Alumnus Thomas Caleel Named Director of Wharton School MBA Admissions and Financial Aid
March 21, 2005 ?Following an extensive search, alumnus Thomas Caleel was appointed director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Caleel previously worked at Cagan McAfee Capital Partners, a private equity firm in California抯 Silicon Valley, where he performed financial analysis for portfolio companies and raised public and private funds across the energy, recycling, and life sciences sectors.
揂s a successful entrepreneur, venture financier, and chief executive, Thomas Caleel抯 professional experience has been wide ranging and internationally diverse,?said Anjani Jain, vice dean of the Wharton School抯 MBA Division. 揂s an alumnus, he now returns to Wharton with great enthusiasm for the opportunity to help shape the School抯 future.?
Caleel began his career at Heritage Finance & Trust, a private financial group based in Geneva, Switzerland. As director of the Moscow Representative Office during 1995-1998, he established and built the company抯 presence in this rapidly growing market. Caleel also participated in a variety of private equity transactions across several former Soviet Republics.
Between 1998 and 2001, Caleel was a co-founder of BCI Private Capital, a holding company in Denver, CO. Through BCI, he served as managing director of international development for Caleel+Hayden, a start-up manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of premium skincare products. During his time at Caleel+Hayden, sales grew from zero to over $20 million annually, and the firm grew to 180 employees across 20 countries. While at BCI, Caleel participated in the acquisition or founding of several new product lines and new businesses and served as the interim CEO of a Russian-Swiss technology venture that delivers medical information to remote disaster areas as well as mobile phones.
After earning his MBA from Wharton in 2003 with a major in finance, Caleel worked at Cagan McAfee Capital Partners. He also served on the board of directors of several CMCP portfolio companies and was vice president of the Wharton Club of Northern California.
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抯 graduate student advisory committee. He demonstrated exemplary leadership and won the 2003 Wharton Way Leadership Award. Caleel earned a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994.
Caleel is an accomplished horseman and has played polo in professional level tournaments in the U.S. and abroad. He is fluent in Russian, proficient in Italian and French, and is working on his Spanish.
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized around the world for its academic strengths across every major discipline and at every level of business education. Founded in 1881 as the first collegiate business school in the nation, Wharton has approximately 4,600 undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and doctoral students, more than 8,000 participants in its executive education programs annually, and an alumni network of more than 80,000 worldwide.
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