Society, she manages the organization’s social media accounts and promotes speaking engagements with successful women business leaders.

She also leads marketing campaigns as the marketing director for the USF Center for Student Involvement. There, she promotes student-led events to the university community, driving event attendance.

“My favorite part about my work is using my marketing skills to better connect students with the university,” she said.

Kaylynn Kennedy has poured her heart and soul into academia and professional development during four jam-packed years at USF.

The business advertising major will graduate in May with a resume full of professional experience. She’s had three internships in as many years. Each one gave her a real-world look into the marketing industry and helped her narrow her career interests.

Her first internship as a communications intern with the Muma College of Business taught her not to underestimate herself. She successfully executed a $14,000 promotional project.

Her second internship with Green Market Cafe taught her the importance of audience segmentation and sharpened her copywriting skills. She oversaw all the marketing emails.

Her third internship with Yacht Starship let her explore the different facets of the marketing field, from graphic design to newsletter creation to market research.

All three internships, along with advice from her mentors in the Corporate Mentor Program, helped grow her confidence and marketing skillset.

Outside of internships, Kennedy has been involved with USF Debate. She has won two national debate competitions and will compete in the PNW Conference of Scholars in Washington this April. 

Kennedy is part of the Zimmerman Advertising Program, too. ZAP allows students to pursue advertising as business majors by taking business core courses as well as higher-level advertising courses. The program’s required study-abroad trip brought her to London in 2019 which “opened her eyes to the world and allowed her to recognize the value of independence.” 

“One thing leads to another” is an idiom that explains how little moments lead to bigger ones. For Alia Abushkheidem, the “one thing” was the Bulls Business Community, an invitation-only program for high-achieving incoming freshmen. That led her to an internship with WUSF radio’s operations area. Next up was an opportunity to participate in the Student Managed Investment Fund, where she pitched stocks to industry leaders. That led to a corporate finance internship at Raymond James.

Abushkheidem also joined the Corporate Mentor Program, which pairs first-generation students with a business community mentor.  That mentor led her to an internship at Citi. During that summer finance internship at Citi, she recalls a conversation where another mentor asked her to identify a subject that she wished she knew more about. Abushkheidem said that for her, the subject was economics. This conversation led her to take a course in price theory, which led her to a new mentorship with an inspiring economics professor.  The result: Abushkheidem, still an undergraduate, enrolled in a graduate course focusing on antitrust and regulation. 

She will graduate in May with a degree in finance, a minor in economics, and a full-time job as a finance analyst. Because one thing leads to another, Abushkheidem also plans to also start a master’s program focusing on finance and economics.

Thanks to advanced placement and dual enrollment courses, Campbell Horn had 52 credit hours under her belt before she stepped into her first classroom at USF.  Horn earned a bachelor’s degree in 2020, summa cum laude.  Now an MBA student, Horn will leave USF with two degrees in the time most students take to earn one!

As an undergraduate, Horn made the dean’s list every semester and joined Delta Sigma Pi (a professional business fraternity). She also served as a resident assistant for USF Housing, where she helped create a safe and healthy living environment for students on campus – a tough job in typical circumstances but an especially challenging one during a pandemic! 

As an MBA student, Horn took 12 credit hours during her first semester. She also began working as a hall director at USF Housing, supervising a team of RAs and serving in a weekly on-call rotation to aid RAs.  As if that were not enough, Horn began working part-time as a graduate assistant and joined the Students of Color Advisory Board on USF’s St. Petersburg campus. She advocates for people of color and is helping with a research effort to identify mental health challenges students of color face at disproportionate rates. The findings will be used to develop a resource guide.

Beyond the university walls, she volunteers for Allendale United Methodist Church as part of an adult leadership team and she works with the LBGT community. Horn is also a data analyst for Inclusivity, LLC, a St. Petersburg-based consulting and management advising firm.

First-generation American Robert Camejo is pursuing the American Dream with gusto!  He will soon graduate with two bachelor’s degrees, both in rigorous programs, and a job offer that comes on the heels of five internships. His USF career also includes memberships in several organizations, participation in collegiate competitions and a slew of service activities.

Camejo was selected – one of few juniors – for the highly competitive Applied Securities Analysis program, which manages the college’s $1 million Student Managed Investment Fund. His analytical skills and team spirit led faculty to select him for USF’s team competing in the CFA Ethics Challenge, where students analyze a case that contains a variety of ethical dilemmas. The USF team placed highly in the competition.

In solo competition, Camejo won the 2021 Elevator Contest, a one-minute competition where students are challenged to sell themselves to area hiring managers.

As a sophomore, he landed a highly competitive internship at Merrill Lynch’s wealth management and financial planning division. As a junior, he headed to Chicago to intern at LaSalle, a global real estate firm. During his senior year, he interned for two companies, a mergers and acquisitions firm, Benchmark, and a boutique investment bank, Crosstree.  After graduation, he will join Crosstree as an investment banking analyst.

His community involvement includes membership in the USF Student Investment Club, business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi and the Corporate Mentor Program.  Camejo volunteers with Junior Achievement, Academy Prep, and has participated in single-day projects benefitting Metropolitan Ministries and Feeding Tampa Bay.

Sean Schrader is passionate about his local community and puts in the effort to make it the best possible place to live.

While still in high school, Schrader served as secretary for the Clearwater Neighborhoods Coalition. That commitment to community engagement led to more opportunities where he would hone his civil service and leadership skills. Currently, he works with other volunteers to ensure pilots are following the noise reduction practices around the St. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport.

At USF, he serves as a senator in the USF Student Government, helping to represent students on the St. Petersburg campus in the legislative decision-making process. He also is a student representative on the Faculty Council on Student Admissions and a member of the Order of the Golden Brahman, a leadership society for USF students.

As a student ambassador for Feeding Tampa Bay, he was able to see first-hand the vital role the food distribution events played in supporting his neighbors and the overall community.

“Personally, during the COVID-19 pandemic, seeing the toll it took on so many was terrible to witness. I was especially concerned about the business community, and seeing so many places that closed, never to reopen,” he said.

Schrader was so moved that he started a research tour over the summer. He visited five different industries to see how they had been impacted by COVID-19. He presented his findings at the USF Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference and will be sharing his research at Johns Hopkins University later this semester.

Andrew Davis has a heart for service. When he became an Eagle Scout, he designed and built a new obstacle course for Horses for Handicapped, one that its clients used to train for the Special Olympics. He has helped with countless service activities, from post-hurricane landscaping tasks at his church to collecting school supplies for an elementary school. For the past decade, Davis can be found at Bay Pines Memorial Cemetary on Veterans Day, placing flags on the graves of fallen soldiers. His altruistic nature is something to be admired.  

His academic prowess is equally commendable. Davis earned a bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, from St. Petersburg College in 2020.  He studied abroad at Estudio Sampere in Spain in 2018 and his resume is peppered with academic achievement awards, ranging from St. Petersburg College’s Alumni Achievement Award to its Global Distinction honor.

He has combined academics and community service as a college student. At USF, Davis serves as treasurer of USF’s College Republicans chapter and director of marketing for the Green and Gold Capital Group, an investment club. He serves on the Marshall Student Center Advisory Board and working on the “Involvement Challenge” hosted by the Center for Student Involvement. His short-term USF projects include helping fellow students register to vote and collecting nearly 2,000 canned items for Feed-A-Bull, USF’s food pantry.

Davis will complete the MBA program in August and, as a member of the Army Reserve Officer’s Training Corps., will then begin his military career.

To call Darcy Williams driven would be an understatement. In her almost four years at USF, the business honors student has successfully completed five internships and received three full-time job offers.

She completed an undergraduate thesis analyzing the pandemic’s impact on commercial real estate performance and trends and presented the findings at the 2022 Undergraduate Research Conference.

Williams has held numerous leadership positions within Phi Chi Theta, a professional business fraternity. As the vice president of recruitment for the chapter, she had the overwhelming task of growing membership during the pandemic. Once in-person activities resumed, she put into action a strategic recruitment plan and membership jumped by 91 percent.

She is also a stand-out when it comes to mentoring her peers as a student assistant in the Muma College of Business’ Collier Student Success Center. She started working at the center during her final semester at USF because she wanted to help others.

“I meet with students one on one to help them revise their resumes, prepare for interviews, and navigate the daunting job and internship search. It has been my favorite and most gratifying job by far,” she said.

After graduation, she heads to North Carolina to start a job as an institutional sales analyst with Barings, an international investment management firm with over $382 billion in assets under management.

She says she’s had “four amazing years” at USF and is beyond proud to call herself a Bull. And in a few weeks, she will call herself a proud alumna.

As the oldest son of three generations of hard-working business people, Gustavo Storck inherited his entrepreneurial spirit hearing about his parents and grandparents’ 16-hour shifts in their small bakery in Brazil.

That bakery was later converted into a supermarket chain that his parents run. The pandemic forced Storck, then a USF student majoring in chemical engineering, to return to his hometown, take online classes and help out with the family’s business.

Storck’s father trained him to be the head of buying and Storck suddenly had a crash course in supply chain management. He coordinated merchandise purchase orders and established new connections to overcome market shortages.

In 2021, he started a coffee shop adjoining his grandparents’ old bakery and was featured on local news as one of the youngest entrepreneurs to open a business during the pandemic.

“Every day was a new challenge and it didn’t take long for business to become my passion and addiction,” he said.

As a Muma College of Business student, he has taken his new career pathway with zest, diving headfirst into the USF chapter of the American Marketing Association and the student-led agency Consult-A-Bull. While serving as director of fundraising at AMA, Storck raised over $4,000 for the organization. He was instrumental in obtaining a government grant of over $5,000 that helped 20 marketing students attend an international conference in Chicago. Because of his successes, he was hired by Student Government and recently promoted to Tampa campus executive director of marketing and communications.

Kevin Alwell is not yet 25 but in May he will have two graduate degrees (an MBA and a Master of Science in Sport & Entertainment Management), a triple-major bachelor’s degree (statistics, economics and sport management), and a handful of jobs – in America and abroad – under his belt.  

Alwell currently works as an account coordinator in the partnerships area for the Tampa Bay Lightning but his internships have been varied. He served as director of operations for the University of Connecticut’s Women’s Soccer program, as a media assistant for the United States Soccer Federation, as a sponsorship marketing assistant (and later as a media operations assistant) for the International Champions Cup, and as a press liaison for FC Barcelona, SL Benfica, and ACF Fiorentina. More recently, he has served as a research fellow with Wasserman and a consumer intelligence fellow for the Tampa Bay Lightning.  He also participated in a short-term role with the Tampa Bay Super Bowl Host Committee.

As a student in the Vinik Sport & Entertainment Management program, he has also assisted with research projects, including published research (alongside faculty member Janelle Wells) that focused on improving diversity in sports industries.

Alwell has been recognized for his work. He was named an Honors Scholar by the University of Connecticut (where he earned his bachelor’s degrees). He was on the team named the Major League Soccer Operations Staff of the Year in 2017 (the New York Red Bulls) and again in 2019 (the Philadelphia Union). 

Alexis Ofstein has always had a knack for using her business skills to make another person’s life easier.

During an entrepreneurship class at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, she started Pure Serenity, a company that sold essential oil-infused bracelets to help her fellow classmates and the community relieve stress and cope with trauma.

Also in high school, she helped foster teens sharpen their financial literacy skills and apply for jobs. These early introductions to entrepreneurship, fiscal responsibility, and operating a business fueled Ofstein’s goal to become a certified financial planner.

As a third-year personal financial planning student, Ofstein is continuing to share her savvy sense for dollars and cents through her leadership positions and community service activities. She served as vice president of finance with her sorority Sigma Delta Tau and helped her sorority sisters increase their financial literacy and taught them the importance of building credit. She also helped with resume preparation.

More recently, Ofstein joined Phi Chi Theta where she now serves as vice president of finance.

Ofstein is an intern at the USF Federal Credit Union where she assists credit union members with products and services and processes deposits, withdrawals, and loan payments. She said the internship has helped her be more confident in sharing her financial knowledge.

“This internship has brought me out of my shell and made me more comfortable and knowledgeable in this field that I want to continue through school and beyond,” she said.

She says she thinks back to her high school days of helping others by sharing her financial know-how and believes personal financial planning has always been her calling.

Sydney Marshall arrived at the University of South Florida as an “extremely intimidated” first-generation international student from Trinidad and Tobago.

She eventually overcame those first-year college jitters by taking on leadership roles and getting more involved in campus life. Marshall is pursuing dual degrees – a bachelor’s in Business Analytics and Information Systems and a bachelor’s in Biology.

Marshall took on several leadership roles on the Caribbean Cultural Exchange, an organization that promotes cultural awareness of the people of the Caribbean. She was the group’s historian and now serves as its treasurer and accountable officer.

In 2020, she started a student instructional and learning assistant job that sparked her continuing love for mentoring. The position was supposed to be a one-semester commitment but she kept going back. The opportunity turned into a two-year role that she relishes.

As a mentor and guide to hundreds of students, Marshall coordinates biweekly tutoring sessions for more than 400 students and facilitates and manages small group discussions between more than 50 students in the classroom. The role has been the perfect mix of leadership and mentorship.

“Whether it’s teaching course content or connecting my students to resources on campus, being a student learning assistant has been incredibly fulfilling,” she said. 

Aside from mentoring, she finds time to nurture her interest in analytics and biology. She started her first independent research project on the effects of opioid abuse in justice-affected youth.

This summer she is starting an internship as a Summer Analyst at BNP Paribas CIB in Jersey City.

Since childhood, Akylai Davletova’s dream was to study abroad. However, growing up in the male-dominated Kyrgyz culture, where building a family is valued over choosing a career path, Davletova struggled in her pursuit of higher education.

But she persisted and started her journey abroad at age 9. That is when she left Kyrgyzstan to live with a host family to compete in an international dance competition in Turkey. It was there that she kindled her interest in travel and higher learning. 

At 16, she enrolled in an exchange program and lived with a host family in Wisconsin, where she graduated from high school. Davletova, who speaks four languages, enrolled in USF and is a junior majoring in finance.

At USF, Davletova is an equity research associate in the Student Investment Club where she creates financial reports and analyzes market research to recommend the stock portfolio. She has learned how to balance work, school, and life responsibilities. She maintains a GPA of 3.92 while working part-time jobs at the Academic Success Center and Housing Services at USF.

In her spare time, she helps new international students who are studying abroad from Kyrgyzstan adjust to campus life.

She is also a communications intern at the USF Muma College of Business. She works as an intern on the college’s communications and marketing team and was appointed as a campaign lead. 

Coming from a large family with six siblings, she is a first-generation college student at USF. With her family’s support, she made her dream come true.

Penelope Schweitzer is a straight-A student with a big heart for volunteerism and for helping new USF students get acclimated to everything that USF offers. She is a Portuguese American who arrived at USF having already earned an associate degree in high school.

Schweitzer is not one to sit on the sidelines. In fact, she has been active in on-campus activities since the first day she got here. She describes herself as a hard-working junior with a passion for working to support fellow USF students by improving their on-campus experiences.

She was a senator for her dorm in the Residence Hall Association. She was also an Honors Orientation Mentor with the Judy Genshaft Honors College. This semester, she will be presenting her research on German culture and fashion at the Undergraduate Research Conference.

This school year, Schweitzer served as a Peer Advisor Leader for the USF Office of New Student Connections. Through that role, she has worked with hundreds of second-year students who spent their freshmen year completely online. She mentored a core group of 50 students, helping them feel comfortable at USF and ensuring student success.

Beyond the halls of academia, Schweitzer volunteers with Suncoast Hospice/Empath Health where she has logged over 300 service hours in the teen and adult volunteer program. “This is a very personal cause for me since my Vavo, or “grandma” in Portuguese, had a major stroke in 2014 and I’ve seen how vital hospice/nursing care is for families,” she said.

Sport is powerful and Sarah Linebaugh is hoping to harness that power and be an agent of change in the business of sport and entertainment management.

As a student in the Vinik Sport and Entertainment Management program, Linebaugh is set to graduate in May with a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Sport and Entertainment Management.

In her time in the program, she made her mark as a stand-out student who possesses a genuine passion for helping others through sport. Faculty advisors describe her as someone who is not out to simply become absorbed by the sports industry, but she is intent on improving it.

She serves as the alumni relations officer for the program. In that role, Linebaugh works to engage with the program’s more than 200 alumni by planning events that get program graduates excited about giving back. She spearheaded fundraising and donation campaigns such as the Vinik Sport and Entertainment Management Day of Giving.

Linebaugh also sharpens her alumni outreach skills as the Student-Athlete Enhancement Fellow with USF Athletics. Since July 2021, she has helped plan signature events for USF’s more than 400 student-athletes. Among her memorable achievements were Senior Sendoff, Dine Like a Pro, and Destress Day. She also finds ways to engage with the more than 250 Bulls Varsity Club members and with USF’s 5,000-plus athletics alumni. 

Before enrolling at USF, Linebaugh earned a bachelor’s degree in sport and recreation management at Temple University’s School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management.

When Jack Luba arrived at the University of South Florida, he had been discharged from the Singapore Armed Forces merely 10 days prior. In his post-military life, he has relentlessly chased after every academic and professional opportunity he’s been presented. 

Luba is on track to graduate in 2023 with dual bachelor’s degrees — one in finance and one in world languages and cultures, with a concentration in Chinese. Luba said his diverse background has fostered a fascination with global businesses and markets. He grew up in six different countries spanning multiple continents. 

Luba is the president of Delta Sigma Pi, a co-ed professional business fraternity of more than 70 members at USF. He says through conversations with older brothers at Delta Sigma Pi, he became acquainted with prestigious careers in finance during freshman year. He relied on his brothers to help prepare for rigorous interviews and formulate a plan to break into investment banking. Inspired by their help, he created a system of mentorship within the fraternity. 

“My brothers were instrumental in my own professional development, and I wanted to cultivate an environment where all of our brothers could easily find professional mentorship with the fraternity,” he said. 

Luba spent last summer as an intern in the risk management group at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, and prior to that, interned as a private equity analyst.  This summer, Luba will intern for Raymond James as an Investment Banking Summer Analyst in Chicago. 

Jared Krachenfels promised himself that he would make the most of his time while attending USF. With a few weeks from graduation, he is on track to not only meet, but exceed that pledge. 

Krachenfels is an honors student pursuing dual degrees — a bachelor’s degree in business analytics and information systems and a bachelor’s degree in econometrics and quantitative economics. 

He has served as vice president of professional activities of Delta Sigma Pi, a professional business fraternity, where he led events including presentations from blue-chip industry leaders, resume/interview workshops, and major-specific networking opportunities. This experience and the relationships formed with DSP brothers has expanded his realm of career opportunities and goals. 

For three summers, Krachenfels interned at Life’s Abundance in West Palm Beach, Florida. He worked in marketing, in research and project management, and as an operations and information systems analyst intern. The varied experiences gave him an insider’s view of what it takes to scale a private, employee-owned business into a sizeable organization. The mentoring he received from senior managers opened his eyes to “ethical management.”  

One of his proudest moments was facilitating the standardization of warehouse processes using data analytical skills. “What seemed like a collection of trivial changes to the warehouse process ended up delivering a highly effective, adaptable, and cost-saving solution,” he said.  

During his senior year at USF, he joined the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement’s Bulls Service Break and led a student service team at Habitat for Humanity in South Carolina. 

Carter Bedinghaus joined Student Government and became an orientation team leader for the Sarasota-Manatee campus shortly after his first year of college. Today, some might call him the face of that campus’ student body.

Bedinghaus was elected president of the Student Government Senate during his sophomore year.  As president, he oversaw 15 elected senators and managed the group’s distribution of $1.5 million to student organizations. Additionally, Bedinghaus was selected to represent USF at the National Student Leadership Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, participated in USF Day at the Capitol, and was inducted into the Order of the Golden Brahman society. 

A Student Government advisor pointed out that Bedinghaus’ service was in challenging times, during USF’s consolidation of three campuses, a pandemic, and a budget crisis. Pointing out that turnover has long been an issue in the Senate, the advisor also notes that while Bedinghaus was the president, turnover amongst student leaders dropped to zero, crediting the young leader’s communications and problem-solving skills, contagious enthusiasm, and determination. 

Student Government is not the only organization benefitting from these traits. Bedinghaus also serves as a USF Ambassador, is the president of the Adventure Club, and helped plan USF’s TEDx program.

The marketing major aspires to become a dentist. He joined USF’s Pre-Dental Club and is now the group’s president. Bedinghaus will graduate from USF in May and will begin his tenure as a student in the LECOM School of Dental Medicine in the fall.