Aishwarya Nikkumbh

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Aishwarya Nikkumbh is a cybersecurity student, entrepreneur, and systems thinker building at the intersection of technology, finance, and human potential — with ambitions that extend well past her freshman year. At Purdue University, she's pursuing a B.S. in Cybersecurity alongside a Business Administration minor and an Entrepreneurship & Innovation certificate. Her coursework spans computer architecture, systems security, and applied mathematics — but her most formative work happens outside the classroom. As Finance Lead and Team Captain for the Global Case Competition at Harvard, Aishwarya led a 6-person team through a full 3-round competition on a Thales-Rheinmetall pan-European M&A case. She built a complete valuation suite — DCF with multi-variable sensitivity analysis, trading comps (EV/EBITDA, EV/Sales, P/E), precedent transactions, an LBO-style equity bridge, and synergy quantification — and owned the acquisition thesis from financial modeling. She's co-founding Amplify Purdue, a student venture organization structured around five pillars: a startup accelerator, professional development, industry panels, strategic networking, and applied case competition labs. Before colleg

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