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Jean Claude Chidiac (EMBA ’12) Vice President, Strategic Development CACI International Inc. I chose Georgetown because of its reputation of academic excellence, international brand recognition, quality of international residencies, top-tier faculty, and proximity to my residence and my work. Also, the format for the EMBA program was ideal for my busy schedule.

The entire program experience made me better at what I do.

Each class challenged me in different ways, from leveraging the techniques and frameworks in preparing multi-year business strategies to interpreting financial reports and making better forward-looking decisions based on them. I also find myself constantly going back to materials from the strategy and marketing classes.

I leaned on the excellent case-based knowledge foundation to tackle a major downturn in my own industry.

Learning how other industries and leaders were able to survive and thrive in extremely challenging markets was seminal to me in helping my company survive and penetrate new markets during the downturn in federal contracting we experienced in the past few years.

The EMBA program is probably the best investment you can make in yourself at this point in your career.

The program provided me with perspective I needed to more effectively engage with other executives and, best of all, gave me a network of close advisors from the cohort on whom I can always rely for advice and input.