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Siva Selvam, MBA ’26

Siva Selvam is a first-year MBA candidate in the Two-Year MBA program at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, where he is also a Park Leadership Fellow. Before business school, he worked as a management consultant at Accenture in Philadelphia, advising aerospace and defense clients on engineering and manufacturing strategies. Previously, he was an electrical engineer for classified clients at Lockheed Martin in Los Angeles and a design engineer on the 737 MAX program at Boeing in Seattle. Selvam holds a BSc in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Flat, golden-hued farm fields with trees in the background and someone wearing a lungi and drying his face as he stands at the edge of a small pool in the foreground.

Park Perspective: From humble beginnings to leadership excellence

What always struck me about my grandfather was how he made the most of what he had. Limited resources—whether outdated technology, insufficient funding, or a lack of formal teaching materials—did not deter him.