INSEAD 2003J Podcast
A series of conversations with alumni from the 2003J INSEAD promotion.
Episodes
Sid Baidwan
We talk about going from banking in Sydney, to McKinsey in London and back to banking in Sydney (albeit as an AI expert).
Veronica Wong
We talk about going from being a lawyer, to actress, to finance and ending up a big fish in a small pond.
Leandro Almeida
We talk about a Brazilian's tour from NY, to London, back to Brazil and ending up in Portugal (while working in Investment banking, real estate and insurance).
Joao Campos
We talk about building airplanes in Brazil, working for McKinsey in Portugal and building satellites for the Brazilian government.
Julie Dietmar
We talk about a proper tour around silicon valley; Yahoo, Walmart Labs, to starting her own company, OpenWardrobe.
Luis Tribuna
We talk about going from investment banking, to consulting to government work back to investment banking and now being a university professor.
Maria Koundina
We talk about doing a tour of duty around London in the energy space and then making an attempt to 'decarbonize'.
Tatyana Stepanova
We talk about studying economics in Moscow during the fall of the soviet union, working in tax for PWC and Shell and not being allowed to enter the US (due to a trip to Iraq). Great conversation.
James Moed
We talk about going from wanting to be a 'media person' to being an actual design consultant and ultimately ending up working for an old school satellite company.
David Henry
We talk about going from engineering, to telecom to a PR agency (as well as David's peace initiative - link below)https://www.change.org/p/call-for-a-universal-declaration-of-peace-a-global-commitment-to-nonviolence-dialogue
Andrey Kessel
We talk about going from software sales to venture capital to being a fractional executive and seeing over 40k business plans.
Jeffry Wu
We talk about going from being a researcher in Norway, to a BD guy in New Jersey to a PE/VC in China.
Scott Thompson
We talk about going from haute finance, to farm work to sustainable asset management.
Cedric Puel
We talk about working in retail banking before INSEAD and working in retail banking after INSEAD. We also talk about the matchmaking skills of one of our batch mates.
Daniel Brachfeld
We talk about going from United Airlines to McKinsey to American Express to Capital One. And Daniel has a question about college aged children.
Fabrizio Burlando
We talk about going from being a structural engineer, to working for the UN in Africa to a 16 year tour of duty at Mastercard to being hired as the CEO of Bancomat.
Jake Levant
We talk about going from Canada, to the Israel tech scene; starting in consumer apps and moving to enterprise.
Daniel Llensa
We talk about staying in one place for your whole life and working for the same (chemical) company for the past 21 years.
Siddharth Sinha
We talk about going from tech companies in the US/England to the family cement business in India to creating a generative AI agency.
Alex Patsko
We talk about working at SAP in Ukraine to playing drums in Fonty to startups and technology companies in France.
Ilan Ofer
We talk about a tour of duty from being an engineer to business development to M&A at a number of large technology companies.
Anu Babber
We talk about going from an agency in India, to distributing international TV content in the US to starting up a fashion brand in India. And, he offered to help get tickets to the 2026 world cup.
Przemek Obloj
We talk about going from McKinsey to private equity to a clean energy fund to being the CFO of a healthtech company in Cambridge.
Alex Von Goertz
We talk about building infrastructure all over the world.
Chetan Singh
We talk about Chetan's journey around the world as an investment banker.
Geoffroy Lapointe
We talk about how one adjusts from living in California to returning to France and going from working at big companies to hiking his own path at various PE acquisitions.
Beth Birnbaum
We talk about going from investment banking to two sided internet marketplaces to becoming a professional board member.
Ganesh Ramakrishnan
We talk about riding the dot com boom/bust to taking a job at big Pharma to becoming a headhunter to working for the Gates foundation to becoming a film maker to running an incubator.
Joe Waltman
Pilar takes one for the team and allows me to bore everybody with stories about my mediocre attempts at tech companies and start ups.
Arjan Breure
We have a surprisingly modest (for a Dutch person) discussion ranging from barely graduating high school to working haute finance in New York and London to how to think about retirement.
Marcelo Paiva
We talk about going from investment banking in NY and London to running the world's 4th largest lithium mine.
Notis Mitarachi
We talk about going from private equity to INSEAD, back to finance and then returning to Greece to become a MP and cabinet minister.
Patrick Kedemos
We talk about going from France to Australia (via Florida), helping France get a contract to sell submarines to Australia (which was stolen by the Americans) and setting up a fund and advisory service.
Borja Andreu
We talk about going from being a hot shot M&A lawyer in Spain to being a hot shot M&A lawyer in Spain to starting his own M&A advisory firm in Spain and an amazing foundation that is saving baby's lives.
Debanjan Banerjee
We talk about going from a small village outside of Calcutta to working at McKinsey to becoming a broadband fiber expert.
Juliette Miremont Morton
We talk about starting a women's portal in Vietnam, moving to Singapore to work for Samsung and moving to Vancouver to start a metabolic health platform.
Nicolas Zurstrassen
We talk about setting up a web agency in China, sleeping on Greg Mittman's couch, starting up digital marketing in China for Nike and philosophical questions around retirement.
Santiago Matheus
We talk about raising Alpacas, sneaking pregnant wives onto transatlantic flights, working for a little company named IBM and starting a deep tech VC fund.
Davide Villa
We talk about going from consulting, to pumpers, to failing to become a C-grade celebrity in Italy.
Leonid Bershidsky
We talk about going from being a journalist in Russia, to having to leave Russia for the same reason, to using generative AI to create news in Germany.
Laura Wax
We talk about building brands for skincare, fragrances, herbal tea and militant chocolate.Note from Laura - Looking forward to telling you what drove me from L’oreal & Hermes via Insead to building 2 fine french food businesses (one in herbal teas and one in organic chocolate) to my ultimate goal which is under way: taking over the 40 hectar family farm based in Brittany, France to at la
Brent Baumbusch
We talk about starting in the dot com boom/bust, to taking a job at McKinsey to ending up at a salmon food company in Norway.
Vicky Davies
We talk about going from an Accenture consultant to being the CEO of the biggest bank in Northern Ireland.
Anthony Berger
We talk about going from selling websites to selling derivatives to doing whatever it is that a hedge fund does. We also have a mini therapy session.
Rohan
We talk about bootstrapping a chocolate and coffee company in the Yucatán. Orale.
Jean-Bernard Idé Gerard
We talk about going from being a cold hearted investment banker in Mexico to being a socially conscious private equity person in Mexico (via New York and Paris).
Frederic Lanoe
We talk about going from managing a small factory in rural France to becoming a ‘big deal’ in the European green energy space.
June Ritterbusch
We talk about going from spending a decade in the US army to starting and running a winery in Texas.
James Cook
We talk about starting off as a rearview mirror engineer to founding and running a nuclear medicine company.
Jose Herrero
We talk about how a Spanish boy worked all the way through Europe to eventually become a Scandinavian.
Wassim Sacre
We talk about going from consulting, to private equity to operating a fintech and what to do in the next/current chapter of our lives.
Rahul Sharma
We talk about day trading, getting too many graduate degrees and almost going to jail with Sam Bankman-Fried.
Markus Rinecker
We talk about going from a surgeon to a serial entrepreneur and his rather smelly current endeavor.
Nabil Nazer
We talk about all things finance (and defense contractors) in the Middle East.
Pieter Lekkerkerk
We talk about going from McKinsey to founding a start-up in a foreign country.
Sandrine Piret-Gerard
We talk about spending 19 years at the same company and ending up in the best place in the world (i.e. California).
Joana Domingues
We talk about going from McKinsey to executive coaching. Sorry about the tech problems at the end. Feel free to drop off once it gets quiet, I am too lazy to do post-production.
Mark Elkins
We talk about completing two trips from consulting to industry and some crude generalizations about the French vs. the British.
Pilar Junco
We talk about going from being a failed journalist to a goat farmer (with a few stops in investment banking, consulting and haute finance in between).
Thomas Dobson
We talk about moving from (i.e. escaping) consulting to managing marketing at a big Australian bank.
Vineet Mehrotra
We talk about selling cars in Latin America to renting pallets in India (and getting sued by former employers).
Vivek Subramanian
We talk about going from consulting to private equity to founding the largest private renewable electricity company in India.
Sagi Rubin
We talk about transitioning from being a clean tech VC to building a European multifamily real estate empire.
Mario Bonaccorso
We talk about how a Sicilian boy went from telecom engineering to management consulting to private equity to CFO at an insurance company to starting an ETF company.
Alex Kelloff
We discuss how Alex progressed from consultant to investment banker to private equity bro.
Lucia Beria
We talk about selling tiramisu, tires and TV subscriptions. I look into the feasibility of inserting subtitles into an audio podcast.
Pedro Guimaraes
We attempt to demystify the process of becoming a partner at McKinsey and Pedro makes a shameless plug for his current firm (always be closing).
Joana Freitas
We talk about the joys of doing business in Portugal, baggage handling and the unintended benefits of starting a podcast.
Annemarie van Neck
We talk about colostomy bags and the kind of person that seeks out advice from Annemarie.
Garance Wattez-Richard
We talk about how Garance gave birth to a micro insurance business and a strange work place fetish.
James Delap
We talk about following through on the REP project (i.e. actually buying and running a business) and then making beer in Scotland.
Nicolas Petrovic
We talk about running a little train company in Europe and building a new train company in UAE.
Stu Marks
Stu talks to us about building hospitals and schools, moving from Australia to NY and mindfulness.
Reshma Sohoni
We talk about Reshma's work pioneering founder first/friendly VC in Europe.
Alex Macedo
A conversation with Alex Macedo about his trip from INSEAD to Brazil, Miami, Toronto and back to Miami.
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