She met her match—Julie Lein, MBA ’12—soon after arriving at Sloan more than a decade ago. Lein had no interest in attending, but she wanted to support the club’s mission of boosting women in business. Lein, on the other hand, had worked in political polling and consulting. She hoped to start her own political polling firm after graduation. “We were able to see that ... our skills and style were very complementary, and we just were able to do things better and faster together,” says Brenner.