IESE AI Club

About the club

The next generation of leaders must speak AI.

Future business leaders must navigate both the strategic and technical dimensions of AI. Neither can be outsourced.

We connect IESE students with practitioners, current research, and hands-on projects. Sessions run weekly through the academic year.

Membership is open for all IESE MBA and Executive Education students.

Leadership team

The people behind it.

Eleven MBA candidates across product, energy, consulting, engineering, and venture.

Rajas Bhagat

Rajas Bhagat

President

Product builder who turns messy ideas into working things through curiosity, experimentation, and usually too much coffee.

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Emi Takeda

Emi Takeda

Corporate Relations & Finance

NTT DATA-sponsored MBA candidate; spent six years on its Global M&A team leading cross-border approvals and divestitures. Co-founded NTT DATA's Youth Council.

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Naisarg Gohil

Naisarg Gohil

Chief of Staff

Spent nine years at DTE Energy, leaving as Principal Engineer after leading a $35M+ Advanced Distribution Management System rollout across a 10,000-person organization.

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Khyati S. Kumar

Khyati S. Kumar

Marketing & Operations

Former MoEngage consultant, advising businesses on KPI-backed digital-operations strategies that turn automation into ROI.

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Jose Cimadevilla

Jose Cimadevilla

Marketing & Operations

Seven years across B2B sales, e-commerce, and digital marketing in financial services, travel, and health. Former Marketing Director at INCO Business Furniture & EST Hardware.

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Hernan Espinosa

Hernan Espinosa

Community Relations

Field and subsea controls engineer turned data analyst and project lead; worked across Schlumberger, BP, and FMC Technologies on three continents.

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Hanif Ramadhan

Hanif Ramadhan

Community Relations

Founded and scaled a VR-training company across Southeast Asian factories to $1M+ in founder-led sales. Focused on software adoption on the factory floor.

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Muhammad Maula Arif

Muhammad Maula Arif

Ecosystem Management

Three years at an early-growth startup shaping business strategy and product development through data-driven, cross-functional work.

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Radu Pană

Radu Pană

Ecosystem Management

Experience across sales, channel marketing, and data analysis at Honeywell, UiPath, and Nansen; now Business Development Manager at MigaLabs.

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Josh Clements

Josh Clements

Knowledge & Skills

Director and Head of Product at Betslip, a pre-seed AI-powered social sports-betting platform. Previously five years in advertising and one at a sports investment and advisory firm. Uses AI to cut busywork.

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Zachery Ballenger

Zachery Ballenger

Knowledge & Skills

Former pilot and diplomatic liaison; Co-President of the IESE Veteran's Business Club. Has 1,200+ hours in Claude Code, three live apps, two live websites, and a fintech startup in progress.

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Curious is enough.

Builders, strategists, and AI-curious students belong here.

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