“Booz Allen Hamilton truly values our partnership with MBA JumpStart. We rely on MBA JumpStart to help us identify top minority talent.”

- Peter Sullivan,
... Director, North America People Services, Booz Allen Hamilton

Elton Ndoma-Ogar graduated with honors from Wake Forest University in 1996 with a degree in Health Sciences. While at Wake Forest, Ndoma-Ogar was recognized regionally and nationally, by the ACC and the NCAA for his efforts in academics, athletics and community/social services. Academically, he earned President’s List recognition, was awarded the Arthur Ashe Scholarship, the NCAA Ethnic/Minority Scholarship, and was noted as an Academic All-American. For his community service efforts, Ndoma-Ogar was one of 11 student-athletes chosen in the United States to be on the CFA “Good Works” Team in addition to being awarded the Exxon Community Service Award. Athletically, Ndoma-Ogar was selected co-captain of his football team and received All-American notoriety from Football News Magazine.

Following graduation, Ndoma-Ogar began an extremely successful medical device sales career in the northeastern region of the United States. He earned corporate-wide recognition for being among the top 5 percent hospital sales executives while at Johnson and Johnson Medical (1997-1999). He followed that performance by winning Rookie of the Year honors while at Roche Diagnostics Corporation (1999-2001).

Ndoma-Ogar graduated from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in May 2003. While at Fuqua, he served as vice-president of sponsorship for the inaugural Fuqua School of Business Leadership Conference and served as finance chair for the Black and Latino MBA Organization. Following his summer internship at Morgan Stanley, Ndoma-Ogar was selected as one of two MBA students as a Morgan Stanley Fellow.

Ndoma-Ogar began his Wall Street career as an Institutional Equity Sales-Trader at Morgan Stanley. In early 2006, Ndoma-Ogar joined Merrill Lynch as Head of Diversity Recruiting and built one of the most successful diversity recruiting efforts on Wall Street. He developed and led programs that received global recognition from media outlets Black Enterprise, CNN, Bloomberg, Vault, Wall Street Journal, and many others. Ndoma-Ogar was promoted to Head of Diversity for Merrill Lynch in 2008. In July 2009, Ndoma-Ogar joined BP, Inc as the Diversity and Inclusion Manager for North America. His team is responsible for the recruitment, development, retention, and promotion of diverse talent at the organization.

A native of Indiana, John T. Burt, Jr. received his Bachelor's degree in Finance from Indiana University in 1998. Burt began his career within the finance component of Eli Lilly. He achieved career success and promotions within the company and received sponsorship to pursue an MBA in 2001.

Burt earned his degree from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in 2003. While at Duke, Burt served as an executive fellow of the Dean's office and worked, simultaneously, as a consultant to a small business in the Durham community. During those two years, Burt co-authored a published article on executing an effective career search and mastering interview skills. He also won a national competition through the Executive Leadership Council (ELC) for his commentary on leadership.

After graduation, Burt worked as a consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton, a management-consulting firm focused on strategic business concerns. He returned to Eli Lilly in 2004 as a consultant focused on International Treasury and working capital strategy for Africa-Middle East and Asian Operations; creating an internal consulting unit for Lilly USA. In 2005, he was promoted to Chief Financial Officer for Lilly's $2B diabetes business.

In late 2007, Burt joined the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as the Director of Diversity Recruiting, North America. Under Burt's guidance, BCG launched several new initiatives resulting in work experiences, scholarships, and the most # of diversity hires within the firm over the last 10 years. In 2008, Fortune Magazine recognized BCG as the #3 company to work for in America and highlighted the firm's improvement in the area of recruitment of minorities. In addition, Universum recognized BCG as having the "best on-campus recruitment" for minority students.

Along with his efforts at BCG, Burt is an adjunct professor of finance and business planning at Concordia University-Wisconsin, Marian College, and Indiana Tech. He has served as a debt reduction counselor at his church and a treasurer and board member for several local nonprofits. Burt is a member of the 100 Black Men of America, the National Black MBA Association, and NextGen Network, Inc (affiliated with ELC).