Featured Partnerships FINANCE CAREER PANEL (WITH THE CENTER FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT) In partnership with the Center for Career Development, undergraduate and graduate students were given the opportunity to hear from our panel of Babson alumni discuss what finance jobs entail on a day-to-day basis, the skills needed to succeed in their respective sectors, and how they broke into these competitive fields. Featured speakers included: » Kenechukwu Anadu
» Jessica Drake ’13,
MBA’10, CFA, CAIA,
Manager – Business
Assistant Vice President,
Development Finance,
Supervisory Research and
Vertex Pharmaceutical
Analysis, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston » Jed Drake ’13, Sr. Research Analyst, Private Markets,
» Melanie Jordan ’16,
» Rob Nicewicz ’07, Principal, Abry Partners » Christopher Souza MBA’15, Senior Director, Tavistock Development Company
Associate, Summit Partners » Alex Melikan MBA’16,
NEPC, LLC
Assistant Director – Asset Management & Consulting, TCAM, LLC
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BOSTON FINTECH WEEK (WITH FINTECH SANDBOX)
ANGEL INVESTING 101 (WITH THE ALUMNI AND FRIENDS NETWORK)
Boston FinTech Week is a week-long event
Catherine Friend White MBA’86, Managing Director of
that brings together professionals from
Golden Seeds Investing, hosted a webinar for students,
the local fintech ecosystem. More than
faculty, staff, and alumni who were interested in
1,800 attendees, including Babson stu-
learning about early-stage investing. Along with
dents, faculty, alumni and staff,
colleague Sheila Narayan, Managing Director of
gathered at Babson Boston to explore how
Golden Seeds and former Boston Office Leader, the
increased access to data and technology
duo highlighted what is an angel investor, the risks
will affect the future of financial services.
and rewards of angel investing, and the investment process.
