# Business, Tech, & Finance ## expand\_more [### Emily Simon Bernard ](/people/emily-simon-bernard)Class of 2007, Modern Europe Co-founder and Head of Product, PlacePass.com **Thesis Title:** "The Whole City Whispers Mutiny": Cook Tours and British Imperial Memory, 1873-1913 **What Now:** Co-Founder and Head of Product at PlacePass.com **What Next:** I’m focused on building PlacePass into a successful travel company! I’ve always been... ![simon_e_1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/simon_e_1.jpg?itok=3wHxL0I8) [### Lauren Creedon ](/people/lauren-creedon)Class of 2011, America Head of Product, Goldcast **Thesis Title:** Face Value: Six Decades of Baseball Cards tell the Story of America and Major League Baseball **What Now**: Head of Product at Goldcast **What Next:** Helping increase access to capital for women and diverse founders in tech My time in Hist & Lit... ![lauren_creedon_11_photo.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/lauren_creedon_11_photo.jpg?itok=J26YYrIo) [### Caroline Hubbard ](/people/caroline-hubbard)Class of 2017, American Studies Business Strategy and Data Analytics Analyst, LinkedIn **Thesis Title:** Picturing Progress: Reimagining Black Identity and Racial Futurity Through the Politicized Aesthetics of the British Black Arts Movement **What Now:** Business Strategy and Data Analytics Analyst at LinkedIn in San Francisco **What Next:** 3-4 years... ![Caroline Hubbard](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/hubbard_photo.jpg?itok=qNf9JsNd) [### Anita Lo ](/people/anita-lo)Class of 2016, American Studies Compliance Specialist, Jane Street **Thesis Title:** The I-Hotel in Social Movement and Collective Memory **What Now:** Compliance Specialist at Jane Street History & Literature gave me an opportunity to explore and understand things that are important to me: Asian American identity, the politics of... ![anita_lo_16_photo.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/anita_lo_16_photo.jpg?itok=vh3c48Db) [### Renny McPherson ](/people/renny-mcpherson)Class of 2003, America Managing Partner, First In (venture capital firm) **Thesis Title:** Ritual as Intimacy in the Short Stories of Andre Dubus **What Now:** Managing Partner, First In (venture capital firm) Since I graduated in 2003, the History & Literature concentration has informed my professional path at every step because Hist &... ![Renny McPherson](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/screen_shot_2021-08-01_at_3.27.14_pm.png?itok=AFPvnZLe) [### Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey ](/people/nathaniel-naddaff-hafrey)Class of 2008, America Founder-in-Residence, Area 120 at Google **Thesis Title:** "In Search of ‘The City of All Faiths": Post-9/11 Culture Wars, Historical Reclamation, and Hybrid Heroism in The 99 and The Zein Series **What Now:** I'm currently a Founder in Residence within Area 120, Google's incubator for experimental... ![Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/naddaff-hafrey_n_0_0_0.jpg?itok=_z-B7yyF) [### Charlotte Pontifell ](/people/charlotte-pontifell)European Studies, 2024 Analyst at The Type Founders **Thesis Title:** Traditional Typography in the Service of Modern Typology: Textual Materialism and the Modernist Print Innovations of the Kelmscott and Hogarth Presses **What Now:** Analyst at The Type Founders I came to Hist & Lit drawn to the ways books, ideas... ![Charlotte Pontifell](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-07/Charlotte%20Pontifell.jpg?itok=5E3RjrVs) [### Dan Rasmussen ](/people/people/alumni/dan-rasmussen)Class of 2009, America Partner, Verdad Advisers **Thesis Title:** Violent Visions: Slaves, Sugar, and the 1811 German Coast Uprising **What Now:** Partner, Verdad Advisers **What Next:** Continuing to grow my business and working on writing projects in addition. I spent my final two years in History & Literature... ![dan-ras-1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/dan-ras-1.jpg?itok=E8VGw1dy) [### Anne Rosenblatt ](/people/anne-rosenblatt)Class of 2020, European Studies Project Leader, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) **Thesis Title:** The Politics of Couture: High Fashion as a Tool of Resistance and Renewal in France, 1940-1947 **What Now:** Project Leader, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) **What Next:** Heading to Stanford Business School to pursue my MBA During my time in History &... ![Anne Rosenblatt](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/221202-boston-consulting-group-dtla-2-16-anne-rosenblatt-004_retouch-web_-_anne_a_rosenblatt.jpg?itok=rkz4SfPz) [### Cary Williams ](/people/people/alumni/cary-williams-0)Class of 2016, American Studies Associate Consultant, Bain & Company **Thesis Title:** “At Least We Have Our Name”: Free People of Color and the Struggle to Survive in Antebellum Louisiana and Mississippi **What Now:** Associate Consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco, CA **What Next:** Heading back to Harvard to pursue an MBA at... ![screen_shot_2016-07-27_at_8.35.28_am.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/screen_shot_2016-07-27_at_8.35.28_am.png?itok=Nd56gUUR)