The Friends of Cambridge University in Hong Kong

Another good turn-out for our 2nd of the 3 seminars. Lots of interactions between our speakers and students.
The speakers were:
Ms Winnie Kwan (Economics, Trinity) - The Capital Group Companies, she formerly worked at Morgan Stanley
Ms Bianca Law (Economics, Pembroke) - Standard Chartered, she formerly worked at Citibank, Credit Sussie
Ms Jenny Tse (Chemical Engineering, New Hall) - UBS, she formerly worked at Dah Sing Bank

Nearly 30 students turned up on the 1st of the 3 seminars and we had a very good interactive session where the speakers shared their experience in working at various consulting firms and the students asked a lot of questions about how to get in this industry.

The speakers were:
Dr. Dominic Chan (Engineering, Trinity, also PhD Cambridge) - Decisive Consulting, he formally worked at McKinsey & Company, a-connect
Ms Lily Cheng (Engineering, Trinity) - She formerly worked at Boston Consulting Group
Ms Karen Cheuk (SPS, Trinity, also Wharton MBA) - Bain & Company
Ms Ada Chu (St John's) - McKinsey & Company

The Friends of Cambridge University in Hong Kong will be running a series of mentoring seminars aiming to provide insight and career advice to our young students and recent graduates, so they can get to know the different type of professions, obtain first hand information from the established alumni, and thus make well informed decision on important issues such as career and further studies.

How I wish there were programs like these when I was an undergraduate. We now have the opportunity to share our experience and perhaps past mistakes with the young ones. These stories will be invaluable to them. The dates of the seminar series are:

(1) Sat 26 July 2008 4-6pm: Consulting industry
(2) Sat 16 Aug 2008 4-6pm: Banking and Fund management (PE, VC, Hedge)
(3) Sat 30 Aug 2008 4-6pm: Startups (new ventures) and further studies

Guest speakers are all Cambridge alumni who are very experienced in the above topics. They are current or former executives in corporation including McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Bain & Company, Booz & Co, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank, and various fund management company and startup companies.

Venue (new location: Conference Room, 23/F, The Bank of East Asia Building,
10 Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong
Capacity: 30 people per session*

Format: Casual (30mins of mingling, 1 hour of panel discussion and then followed by 30mins of Q&A and mingling)

If you are a Cambridge students or a Cambridge graduates who are interested in finding out more of the above topics and would like to attend the seminar, please Email us to indicate your interests.

* Priority will be given to Cambridge students and recent Cambridge graduates.