CEIBS Alumni

MBA 2016 alum Dmitry Andreev on swapping Moscow for Shanghai in pursuit of a sustainable future

In June, a group of dynamic business leaders travelled to Hangzhou for a special "summit". For this gathering, members of the 2014 Class of the Global EMBA programme traveled from across the globe to celebrate the shared learning journey that they embarked on five years ago.

Earlier this year, Christoph Flink (CEIBS GEMBA2009), Mario Mazzocca (GEMBA2009), Sophia Jiao (GEMBA2018) and Mario Feuerstein (GEMBA2009) climbed the Mount Kilimanjaro. The following is Christoph Flink’s first-hand account of his experience during their adventure.

Twelve years ago, Gilbert Li was offered an olive branch by an investor he had previously served, inviting him to join a start-up to take charge of its finance and help develop its IPO plan.

What is the right age to start a business? Paul Tong (Global EMBA2014), a former executive at ImagineX Group and Gucci, tells us from his personal experience that it is never too late to do so.

Rituraj Shailendra, the General Manager and first international hire of Guangzhou-based logistics conglomerate EBON, sat down with MBA Admissions to share his journey from Patna, India, to Shanghai and now to Guangzhou as he takes up the mantle for growing EBON’s e-commerce business unit.

When vivo Senior Director for Brand Strategy and CEIBS alumnus Seon Hwang moved to Shanghai from his native Korea to do an MBA in 2010, he did so with his mid-to-long term sights set on developing his career in China by helping a Chinese company go global.