OUR TEAM

Hassan read History at the prestigious University College London. He is an ex-investment banking, corporate law, private equity and venture capital recruiter. He has interviewed 1,000+ professionals from tier-1 firms. These include elite bulge bracket investment banks, such as Goldman Sachs; top corporate law firms, such as Kirkland & Ellis; and prestigious private equity firms such as KKR.

He has gained an in-depth understanding of recruitment for elite processes and has created proprietary products for the firm. These have enabled 100% of students to be successful at CV stage at investment banks, corporate law firms, venture capital and private equity funds.

He is an international expert on getting into elite careers. He has spoken at Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan on helping their MBA class get into elite finance careers, such as venture capital.

His personal client base consists of alumni of prestigious boarding schools such as La Rosey (Switzerland), Eton College (England), and Doon School (India); clients with families possessing net worths exceeding £100 million, and clients whose parents are senior politicians.

Hassan loves transforming clients’ lives by helping them get the careers they deserve.

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Hassan Akram, Founder and CEO of City Careers Coach

EXPERTISE: Corporate law, investment banking, private equity, venture capital, and investment bankinG

KAREN PAGINTON

RECRUITING Expert - CORPORATE LAw aND INVESTMENT BANKING and Big 4

Callum-caolán Burns

RECRUITING Expert - CORPORATE LAw

Callum-Caolán achieved a 1st class honours degree at one of Ireland’s leading universities, Queen’s University Belfast.

He specialises in helping our clients get legal training contracts and vacation schemes into elite city law firms, including magic, silver and US. Starting salaries for newly qualified solicitors are up to £164,000.

Callum-Caolán is a current early careers advisor at a top city law firm. He specialises in recruiting students for vacation schemes and training contracts. He has worked in graduate recruitment at the prestigious magic circle law firm Allen & Overy and the elite US law firm White & Case. 

He has directly screened 5,000+ vacation scheme and training contract applications, interviewed 1,000+ candidates, and directly attended hiring meetings for vacation schemes and training contracts. Callum-Caolán has also directly made vacation scheme offers to candidates.

Callum-Caolán loves working with driven and ambitious university students.

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Shinaz Navas, Strategic Advisor - EX-Venture Capital

Shinaz graduated with a 1st class degree in economics from the prestigious London School of Economics.

He is a current venture capital investor at Emerge Education, the world’s leading education venture capital fund. He previously worked at Deloitte, the leading professional services firm, as a strategy consultant.

As a former client, Shinaz has benefited from City Careers Coach’s services. He is also aware of international students' key challenges in recruitment processes for elite and prestigious city careers, including private equity and venture capital.

He looks forward to providing City Careers Coach his expert insights in the company building space to further its strategic direction.

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Sanjay Shastry, growth analyst - London Business sChool

Karen is a vastly experienced recruiter with 25+ years of experience in graduate-level recruiting for elite careers. She has a long and successful career having recruited for some of the world’s most prestigious industries, such as investment banking, corporate law, and strategy consulting.

She specialises in helping clients across multiple of our programmes, but in particular corporate law and investment banking. She has made corporate law training contract and vacation scheme offers and has directly advised partners on hiring decisions.

Karen has directly been involved in 1,000s of hiring decisions for corporate law training contracts and analyst positions at investment banks. She has screened 100,000 CVs+, 10,000+ CVs, and interviewed 10,000+ candidates in her career.

Karen enjoys the professional satisfaction of helping high-achieving young people break through and get into the world’s most challenging careers.

Her professional track record includes:

• Former Head of Interim Talent at the elite US law firm, White & Case

• VP of Campus Resourcing with Citi, the tier-1 investment bank

• Graduate and MBA recruitment for investment banks, Merrill Lynch and Nomura

• BP - Head of Graduate Resourcing

• Credit Suisse - Graduate Recruiting (Equities)

• Ernst and Young - Interim Senior Manager Campus Attraction

• KPMG - Head of Student Recruitment

• Deloitte - Head of Early Career Talent

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Sanjay is a student at London Business School, and previously graduated from Bocconi which is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Europe.

Sanjay has previously interned as a corporate finance analyst at an AI-based advertising firm. He has also worked as a Growth and Finance intern at a leading Indian venture capital firm. Here, he was involved in deal origination and directly spoke to start-up founders on a daily basis.

He has also previously secured job offers at unicorn companies.

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