Eichel Finance Advising Network

All undergrads are invited to meet with either John Caccavale or Emma Rasiel for guidance on finance careers and recruiting.

Office hours with DFE Executive Director John Caccavale: 

• John will hold drop-in advising from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Social Sciences 329-G, for the remainder of the spring semester.

Office hours with DFE Teaching Director Emma Rasiel:

• See Emma’s personal website for details.

Alumni Advising

Mark Augusti '87, who teaches FMKT 390S-04: Financing Health Care Companies, is offering advising hours from 12:00 to 1:00 PM on Mondays, starting January 26.  REGISTER

About Mark Augusti:

Mark Augusti, MBA, is Founder and Managing Owner of Kenmore Advisors, an advisory and consulting firm focused on compliance, governance, and commercial strategy in the medical technology sector. Previously, Mr. Augusti was President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors at Conformis, Inc., a public orthopedic device company. Prior to leading Conformis, Mr. Augusti was Integra LifeSciences Corporation’s Corporate Vice President and President of Orthopedics and Tissue Technologies. Mr. Augusti served as Chief Executive Officer at Bioventus LLC and was a member of the Bioventus’ Board of Directors. Prior to that, Mr. Augusti spent nine years with Smith & Nephew, in a series of leadership roles within the orthopedics and biologics businesses. Prior to that, he spent 13 years at GE Medical Systems, where he held various sales, marketing and strategic management roles, both in the U.S. and internationally. Mr. Augusti serves as a director of the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum and has served as a director of the AdvaMed Accel Board. Mr. Augusti received his M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and his B.S. in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University.

Peer-to-Peer Advising

Sophomores: As a resource for your finance recruitment-related questions, the juniors and seniors below are available for drop-in advising on a weekly basis. The location is Soc Sci 228A (the conference room immediately to the left when you enter 228).

Tuesday
Lilla Timperman, 4-5 PM (IB)
Lewis Lapham, 5-6 PM (IB)

Wednesday
Anusha Bansal, 5-6 PM (S&T)

Thursday
Nabila Hoque, 3-4 PM (S&T)
Aryan Agarwal, 5-6 PM (IB)

Student Bios:

Anusha Bansal is a junior studying economics, creative writing, and innovation & entrepreneurship. She spent her sophomore summer interning at Morgan Stanley in the Fixed Income Division on the rates, credit, and securitized products desks and is returning for her junior summer. 

Nabila Hoque is a senior at Duke University majoring in economics with a finance concentration. She spent her sophomore summer as a Finance Analyst at Boeing, her junior summer at BlackRock on the ETF & Index Investing team and will be joining JPMorgan Chase full time as a trader on the Credit Default Swap desk (CDS) desk.

Lewis Lapham is a senior studying economics with a minor in history. He has worked in investment banking, private equity, and sales & trading, and after interning for RBC on the M&A team last summer, he will be returning full time after graduation. 

Lilla Timperman is a senior studying financial economics and political science. During her sophomore summer, Lilla participated in the Girls Who Invest Summer Intensive Program and interned as an investment analyst at The Baupost Group (Public Equities). She spent her junior summer at Goldman Sachs doing investment banking (FIG) in NYC and will return there full time.

Aryan Agarwal is a senior at Duke University and worked in investment banking at PJT Partners in the strategic advisory group. His experience includes US International Developmental Finance Corporation, KPMG for financial consulting, and PJT Partners in Investment Banking, Capital Markets/M&A where he is returning full time. He is also a co-founder of Perseus, a VC-backed seed stage AI company.

Finance Mentor Program for Sophomores

Each fall semester, this program links 100+ sophomores with alumni in the financial markets, giving students the opportunity to speak informally with finance professionals, learn about different areas of investment banking, and obtain help in preparing for the summer intern recruiting process. Students engage in three one-on-one conversations at minimum with their assigned mentors during the late fall and winter. Mentors come from a variety of roles in investment banking, sales & trading, private wealth management, and equity research.

The program is not expected or intended to be a shortcut through the recruiting process. Students should view their mentors as objective advisors, not potential employers.

Join the DFE Email List to be notified when registration for this program opens in the fall.

DFE Mentoring Pods

In the fall semester, sophomores can sign up to be assigned to "pods" consisting of two sophomores, one junior, and one senior. The upper-class students in each pod provide mentorship to the sophomores as they go through the recruiting process for summer-after-junior-year finance internships. Seniors also support the juniors in their pods, helping them prepare for summer internships.

With each new school year, new sophomores are added to the pods, and the previous year's mentees become upper-class mentors. We aim for each pod to become a continuous chain of mentoring that extends beyond Duke.

Join the DFE Email List to be notified when registration for this program opens in the fall.

Senior-to-Sophomore Mentoring Connections

Every academic year, we post a list of seniors who did finance and consulting internships the previous summer and have volunteered to be a resource to other students.

Class of 2026 List (current seniors who did summer 2025 finance and consulting internships)

Sophomores: Reach out to these seniors with questions about recruiting, job roles, networking, etc.