NYU Stern Asia Business Conference

04/26/2015

Conference!!!

04/20/2015

We are selling tickets at KMC lobby every day from 12 pm to 1:30 pm this week. Come and get your tickets!

03/04/2015

Save the date: ABS annual Asia Business Conference will be held on Friday April 24, 2015 afternoon with the theme "Global footprints of Asian Companies". More details will be posted soon. Stay tuned!

04/17/2014

We are selling tickets at KMC lobby during the following time slots.
Apr 17(Thursday) , Apr 21-25 (Monday-Friday)
12:00 pm- 1:20 pm; 4:30 pm-6:00 pm

04/16/2014

Date: Friday, April 25th
Time: 2:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Venue: KMC 1-70
Alumni Mixer: 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm @ Apple Restaurant, 17 Waverly Place, New York

Are you ready for our biggest event this year? Asia Business Society has the pleasure to invite you to our 2014 Annual Conference. Our speakers will talk about opportunities and risks of the Asian market through the lens of business, culture, regulation and finance. Refreshment will be served during the conference. In addition, you will receive two coupons for free drinks in our Alumni Mixer to be hosted after conference. Please save the date!

Program

2:30 PM Opening Keynote
3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:15 PM Panel 1: Capturing Growth
4:15 PM Coffee Break
4:30 PM Panel 2: Managing Cultural Diversity
5:30 PM Closing Keynote
6:00 PM Networking and Alumni Mixer

RSVP
Stern Students: http://cglink.me/r214251
Other Schools: Please send email to [email protected] to get tickets.

04/16/2014

Moderator

Joseph Foudy, Clinical Associate Professor of Economics, NYU Stern

A recipient of the 2013 Distinguished Teaching Award, Joseph Foudy is a Clinical Associate Professor of Economics at NYU Stern.
Professor Foudy has extensive teaching experience covering Asian
economics, international business, and globalization. He is
interviewed regularly on CNN, Fox, PBS and NPR, and has been
quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other
international publications. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science
from Cornell University in 2004.

04/16/2014

Main Speaker

Daijin Kim, Strategy Lead, Pfizer

Mr. Kim is a Strategy Lead at Pfizer. With over 14 years in the pharmaceutical industry spanning both Commercial and Development functions, Mr. Kim draws on extensive experience with project management, analytics and public health policy in developing actionable strategy for the firm. In addition to his MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business, Mr. Kim also has a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University.

04/16/2014

Main Speaker

Brian Oak, Managing Director, Moody's Investors Service

Brian Oak is currently a Managing Director in Moody’s Corporate Finance Group in New York, responsible for the Basic Industries ratings coverage in the US.
Prior to this he had responsibilities for a number of other industrial sectors, including homebuilding, building products, and technology, as well as the Latin American non-financial corporates.

From 1998 through 2004, Brian was in the Financial Institutions Group, his last post being a Managing Director overseeing the ratings of Asia/Pacific financial institutions based out of Tokyo.

Brian joined Moody’s NY in 1993 in the Leveraged Finance Group. Brian’s work experience prior to Moody’s includes The Bank of New York and Arthur Young & Co.Brian received a B.S. degree in Accounting from New York University and a MBA in International Finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is also a certified public accountant.

04/16/2014

Main Speaker

Xuan Wang, Chief Representative, China Reinsurance (Group) Corporation

China Reinsurance (Group) Corporation is the 8th biggest P&C reinsurance company in the world. Mr. Wang has plenty of experience and broad view of the insurance industry due to his 20 years’ career life in both China insurance market and US insurance market.

Before current position, he had led New York office for China Continent Insurance Company (CCIC) for 7years. He joined CCIC in 2004. As the Deputy General Manager of Business Management Department, he was in charge of underwriting and marketing. He had once been the General Manager of Suzhou Branch.

Prior to joining CCIC, he had worked for the People’s Insurance Company of China (PICC) for 12 years. He has worked in different departments in PICC including Strategy, R&D, Property Insurance Management, International Business. He designed the first Employer Liability Insurance product for domestic market for PICC.

He graduated from Northwest University in China and has a Master degree of Economics. He also earned his MBA from Rutgers University. He is the director member of The Finance Committee of China General Chamber of Commerce—U.S.A. and the Member of the Chinese Insurance Brokers Association.

04/16/2014

Main Speaker

Andrew Mao, Deputy General Manager, China Merchants Bank

Mr. Mao oversees the business activities of China Merchants Bank's operation in the US. He was Representative at CMB’s first US Representative Office from 2003 through 2007. He helped CMB become the first Chinese bank approved by the Federal Reserve to establish a branch in the US since 1991.

Prior to coming to the US, Mr. Mao was Vice President of Branch Management at CMB Head Office. He was responsible for branch development strategy and expansion of CMB’s branch network. He had helped create China’s first bank anti-money laundering policy and helped CMB first entry into Hong Kong. In his various previous roles, Mr. Mao had worked in many different areas including trade finance, payment, treasury and trading at CMB.

Mr. Mao received BA and MA degrees in Economics from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China and Executive MBA degree from Columbia University, New York.

04/16/2014

Main Speaker

Andrew Peake, Managing Director, UBS

Andy is a Managing Director at UBS International, specializing in managed portfolios and client relationships for private clients and
institutions. Prior to UBS, Andy managed $2bn in discretionary
global balanced portfolios for private clients at Morgan Stanley, and
sat on the Trust and Investment Committee for Morgan Guaranty
Trust Company of the Bahamas. Andy speaks fluent Mandarin, and
obtained his MBA from NYU, in addition to an MA in East Asian
Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

04/14/2014