Vimal Kini, a first-year master’s student in the School of Information, has been named a 2012 Mayfield Fellow. The Mayfield Fellows program provides a year of mentorship and experience in technology entrepreneurship to UC Berkeley graduate students in business, engineering, and information.
Kini is in her first year in the I School’s MIMS degree program; she is interested in product management of online applications based on user-generated content.
Kini joins eight other UC Berkeley fellows for 2012; the fellows will be touring Asia for two weeks in summer 2012, studying best practices for entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Kini will also be mentored over the next year by a leading Silicon Valley venture capitalist, and will have the opportunity to meet with senior executives from Silicon Valley technology companies.
The UC Berkeley Mayfield Fellows Program is funded by the Mayfield Fund, a venture capital fund based in Menlo Park, California. The program is administered by UC Berkeley's Management of Technology Program and the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Previous I School recipients of the Mayfield Fellowship include second-year master’s student Namitta Shankar, doctoral student Melissa Ho, and alumni Satish Polisetti (MIMS 2011) and Jeannie Yang (MIMS 2005).
