Faculty Profiles

Dr. Amar, founder of Austin GMAT Review, holds a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Dr. Amar brings in-depth knowledge and experience from the corporate world as well as academia. A veteran of semiconductor industry, he is best known for leading his organizations with an integrated vision of strategic operations, optimizing product costs, and driving risk-benefit analytical thinking within the industry. Dr. Amar credits his education for his success in business and management.

Dr. Amar has a strong passion for teaching and a commitment to academic excellence. In his early years at the University of California, he worked as teaching assistant to a renowned Nobel Laureate. He subsequently won Berkeley's prestigious Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor award. In addition to coaching for the GMAT, Dr. Amar teaches graduate-level classes on Corporate Finance at area business schools.

A published researcher, Dr. Amar has taught and mentored students who have gone on to business schools, medical schools, and other graduate programs. He has taught people who are now teaching at other test preparation companies. His abiding belief in the value of a high-quality education is the foundation of our company.

Nathan Palmer, better known as our Royal GMAT Instructor (he's a direct descendant of King Edward I of England), is a long-time Austinite who has returned after spending a decade out west and overseas.

Nathan performed two years of volunteer missionary work in New Zealand before taking up a double major in philosophy and psychology at Brigham Young University, from where he graduated magna cum laude. An academic star, he was the recipient of a four-year academic scholarship. He subsequently completed an MS in psychology (also from Brigham Young University) with an emphasis in philosophical and theoretical psychology.

Blessed with a passion for math, Nathan served as a high school math teacher with Teach for America. He has also taught as an adjunct psychology professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville.

Nathan's non-academic interests include directing a philanthropic foundation and biking. Among his many claims to fame is having biked up and down the world's steepest residential street (Baldwin Street in Dunedin, New Zealand).
 
A stellar test-taker, Nathan achieved a perfect score on the quantitative section of the GRE and a 770 (99th percentile) on the GMAT.

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