CEIBS Alumni

Sai Kiran Somala got his internship through a networking event on the CEIBS MBA. Opportunities in healthcare for MBAs in China are on the rise

Arpit Mishra got a job working with AI at Intel in China after an MBA at CEIBS. The Chinese government has made the development of AI one of its top priorities

Jeffrey Tchui has worked across the Asia-Pacific. Since completing his MBA at CEIBS in Shanghai, he’s opened his eyes to the business opportunities across mainland China

May 30, 2018. Germany – “The Edelmann Group has a strategic roadmap to do something bigger in China. We are actively looking into expanding our footprint there,” says the company’s CEO Oliver Bruns, speaking on the phone from their HQ in Heidenheim, in the south of Germany. “China has been an important focal point in our business strategy and I hope to use my knowledge and the relationships I built in China over the years to shape our path for the future.”

Eduardo tells MBA Admissions about his favourite Xiaomi gadget, the difference between Chinese and Spanish office cultures and his views on CEIBS’ role in preparing the next generation of alumni to make an impact between China and Europe. This is part of a series of alumni stories to highlight the role CEIBS has played, and will continue to play in the years ahead, as a role model of effective China-EU cooperation, a platform to further enhance China-EU communication and cooperation – both in business and culture – along with providing a window into China's reform and opening up in the education sector.

May 9, 2018. Shenzhen – Joo Yi had never heard of QQ or Tencent in 2008, when she was a year into her CEIBS MBA studies. Back then, she was still using MSN to keep in touch with friends and family in South Korea. Tencent only made its way onto her radar after she began looking for a summer internship that would help her reach the very clear goal she had set herself when enrolling at CEIBS: get a job with a Chinese company. Eight years later she is still with Tencent. The job initially took her back home to Seoul but now she works out of the company’s Shenzhen headquarters as Director of Business Strategy in the Mobile Internet Group.

April 26, 2018. Shanghai – “If I had to choose a Game of Thrones House to belong to, it would definitely be House Targaryen. It’s an easy choice, because they have dragons,” says CEIBS MBA 2010 alumnus Joseph Yu. He is reflecting on the craft of bestselling, internationally renowned writer George RR Martin. The author of the worldwide phenomenon that is Game of Thrones recently announced Joseph as the winner of his inaugural Terran scholarship, which includes a ticket to join Martin and a host of award-winning novelists at the prestigious science fiction and fantasy writing workshop, Taos Toolbox, in the US, this June.

MBA 2009's Gulnara Abdullina on how CEIBS MBA took her from Russia to the world's largest solar manufacturer in Italy

Vincent Ghossoub started Falafel Games after an MBA from the top-ranked China Europe International Business School (CEIBS)