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Mar 31, 2016
Yearbooks don’t just happen by themselves. In fact, we can safely say that this particular yearbook took the com-bined efforts of the entire student body: the writers, the photographers, the voters, the bakers, the candle-stick makers...
Seriously though, the 2011 yearbook team consists of a few dedicated students who had a great time making this project up from scratch. Together, they created colourful cardboard voting systems, designed layout concepts, held staff meetings via Skype, negotiated for quality (international!) printing, maintained epic Google Document spread-sheets, and pestered classmates for photos, information, stories, and bios. This book represents the best memories of the graduating class, and we sincerely thank the team that worked so hard to bring everything together:
Jennifer BabaianSheila BabayanRyan GunasekeraJames OrrJulia SevillaUkari Warmann
Catherine de FontaneyCongratulations Class of 2011! We are extremely proud of you, and wish you all the very best. Research says that after 5 years, the words “supply and demand” is all you’ll remember about your Economics courses; but we’d be very grateful if you could remember “Added Value” as well!
Best wishes, Catherine
David AustinTo the extraordinary people I have met this year teaching entrepreneurship. I would like to share with you a little of what you have taught and shown me: When you commit to a path people will give more help than you could ever have imagined. You can achieve more than your current vision allows you to see, it is a choice. Success envisaged in gentle terms has a way of growing. Be open to the joy of learning from the many interruptions on the path to success, each is a gift if you unwrap it carefully. Don’t forget that the entrepreneurship course is like the Hotel California and I hope to see you again soon.
Kind regards, David
Geoffrey LewisFirst the tasting notes: 2010 is an excellent vintage. By selective and judicious blending of diverse varieties we achieved a complex cohort with some with interesting high-notes. Showing some early roughness on the edges of the palate, this softened as the year progressed to result in a crisp, seductively textured class that displayed a full, open, and accessible approach to learning. Undoubtedly has excellent career potential.
Winemaker’s comments: Think about it! I could be spending my time with mature gentlemen of my own advancing years (read boring old farts) sitting around a board table making out to be doing something useful – or I could spend my time with energetic, thoughtful, challenging and committed young people who are shaping the future. What a privilege to be able to do the latter.
Messages ...
Ian Alsopp“ I have appreciated the opportunity to en-able students to becomeentrepreneurial and to create new ventures. Thinking and actingentrrepreneurially becomes a “way of think-ing and living”, it becomes alifestyle where the new opportunity excites and “calls” us to achieve andmake things happen. Become agenda setters and enjoy discoveringopportunities and developing new ventures that create both personal andsocial wealth.”
Cheers,Ian
Jack GoodwinAn American philosopher, Eric Hoffer, had a wonderful quote about learning. He said, “In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” I hope you have had an enjoyable and enriching learning experience at MBS and have learned a lot. How-ever, we live in times of profound change, so you will soon be perfectly equipped for a world that no longer exists. Your learning “journey” should just be starting. As you leave MBS, I hope that you have learned to learn, and that you will remember the “course” isn’t ending, it’s just starting. I’ll close with a quote from another famous American philosopher, Jack Welch: “Wake up every morning knowing it’s the dumbest you’ll ever be.”
It’s been a pleasure to teach some of you. Best wishes to all of you.
Jack Goodwin
Kannan SethuramanI would like to thank you for having given me this opportunity to say a few wordsin the annual yearbook.
At the outset, let me first congratulate each one of you for your commitment anddevotion towards excellence and for graduat-ing from MBS with flying colours.
As you rejoice this proud moment, please take the time to recognize the variousindividuals who have made a difference in your life and who have helped achieveyour dreams. I am confident that each and every one of you has the ability tomake a difference to this world. I hope and wish you will continue to aim highand will have the courage to follow your heart and ambitions. I wish you all thevery best in your future endeavours.
Kwang LimDear ex-students and everyone in the class of 2011, I wish you all the best as you graduate and move into the next exciting adventure of your life. If there is one piece of advice that I’d like to share with you, it is that you should nurture your mental agility. These days the world is filled with uncertainty and many changes are taking place in our economic and social ecosystems. However, the fundamental lessons that you learned during your MBA will serve you well into the future. Stay cool, apply what you’ve learnt in your MBA, but remember to continually build new skills and experiences in your life. Nurture the friendships and networks that you began at MBS. Most of all, be mentally agile. If you are adaptable in your mindset, everything else will follow, includ-ing new career opportunities, better ways for you to interact with clients and colleagues, new approaches as you tackle the challenges ahead. I wish you every success; your future is bright.
kwang
Mark CrosbyDear Class of 2011, I very much enjoyed teach-ing many of you during your time at MBS, and I wish you all the best as you return to the work-force. I know that you have all learned a huge amount during your studies, but do not forget the maxim of Descartes – “question everything.” Keep on learning, keep on questioning, and use your knowledge, networks and compassion to build a better business and society.
Good luck,Mark
Peter DanaherDear Class of 2011, Sometimes the flow of infor-mation and the pace of change in the workplace can seem overwhelming. One of the best talents you can develop and refine in your working lives is the ability to pick out key pieces of information. Measure and observe the things that really matter. Also, new trends and “hot topics” can be seductive. However, often they are only a flash in the pan or just a repackaging of what is already known. Watch out for these false leads and vapour trails. Don’t always follow the herd and keep an eye out for information they isn’t right in front of you, but may be in your peripheral vision. Lastly, the most important talent in your working and personal life is the ability to communicate, be it by voice, email, letter, report or power point presentation. Always work at improving your communication skills. I wish you luck in your future careers and you unfolding lives. Peter Danaher
David PollardI just love being asked to share my thoughts and give advice. So here’re some quite gratuitous pointers. Although the notion of emotional intelligence is a bit ten-years-ago, it does contain an important grain of truth - that in any career getting on with people and being liked is important for doing a good job and being perceived as having leader-ship potential. A related point is that people skills gradually become as important as techni-cal skills in any job that is predominantly ser-vice focussed, and this includes includes people management. Thirdly, friends come and go in any work environment but enemies just accumu-late - so we all need to avoid making them in any working environment where we intend to stay. Competition with others needs to be tempered with with what the Romans called humanitas - common decency.
David Pollard
Sven FeldmanWith the MBA in your pocket you are now ready to embark on a successful career — be it in bank-ing, marketing, consulting, or actually producing something useful for the world. ;-) Here are my “bullet points” of advice: • Liveyourlifetothefullestanddon’treston what you have achieved, ever• Alwaystrysomethingnew,somethingthat challenges you and takes you out of your comfort zone• Dotherightthing,notwhatiscon-venient or expedient. Do what you believe in and what you can proudly talk about with your grandchildren one day• Ashardasyouworkedforyoursuccess— now and in the future, — never forget that it is you who owes society, not the other way ‘round. Stay humble, contribute your share, en-courage others to do theirs, and try to give back
Best of luck in all your future endeavours!
Congratulations on a wonderful achievement. I know that each of you have learned a lot during your degree and have made many new friends - if I had any advice it would be to stay in touch. Stay in touch with your learning by staying intellectually curious and taking the opportunity that every workplace will provide you to keep learning and changing. Stay in touch with your classmates by regularly meeting up with them or interacting on email or the web. Stay in touch with the School by coming back to alumni events (we hold these internationally as well as domes-tically) and reunions. We are always keen to hear what our alumni are doing and very proud of the many and different ways in which you serve your companies and communities. You carry our best wishes with you.
Jenny
Degree: MBAFave moment: All the lovely friends I madeFuture Career: General CounselHometown: Melbourne
Libby Akhounov
Degree: MBAFave moment: In Managerial Econom-ics class, Professor Andrew John tried to teach auction theory using a game. A 20 dollar note ended up being fought over by Kislay and Rohit, and was finally bought for 55 dollars!Future Career: Development FinanceHometown: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Andalib Alam
Degree: Masters in MarketingFave moment: All the times Student Ser-vices pushed things through despite my complete disorganisation (thanks guys)Future Career: Currently healthcare, but to be honest, who knows!Hometown: Warragul, Victoria
Degree: MBAFave moment: Catching up with all the guys and gals at Corkman’s after final exams... oh the relief!Future Career: Management ConsultingHometown: Melbourne
Yoganya Arunothayaraj
Mark Amott
Degree: MBAFave moment: AGSM/MBS cup! Future Career: EntrepreneurHometown: NY, USA
Jennifer Babaian
Degree: MBAFave moment: Crashing a wedding, Cookie Day at the apartment, Tasty Tuesdays; The time we squeezed 25 people into our tiny city flat; The epic charades party Future Career: I hope so!Hometown: Orange County, California
Sheila Babayan
Degree: MBAFave moment: Making a fool out of my-self in marketing class once. The whole class for a second thought that I was crazy, and people had a good laugh at my idiosyncrasy’s expense for the follow-ing week.Future Career: FinanceHometown: New Delhi, India
Rohit Bahl
Degree: MBAFave moment: Probably the sandwiches, also making great friends, having late night syndicate meetings, and end of term drinks Future Career: Destination unknownHometown: Melbourne
Danielle Baird
Degree: MBAFave moment: End of Term (December 2009) Party Future Career: ConsultingHometown: Kathmandu, Nepal
Rahul Bajaj
Degree: Masters in MarketingFave moment: Sleepless nights spent at syndicate rooms fighting to meet dead-lines Future Career: Marketing & SalesHometown: New Delhi, India
Vishal Bali
Degree: MBAFave moment: The inter-intake cricket tournament, where our intake defeated every other intake and became the champion Future Career: Consulting/General Man-agementHometown: Hardwar, India
Abhinav Bana
Degree: MBAFave moment: The breaks in between the terms...every moment of those short breaks was worth it! Future Career: Only time will tellHometown: Chandigarh, India (called as ‘City Beautiful’)
Rajeev Batra
Degree: MBAFave moment: My fellow MBS mates and the fun we had together. Future Career: Financial ServicesHometown: Bombay India
Vinod Bhat
Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Drinks at the end of each term!Future Career: Consulting – Defence Industry / Public SectorHometown: Canberra
Andrew Bishop
Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: The friends I have made and the memories they have given me!Future Career: ConsultantHometown: Perth
James Blake
Degree: Masters of MarketingFave moment: Mark Ritson’s end of Brand Management partyFuture Career: A balance between moth-erhood and an executive role in market-ing managementHometown: Perth, Western Australia
Saschelle Blake
Degree: MBA (Marketing stream)Fave moment: Running down on the hardwood with my Squash Club mates.Future Career: Marketing consultingHometown: Seattle, Washington, USA
Adam Blakney
Degree: 36.5 CelsiusFave moment: Secretly eating food in the library. I felt free!Future Career: Internet FixerHometown: Joggeli
Angie Born
Degree: MBAFave moment: Meeting some clas-sic characters and relishing in battling through syndicate work together.Future Career: I would like to stay within the pharmaceutical industry, although I am not sure in what capacity.Hometown: Horsham, Victoria
Emily Brown
Degree: MBAFave moment: Interactive sessions with key decision makers during Leading Policy Reform Future Career: Head of State Hometown: Melbourne
Richard Brown
Degree: MBAFave moment: I’m sure it’s on its way...still 6 months to go!Future Career: Be free :)Hometown: mmmm...hard to say...I travel too much, Melbourne these days
Sarah Bruat
Degree: MBAFave moment: walking around town with my first syndicate group Future Career: ManufacturingHometown: Upwey
Damien Burger
Degree: Masters of MarketingFave moment: Working on a variety of assignments with my classmates and seeing things from a new perspectiveFuture Career: Group Account Director in Market Research or starting up my own research companyHometown: Melbourne, Australia
Dennis Butler
Degree: MBAFave moment: Kebab Mondays in Sum-merFuture Career: Marketing in Consumer Goods Hometown: Orange, CA, USA
Chad Bystedt
Degree: MBAFave moment: First term when we fin-ished “Accounting”~~Celebrate!!!Future Career: Healthcare Industry (pharmaceutical company/hospital) or Insurance IndustryHometown: Shanghai, China
Dong Cai
Degree: MBAFave moment: Ravi telling our Leader-ship & Change class to ‘man up’. GeniusFuture Career: I won’t be working as I’ll be retiring on the millions that our en-trepreneurship project is going to make. Probably Hometown: Cardiff, Wales (officially the greatest country on the world. Fact)
Michael Carpenter
Degree: MBAFave moment: Sam Wylie “it’s plain va-nilla, no pistachio” Future Career: Financial Services, Lon-donHometown: Melbourne
Will Carroll
Degree: MBAFave moment: Joe Montuoro’s dirty Mo-vember moustacheFuture Career: International Develop-mentHometown: Melbourne, Australia
Daniel Carter
Degree: MBAFave moment: MBS goes to BaliFuture Career: Corporate Melbournian... doing stuffHometown: Melbourne, Australia
Nelson Chan
Degree: MBAFave moment: growing a thick 1980’s mustachioFuture Career: renewable energyHometown: The Tarheel State
Jeff Cheek
Degree: MBAFave moment: Syndicate meetings - I heart my syndicates (yeah, all of them!!)Future Career: Possible future careers in-clude FBI, or somewhere I can deliver hap-piness (perhaps a chocolate factory), and hopefully not Wal*Mart, Nike, Billabong or Coles (unless they pay AUD140,000)...Hometown: Hong Kong SAR
Bong Bonze Sin Cheng
Degree: MBAFave moment: WNDC at the Randy Dragon. The MBS crowd is not a good place to get drunk. Oh, you guys can be MEAN! And yes, I had 7 glasses.Future Career: N/AHometown: Singapore, Sunny Island set in the sea.
Casey Chew
Degree: MBAFave moment: The pressure test the school puts you through, and the feeling of relief with a beer in hand at end of term drinks.Future Career: Not sure for how long can I be employable, so would want to start up a Business soon.Hometown: I have 2 – Delhi and Melbourne
Ashish Chopra
Degree: MBAFave moment: Making life long friends Future Career: Corporate FinanceHometown: Ahmedabad-India
Dipali Contractor
Degree: MBAFave moment: Hanging out with friends over summer for a BBQ by the Yarra.Future Career: mmmm.... firemanHometown: Santiago, Chile
Carlos Correa
Degree: MBAFave moment: The ‘conk’ of a coke bottle hitting Jacob’s head in ManPro and sharing a few fine single malts with my friendsFuture Career: Buying companiesHometown: Edinburgh
Paul Coupe
Degree: MBA/Graduate Certificate in Social ImpactFave moment: All the blurry onesFuture Career: Social EntrepreneurHometown: Houston, Texas
Jeff Darlington
Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Being told there were classes on AFL Grand Final day Future Career: …. I don’t know, current career perhaps.. Hometown: Melbourne
Murray de Jong
Degree: MBAFave moment: First end of term party...more like a blank in my memory, thoughFuture Career: Something in strategy...maybeHometown: Lille, France
Degree: MBAFave moment: Coffee in line chatFuture Career: AstronautHometown: Brisbane
Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Learning the real use for Yahoo, and the bonding experience of 18 hours per day in weekend modeFuture Career: Singer/SongwriterHometown: Melbourne
Chris Dodd
Degree: Cook to order (raw, medium, well done)Fave moment: More MBA, more dumb!Future Career: Taking care of my first money tree and grow some more!Hometown: Forbidden City (NO Face-book, twitter, or google!)
Joel Delmaire
Angie Dickinson
Annie Dong
Degree: MBAFave moment: Partying at the end of first termFuture Career: CFO...Chief Fun OfficerHometown: Richmond, Virginia, USA
Degree: 37 Celsius (not too hot to han-dle)Fave moment: Being picked up by ran-dom classmates in a day thx to Sam!Future Career: Globe-trotting connois-seurHometown: Makassar, in the beautiful n chaotic Indonesia!
Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Nothing specific. I en-joyed it all (or at least most of it).Future Career: Still thinkingHometown: Melbourne
Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Learning that it is pro-nounced Moet, not Moet from RitsonFuture Career: Automotive General Man-agerHometown: St Kilda
Joshua Elliot
Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Sandwiches!Future Career: Entrepreneur/Founder of a successful start-upHometown: St Kilda
Brett Fairbank
Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Half time drinks at the pubFuture Career: GM People & CultureHometown: Melbourne
Elissa Fell
Nicole Dumond
Brendan Egan
Ivonne Edenton
Degree: MBAFave moment: Not one single memory (other than Diego’s moustache), but a lot of good times collectively.Future Career: DictatorHometown: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Degree: MBAFave moment: The Corkman, and all the good friends who joined me thereFuture Career: tbc (call and ask me)Hometown: Melbourne, Australia
Degree: MBAFave moment: THONK goes Jacob’s head as Paul throws his coke bottle at him in Man ProFuture Career: I don’t want to be a con-sultant, I don’t want to be a consultant, I don’t want to be a consultant………… Maybe I’ll be a consultantHometown: Swan Hill, Victoria
Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Catherine de Fontenay leading the class on running laps of an empty campus on Sunday afternoons, before another three hours of Man EcFuture Career: Switching the world to renewable energyHometown: Melbourne
Anna Freeman
Degree: MBAFave moment: The excellent friends of different cultures!Future Career: General ManagementHometown: Lima, Peru
Degree: MBAFave moment: The time people got dressed up in costume for a final exam!Future Career: Consultant, Businessman or Cult LeaderHometown: Kuala Lumpur (but really, from everywhere...)
Tevor Florey
Richard Fox
Nicholas Fraser
Oscar Gagó
Abhinav Garg
Degree: MBAFave moment: WOM because it got me excited to start my learning journey.Future Career: ConsultingHometown: Melbourne
Degree: MBAFave moment: Making lifelong friend-ships. :)Future Career: Strategy ConsultingHometown: Melbourne
Degree: MBA (Unprofessional)Fave moment: The very first careers’ session.. when I learned to shake hands! :PFuture Career: Dream job: Judge in the next Masterchef Challenge. Hometown: Kolkata, India!
Degree: Masters in MarketingFave moment: Everything at MBS has been a memorable experience. Hence all of them form favorite memories because each of them are unique and without them I would not have had my own student and complete experience.Future Career: Brand Management Career / Retail or FMCG IndustryHometown: Singapore
Degree: MBAFave moment: Doing MBS rounds and eating Crispy Creme donuts during Sun-day arvo’s Man Ec with CatherineFuture Career: Entrepreneur, Pvt Equity, Consulting (in that order)Hometown: Melbourne
Sam Hardikar
Degree: MBAFave moment: Tony Trombone and Team RJFuture Career: Dad Hometown: Melbourne
Amelia Ghofrany
Ryan Gunasekera
Dipanjan Gupta
Mamta Gupta
James Harrington
Degree: MBAFave moment: Judging of Movember 2009 at the Corkman, where the Mos ranged from Navraj’s full-fledged weapon of mass destruction to valiant attempts proving that yes, people of Chinese and Vietnamese origin CAN grow (something resembling to) a MO... As the guys catwalk and tell the girls why theirs is the best, Jarrett Pinto shows us how it’s done. He swaggers up, poses and with twinkling eyes and a cheeky grin points to his auburn-coloured mo while proclaiming, “One word. Spicy”. The girls (myself included) went wild... Future Career: Healthcare marketing Hometown: Singapore
Degree: MBAFave moment: Winning Entrepreneur Eleva-tor Pitch Competition, Copenhagen Exchange semester!, MBS Bali trip, Attending the Manag-ing Processes exam in swimming costumes, Mr Monkey (R.I.P.), ACCC football nightsFuture Career: Marketing/Advertising Strategy Consultant Hometown: Melbourne local
Samuel “didn’t-feel-the-love” Hayton
Degree: MBAFave moment: Professor Ian Harper speakFuture Career: Management ConsultingHometown: Melbourne - New York City
Degree: MBAFave moment: First beer in the CorkmanFuture Career: Assistant to Murray Hewitt - Manager of Flight of the Con-chordsHometown: Christchurch, New Zealand
Degree: MBAFave moment: Everyone’s nervousness during WOM and the way by about the end of mid terms Semester 1, every-one was just so comfortable with everyone else - quite a collegiate (cohort) environment compared to niche groups during undergrad. (Also loved the role plays in MPHP - Sheila Babayan would make a great lawyer and Ravi Chilli an excellent Lee Iacocca!)Future Career: Resources Sector again - hopefully a strat-egy role;Hometown: Wellington, NZ, well essentially Melbourne now.
Degree: MBAFave moment: wednesday lygon nights with the silly Asians!Future Career: Financial servicesHometown: Singapore
Nadira Hashim
Jonathan Heasman
Paul Henderson
Tim Hickman
Alvin Ho
Degree: Masters of MarketingFave moment: The sandwhichesFuture Career: Director/Executive Man-agement/CEOHometown: Melbourne, Australia
Nimai Horton
Degree: MBAFave moment: Going on exchange pro-gram to NYUFuture Career: Entrepreneur Hometown: Melbourne
Degree: MBA (Mental Below Average)Fave moment: Play all day long and study all night long!Future Career: Lecturer at MBSHometown: Shanghai, China
Degree: MBAFave moment: All the great MBS people!Future Career: Serial EntrepreneurHometown: Copenhagen, Denmark
Degree: MBAFave moment: The international food festival; especially the Indian table!Future Career: Social EntrepreneurHometown: Melbourne, Australia
Degree: MBAFave moment: Syndicate room discus-sionsFuture Career: Sales Management/ Own-ing my own businessHometown: Seymour, VIC, Australia
Chin-Ching Hsu
Timothy Huang
Jacob Hulsbaek
John Hunt
Edward (Ned) Jeffery
Degree: MBAFave moment: Founding the Music Club at MBS.Future Career: Financial Services Hometown: Melbourne
Degree: MBAFave moment: My best memories of MBS are a collection of people, ideas, dreams and opportunities I encountered that made the program transformative on so many levels…Future Career: BankingHometown: Auckland, New Zealand
Degree: MBAFave moment: Sam Wylie’s ‘information asymmetry’Future Career: We’ll see....Hometown: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Degree: Masters of MarketingFave moment: The case studies, the peopleFuture Career: Consumer ScienceHometown: Melbourne
Degree: MBAFave moment: International Exchange Program at Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York UniversityFuture Career: Financial Management / General ManagementHometown: Glen Waverley (Melbourne), Australia
Degree: MBAFave moment: Lunch at Corkman on FridayFuture Career: UnknownHometown: Marseille, France
Sandesh Kale
Hafeez Kamaruzzaman
Smrithi Kamtikar (nee Swamina-than)
Evangelia Kapparis
Scott Kerrison
Alexandre Kesy
Degree: MBAFave moment: Going on the mental jour-ney ...Future Career: Spatial Sciences or ITHometown: Stoneyford, Victoria.
Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Ian Harper’s session dur-ing WOMFuture Career: Still considering various options.Hometown: Melbourne
John Kim
Degree: MBAFave moment: Meeting so many high achievers, and finally answering one of Sam Wylie’s questions correctly in classFuture Career: To be determined... something that makes a difference.Hometown: Brisbane
Degree: MBAFave moment: Hard to single out any but will try: end of term & house parties, cricket, various cultural celebrations and of course jokes of David Trende and Mark Ritson.Future Career: Financial Services/Con-sultingHometown: Mumbai, India
Degree: MBAFave moment: The time Angie proposed and I had to dump Sheila in Leadership in ChangeFuture Career: not-profitHometown: Californadia
Degree: MBAFave moment: Late nights trying to fin-ish assignments, meeting fantastic people from all walks of life, MBS ball, syndicate meetings where we had endless snacks and discussed everything except the assignment itself!Future Career: Who knows what will hap-pen after the MBA mental journey? The wide world awaits!Hometown: Perth and Melbourne
Terry Kildea
Richard Kloeden
Ankit Lahoti
Vanessa Landry
Ivy Lee
Degree: MBAFave moment: Getting to know the my classmates in a collaborative environ-ment.Future Career: I want to have a career in Consulting, Marketing and/or Corporate strategyHometown: Melbourne
Degree: MBAFave moment: Working with my awe-some syndicate :)Future Career: MarketingHometown: Melbourne, Australia
Degree: MBAFave moment: The comedic repartee of various lecturers. “That’s like an ant crawling up an elephants ass with rape on his mind!” - Lecturer name withheldFuture Career: Corporate/Business Advi-soryHometown: Melbourne
Degree: MBAFave moment: Richard Speed’s introduc-tion speech during WOMFuture Career: Professional tree hugger Hometown: Kuala Lumpur & Madison, Wisconsin
Degree: MBAFave moment: The vigorous discussion that Alex Levashov and Doug Dow had in bus strat, neither prepared to back down.Future Career: Consulting or Financial ServicesHometown: Wantabadgery, NSW
Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: An indulgent flower drum dinner after the last ever day of classesFuture Career: Power dresser and all round expertHometown: Auckland. New Zealand
Kate Leuchars
Tony Lee
Bryan Leong
Mindy Leow
Mark Leslie
Judy Lee
Degree: MBA/Masters of MarketingFave moment: Seeing all the crazy things that people built during the “make-an-egg-parachute” teamwork exercise back in first term Managing people class.Future Career: DesignHometown: Hong Kong, Melbourne
Degree: MBAFave moment: Hanging out with Olga, Omar, Nadira, Robin @ Mark’s place for a BBQ dinner after finishing lots of syndi-cate assignments together!Future Career: Consulting, or strategic rolesHometown: Taipei, Taiwan & Melbourne, Australia
Allen Lin
Degree: MBAFave moment: Meeting the wonderful people from our cohort, and my Madrid experience to IE Business School that opened my eyes to Europe and Latin America.Future Career: Management Consulting ot In-ternational Trade with Asia. Long-term: busi-ness owner and entrepreneur.Hometown: Melbourne, Australia, though I come from New Zealand.
Degree: MBAFave moment: When I finish my last MBA class on 24th Nov 2010, after 3 years of hardwork!Future Career:My own bossHometown: Malacca, Malaysia
Degree: MBAFave moment: All the syndicate mem-bers I worked with that broadened my horizons and made me a stronger per-son.Future Career: Consulting, probably specified in supply chain or procurementHometown: Shanghai, China
Degree: MBAFave moment: YouFuture Career: :) NFIHometown: Pune, India
John Leung
Woody Lo
David Loh
Hitesh Luthra
Robin Luo
Degree: MBAFave moment: Fantastic friends, WNDC, the 2009 Roaring ‘20s Ball and “the mental journey”Future Career: Helping people achieve their dreamsHometown: Born in Selangor, Malaysia and now an Australian citizen living in Melbourne
Degree: MBAFave moment: Doing D&D assignment with Jacob. Why did we get into this in the first place?!Future Career: Professional Happiness SeekerHometown: I am from Yokohama, baby!
Degree: MBAFave moment: Managing people class!Future Career: Not Architecture (hope-fully)Hometown: Jakarta, Indonesia
Degree: MBAFave moment: Sarah’s Managing Pro-cesses Hot Cookie Superhero oufitFuture Career: Is something I hope to have Hometown: Was Durban, South Africa...now somewhere in Oz where we can af-ford to buy a house
Degree: MBAFave moment: Meeting a wide variety of interesting people from all walks of life and Dave Trende intoning to ‘come on the mental journey’ which will probably stay in my head forever!Future Career: CommunicationsHometown: Melbourne
Deborah McInnes
Degree: MBAFave moment: perceptual maps at 3am, survival via coffee cups, my life passing me by in syndicate room #11Future Career: consulting, marketing, and day dreamingHometown: Manila
Lydia Marpaung
Yoshi Matsumoto
Stephen McDonald
Weng Mina
Lynette Lye
Degree: MBAFave moment: The balls, the parties, and the syndicate meetings with close friendsFuture Career: Brand Manager! Hometown: Melbourne
Degree: MBAFave moment: Coffee breaks at Seven Seeds; Exchange study in Milan Future Career: Higher education Hometown: Zushi, Japan
Degree: MBAFave moment: Carlos taking over the lec-ture for ten minutes of Macro Economics, and then refusing to answer questions from the professor in the audience.Future Career: Management ConsultingHometown: Melbourne
Degree: MBAFave moment: Discovering individuals with team spirit; Not coming from a finance background I was totally lost in the first two weekends of Corporate Finance. My class-mate’s help meant a very comfortable exam. It would have been very different otherwise.Future Career: Rich and Famous Hometown: Rusape
James Mugodo
Degree: MBAFave moment: Ian Harper’s lecture at WOM. Trully inspirational!Future Career: Innovation and Entrepre-neurshipHometown: Live in Australia, born in El Salvador
Degree: MBAFave moment: 1. developing deep friend-ships 2. being inspired by leaders 3. receiving the Tourism Victoria Bursary AwardFuture Career: Leading organisations to successHometown: Melbourne
Danijela Mirosa
Yoshi Mitsui
Joe Montuoro
Freddy Navas
Michael Ngo
Degree: MBAFave moment: Mid afternoon drinks with certain staff members… you know who you are!Future Career: ConsultingHometown: Melbourne, Australia
Degree: MBAFave moment: Weekend syndicate group meetings at MBS on a sunny day in one of the rooms with a view.Future Career: Telecoms, Engineering, Consulting Hometown: Melbourne
Degree: MBAFave moment: The syndicate roomsFuture Career: IT & TelecommunicationsHometown: Hanoi, Vietnam
Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: The great people.Future Career: General ManagementHometown: Melbourne
Andrew Nowicki
Degree: MBAFave moment: Making some amazing friends.Future Career: Corporate Social Respon-sibilityHometown: Melbourne
Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: The Sharks syndicate and the wonderful work we did in between dinners and lunchesFuture Career: ConsultingHometown: Melbourne
Nick O’Brien
Dylan Nguyen
Lam Hai Nguyen
David Nicolas
Jenny O’Brien
Degree: MBAFave moment: Catching up with friends in the courtyard before the start of classesFuture Career: Whatever I choose Hometown: Melbourne
Degree: MBAFave moment: Seeing which group would get body-slammed in Business StrategyFuture Career: IT and Innovation Man-agementHometown: Nairobi & Melbourne
Josef Oduwo
Degree: MBAFave moment: Wearing the brightest jacket (with retroreflective stripes) to Mr. Hakan’s lecture on BenettonFuture Career: Operations Management within Financial ServicesHometown: Melbourne
Ajay Oommen
Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: The people, the sandwich-es, the donuts... although I think Dale demolishing Nick in a Managing people role play deservers a special mention…Future Career: Imparting words of wis-dom for x, where x is....Hometown: Melbourne
James Orr
Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: So many to choose from. The “special” lunch arranged by Crosby and Lewis ended up being sandwiches yet again, while EMBAs enjoyed a 3 course meal :)Future Career: To achieve success, re-spect and influence along whichever path I chooseHometown: Melbourne
Ahmet Ozman
Degree: MBAFave moment: WOM week, the beginning of a long adventureFuture Career: Restaurant critic :)Hometown: Living in Melbourne/Born in Paris
Rosemary O’Brien
Perrine Parrod
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ASEANASEAN is a syndicate made up of a bunch of students who have no idea what is written in their mission and vision state-ment, nevertheless united by their passion for good food (such as hot pot and moon cake), good fun (playing mah-jong or congklak) and good company (members of the committee ). We aim to utilise our South East Asian charm and hospitality to provide alternative social settings for MBS-ers outside the fancy lecture rooms. We hope these would help to ease some of the pressure of Segmenting-Targeting-Positioning, BATNA, or even normal distribution that the students often face, no matter whether they come from South East Asian countries or not, whether they in Part-Time, Full-Time or Weekend mode, as long as they are the proud members of Melbourne Business School family.
Bonze
BasketballAs we all know an MBA certainly stretches the brain - but what about stretching the body? Well basketball is certainly a sport that stretches both! With this in mind, in mid-2010 a group of like-minded enthusiasts decided to form a basketball team, playing games every Sunday at Melbourne Sports and Recreation Centre. These elite athletes first bonded as part of the official MBS basketball team that comprehensively dis-patched of AGSM during the 2010 annual inter-varsity sports day. As they basked in the glory of vic-tory they new this was a feeling that they could get used to! However, this feeling didn’t last long - we lost our first game of the season! But we went on to win our next game (current record is 2 wins and 5 losses) and we formed a great bond along the way. Thanks to Ryan Gunasekera for bringing the team together and also to Ukari Warmann, Darren Yau, Matthew Schwantes, James Blake and Bill Yu for showcasing their tal-ents - both on and off the court!
James David Blake
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ConsultingThe consulting club finished up this year in good spirits, hoping to follow a year of record placements (2010) with the hope that we can do even better in the future. The club aims to help students become aware of the consulting industry, and assist those with consulting aspirations to successfully land roles.
We’ve been extremely busy for the past few years. In particular, the annual EY case competition, ethics roundtable, weekly case practices, and company case workshops / presentations have become highlights of the MBS experience. Ad-ditionally we’ve sponsored movie nights and miscellaneous events like ‘the art of dressing,’ which have been both fun and informative (and led to MBS students get-ting a 20% discount at Joe Black!)
Most importantly, we’ve found giving back to the MBS community to be incredibly rewarding -- our role leading the club has been a highlight of our time here at MBS. Thank you for giving us the opportunity, and we look forward to seeing you out there after graduation.
Ronjon
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IncultDuring my time at MBS, I got an op-portunity to learn a lot about various cultures of the world. My desire to showcase the culture of my country on a global platform led to me taking active interest in the activities of In-Cult (Indian Cultural Club) at MBS. It has been a fun experience with InCult due to the great interest and enthusi-asm that people at MBS have shown to learn and enjoy different cultures. Our Holi event at the start of the year saw MBSites having a gala time paint-ing each other’s faces with colors; some were seen getting rid of their inhibi-tions and rolling on the colorful floor. The color-painted faces brought the colors of India to the MBS courtyard.Diwali, India’s festival of lights brought a glimpse of Indian culture to MBS. Once again, MBSites were seen enjoy-ing themselves lighting ‘diyas’ and sparklers. Everyone gorged on the deli-cious Indian food and enjoyed betting their candies in ‘Teen Patti’, the Indian version of poker.
Summing up last year, InCult had a lot of fun bringing the Indian culture: colors, food & music to MBS.
Namrata
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Marketing AssociationThe MBS Marketing Association was once introduced during a student event as the Advertising Club. Clearly, this person missed the lecture during the Marketing core class about what marketing is about, and I’m sure Patrick Butler would like to have a few words with this person. In any case, as you will see from the events, the Marketing Association is hardly about advertising.
We inherited a 1 or 2 event-a-term association, and grew to have more events and members. This term (T3 ’10) was our most successful with 7 events organized during the term (one of the most active in school). Naturally, all you MBA smarty-pants will say that volume does not equal quality, but considering an average turnout per event of around 35 people, I would say that this is a pretty darn good job!
The association will be leaving behind a bit of legacy with the branded events (naturally, being a marketing-based association). We’ve started the Marketing Faculty Speaker Series as well as the highly popular BrandManager@Work speaker series, which we hope will continue long after we are gone. In short, to the new committee, don’t mess this up!!
In all, its been a great experience. We’ve had the chance to meet some amazing leaders, gain some insightful knowledge and build some useful networks. The collage below is a collection of some of the events and brands we’ve brought into the school.
Good work, guysThe team: Mamta Gupta, Nadira Hashim, Bryan Le-ong, Bonze Cheng, Jef Van Acoleyen and Kenn Ro-drigues
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Net ImpactMBS’ class of 2011 has taken leaps and bounds towards Net Impact’s long term goals. Under the masterful guidance of bourbon-swilling, smokey Jeff Cheeky, the indefatigable and inherently catching enthusiasm of Mindy Leow, and with occa-sional support from Luke ‘pass me the mi-crophone’ van O, we’ve seen: a huge surge in new memberships (big up the Sept. 2010 intake); the first ever Australia-wide Net Im-pact conference; and what promises, at time of going to press, to be the most high profile APAC Net Impact event on record in early 2011; the inauguration of a Melbourne pro-fessional chapter; and a plethora of events geared towards raising the profile of social impact activity. It’s been truly exciting to watch an ever-increasing numbers of future business leaders join the cause and actively engage with making our world sustainable. It’s never too late.
Luke
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PhotographyWe accomplished quite a bit actually. Ask the reception, and they will tell you that we harassed them for pots, pans, furniture & lighting. We have run behind the kitch-en staff begging them to make us napkin swans. We have had confidential planning meetings at The Corkman! We got a little high on red wine. We threw an afternoon party under cherry blossoms. We gave away tons of cash for pictures you guys sent in. We basically had a ball... and we LOVED your enthusiasm... we LOVED doing it.
Arpana
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PokerThe MBS Poker Club was formed and approved in September 2010 after a bunch of part time students decided their once-a-term poker nights were so much fun that they would be a good idea for a new club. The club now has over 50 mem-bers of both part time and full time students, and held it’s first event on November 12th 2010, with a great mix of 52 beginners and experienced players playing in a members-only lounge in a city bar. It was a very fun night of music, movies, friendly poker playing, and some real com-petitive playing as well. The first MBS Poker Club champion was Will Herron, who scooped the pool at the twenty dollar table twice. Well done Will. The Poker Club Team is already planning next event, so keep your eyes peeled.
James
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SoccerRain or shine, 8o or 38o weather, week 1 or week 9 or finals week; we were there, on the pitch, kicking around and kicking each other. Definitely a club for the hard core, not for the faint-hearted! The main question is: Where were you? The soccer club has experienced its best moments, with a glorious 4-0 win against a lackluster AGSM team. The fact that it was a 7-a-side game and they only had 5 people with no subs while we had 14 people doesn’t matter! It’s all about the spirit and the will to win. We’ve also seen the best of Latin skills, European precision, Asian determination, African power and Aussie brawn. Oh yeah, and there were also the Americans to make up the numbers ;). We’ve also experienced some of our worse moments. More than once, there were a few crunching tackles that saw a couple of players show up the next day in crutches (some people say they were faking to get sympathy from the girls, but who am I to say…). We’ve also had a few pulled hamstrings, mostly from bending down to tie a shoelace. World cup winners, we are not. But for this Beautiful Game, we have pas-sion.
Kenn
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SportsSince the inception of Sports club in term 3 of 2009, it has been a fascinating jour-ney. Covering every sport in demand, Club has hosted range of sporting events from Soccer, Basketball, Cricket, Squash and Tennis to marathon and biking. Function-ing alongside the other related clubs we ignited the fighting sports spirit among students which got reflected in our 6-0 soc-cer game win against AGSM in 2009.
Inter intake Cricket & Basketball tournaments has seen the healthy rivalry and competitive sprits of students while providing wonderful experience to new-bies. Games created an easy and informal environment for students to interact and network with different batches.
Going by the Melbourne sprit, we ran with the city in Runmelbourne mara-thon and biked along the yarra river. MBS Sports Club continues to provide av-enues to engage in sports and maintain a healthy, sporty and stress free lifestyle.
Vineet
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Squash
It’s been a fun year on the hard-wood with over twenty squash club meetings, and hundreds of great points. It was great seeing all of the regulars out there on Friday’s and Saturday’s sweating and subsequently limping during class the next week!
I hope all of the newcomers had fun and got an introduction to the game if only one time. Don’t forget to mention Squash in your job interviews, you never know who’ll take you up for a game!
Hope to see you on the court soon, and remember Squash is the sport of busi-ness!
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Women in Management(WAM)2010 was an exciting year for WAM, we continued to assist students to make the most of their time at the school as a resource and support platform, where they can better acquaint with fellow female students, faculty, alumni and business professionals in the community.
We had some great events through out the year including:
Women in Finance – Challenges and Opportunities, with guest speakers Jan Begg (ex-Head of PMO, ANZ Bank), and Vicki Allen (COO, Trust Company Ltd.).
Mentorship an Women in Business Roundtable with special guests Melanie Sanders, Bain & Co; Marianne Matin, WHK; Jenny Barbour, Jenny Barbour & Associ-ates.
2010 Annual Women and Management dinner which was held at the Grand Hyatt with around 600 pro-fessional females in attendance. The guest speaker was Elizabeth Proust, AO.
Why Women Make Better Marketers than Men, pre-sented by professor Mark Ritson, pulled a crowd of both males and females!
Thanks to everyone who supported WAM and attend-ed our events in 2010!
Samantha
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Wine and PhilosophyThinking and drinking. Not two activities that normally go together, but they worked out quite well for us this year. We kicked off the revital-ised Wine & Philosophy club on the 221st anniversary of the storming of the Bastille with a look at the French Revolution, its causes and the les-sons it holds for us today. And we drank a bit of wine. We then turned our attention to the subject of ambi-tion, and the differences and ten-sions between public and private ambitions. And we drank some more wine. We discussed the role of business school in modern society, focusing particularly on what has made MBS a purposeful and mean-ingful experience for current and former students. We started to drink wine, stopped for bread and cheese, and then finished the wine in the mes. And then there was the winery tour, which was just good fun. In vino veritas.
Jeff
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