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Mannan is an experienced professional with over 12 years of experience in leading and delivering high-impact projects across various industries and geographies.
In his latest roles as a management consultant at BCG and EY, he supported senior executives in solving complex business challenges and driving transformational change.
Mannan holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in Design and Supply Chain Management from Nanyang Technological University. He is also a recent MBA graduate from IESE Business School, one of the top-ranked business schools in the world.
Mannan is passionate about learning new skills, exploring new opportunities, and making a positive impact in the world. He is an avid scuba diver, a curious traveler, and an entrepreneurial thinker. He is a permanent resident of Singapore.
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Current PE Associate at UMM Firm ($20B+ AUM, Sector Agnostic), Ex-BB IB Analyst (Sector Focus - Natural Resources)
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CFO at an Italian bank operating in specialized lending.
Husband and father of two daughters (the second will be born in December 2025). Passionate about the gym, public speaking (member of Toast Masters), coaching, and home baking.
I enjoy coaching and mentoring other people and dedicate myself to team building and people develpment.
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- Current Managing Director–level executive at a global credit ratings and research firm.
- Oversees financial institution credit ratings across insurance, pensions, asset managers, and banks.
- Chairs senior credit committees and leads final rating decisions.
- Manages a global team of 20+ analysts across North America and Europe.
- 20+ years of experience across credit analysis, counterparty risk, underwriting, derivatives contracts and capital markets.
- MBA with distinction from a top international business school.
- Bilingual English/Spanish. Conversational proficiency in French, Portuguese and Italian.
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- Currently, a senior associate at a boutique investment bank, advising privately held businesses across various industries on mergers, acquisitions and raising capital. Responsible for transaction execution, financial modeling and due diligence.
- Prior to his current role, he worked as an analyst at a similar firm focusing on transportation and infrastructure transactions.
- General Securities Representative licensed by FINRA (79 and 63).
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After 20 years of corporate banking, I became a CFO. After leading the sale of my last PE-backed business to another PE-backed strategic, I am providing capital advisory and fractional CFO services for lower middle market companies. I know what bankers want to see and I help companies prepare for securing new debt capital.
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Eileen Coupin — Executive Coach | Leadership Facilitator | Mentor
Eileen Coupin brings over 20 years of international leadership experience across finance, education, and consulting. She began her career in private banking and financial services, managing high-performing, multicultural teams across Europe and Asia-Pacific before moving into leadership roles in education and organisational development.
Having led departments, coached executives, and designed leadership programmes for global companies, Eileen now focuses on helping individuals and teams thrive through change with clarity, confidence, and purpose. She is the founder of Eileen Coupin Consulting, where she partners with leaders and organisations to build resilience, cross-cultural intelligence, and sustainable performance.
An ICF-certified coach with executive education from Harvard and Cambridge, Eileen combines straight-talking empathy with practical leadership insight.
As a WSO Mentor, she’s eager to share her expertise and lived experience — supporting mentees to navigate career transitions, strengthen leadership presence, and build meaningful, purpose-driven careers.
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Will Coughlin serves as a Partner and Senior Investment Strategist at Alpha Capital Family Office in Denver. Prior to joining Alpha Capital in 2024, he spent over 11 years at Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Highland Capital Management. Will focuses on providing wealth management and holistic family office services for a small group of ultra-high net worth families and select institutions, including endowments, foundations, and pension plans. Will graduated from the Williams College of Business at Xavier University with a BBA in Finance in 2013. In the community, Will serves as a Board Director and Investment Committee Member for AbleLight, a national nonprofit organization.
Frequently Asked Questions
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The WSO mentor service runs at a very slight profit (~5-10% net margin) in order to help motivate amazing professionals to provide great (free) advice in the forums (many mentors have green "mentor" buttons next to their usernames) which strengthens the entire WSO community. Luckily, there is a surprising number of elite professionals within the WSO community that love giving back to motivated candidates. We also recently automated the mentor matching with an algo that helps reduce the manual work needed on the backend should a requested mentor not be available. Prices range from as low as $57 up to $997 depending on the package you purchase and the mentor you select. Given the success of our service and the number of repeat clients we have, we know that we can afford to run on thin profit margins and serve thousands of applicants. We also know that many of you will follow the advice of our mentors and invest in additional courses and/or services from WSO.
After checking out, your request will immediately be sent to the mentor you selected. You will be expected to fill our some basic information (location, industry preference, etc) along with upload a Word version of your resume in order to help the mentor decide if they feel like they are a great match. As soon as they accept (usually within ~9-12 hours), an email will be sent making an introduction. Your mentor will introduce him/herself and then proceed to review your current resume and/or offer times when you can connect for a mentor session. Over the following days, you will schedule a time that is mutually convenient for you initial phone call to go over what you need help with (mock interview, career consultation and/or both). If you would like to continue with this mentor, you can schedule more hours anywhere from 1 hour to 3+ hours with him/her over the following weeks & months.
Typically the match happens within 12hrs. If your preferred mentor has not responded within 9 hours or they indicate they can't take you on as a mentor, we will notify other top mentors that have the most in common with the mentor you selected (based on our matching algo). These backup mentors will indicate to you if they are available and you have the choice to move forward with one of them, get a refund or wait longer for your preferred mentor. If for whatever reason we cannot match you in time and/or there are no mentors that are available that you'd like to work with, we will refund your purchase in full, no questions asked.
We have an incredible team of 1,000+ dedicated mentors across top firms all around the world. Our #1 goal is to make sure you are placed in the hands of the most competent and detail-oriented professional in your specific target industry. This coupled with our strict process ensures a smooth and thorough experience. Why do we use actual professionals? The answer is simple: they are the ones ACTUALLY SCREENING APPLICATIONS for their own firms! They know what it takes to make it out of the trash pile and into the interview pile. On top of this, since we have been doing mentor sessions for over a decade across THOUSANDS of clients, we are able to immediately identify a top mentor and feed them more clients to ensure happy customers like you (due to our strict screening process). Our team includes investment bankers at all the top bulge brackets and elite boutique banks as well as private equity, hedge fund and VC professionals at the most prestigious funds. We also have reviewers at the top management consulting firms in the world, elite prop trading firms, top corporate finance roles as well as other related finance careers.
Usually these are all self-limiting beliefs, but if you're unsure if we are a good match for you, please send us a quick email to [email protected] and we can send over some bios if we think there might be a potential good match for you.
Too Young / Too Inexperienced: We do NOT recommend our mentor service until you at least have at least some relevant WORK experience that we can leverage. For the young clients out there, this means an internship, ideally in your target or related industry. If you are still in high school, it is unlikely that you have this experience. The earliest we'd recommend doing a mentor session is early freshman or early sophomore year as you prepare for summer internship recruiting. If you have no relevant experience then it probably doesn't make sense to sign up for the service. Our mentors are amazing, but they aren't magicians. If you tell us you really want to be in Investment Banking or Private Equity (for example) and everything in your background points to law or medicine, it's going to be an uphill battle. On the other hand, if you have unrelated experience but you have started the transition process by taking relevant classes and joining relevant clubs and associations, we'd love to work with you. You may not be the most competitive candidate, but we will highlight the most relevant education and functions at your current job that would translate well across industries.
Too Old / Too Experienced: We DO recommend our mentor service for more experienced professionals that are looking to make a transition or have an interview coming up. We have several very senior mentors that can answer the tough questions and make sure you are up to date on the latest trends in your target industry. However, before you move forward, we encourage you to give yourself an honest assessment. If you are looking to make the transition and have not made any steps outside of considering this mentor program, you probably aren't ready. If you've taken steps (education, new degrees, courses, etc) and feel like you're ready, we're on board and eager to help!
Yes, but if you have a negative attitude you are unlikely to have success. If you think a mentor session is an automatic referral, please don't bother to hire us.
Yes, our mentors often do refer our clients for open positions at their firms (over 20%), however, this should not be asked of our mentors to avoid a conflict of interest and it should not be expected as part of the service. It is up to you to impress the mentor if this is your goal, however, we believe you can gain much more out of the experience by being honest about your weaknesses and concerns with the mentor so there can be an open dialogue on how to improve your chances.
The only discounts are for larger packages and more hours purchased at once. This is an incredibly labor intensive 1-on-1 service using finance professionals that typically make well over $200/hr and are doing this primarily to give back.
This is a personal question and the answer is naturally subjective. If you are serious about landing a job in investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, trading, asset management, management consulting or any other competitive industry, it's more than likely that the answer to that question is a resounding "YES".
Career services advisers at your school are not screening applications for interviews...neither are your classmates. If you do happen to have a friend in the industry, are they going to take the hours necessary to give you a realistic mock interview? Odds are that their time is limited outside the office and if they do give you some guidance, it won't be as thorough as our expert mentors. If you look at the competitive nature of recruiting nowadays, why would leave your application up to chance when many of these jobs pay well over $100,000?
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If you’re reading this, you’re here for a reason: because you want to be one of the very few who gets an an elite job and because you need help doing it. The choice really is yours. And your opportunity really is limited.
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