Sekou White

NYU Stern School of Business
Turing

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I’m a marketing executive, educator, and longtime MBA admissions coach. I grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, in a family of educators, which gave me an early appreciation for learning, mentorship, and helping people reach their potential. After earning my undergraduate degree from Boston University, I began my career in technology consulting before deciding I wanted to move closer to the intersection of business, creativity, and culture. That led me to NYU Stern for my MBA and ultimately to a career in marketing. Over the past 20+ years, I’ve held leadership roles at companies including Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Turing, and A.Team, working across consumer technology, enterprise software, and AI. Alongside my corporate career, I’ve taught marketing at the university level for more than a decade and spent 10 years coaching MBA applicants with Veritas Prep. The common thread across all of it is something I genuinely enjoy: helping people take complex ideas, experiences, and ambitions and turn them into a clear, compelling story.

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Why do I coach?

Coaching matters to me because education and mentorship have been part of my life for as long as I can remember. Both of my parents were educators, and throughout my own career I’ve benefited from people who helped me recognize possibilities I might not have seen on my own. I’ve also made several meaningful career transitions myself, from technology consulting to business school, from B2C to B2B marketing, and eventually into senior leadership. Those experiences taught me how important it is to understand not only what you’ve accomplished, but how the individual pieces of your story connect. That’s what I enjoy most about MBA coaching. Applicants often come in with strong experiences but struggle to see what makes their story distinctive. I enjoy helping them find that thread, challenge their assumptions, sharpen their thinking, and ultimately present an application that feels authentic to who they are and where they want to go. For me, the most rewarding part is seeing someone gain clarity and confidence in their own story, not simply helping them complete an application.

Work Experience

VP Partnerships

September 2025 - Present

Hiring Manager

Lead global marketing and partnerships for A.Team, an enterprise AI company helping Fortune 500 organizations build production-ready intelligence systems. Own brand positioning, GTM strategy, demand generation, ABM, executive events, content, partnerships, sales enablement, and website strategy across AI Solutions and Team Augmentation business units.

Brand Marketing - Global

Turing

May 2022 - September 2025

Hiring Manager

Led Turing’s evolution from a talent-matching platform to a strategic AI Training and Human-in-the-loop (HITL) brand. Built and scaled global brand, creative, content, social, PR, and partner marketing functions, while leading brand strategy, digital campaigns, and market-facing narrative.

VP of Marketing

Turing

October 2021 - May 2022

Hiring Manager

Built developer marketing as a new function at Turing, with a focus on global acquisition, engagement, content strategy, and digital growth. Led campaigns, regional playbooks, content systems, and cross-functional operating models to strengthen Turing’s reach with technical audiences.

Worldwide Developer Marketing

IBM

August 2019 - October 2021

Hiring Manager

Led developer marketing for IBM Cloud, modernizing digital, content, community, email, SEO, and event strategy. Partnered with product and developer relations teams to sharpen messaging, improve engagement, and connect developer marketing more directly to cloud adoption.