Mba Executive Director Podcast

IBM iX, Managing Consultant Sarah Ishak talks about consultancy and the strategy around digital business. She talks about building your network and working your contacts as you step into a new role and new company, in order to hit the ground running and be as agile as you can.

Iman Karimi (MBA 2010)explores the innovative and disruptive consultancy practices changing the face of global consultancy, as Project Leader and Lead Data Scientist at The Boston Consulting Group and working within GAMMA BCG, London. Focusing on big data and advanced analytics, along with algorithms and data science, Iman shares insights into global recruitment practices, enhanced client relations and advanced consultancy methods to solve issues of big data and the increasing application of AI across the current global business climate.

How to identify and manage stress in the workplace for both managers, leaders and of course ourselves. External Faculty, Cambridge Judge Business School and Executive Coach Dr Helena Kim addresses ways to navigate and cope with stress in the workplace. Harnessing stress in your career journey.

We hear from Ambika Mamgain (MBA 2010) Strategic Programme Manager at YOOX Net A Porter, aka YNAP. Looking at the luxury fashion market and the user experience online, especially in the off-season marketplace. A global brand Ambika is based in London and talks about both brands, the user experience and the online and offline consumer journey, as well as being a working mother.

Explore the startup journey with bag designer and entrepreneur Jacqui Gilbert.

Entrepreneur Gordon Downes (MBA 2009) talks about the Nyshex shipping exchange based in New York. Applying digital contracting to bring about change in the international ocean shipping market; discussions cover blockchain to big data and minimising risk and waste as a startup operating in the global shipping market.

Priscilla Li shares her insights working at Capgemini as Head of Applied Innovation Exchange. Digital transformation and digital disruption are at the heart of her story as she explores rapid innovation in the consultancy sector with the advance of AI and new technology.

In this episode we hear from Damian Miller who talks about his journey from Cambridge PhD to Shell's Solar Division to CEO and Founder of Orb Energy. Based in Bangalore, we explore the opportunities and challenges that exist across India for an entrepreneur working in the renewable energy sector.

In this episode we hear from Priya Shah who shares her insights about social business and venture funding in India and beyond. Based at Yunus Social Business Fund in Bangalore, Priya explains how innovative funding strategies are used alongside commercial business modelling to address some of the biggest social problems and put an end to poverty.

Conrad meets Oremeyi Akah (MBA 2010) of African payment solutions company Interswitch at the recent Africa Business Conference held in Cambridge. Learn about the evolution and emergence of electronic payments across Africa in the last 15 years. Interswitch is now one of the largest African FinTech companies. Find out how the financial eco system was developed and built to ensure trust and take up amongst customers, institutions and individuals. Built on this infrastructure hear how Interswitch now develops new products for the African domestic market and further FinTech developing markets. Oremeyi gives her insight for those embarking on their MBA and in particular those with ambitions across the African continent.

Conrad meets with Hemant Mohapatra (MBA 2011) during his alumni visit in Bangalore to find out more about the experience that a venture capitalist needs in his/her career planing.

VC is often romanticized in the media. In this episode of the podcast, Carol Cheung (MBA 2012) from Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC), discusses the realities of the industry with Conrad.

Conrad is joined by Miguel Angel Negrete, from the Cambridge MBA Class of 2012, who provides insights in transitioning across geographies throughout the Finance industry.

In this episode, Conrad is joined by Ben Kingsmill from LinkedIn who highlights the use of LinkedIn profiles to differentiate yourself in the eyes of potential employers.

Conrad catches up with 2014 Cambridge MBA alumna Sasirat Kittichungchit to recount her transition from consulting and supply chain management into life insurance. Learn about how Sasirat built her expertise in data analytics which she has used very effectively in her career transitions.

In the final podcast of this South East Asia series, Conrad chats to Lim Teck Yong (TY) about Shopee, one of the largest e-commerce platforms in South East Asia.

Solving simple problems that are taken for granted in the West can lead to rapid growth in areas such as South East Asia. Ceasar Indra, Senior VP of Business Development at Traveloka, shares his insights with Conrad in the Jakarta head office.

Cambridge MBA Alumna Maija Hovila (MBA 2011) shares her insights on the importance of data analytics and how data can be viewed as "the new oil".

Dr David Stillwell, Lecturer in Big Data Analytics & Quantitative Social Science, joins Conrad to discuss the future of big data in this episode on the data analytics theme.

If you want to work where technology is exciting and making great impact, you need to listen to this interview with Omri Morgenshtern, Chief Product Officer of Agoda.com. Omri talks about how South East Asia is a great place for technology companies especially those that can learn and adapt quickly to both Western and Asian business models.