TEAM
2021-2022 EXECUTIVE TEAM
2021-2022 CONSULTANT TEAMS
Each year, our clients receive consulting services from a team of four to six 180 UBC students, consisting of a Project Manager and several Consultants and Analysts. Each team is assigned a client to work with for a period of 4 or 8 months.
180 Degrees Consulting
180 Degrees Consulting at UBC delivers services to clients in Greater Vancouver and beyond who are working to improve the wellbeing of people and the planet.
Project Details
180DC UBC is committed to equitable hiring practices and creating diverse project teams in order to deliver value to clients and expose students in different faculties to the field of consulting. As applications have increased, projects per year have about doubled, and new management has taken over, we would like assistance in creating guidelines to develop and maintain these practices.
Project Members
Project Manager: Isha Trivedi
Consultant: Raneem Zaitoun
Analysts: Matthew Stuart, Stephanie Mazza, Mikhail Karadimas
CAN: Citizens for Accessible Neighbourhoods
Creating Accessible Neighbourhoods (CAN) is committed to equity, diversity, and accessibility. Creating Accessible Neighbourhoods empowers people with disabilities, builds community, enables people to advocate for themselves and others, celebrates diversity, and amplifies lived experience.
Project Details
CAN currently has 4 workshops but will be increasing to 6 in the coming quarter and wishes to increase the awareness of these new workshops in addition to their current workshops. The 180DC UBC team (the Team) will conduct a comprehensive analysis of CAN’s current marketing funnel to increase awareness of their courses.
Project Members
Project Manager: Madiha Thaver
Consultants: Shantanu Mehta, Sarida Aramwongtrakul
Analysts: Wanying Shi, Sabine Vllaroman, Niccolo Scuriatti
Crisis Centre - Term 1
The Crisis Centre of BC is dedicated to providing help and hope to individuals, organizations, and communities. Spanning the spectrum of crisis support, suicide prevention, and postvention, we engage staff and volunteers in a variety of services and programs that educate, train, and support the strength and capacity of individuals and communities.
Project Details
The Crisis Centre has identified client relationship management as an area of improvement within the organization. The 180dc Team will work cooperatively with the Crisis Centre's communication, outreach, and operations teams to identify and implement a new system for client relationship management.
Project Members
Project Manager: Ritesh Tota
Consultants: Sofya Langman, Bharat Maheshwari
Analysts: Henry Chung, Leon Carlson
Crisis Centre - Term 2
The Crisis Centre of BC is dedicated to providing help and hope to individuals, organizations, and communities. Spanning the spectrum of crisis support, suicide prevention, and postvention, we engage staff and volunteers in a variety of services and programs that educate, train, and support the strength and capacity of individuals and communities.
Project Details
A continuation of Term 1, the team at 180 Degrees is supporting the Crisis Centre in implementation - working alongside a pilot team of employees and external organization to determine the best course of action.
Project Members
Project Manager: Smruti Sakvur
Consultants: Leon Carlson, Louis-Alexandre Fournier
Analysts: Yash Savani, Doris Huang, Cassidy Lee
Cyberpatient
Interactive Health International (IHI), a registered Canadian non-profit charity, aims to equalize health education between developed and developing countries. One of the main means by which it aims to do this is CyberPatient, a computer assisted online learning tool for medical students. This tool allows users to examine, diagnose, and operate on virtual patients - after which feedback on their performance is provided.
Project Details
IHI has previously utilized 180dc’s services in Term 2 of the 2020-2021 year, where the team focused on a comprehensive competitive analysis of IHI’s product CyberPatient. The recommendations of the team at 180dc have since been implemented over the summer months, and IHI would like to retain 180dc’s services once again for further strategic analysis as Cyberpatient begins their fundraising and finalizes their go-to-market strategy.
Project Members
Project Manager: Lily (Yiying) Lou
Consultant: Diana Vasyliuk
Analysts: Lena Faucher, Yoran Beisher, Elshen Ebadi
Disability Foundation
Disability Foundation (DF) and its six affiliated societies are registered Canadian nonprofits that provide opportunities for people with physical disabilities to enable their individual journeys.
Project Details
The 180DC UBC team (the Team) will assist in the development of a business plan for netClé.
This project will be in collaboration with the Disability Foundation and one of its six affiliated societies, Tetra Society of North America, to promote a new assistive technology: netClé.
In addition to netClé, the project will also explore a product already in market, TrailRider, which the team will explore its growth opportunity in market.
Project Members
Consultants: Andrew Wu, Picheth Thovaravirut
Analysts: Yoran Beisher, Primo Huang, Annabella Stoll-Dansereau, Aidan Chan, Alejandro Solano-Romero
Richmond Food Bank
The Richmond Food Bank Society (RFB) is a non-profit organization serving the community of Richmond since 1983. They are registered under the BC Society Act, governed by a volunteer board of Directors and funded primarily through grants and donations.
Project Details
The 180DC UBC team will conduct a risk audit that will identify, analyze, prioritize, and manage risks associated with governance and operation of the Richmond Food Bank. The goal of this risk audit is to provide a roadmap for the RFB to use for prioritizing and addressing risks in the future. At the end of the first semester, the Team will have the opportunity to present this risk registry at the RFB’s annual year-end meeting.
Project Members
Project Manager: Giuliana Del Guercio
Consultant: Jay Hou
Analysts: Primo Huong, Niccolo Scuriatti
Technology For Living
Technology for Living (TFL) is a non-profit providing people who have diverse abilities with
assistance to help them live as well and as independently as possible.
Project Details
The TFL is launching their new program called the Youth Assistive Technology (YAT) Project. They
would like assistance regarding how best to reach this new customer group of children with
disabilities and how to ensure that this project is a long term success.
Project Members
Project Manager: Caleb Harrison
Consultants: Elshen Ebadi, Julia Basten
Analysts: Shreekavya Mittal, Shriyans Duddella, Divsahib Singh Sachdeva