FEDERICO MUYSHONDT
Hometown: San Salvador, El Salvador
Internship: Brand Marketing – Beauty Care, Procter & Gamble
Texas A&M University, B.S. Marketing ’03
Co-Founder of Chicken Kitchen
Rice University, MBA ’07
Pre-MBA Job: Marketing Operations & Pricing, Dell Inc.
Current Job: Vice President, Sales Strategy, The Dannon Company (Danone)
ederico acknowledged that a Rice MBA prepares you for many things, not one function in particular, but that it’s up to you to take advantage of that.
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“Exploring your biggest strengths can be a good thing. Always be open to the possibilities. Don’t limit your view of the Jones School as a place for professionals interested in pursuing a specific career, but as a place that will make you a well-rounded professional. It will give you all the tools and open up many doors... then it’s up to each individual to make it happen.”
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After two years at Dell, Federico started to see the difference between the people with an MBA and those without. He also noticed the way their careers were panning out, as well as their respective leadership skills. “I understood that to hone my overall professional skills an MBA was going to take me to the next level professionally and convert me from a “doer” to a leader. I knew deep down that I wanted to go into consumer products eventually, and an MBA was also that viable avenue that would take my career in that direction.”