About

Nate Stewart (@Nate_Stewart)

Nate Stewart is the founder and CEO of Koowala Inc. He is currently a first year MBA candidate at MIT Sloan focusing on Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Before starting business school, Nate worked in New York as a lead software developer at Bloomberg L.P, a financial news, data, and analytics company. At Bloomberg he learned to build intuitive, reliable, and scalable software systems for their Portfolio Analytics and Risk department.

Nate is a graduate of the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor where he received his B.A in computer science. He is based in Cambridge, MA.

Rahul Tejwani (@HoolieG)

Rahul Tejwani is focused on Business Development and Operations for Koowala Inc. He is currently a first year MBA candidate at MIT Sloan.

Prior to Sloan, Rahul spent four years as a management consultant in Deloitte’s Technology Strategy practice, focused primarily on post-merger integrations. In addition, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Pencils of Promise, an international development start-up which he helped grow from $120K to $2M in annual revenue and 3 to 45 global team members, primarily through digital channels.

Rahul holds a B.S., in Information Sciences and Technology from Pennsylvania State University. He is a native New Yorker.

Kendall Herbst (@Kendall_to_go)

Kendall Herbst is focused on marketing for Koowala. She is a first year MBA candidate at MIT Sloan.

Prior to business school, Kendall worked at New York magazine, Lucky magazine and InStyle magazine as a fashion editor. She has experience both in digital and print media. Moreover, she helped NYC-based startup Savored with its initial marketing events, emails and guest curation strategy.

Kendall holds a B.A. in English and philosophy from Bates College from which she graduated Magna Cum Laude.