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AperioHub Advisory is a Singapore-registered consultancy founded by Manmohan Mall — an IIM Ahmedabad alumnus with over 20 years of experience across Standard Chartered, Citi, and Macquarie Group. The firm operates across two lines: Business Consultancy for organisations navigating strategy and market decisions, and Professional Development through structured experiential learning programs for students and early-career professionals.

The professional development arm is the active focus — running cohort-based internship programs and the Young Leaders Business Fellowship for high school students.

The Internship Program is a 4-week, fully virtual, cohort-based experiential learning program. Each cohort is organised into small groups that work on a structured project brief within one of three domain tracks: Finance & Investments, Consulting & Business Strategy, or Digital Innovation & Entrepreneurship.

The program is built around two ideas: the Career Laboratory — a structured environment for working on real analytical problems in your chosen domain — and the Digital Workplace — operating within a professional distributed team environment using tools like Slack, just as you would in any modern workplace. The combination gives you both domain exposure and the professional working habits that go with it.

Most people entering their careers make choices based on assumptions — what a role sounds like, what an industry looks like from the outside. The Career Laboratory is our way of replacing assumptions with evidence.

Rather than shadowing or completing generic tasks, you work on a structured business project that mirrors the real analytical and strategic work done in your chosen domain. By the end, your understanding of that field is grounded in what you actually did — not what you read about. We have seen participants confirm their direction and discover they want something different. Both are useful outcomes.

The Career Laboratory framing also reflects how the program is structured internally: controlled scope, clear deliverables, and structured checkpoints at each stage. It is not an open-ended sandbox — it is a defined experiment with clear expected outputs.

The Digital Workplace refers to the professional operating environment of the program. From Day 1, your team communicates on Slack, coordinates across time zones, and manages project work using the same practices found in distributed professional environments globally.

This is deliberate. Operating effectively in a digital-first, distributed team is a core professional skill — not a nice-to-have. Alongside the analytical content of your project, you develop habits of communication, coordination, and professional conduct that transfer directly to any workplace.

Courses teach concepts. Bootcamps build specific skills. Neither replicates the experience of working on a real problem inside a professional team under time pressure.

This program is built around project execution — not curriculum delivery. You work within a group, manage a deliverable across four weeks, navigate the coordination challenges of a distributed team, and present findings at the end. The learning is incidental to the doing, which is how learning actually sticks. You don't watch someone explain financial modelling — you build one for a real context.

No. Participation in the program is strictly not an employment arrangement of any kind. You are a program participant — not an employee, contractor, or agent of AperioHub Advisory. The program is unpaid and constitutes experiential, educational participation.

No employment rights, benefits, or obligations arise from participation. This applies regardless of your location or study status.

No. AperioHub Advisory is an independent firm registered in Singapore. We are not formally affiliated with, accredited by, or partnered with any educational institution. Participants enroll in our programs directly — from universities across the US, UK, India, UAE, and many other countries.

The completion certificate we issue is from AperioHub Advisory. It is a professional recognition of program completion — not an academic credential.

The program is designed for university students and recent graduates — typically those from around their second year of studies through to those one or two years out of university. Participants come from a wide range of academic backgrounds: finance, economics, engineering, computer science, business, law, and more.

Prior work experience in your chosen domain is not required. What matters more is genuine curiosity about business problems, willingness to work collaboratively in a distributed team, and commitment to completing the four weeks.

Four things consistently:

• Genuine curiosity about the domain you've chosen — some specific pull toward the problem areas your track covers, not just a general interest in business.
• Collaborative intent — the program is team-based. Someone who prefers to work entirely alone will find it difficult, and so will their group.
• Reliable commitment — participants who drop out mid-program affect the whole team. A consistent 12 hours per week is more valuable than a promise of 25 that doesn't materialise.
• Comfort with ambiguity — real business problems are not neatly packaged. The ability to make progress with incomplete information is a skill we value and develop.

We actively value diversity of background — geographic, academic, and cultural. A cohort where everyone thinks the same way produces less interesting work.

No. There is no GPA threshold or academic rank requirement. We review academic background as context, but it is one input among several — not a filter. The quality of a participant's contribution has correlated poorly with the prestige of their institution across our cohorts so far.

The active internship is 4 weeks, requiring approximately 10–15 hours per week. This covers project research and analysis, collaboration with your team on Slack, and attending two compulsory live sessions: the Week 1 check-in and the Week 4 final presentation.

There is also a short pre-program period of around one week before the internship begins. During this time you join the AperioHub Slack workspace for brief daily engagement — roughly 5 minutes a day — getting to know your future teammates. This is how groups are formed and how Day 1 starts at full pace rather than from a standing start.

• Week 1 — Project brief review; team introductory call led by your Team Coordinator; initial research and scoping; Week 1 check-in with the founder (compulsory).
• Week 2 — Deeper research; analytical framework development; optional mid-program check-in (encouraged).
• Week 3 — Synthesis; draft deliverables; peer review within your team.
• Week 4 — Final deliverable; presentation preparation; final presentation to the founder (compulsory).

Most day-to-day activity is asynchronous — you and your team coordinate on Slack, share documents, and iterate on your own schedule. Live calls are reserved for the milestone sessions and team-organised check-ins.

Each cohort runs three tracks simultaneously. You rank your preferences at application and groups are formed to honour them where possible.

• Finance & Investments — market analysis, investment frameworks, financial modelling, sector research. Suited to those leaning toward banking, asset management, or corporate finance.
• Consulting & Business Strategy — problem structuring, market entry analysis, operational strategy, stakeholder recommendation formats. Suited to those drawn toward advisory or general management.
• Digital Innovation & Entrepreneurship — product thinking, technology-enabled business models, go-to-market analysis, startup frameworks. Suited to those interested in tech, product, or building ventures.

Each track has one project per cohort. All groups within a track work on the same brief — which makes the final presentation, where groups present in parallel, one of the more interesting sessions in each cohort.

Group formation follows a deliberate priority order, designed to produce groups that can both coordinate effectively and benefit from internal diversity:

• Timezone alignment comes first. Groups are formed around shared availability windows so that live coordination is feasible without requiring anyone to work at unreasonable hours.
• Domain preference is applied next — we honour first preferences where capacity allows.
• Geographic and institutional diversity is introduced intentionally. A group that includes participants from India, the UK, and the US will naturally bring different analytical perspectives to the same brief. We look for this mix.
• Team Coordinator pairing — where possible, groups include coordinators from different regions to help bridge timezone and communication gaps.

Group assignments are confirmed before the program starts and are fixed for the duration of the cohort.

Each group has two Team Coordinators — participants within the cohort who take on a light organisational role alongside their project work. This is a peer role, not a supervisory one; they hold the same certificate as all other participants.

Coordinators organise the group's internal call schedule, keep momentum between milestones, and serve as the primary contact point between their team and AperioHub. Selection is based largely on engagement during the pre-program Slack period, where initiative tends to show early.

Yes. Most participants are enrolled in university or hold part-time commitments. At 10–15 hours per week with an asynchronous-first structure, the program is designed to sit alongside existing responsibilities — not replace them.

What is required is that you keep pace with your team, meet the weekly milestones, and attend the two compulsory live sessions. If you have a specific unavoidable conflict during the program, communicate with your team and coordinator early.

No. Day-to-day work is asynchronous — you contribute, respond to teammates, and move the project forward on your own schedule within the day. Slack is the primary tool and there is no requirement to be online at set hours.

What does require scheduling alignment is your group's live calls, organised by your Team Coordinator. Practically, this is 1–2 calls per week of 30–60 minutes each, at a time your group collectively agrees on. The two milestone sessions — Week 1 check-in and Week 4 final presentation — are scheduled in advance with each group.

We group participants into four 3-hour availability windows. You select your preferred band(s) at onboarding, and groups are formed to align within a shared window.

Yes. We have had participants from across the US in every cohort. Band D is structured specifically for US-based participants and ensures live collaboration happens at reasonable hours.

If you are on a student or other visa and have questions about participation in voluntary, unpaid virtual programs, we recommend speaking with your institution's Designated School Official (DSO) or international student services office. They are best placed to advise based on your specific circumstances.

A laptop or desktop computer, a stable internet connection, and a quiet space for the two live video sessions. Slack and Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides) are the primary platforms — no paid subscriptions required on your end. Phone-only participation is not sufficient for the project work.

Completion requires substantive contribution to your group's project deliverable and attendance at both compulsory live sessions: the Week 1 founder check-in and the Week 4 final presentation. These are the non-negotiable minimums.

Active Slack participation throughout the four weeks is expected as part of being a functioning team member — your team depends on your engagement, not just your final output.

Upon completing the program, you receive a digital Certificate of Completion issued by AperioHub Advisory. It is permanently verifiable via a unique URL, shareable directly to LinkedIn, and names your domain track and cohort period.

It is not an academic credential — it is a professional recognition of structured program completion, comparable to how other structured experiential learning programs recognise participation.

LinkedIn recommendations are provided at the founder's discretion for participants who demonstrate strong performance across the program — analytical quality, team contribution, communication, and delivery. This is not automatic and is not guaranteed to every participant.

When provided, a recommendation from the founder carries the weight of his full professional background — over 20 years across Standard Chartered, Citi, and Macquarie Group, and an IIM Ahmedabad MBA. Participants who receive one typically find it useful in applications.

Project outputs are AperioHub intellectual property. By participating in the program, you consent to AperioHub using project-related materials — including anonymised findings, frameworks, and outputs — for program development, marketing, and educational purposes. This is set out explicitly in the onboarding terms.

You retain the right to include your own contribution to the project in a personal portfolio as a representation of the work you did.

An international immersion component is in development. The concept involves extending the virtual program experience with structured in-person sessions across select cities. Details — including locations, timing, and format — will be shared when finalised.

If you have interest in an immersive component, note it when you apply or get in touch — it helps us understand demand as we shape the offering.