#SpotlightSaturday

Feb 28, 2021
1 min

Alumni Spotlight Podcast: Sean Choi (MFin'20)

Tune in for Episode#4 of the QUAAF Spotlight Sessions. This week's topic is "Persistence Matters" featuring Sean Sungho Choi, MFin, MBA, Vice President at Samsung Securities. #spotlightsaturday Listen on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gXTfJ4J Listen on Apple Podcast: https://lnkd.in/gKzYEXq For more QSS episodes visit: https://lnkd.in/gX7D8mv Sean Choi currently works as the Vice President at Samsung Securities which is the leading Korean financial investment company that provides

Dec 18, 2020
4 min

Alumni Spotlight: A.J. Patel (MFin'16)

The private equity secondaries market has experienced rapid growth in recent years, as institutional investors have taken an increasingly active approach to managing their portfolios. Secondaries are the only way to limited partners to exit early from their private equity investments. The secondaries market provides liquidity to private equity investors, allowing them to sell positions in private equity funds and liquidate equity stakes in private companies (the latter known

Dec 15, 2020
7 min

Alumni Spotlight: Jonathan Lijtszain (MBA’17)

For today's #SpotlightSaturday, we spoke with Jonathan Lijtszain, former QUAAF CEO. His very successful international career has moved him VP of Strategy across many groups at HSBC, stopping briefly for an impactful year at Queen's to do his MBA, and proceeding to manage a billion-dollar multi-family office at GAV Global. Read more about his accomplishments in cleaning up the bank during trying times, his views on Mexico's economy, keys to success as a global investor, and ho

Oct 19, 2020
1 min

Alumni Spotlight Podcast: Will McIsaac (MBA/MFin'18)

QUAAF is now on Spotify & Apple Podcast! Tune in for Episode#2 of QUAAF Spotlight Series. For today's #SpotlightSaturday, we spoke with William McIsaac, Associate at Sagard Holdings. Listen on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gNysZya Listen on Apple: https://lnkd.in/gdk34_5 For past episodes and upcoming events visit: https://lnkd.in/gp29XSS William McIsaac is an Associate at Sagard Holdings and is based in Toronto where he is responsible for intellectual property and structured cred

Jun 24, 2020
11 min

Alumni Spotlight: Hamilton Petropoulos (JD/MBA'17)

On today's #SpotlightSaturday, read through the story of one of QUAAF's former CEOs, Hamilton Petropoulos, talk about his experiences in VC & Growth Equity and how QUAAF helped provide him with the foundational knowledge to advance his career. Moving up to CEO from an Analyst position, Hamilton managed to cultivate relationships and gain leadership skills that he was able to transfer over to the work force. Now working at Generation Capital, Hamilton sheds light on how to lev

Jun 24, 2020
10 min

Alumni Spotlight: Peter Szaflarski (MBA'12)

This week on #SpotlightSaturday we focus on Peter Szaflarski, one of the founding members of QUAAF who completed his MBA at Queen's and then went on to be a leader in Data Engineering at Thomson Reuters. Read more about how he came from a mathematical background and found his way into the world of technology. Give us a quick summary of you, your background prior to the MBA, and current role at Thomson Reuters. My background before my MBA is a pretty winding road. Before my M

Jun 24, 2020
7 min

Alumni Spotlight: David Yao (MBA'12)

This week on #SpotlightSaturday, we are featuring David Yao, one of the co-founders of QUAAF, who came from humble origins in the Prairies, making his way across the pond as a trader in London, and is now a Director in CIBC's Global Trade & Banking group in Toronto. Read more about his accomplishments and his ambition leading to the creation of QUAAF! Can you give us a summary of your background prior to your MBA and your current role at CIBC? Absolutely, let me start from th

Jun 24, 2020
4 min

Alumni Spotlight: Parisa Naghibi (MBA'12)

Over the last two months, we had the opportunity to sit down with various QUAAF alumni from the graduating classes of 2012 to 2019 to learn about their experiences and hear about their journey to where they are today. This initiative has produced incredible insight into how various members of the team learned essential new skills, gained invaluable exposure, and personal advice on how to make the most of our short time at Smith. We are proud to be sharing the years of wisdom

Jun 24, 2020
8 min

Alumni Spotlight: Mark Murray (MFin'19)

Jun 24, 2020
15 min

Alumni Spotlight: Julius Nyarko (MFin'17)

Jun 24, 2020
11 min

Alumni Spotlight: Timothy Keeling (MBA'15)

On this week's #SpotlightSaturday, we spoke with Tim, who is currently a Senior Principal at the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) one of Canada’s largest pension funds with $150B of assets under management. Read more about his insight on infrastructure investing and pension funds from a truly international perspective. Tell us a little bit about yourself, your background, and role at BCI. I was born in the U.K., grew up in Spain, worked in London, Madr

Jun 14, 2020
6 min

Alumni Spotlight: Alex Yi (MBA'19)

Jun 14, 2020
9 min

Alumni Spotlight: Bert Chen (MBA'18)

On this week's #SpotlightSaturday, read more about former QUAAF member Bert Chen and his experience as our Chief Economist, eventually leading him to his role at Brookfield Renewable. While also involved in making a change through Canadian politics, Chen was a key asset in the CNOOC / Nexen oil and gas transaction. Read more to learn of his experiences and learnings along the way, and how QUAAF & Queen's provided the background skills critical to his success. Tell us about yo

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