 | Nagitha Kumarasinghe
Founder, Director and Trainer
MBA (INSEAD), LLB (Barrister at Law)
A graduate of prestigious European business school INSEAD, Nagitha spent the early years of his career as a London-based consultant for various multi-nationals, including KPMG, IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prior to setting up Collins Kumarasinghe Associates, he worked as an independent consultant for clients in Europe and Asia dealing with business development, strategy, and operations. In addition to his INSEAD MBA , Nagitha also holds an LLB (Law) from the University of Birmingham and is a Barrister at Law (London Bar School). |  | Mícheál Collins
Founder, Director and Trainer
MBA (INSEAD), MSc (Physics)
Micheal graduated with an MBA from top global business school INSEAD, specializing in Entrepreneurship, Business Development and Finance. Prior to setting up the company, Micheal worked in the UK, Ireland, Spain and the US as a senior consultant for various multi-nationals, including IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers, iXL (Scient) and Corel Corp. Micheal also served as Executive Director of the Irish Business Association in Singapore and as the President of the European Chamber of Commerce in Singapore (EuroCham). Micheal holds a Master of Science in Physics from University College Cork, Ireland and was admitted to Mensa with an extraordinarily high IQ score of 174.
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Andrea Merrigan
Verbal Trainer
Andrea loves to teach to people across cultures : before arriving at Prep-Zone to teach the verbal components of several standardized tests such as GMAT, SAT, and TOEFL, Andrea developed her teaching proficiency in Miyazaki Japan, working as an Language Teacher in a senior academic high school on the Japan Exchange Teaching Programme (JET). Immersed in the culture, she learned how to communicate Western learning concepts to Asian students through an innovative use of multiple methodologies such as role play, games, music, and media.
As well as delivering foreign language education to over 90 students and designing all aspects of the curriculum, Andrea coached 10 individual students for Prefectural Speech Contests and served as a judge and MC at these and other competitions. Andrea’s unique mentoring approach is to take a holistic and deeply personal interest in each of her students while utilizing her own cultural background to advance mutual understanding and latent potential.
Andrea was the first Irish recipient of the Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP) Fellowship, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Government, focusing on politics, business, and law, from University College Cork. She has served as an intern in the New York State Assembly and her responsibilities ranged from meetings with lobbyists to undertaking research projects tied to proposed legislation.
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Michael Heller
Senior Verbal Trainer
Economics (UCLA)
A native of California, and veteran of the SAT examination system, Mike was headhunted directly from the US by Prep-Zone upon his graduation from UCLA in the Spring of 2010 and is tasked with helping to extend Prep-Zone's innovative test-prep and admissions consulting services to students across Asia. He has since aided Prep Zone SAT students to jump their percentile rankings in standardized tests by 10 to 20 percentile points.
At UCLA, Michael studied economics and participated in numerous extra-curricular activities. These activities included creating and operating a lucrative sports collectibles business, interning at a top LA talent agency, and taking an active role in Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
As well as the SAT, Michael has also taken the GMAT and scored a 720(95th percentile). He plans to highlight his quality academics, solid GMAT score and international work experience when applying to MBA programs at schools such as Stanford and Berkeley in a few years. When Mike isn’t helping his students dominate US tests, he enjoys travelling to exotic places and playing sports such as tennis and basketball.
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Mohan Bhanoori
Senior Mathematics Trainer
Engineering (Osmania University)
Mohan loves teaching. He combines his passions for concept mastery, test taking strategies, and lucid teaching styles to make his classes efficient, interesting, and apt for standardized tests.
Mohan has helped hundreds of SAT, GRE, CAT (IIMs), UKCAT, and GMAT students get their desired scores. He is actively involved in the Prep - Zone’s Business Development activities, and has also led the Zone’s Content Development Projects. He has logged an Official GMAT score of 740 (97th Percentile) with a 51(99th Percentile) in Quantitative section.
Mohan has graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering. Prior to joining the test prep industry he has worked within the IT industry in India and Australia, and developed IT solutions for some of the Fortune Global 500 clients.
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Blake Hurst
Trainer
Stanford University
Prior to joining Prep Zone, Blake worked as an assistant professor of business at a liberal arts college in the US. His connection with Singapore dates back several years to his days as a Fulbright Scholar at NUS. Having scored above the 99th percentile on the SAT and GRE verbal sections as well as on the LSAT, Blake is committed to help Prep Zone clients improve their test scores in order to achieve their academic goals.
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Mukul Jain
Trainer
MSc (NTU)
Mukul, a simple person to whom teaching comes very naturally, scored and aggregate 1400 on GRE with more than 98 % in Maths and 80 % in Verbal. An NIT Trichy ( India ) Alumnus and NTU Masters Grad, has been tutoring in Singapore for over 4.5 years and specializes in Maths, Physics and Chemistry from Zone’s SAT students to IB, O and A levels students . Known for his patience and innovative approach in teaching and rendering his students highly confident towards these challenging exams. He is working as mechanical engineer in the semiconductor industry and likes to pursue investment trading in his free time along with traveling, reading and badminton.
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