In today’s market, AI-driven data-infrastructure deals already account for roughly a quarter of global M&A activity, regulators are rewriting (and sometimes reversing) climate-disclosure rules, and U.S. spot-ether ETFs have logged nearly $1 billion of net inflows in a two-week streak, all shifts recruiters want to hear you analyze fluently.
The Finance Society turns that fluency into results. Through closed-door dialogues with senior dealmakers, intensive modeling & valuation boot camps, inclusive panels on emerging themes like ESG and fintech, and our signature stock-pitch competition evaluated by industry professionals, members rack up the reps that translate first-year curiosity into internship offers, and those internships into full-time returns. If you’re aiming for investment banking, corporate finance, or private-wealth management, joining the club means stepping into interviews already sounding like an insider and walking out with the offer.
ELLIOT YU
PRESIDENT
Full-time Class of 2026
Elliot is a first-generation MBA student spending his time as an Financial Leadership Development Program (FLDP) intern at Amazon. Before starting his MBA, Elliot has 5+ years in finance/FP&A across fintech, e-commerce and brand consulting industries. Outside of work and school, he has found passion for traveling and immersing himself in new cultures. Two examples include spending two weeks in Spain and one week in Seoul. He relaxes at home FaceTiming with his family cat, Ruby, back at their family home.
EDRIAN MADYATAMA
VP OF EVENTS
Full-time Class of 2026
Ed served as a Project Management Office and Business Development Manager at Barito Pacific Group, a leading Indonesian conglomerate. He supported business growth through new product development and go-to-market strategies, and led corporate expansion efforts as a due diligence manager for mergers and acquisitions. Post-MBA, Ed aims to drive business growth through consulting or investment. Outside of work, he is passionate about hybrid workouts and wellness.
IRENE DERMBANGPID
VP OF CORPORATE FINANCE
Full-time Class of 2026
Irene was a Finance Manager at PepsiCo, where she served as a strategic finance business partner across all functions and led planning efforts for five Southeast Asian markets. She is passionate about investment banking, M&A, and corporate strategy, and will join Amazon as a Finance Leadership Development Program (FLDP) intern this summer. As part of the Finance Society board, she is committed to supporting members through the finance recruiting journey and hopes to foster greater interest in finance within the Foster community. In her free time, she enjoys scuba diving, hiking, wine tasting, and discovering new restaurants.
Jessica Liu
VP OF EVENING STUDENT AFFAIRS
EVENING STUDENT Class of 2027
Jessica is a Senior Accountant at Saltchuk Resources, where she serves as a key business partner across all departments and leads annual budget planning efforts for the corporate office. She is passionate about FP&A and corporate strategies. As the only evening student on the Finance Society board, she aims to bridge the gap between full-time and evening cohorts by fostering greater engagement with finance among working professionals and supporting those interested in pivoting into a finance career. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, gardening, traveling, and practicing yoga.
McKenna Joy Tey
VP OF ALUMNI RELATIONS
Full-time Class of 2026
McKenna has a background in product management and consulting, with experience spanning technology, e-commerce, digital platforms, and both DTC and B2B sales and marketing. This summer, she will join Nike as a graduate intern on the Global Membership team. She is passionate about alumni relations and building a multigenerational UW Foster community that thrives on connection and inclusion. Outside of school, McKenna enjoys roller skating, skiing, traveling, and exploring new restaurants around Seattle.
WILL HOWIE
VP OF FINANCE
Full-time Class of 2026
Will currently works as a Finance Leadership Development Program (FLDP) intern at Amazon. Before coming to Foster, he gained experience working at a public health startup in Phoenix Arizona. He has a background in Pure Mathematics, and is passionate about personal finance and all things quantitative. As a member of the Finance Society board, he hopes to be a valuable resource for his classmates as they begin their recruitment journeys and learn about NPV from Professor Gilbert. In his free time, Will enjoys reading, good conversation, opera, and spending time with his extended family.
Finance Happy Hour: Warren Buffett’s Shareholder Letter
Enjoy refreshments at Schultzy’s on the Ave and discuss Warren’s view on Gold as an investment.
Boardroom Speaker Series: Charlotte Guyman—Berkshire Hathaway Director, Brooks Running Director, former Microsoft Director.
Dissecting an Earnings Call (Amazon) with professors Sarah McVay and Ed deHaan
Quarterly earnings releases—what firms say, how they say it, and sometimes even what they don’t say—can be an invaluable source of information about a company. Understanding how to think critically about earnings releases is important for internal and external stakeholders, and they can be great resources to prepare for interviews across many functions.
Speaker Series: Women in Finance Speaker Panel with Jennifer Koski and Sophie Gilbert
The event will feature a panel, including Foster Finance Professor Jennifer Koski and Head of Business Solutions at Russell Investments Sophie Gilbert. Panelists will discuss topics ranging from research on gender in finance, challenges faced improving gender representation in finance professions, and the panelists’ experiences facing gender issues in their field. Drinks and light appetizers will be served following the panel.
Speaker Series: Machine Learning and Investing: Kevin Zatloukal--UW CS Lecturer, former Google and Microsoft programmer with a PhD from MIT.
Kevin will be discussing value traps, canonical correlation among investment factors, and the application of ML methods such as ensemble decision stumps and random forests to investing.
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska
This May, The Finance Society will be organizing a group of students to attend the 2019 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting – also known as “Woodstock for Capitalists”— in Omaha, Nebraska.
Speaker Series: MIT’s Andrew Lo
Professor Lo will be going over his ground breaking research and newest financial theory – The Adaptive Market Hypothesis. The Adaptive Market Hypothesis is an attempt to reconcile economic theories based on the efficient market hypothesis (which implies that markets are efficient) with behavioral economics, by applying the principles of evolution to financial interactions: competition, adaptation and natural selection.
Amazon FLDP Preparation
Heard from two Amazon FLDP employees--Priyanka Balasubramanian & Mackenzie O'Berry--to help prep current Foster students for FLDP interviews.
Speaker Series: Fireside Chat with Tren Griffin
Tren Griffin, Senior Director at Microsoft, Author of popular finance blog 25iq, expert on value investing, and author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor, A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs, and The Global Negotiator sits down for a discussion on business and investing.
Annual Stock Pitch Competition at the historic Canlis Restaurant
The competition will give students the chance to select, analyze, and pitch a stock to financial professionals from the Seattle area. Judges currently include professionals from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Kosmos Management, Russell Investments, Windrose Partners, Fulcrum Capital, US Trust, Morgan Creek Capital Management, and the UW Endowment.
Training The Street 2 Day Workshop
TTS is the world’s leading financial learning services company, offering state-of-the-art, instructor-led courses in financial modeling and corporate valuation to corporate and educational clients. Founded in 1999, TTS’s clients include the world’s leading universities, investment banks, consulting firms, and Fortune 500 companies.
Speaker Series: ESG Investing Panel
The Foster Finance Society and Net Impact Club welcome:
Martha Strebinger, CFA - Investment Strategist at Parametric Portfolio Associates
Emily Steinbarth - Quantitative Research Analyst at Russell Investments
Alex Bernhardt - Head of Responsible Investment, US at Mercer Investments
Speaker Series: Investing Legends – Fireside Chat with Howard Marks
Mr. Marks is known for his incredible track record in the world of distressed debt investing and his insightful investment memos about which Warren Buffett states, “When I see memos from Howard Marks in my mail, they're the first thing I open and read. I always learn something, and that goes double for his book.”
Mr. Marks will be discussing, among many topics, his investment career, risk and uncertainty, his investment philosophy, and his new book Mastering the Market Cycle.
Finance Breakfast: Warren Buffett’s 2008 Annual Shareholder Letter
Breakfast at Costas on Ave and deep discussion revolving around Warren Buffett’s iconic 2008 shareholder letter.