I help companies stuck on ambiguous supply-chain and operations problems by designing and building the actual working model
I want to keep building the fix inside a strategy consulting role, not just presenting it.
How I Think
Frame the ambiguity: name the actual question before proposing an answer.
Pull the data, however messy, before assuming what’s missing.
Build the model, not the slide: test the mechanism itself.
Pressure-test it with the people who’ll actually use it.
Ship the smallest working version, then iterate from something real.
Journey
IE University, Bachelor of Business Administration begins
Five Guys, Student Consulting Programme
Repositioned Five Guys’ European brand strategy against QSR competitors.
EDHEC Business School, exchange semester
Master 1 Business Management track. Semester GPA 9.26/10.00.
Inetum, Student Consulting Programme
AI-governance dashboard, presented to senior management.
Ernst & Young, Student Consulting Programme
Pricing model for a €1.5B-revenue industrial equipment rental company.
MSc in Management, IE New York College
Conferred jointly with the BBA from IE University, Madrid (3+1 Accelerated Programme).
Altura Coffee, Student Consulting Programme
Reconciliation dashboard and automated AR-triage workflow.
Programs & Partners
Experience
Student Consulting: Ernst & Young
Built a two-stage segmentation-and-regression pricing model for a €1.5B-revenue industrial equipment rental company with 3,000 employees, identifying an estimated 50% improvement in pricing asset efficiency. Presented the recommendation to EY consultants. Ranked 1st of 10 teams, selected as the strongest project in the cohort.
Student Consulting: Inetum
Designed a real-time scoring system for employee-AI interactions (risk level, confidence, and AI influence), paired with an audit log and manager governance dashboard. Ran 10+ customer interviews and tested 5+ prototypes. Ranked 1st of 6 teams for best pitch and project, presented to Inetum’s senior management.
Student Consulting: Five Guys
Repositioned Five Guys’ European brand from a premium occasional treat to an affordable premium option against McDonald’s, Burger King, Goiko, and Vicio. Built a pricing model across 3 core menu items quantifying the 0.25%–16.7% order-volume lift needed to offset price cuts, and a tiered loyalty program projected to raise repeat visits by 20%.
Student Consulting: Altura Coffee
Built a reconciliation dashboard and automated AR-triage workflow for Altura Coffee, replacing a two-hour weekly manual process.
EY — Pricing Model
Two-stage segmentation-and-regression pricing engine, estimated to improve pricing asset efficiency by 50%. Ranked 1st of 10 teams.
Inetum — Governance Dashboard
Real-time AI-interaction risk and audit dashboard, presented to senior management. Ranked 1st of 6 teams.
Altura Coffee — Finance Ops
Reconciliation dashboard and automated AR-triage workflow. Replaced a two-hour weekly manual ritual.
Research
I’ve always been drawn to where mental health and healthcare meet the business world, where a pricing model or an operations fix isn’t just a statistic, but changes whether someone actually gets care. These two projects, from Quantitative Methods coursework at IE New York College, are where that interest turned into methodology: modelling what predicts wellbeing, and what makes a health system work at a population level.
It’s the same instinct I bring to consulting work: find the mechanism, don’t just describe the symptom. It’s part of why I want a career built around operations and strategy problems that touch healthcare and human systems, not just abstract markets.
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Final Project
Confirming four latent factors, then testing three structural models for how depression, anxiety, irritability and optimism relate to one another.
Depression is the bridge to lost optimism. Across all three structural models, depression was the only significant predictor of low optimism (β = −.55, p < .001); anxiety attacks dropped out once depression was accounted for. Irritability sat upstream, driving both depression (.68) and anxiety attacks (.67).
Stated on the record: these are directional hypotheses from cross-sectional self-report data (DASS/TIPI), not causal claims; worth confirming longitudinally before they inform practice.
Midterm Project
A cross-country regression analysis of the 2021 suicide mortality rate, World Bank & WHO indicators (n ≈ 172 countries).
Health expenditure per capita was the strongest predictor (β = .526); GDP per capita turned negative once health spending was controlled for (β = −.346), fully mediated by it. Income level and world region both moderated the relationship: high-income countries showed significantly higher rates, lower-middle-income countries significantly lower.
Durbin–Watson = 2.137 and max VIF = 6.43: no autocorrelation concern, and only one pair of predictors (GDP and health spending) showed meaningful collinearity. Development indicators explain part of the picture, not all of it; the team flagged likely undercounting in some countries’ suicide and labor statistics as a limitation, rather than smoothing over it.
Recognition
of 10 teams, EY AI & Data Challenge
Selected as the strongest project in the cohort.
of 6 teams, Inetum AI Challenge
Best pitch and project, presented to senior management.
Strategies in a Disruptive World
Academic honors distinction, IE University.
Leadership & Activities
Volunteer · London, 2021–2022
Supported a fundraising initiative through marketing and advertising activities, increasing yearly revenue by £130 and reaching around 200 students.
Organizer · London, Sep. 2022
Created and coordinated a clothing drive for a local shelter.
Purpose
I want to keep doing this inside professional services: supply chain and operations problems, for companies across sectors, where the recommendation and the working model are the same artifact. Big 4 or MBB, on the ops team, in the room where the fix gets built.
Credentials
Contact Information
Currently based in: New York
E-mail: gabriela.fruhbeck@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gabrielafruhbeck