# Alumni Spotlight

Data: 11-01-2025 22:25:48

## Lista de Vídeos

1. [Investment Tips from Hussein Kanji MBA2007 | London Business School](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRp-lxcWCJE)
2. [What angel investors look for | London Business School](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjxZM-MitHI)
3. [Alumni Profile: Amit Mehra (MBA2001) | London Business School](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeZVomNqfEw)
4. [Alumni Profile: Amit Mehra MBA2001, Founder and Managing Director, Reuters Market Light](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_CZlHWvHM)
5. [London Business School Alumni Network | London Business School](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLd2YRVj2_A)
6. [Alumni Profile: Matt Brittin MBA1997, Managing Director UK and Ireland Operations, Google UK](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV2Yb-mXCyE)
7. [Alumni Profile: Nigel Andrews MSc11(1978), Governor, London Business School | London Business School](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0c33YqToIU)
8. [Alumni Profile: Erik Vynckier MBA2000, Director, Standard Life Assurance Ltd](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxalRt-3ILE)
9. [Alumni Profile: JP Hernandez de Alba SEP39(1996), Managing Director and Partner, Easyfairs Columbia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVlJ8-u91Vs)
10. [Alumni Profile: Sir John Egan MSc01(1968), Chairman, Severn Trent PLC | London Business School](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL4OeLMLk8U)
11. [Alumni Profile: HE Sheikh Mohamed Althani SEP50(2002), President, Qatar-Connect](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkxYkAsQcjo)
12. [Alumni Profile: Savio Kwan MSc09(1976), Independent Non-Executive Director, Alibaba Group](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0mKzbyGdfY)
13. [Alumni Profile: Jean-Christophe Bedos SLN2000, Chief Executive Officer, Boucheron](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dHdEwDsVcw)
14. [Alumni Profile: Roger Carlsson MSc17(1984), Executive Chairman, FCT Fund Management PTE LTD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3c_jSt16a0)
15. [Alumni Profile: Warren Finegold MSc14(1981), Chief Executive, Global Business Development, Vodafone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wxANdHFRf0)
16. [Alumni Profile: Michael Perlman MSc03(1970), Deputy Chairman, Grupo Ibmec Educacional](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbJjRg0EkJY)

## Transcrições

### Investment Tips from Hussein Kanji MBA2007 | London Business School
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRp-lxcWCJE

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### What angel investors look for | London Business School
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjxZM-MitHI

Idioma: en

i think there are many things that as an
angel investor when looking at it at a
new business plan or a new start-up
opportunity that you just need to see
immediately to get it past first base if
you like
so for example you you i always need to
see a financial model and in that
financial model i need to see that
revenue is not going to start in month
one that it's going to come some point
later that they've got all the overheads
covered that they fully understand that
the cost of
the cost of acquiring new customers the
average revenue per customer the life
cycle of the customer uh all of these
basic elements of the business model and
then of course linked through to the
capital model how much investment is
required into the business
all of these kinds of things so that's
the first one they need also to have a
business plan wrapped around that in
addition to the financial model which
much more talks about all the other
elements of the business whether it is
the marketing operation or the the
product and development operation the it
infrastructure all of the other elements
of the business
and that's important because it's a
great discipline for the startup
entrepreneur to go through to think
really think and plan how they will
build this business across all these
different facets of the business that's
really essential so you need to see that
it's a good discipline to have
i also i really need to get the product
now this is very subjective it's not
something that you can really test for
but i really need to see that i feel
that i could buy that product or i could
see that this person over here would
definitely want that surface i really
have to intrinsically get it
and then finally i have to like the
entrepreneurs you know if you put money
into a company
you're going to be working with those
that management team for quite a number
of years and you have to have some form
of basic chemistry between you i think
it's just as important for the founders
as it is for the investor of course you
just got to get on
so those are the things i think that i
would need to see just even get over the
first hurdle

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### Alumni Profile: Amit Mehra (MBA2001) | London Business School
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeZVomNqfEw

Idioma: en

when I left Business School uh or when I
was at Business School uh London
Business School the uh you know the the
more exciting opportuni seem to be in
the consulting or the banking space so I
also uh ventured in that direction
wanted to be a consultant and um got a
few offers joined uh boo Allen Hamilton
uh at that time as it was called in the
London office um but for some reason
which was largely to do with the
economic reality of that time my start
date was kind of continuously postponed
and in between I just managed to get a
job with this company called Reuters for
about a month I actually joined them
just for a month as a contractor while I
was waiting to start with bualan with
whom I had signed up taken the sign on
bonus and all of that uh long story
short I never joined boo Allen I
continued to work with reuter worked on
some very exciting projects in London in
New York uh in India and then four years
down that uh uh that path uh this uh
idea came up uh which is what I
currently run uh called reuter's Market
light or at that time called project
Market light and there was an idea of a
colleague of mine and the company
thought that I could uh potentially uh
convert this into a business so I picked
up that idea and I went through four
rounds of venture funding within uh
Reuters um and uh ultimately reached a
stage where they uh gave me the funding
to build this and launch it in India and
after about 7 years post business school
in London I shifted to India three years
ago so reuter's Market light provides a
highly personalized information service
to Farmers so farmers in India do not
have access to uh information that is
timely free from bias relevant uh that
will help them make better decisions uh
to increase their income or improve
their productivity so farmers get about
you know 10 to 20% of the final price of
their produce uh compared to about 50 to
60% in the west because a lot of it gets
uh you know appropriated by the
middleman Community they don't know
which markets to go to to get the best
price the markets are very fragmented
they don't know what's the weather
forecast for their particular location
because that information infrastructure
doesn't exist uh they don't know how
best to cultivate their crops because
that patching network doesn't really
work for them personally so it's
available but it's very vague so what we
have done is we have created a simple
card that the farmers can buy they
scratch the card they make a free phone
call read out whatever is written on the
card as a voucher number and they tell
us I want to uh have information on
these two crops these three markets uh
this weather location this uh date of
sewing this is my language preference
and it's available across all operators
all handsets um and uh as per their
individual preferences so the service
starts and we start to give them smss in
their local language three to four times
a day um throughout the throughout the
day uh as part of the workflow so in the
morning they get weather forecast
throughout the day they get market
prices in the evening they get news and
and advisory services so that's what we
do and we charge for it so the farmers
pay about $10 for 6 months for that
service and we also have an
Institutional business where the uh
large companies buy these cards and give
to the farmers for free and the farmers
benefit the large companies benefit
because they get some CRM Solution on
the card and we benefit because we
ultimately uh it helps us become
profitable so that's what Ro's Market
light in nutshell is and it's now in
about 25,000 Villages uh has reached
about half a million unique uh
cumulative uh customers and about 2
million users uh through sharing and uh
people have made Farmers have made you
know $10 $20 to up to you know $8,000 on
a service that cost them only1 uh dollar
for 6 months uh one example would be you
know there's a gentleman who is growing
grapes uh in a particular Village and uh
through Ro's Market light he got a
message that there is going to be an
increase in relative humidity to about
70% uh in the next sort of you know uh
24 hours so using that information he
sprayed uh his crop with you know just a
$5 you know spray and he could save his
crop now his friend and this is a
gentleman who is telling me directly his
friend did not have access to the
information that the humidity will go up
and that can really damage the crop uh
um he lost the entire farm and there was
nearly $88,000 of loss on that
particular day there are farmers who are
saying look I was um uh selling my
bananas for 4 rupees a kilo uh and the
middleman came to buy from me and I said
I'll sell for 9 rupees and he said why
he took out the phone and showed the rml
messages saying look the prices have
gone up in the nearby markets which are
just two hours away and uh you know I'm
going to uh only sell you for nine and
then he negotiated got 7 rupees so he
had a 75% increase in income without uh
really changing the market changing the
buyer uh or changing the time just
because he hadro his Market light
information with him personalized to his
individual needs so that's what radi rml
uh is about and that's what we have
innovated we have innovated on the
content sourcing on the technology
platform and on the product delivery uh
to convert this into a useful service
for the farmer we actually innovating on
everything we're innovating on the
product we're making it better uh for
the farmers to use we are adding new
features for the farmers so that they
can get now information based on the
date of sewing so it's very personalized
to each individual farmer uh we are
looking at you know adding some
components of creating a community
around that so they can actually learn
what the other farmers are facing in
that particular uh you know in their
particular crop Community um and we are
obviously uh continuous to continue to
innovate on the business model so we're
looking at various ways in which we can
you know sell the same content to maybe
other players in the value chain
ultimately helping make the agriculture
value chain more efficient um so theel
model is evolving and as far as our
expansion plans are concerned we are in
fact looking at changing the structure
of roers Market light so that we can now
you know partner with other
organizations to grow it within country
and also outside of the country so
that's really the plan if all goes well
then we'll be looking at expanding it
further in the next year or so there is
a plan that is in place at least on
paper to take it to some parts of Africa
we've identified a few countries there
um it will be tricky value challenging
just as it was to do it in India but uh
the plan is to uh uh deeply penetrate
wherever we are in India we are in 13
states right now uh and add a few more
states in the country itself and then
take it to wherever agriculture is
inefficient and there is a need for
information I think the same sort of
Technology will be used to deliver uh a
lot of uh non- agriculture related
Services as well or uh not just
Information Services but uh as we have
learned money transfer which is a
fantastic example of Mesa that Nick
spoke about today uh or um uh
transactions that will be enabled on
mobile phones so there's a clear role
that Mobility will play in um you know
helping address some of the tricky uh
issues uh that have been faced by the
sort of bottom of the economic pyramid
Community because uh this is an
affordable and accessible device um and
this is sometimes and quite often
actually the first route to internet uh
for a lot of uh people who use it in uh
r parts of the world particularly in
India so uh just the way internet and
e-commerce has created so many new
products and services that have
benefited people's lives in urban cities
in emerging in developed countries the
same is going to happen with the mobile
phone in the developing countries now
and we already see loads of examples I
think what is missing is uh what is not
clear is what is the best business model
around it some are successful some are
not but the um the wave is uh uh in the
right direction Direction and and we
will see a lot of such successes
emerging

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### Alumni Profile: Amit Mehra MBA2001, Founder and Managing Director, Reuters Market Light
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_CZlHWvHM

Idioma: en

what drove me to come to London Business
School was to build on my international
development experience which involved
working with companies to actually move
to a stage where I could either run my
own company or work in a large
organization and move my way up in that
company so that was the idea which sort
of triggered or a business school and I
wanted to do it at an international
level because I was doing that even
before business school so the top school
that came to my mind and was part of my
list was London Business School it
absolutely transformed my life I learnt
incredible amount of stuff and most
importantly built an incredibly valuable
and unique network and I stay connected
with that you know while I'm out of
business school or I'm here I'm
connected with the faculty and with many
of my fellow classmates so the
experience was just fantastic i think it
transformed and it has played an
incredibly important role in what I'm
doing right now absolutely right from
the time when I graduated to join a
consulting firm which it didn't really
work for a long time and I work with the
company that currently employs me which
is Thomson Reuters and within that I
started this business called Reuters
market light incubated by thomson
reuters and all of this was possible
because of the four or five things that
I picked up in London Business School my
new perspective my new skills my network
my you know the frameworks and tools
that I had picked up one of the most
incredible thing in addition to all the
learning was to just be with the
community that I was with you know I
walked into group 33 and I was one
Indian and it had one polish banker and
it had one British nonprofit in a
professional an accountant Bridge
Mountain a Canadian you know engineer
Russian banker and a German real estate
expert so really diverse crew and very
very you know well accomplished in their
individual fields where ever they had
come from so there was incredible amount
to learn from them and just incredible
font this idea came up which is what I
cannot be run called Reuters market
light or at that time called Project
market light and after about seven years
post Business School in London I shifted
to India three years ago so I'm now
building that business from
from Mumbai it's now spreaded in about
13 states in 25 thousand villages we've
got farmers who buying services
information services from us so that's
really what I do nonprofit before
business school after London Business
School supposed to join a consulting
firm where join Reuters large corporate
and then started a social enterprise
with a large corporate and you know Here
I am it's something that has helped me
while I was here and something that is
that continues to help me has helped me
so far and will continue to help me in
the future not just because of the two
years that I spent there but the ongoing
relationship that I have with the school
of both sort of you know sharing my
lessons and learning you know in return
it's it's it's a perpetual value-add

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### London Business School Alumni Network | London Business School
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLd2YRVj2_A

Idioma: en

to be a member of the alumni Community
is quite special it's quite a
privilege it's about networking it's
about staying in touch with Cutting Edge
ideas you get in what you put in being
an alumni means you're part of a group
of people who are pursuing excellence in
whatever they're
doing we all felt a bit out of place
when we got back to work and you sort of
find yourself back in your working
environment and things are different and
you want to make change after the lp we
shared our experience we went back to
reflect on what we did during the lp and
also reflected on the last one year
after the
L we wanted to develop some businesses
in the logistic industry in Asia par in
China we didn't have a lot of contact
then and I had one of my uh former
colleague at the program it was pretty
easy to get in touch with it and uh was
able to uh point us in in the right
direction at least make few Conta T very
quickly I was surprised here in China
they had quite active Club so all of a
sudden you start receiving emails from
the from the club in China as well as
from all the activities from London good
thing of the school network is this
worldwide so it doesn't matter that now
I'm working and living in China so I
know that if my career develops in the
US for instance or Europe I will be able
to get in touch with
even though I had heard about this the
actual ability to send someone an email
and connect with them wherever you are
really has incredible value I'd be very
interested in working with the school to
help share my experience with others who
might be considering a similar
experience so I would like to see myself
uh wherever is possible and appropriate
is kind of an ambassador
I've plan to stay involved in any way I
can do it either recruiting people from
the school or uh organizing events for
the community here in Colombia uh and
keep in touch uh with all my
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classmates we decided that we really
wanted to get together again I State
listen guys I have this fantastic place
aita is a wine
Hotel been to the winery and right now
we are at the organic farm you will not
replace one chance of such reunion with
thousand of EMES that you could stand in
between I'm consider relocating to
Brazil after 15 years work in Europe in
Brazil in particular South America
everything's about Connections Z you
know it's very hard to find a job
through Head Hunter so having that
network is a huge benefit for you and
they are already trying to give me an
understanding of what's my value in that
market I always try to reconnect with
people from not only my ADP but from MB
from lond business school and other
coures that's has been really important
in my career and my
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development I have to say these reunions
are fantastic I really look forward to
them if a all possible I'm going to make
every one of them because they're just
such great
value and it's a fantastic opportunity
to catch up with friends on a regular
annual basis kind of push each other
along uh cuz we can share amongst each
other our aspirations and dreams
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I volunteer to organize the alumni day
because I think it's just great to have
the opportunity to get all the alumni
together and share our
experiences we come back to work the
next day and if feel much more energized
and you you have picked up a lot of
fresh new
ideas I think it's really volunteer
network and what motivates me to support
the school financially is is the the
need to give something
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back whenever come to London I'm able to
take advantage of all the events that
provided by by the lond business school
there are facilities that you can use
which can be quite useful particularly
in this day and age you can use a gym
for free I use the the accommodation
regularly when I'm in London I do use
the library and a vast amount of
business lit which which I do tap into
from time to time and certainly a number
of the faculty I do uh I do stay stay in
touch with London Business School really
is my intellectual home

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### Alumni Profile: Matt Brittin MBA1997, Managing Director UK and Ireland Operations, Google UK
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV2Yb-mXCyE

Idioma: en

it turned out that I needed to have
money and uh so I thought I better get a
job and uh actually when I started I had
been to University and I was quite good
at sport and um so I actually looked for
a job that allow me to to be sporty and
I landed in the real estate industry it
turns out they like sports people and so
that's how I started work so I started
work uh in property um and I did that
because I wanted to keep being a
sportsman internationally and it was the
only way to fund my Sport and when I
sort of finally uh stopped being sporty
I realized that I wasn't very good at
property and I didn't really enjoy it
and that's when I came to London
Business School uh hooray and uh at
London Business School I discovered all
kinds of new things about business that
were really interesting and uh I was
offered a job at McKenzie consulting
which felt like a good opportunity to
continue the kind of business school
environment but get paid for it
sufficient to pay back the cost of
learning Business School which was great
I did that for a few years and then I
realized that um uh whilst it was fun
learning all this new stuff I really
enjoyed um kind of running things and
getting involved in things more than
Consulting would allow and uh I'd spent
some time Consulting in media in
marketing strategy technology and ended
up moving to work for a newspaper
company which after seven years in
strategy consultant you'd think I'd have
spotted a strategically challenged
industry but um uh I really enjoyed it
and uh learned a lot and after uh two
and a half years or Al was asked to join
Google to run the UK operation um they
wanted somebody who was a bit strategic
who understood media and sales and had a
good sort of business background and so
that turned out to be quite a a lucky
bit of timing for me and I've really
enjoyed being at Google I try to help
the UK get the most out of the internet
so whether you're a consumer who's
worried about a sick relative or trying
to find your way somewhere or trying to
buy something or whether you're a
business wondering how to get the most
out of the internet I think that's what
my job is and if I can uh bring you um
products from Google that will help you
do that all the better but really I try
to Champion the internet and what it can
do for uh people society and for
business well we want to organize the
world's information and make it
universally accessible and useful so if
we can help more and more people access
information on the web share information
uh find what they're looking for and
bring them great technology that solves
the problems of the size and the
complexity and the richness and the
continual growth of the web then you
know I think we're doing well the world
of the web is moving really fast and it
brings lots of new opportunities but
obviously there's a lot to learn so I
think um to be successful it seems to me
that the the people who are most
successful in that area are people who
are fast uh able to tolerate quite a lot
of ambiguity uh collaborative uh you
need to be um somebody who enjoys the
technology and in particular the
benefits it can bring to people and um
that's certainly the kind of thing that
we look for when we're hiring people at
Google people who are fast smart team
players and and able to just get on with
things and figure their way uh through
new areas it's hard to predict Trends
over a 10-year period at Google you know
we're lucky if we can think more than a
few quarters ahead but I'd say you know
we definitely see uh the internet going
from two billion people to five to 10
billion people I mean um the revolution
um that we'll see is more and more
people have mobile phones and those
phones are internet connected will be
phenomenal so we're just at the
beginning um of a of a a revolution that
will bring billions more people online
so I think that's hugely fascinating and
very hard as a result to predict exactly
what they'll do with that technology I
think um we're definitely seeing yeah
more of a trend towards video on the web
more of a trend towards people being
more social so in the past I might have
looked for authoritative sources of
information now I'm just as likely to
look at what my friends are saying or
the people that I like are saying on
Twitter or Facebook or whatever so we're
seeing that Trend and I think with um
the internet being accessed more and
more by mobile devices um people are
more likely to be looking for things
near them and so uh the element of
location data becomes much more
important looking for uh buying products
and services or people or places near me
that are of Interest becomes more
important and so certainly at Google
we're looking at all of those things and
thinking how can we play our part I
think one of the great things about
London Business School for me was
working with just a hugely diverse bunch
of people from lots of different
cultures and beginning to appreciate how
different it is if you're coming from
one culture trying to work in another so
I think that's something which I've
really um benefited from and working
with a very international company that's
really helpful um I think also uh London
business school gave me um just a sort
of a map of the language of business
that has been helpful in understanding
and not being phased by different areas
whether it be uh you know Financial or
organizational behavior or or whatever
just um a toolkit by which you can get
into some of those problems and and
understand them and and understand the
challenges so uh I think those things
were were great and then being able to
go and put them into practice um and uh
and learn from my mistakes over the
subsequent years has obviously been
brilliant

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### Alumni Profile: Nigel Andrews MSc11(1978), Governor, London Business School | London Business School
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0c33YqToIU

Idioma: en

I grew up in London um I uh graduated as
a chemical engineer and my first job was
with shell International Chemical
Company here in London um I successfully
managed a transition from engineering to
marketing which was my main aim in my
first job and had a very uh very
enjoyable five years uh at Shell
International before I started to get
restless and think about doing something
different I was attracted to come to LBS
by the offer of transformational career
change and I came here in
1976 uh two years later I mean I started
out here as a a Brit single uh working
for Shell International and two years
later I left married heading to New York
to work for bualan an international
consulting firm I think that's
transformational change
I've been very fortunate in my career I
mean there are four institutions that um
have really shaped it first was chel
National where I started out uh the
second was London Business School that
really changed the direction of my
career and then I spent nine years at bu
Allen in New York and then was fortunate
enough to be hired by Jack Welsh at GE
when I worked for GE for 13 years there
are lots of stories about what a tough
guy he is but uh I found him to be a
really really inspirational leader I
mean the reason I went to work for GE
was the opportunity to work for him I I
learned an awful lot in the two years
that I worked for him directly I learned
an awful lot over the 13 years that I
was at GE and he's one of the the the
most unusual leaders and they very few
like it in in my experience that not
only have vision and understand strategy
but have a huge command for the details
of a very very complex far-reaching
worldwide Corporation and he was always
inspiring in terms of of his ability to
be setting Direction at than one minute
and then turning to someone and saying
you promised you got your inventory
turns up by two points in the last
quarter and I don't see it's
happened right now I'm retired I retired
in 2000 um I'm on the board of old
Mutual PLC uh on the board of a
specialty Chemical Company in in the
states and on a mutual fund board in the
US and I'm also a governor of London
Business School which has been a
particularly rewarding relationship
being in a lum of of London business
school is like being a member of a
family I mean part of the reason I chose
London Business School over other
business schools was because of its size
I really like the fact when I came here
with the class the MBA class was only
100 students uh so it's certainly grown
a lot since then but the school's always
had that sense of familiarity of being
part of a family and it's been very
rewarding for me to get reassociated
with the school in the last 10 years and
interact with faculty and who are the
the leaders in their field fields are
also now good friends and to be around
the school at the time when it's
achieved so much when when I came to the
school the school was only 10 years old
um now at nearly 50 years old which is
still very young for a business school
uh it's one of the most successful
schools in the world

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### Alumni Profile: Erik Vynckier MBA2000, Director, Standard Life Assurance Ltd
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxalRt-3ILE

Idioma: en

I've graduated as a chemical engineer
and I've been uh I had been working for
a couple of years in in three different
countries uh both in research and uh
development activities and in
manufacturing so why did I give it up I
I think I was hungry for it all along I
think I wanted to uh you know be more
than just just a technical expert or or
uh and I think I wanted that career
acceleration and uh you know in and you
know what they say about management it
it starts with you know or or career
career development you start with doing
a lot of things and at the end you
really don't do anything yourself
anymore you find out who does who can do
it well for you and you organize and you
set the goals and the strategy and so
forth and then you find the right people
to to implement for you I I think that
um the hunger to achieve such a position
was always there but um it was able to
surface and develop and and become
explicit at London Business School my
initial plan was to do an NBA and then
come back to a leadership position in
that sector but uh I did not actually
return to the chemical industry and uh
instead I went into uh I was probably
one of the last people to enter in
Investment Banking in 2000 before the
door shut in 2001 my MBA uh definitely
prepared me quite well for the
quantitative side I would say the
expertise uh that is required to to be a
good investment banker the things you've
got to know um but it also gave me I
think more than um typical investment
bankers which don't have an MBI give me
more of an understanding of
organizations of strategy uh to some
extent I would say of politics um of of
of the broader issues that uh companies
grapple with and that uh people grapple
with when they try to make a career in a
company so I think it was a very good
preparation for that I'm still doing the
same function I would say but I joined
the life insurance company so I'm on the
buy side as as as they call it instead
of on the sell side it's a very exciting
follow on with the expertise basis that
I developed here at the school and while
in Investment Banking which I now use in
a new context for a new company um
London Business School is is is the best
school to study uh both theoretical and
applied finance and um you know the
contacts with the city that you have
here are so intense there's so much
opportunity to uh
you know go to see those firms get to
meet up with people who work in those
firms and I I would say it's still the
case even after the Deep credit crunch I
would still say that London is is really
um the international capital of Finance
so it is extremely helpful to come to
London Business School the theory the
theory I learned here is uh you know you
know is is is absolutely applicable um
it's it's in fact very helpful to have
some Theory um you always have have to
you know if if you just roll into a
practical situation and you never think
about it you have no framework to think
about it you may miss a couple of
opportunities I've graduated in 2000 but
in a sense you never graduate from this
place because you as you can see today
2011 10 years after I graduated I'm
still here I'm coming back to see what's
going on there is so much ongoing uh
contact with with the professors with
with with the older alumni whether
they've graduated in the same year as as
yourself or or in a different year um
it's really a global Community it's a
community of alumni and this uh sense of
community is is uh extremely well
fostered both by ourselves we keep it
going but the school also invests a lot
of time and effort and a lot of their
best staff give their time to keep uh
the London Business School Community
going so uh that's that's a very
attractive part of being an alumnus of
the London Business School you know the
exciting thing is that 10 years on we're
still all in touch with each other every
topic that I need to look into that
there will be some uh some Alum that has
has looked at it and and can help out or
very often I also get questions from
other alumni who uh who grapple with
certain issues where I can help them out
very quickly

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### Alumni Profile: JP Hernandez de Alba SEP39(1996), Managing Director and Partner, Easyfairs Columbia
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVlJ8-u91Vs

Idioma: en

I went to school in the university of
bath in england in the year a 87 i did
my mba and then most of the professor's
always talked about the day london
business school that was the benchmark
you know so is a so when I came from
bath to London I always stopped at the
bookstore to look at the books and so on
and now I'm part of the global advisory
board so it means a lot you know I used
to walk outside now I walk inside and
I'm part of the of the network I was
working in Anderson consulting then I
work with a union carbide everybody
battery company in marketing my family
had a very big business so I in the
distribution of chemicals and I worked
there for 10 years and I was named CEO
of the company when I was 36 before the
big Colombian crisis and am I came to
the London Business School to do the
senior executive program at the impact
that I had from the London Business
School in my career is very clear I
think you have three kinds of a capital
you know so you have the intellectual
capital and the courses I took here
really booster boosted oh it was a
booster pack for my for my knowledge
number two you have the intellectual
capital it was very good also it was
very good the people that I met so I had
networks so this is a social capital and
I'm still part of the Alumni Association
and part of the global advisory board of
the school and number three is a I
learned more and I became very very
businessman saw a money capital also is
quite important and left the family
business after 14 years and I went to
work in Ecuador to run a
the biggest a group in flower growing
and logistics and air transport for
cargo then in the year 8 2006 i started
my own exhibitions company for contacts
you know i do b2b shows exhibitions I
have a consultancy charity a call
compartimos con Columbia we grouped 16
service company's lawyers a consultant
investment bankers a communication
companies and we go to one foundation
and we help them to do things better
from a manager management point of view
and as the reason I I connected again
with the school because Dean quelch
helped me a lot a with this project I
came to London to tell them what i was
thinking i was doing this with a friend
from Harvard Business School in Colombia
and I came here to explain and the
school was quite helpful with me to to
to get that charity going and right now
is one of the important foundations in
Colombia I believe that a British
education a European education is better
for Latin America because he is much
more a brother more international
international meaning that all the
countries participate not international
meaning from Chicago to the world you
know is a big difference because his
focus on on the world so for the
Colombian people i highly recommend the
london business school for latin
american people because it really gives
you an international sense of of the
global world so I'm so it means a lot to
need to be in the board it means a lot
to help with the school we created the
Latin American forum a fourth edition
and I i we always send someone from
Colombia president to show how how the
country is developing so I feel at the
Latin America apart and I at the school
are developing at at the same time so
once again it means a lot for me to be
part of the london business school
community and until to run the london
business school community also in
colombia

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### Alumni Profile: Sir John Egan MSc01(1968), Chairman, Severn Trent PLC | London Business School
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL4OeLMLk8U

Idioma: en

as an engineer i was beginning to get
more involved with management and with
with economics i think engineering is a
very good basis for
for a management career
but engineers weren't turning into good
managers so i was trying to convert
myself into being a good manager
i wasn't quite sure exactly
whether to try with something entirely
new or to pick up entrance in the united
states a friend of mine had gone to
stanford and
he was able to explain what he was doing
there but i rather liked the idea of
setting off with something new i rather
like the idea of being on the first
course it was called an msc econ
and uh
it they it got its own it was later i
think about 10 years later mscs became
mbas
it was very much a sort of
experimental approach but
i learned some very practical skills
here
so for example without knowing about
accounting and finance you can't be a
businessman that's the lingua franca of
the whole thing if you don't understand
the numbers and the
profit and loss and the balance sheet
the investment process you're not going
to be a businessman
we also had a jolly good
program in behavioral science
uh which really gave us a good grounding
in people
and in every company that i've run
i've always tried to make sure i've got
a two-way process going throughout the
whole company which gets a leadership
program uh into place and a leadership
program which cohesive and is pointing
in some direction which is which is
predictable once i'd got the masters
under my belt i felt i wasn't quite sure
whether i wanted to go back into the oil
industry uh i could have done
and indeed i was i was approached by um
a mining company uh rtz
uh rio tinto as it now is
and and general motors so i was sort of
choosing between you know the uh
some of the past
or
the car industry and and i i i i elected
to go uh with general motors and uh and
certainly it was the the start of a very
exciting career fairly quickly when i
got a grounding uh and a bit of general
motors paint on me i was given profit
responsibility for an organization of
250 people and a magnificent sort of
place an arena to to sort of hone up
your skills i would have said that
probably jaguar would not have survived
if me or somebody like me hadn't turned
up when i did
i think their their wits end as to what
to do with it it was losing so much
money
i think it had been held together by a
number of people
and they've been putting no resources
into the company and it was really
at the absolute end of the track they
couldn't sell it to anybody nobody would
buy it
it was basically a dead duck i
deliberately set about to try and
become a chairman
i realized that being a chief executive
i would say not autocratic but certainly
purposeful
i thought that's not going to work as a
chairman and how to
make sure i can as it were
get a board of directors to
work as a team
i at first i thought it was the sort of
nuts and bolts of knowing about the city
and knowing about
balance sheets and all this stuff was
what chairman was about but no it's a
it's a leadership role you're trying to
create a team
and especially in our uk system of half
uh executives and half non-executives
it's teamwork and it's trying to make
sure that
you've got the critical skills
being developed within the company but
also that you've got realism about those
critical skills and you've got a second
opinion from your non-executive
directors
i think we're all probably
as chief executives we've all got a hint
of um
but let's not call it madness but let's
call it purposefulness where which is
overwhelming a bit overpowering and so
really
you've got to
temper
that desire to get things done
with a wish to do it well and to have
some sort of wish
to to leave things
better than you found them
and so i found
my life has been really a constant
mixture of really trying to get things
done but then secondly try to put in
place the framework for doing it well

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### Alumni Profile: HE Sheikh Mohamed Althani SEP50(2002), President, Qatar-Connect
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkxYkAsQcjo

Idioma: en

what we do is uh mainly two things at
one point I do consult for oil and gas
companies and support them to do
businesses not only in qar but in the
region and even I have gone beyond the
region to Europe and other countries the
other is really being a venture
capitalist in a way that we joined
Venture with companies and we invest our
own money to go into small and
mediumsized Industrial projects and at
the moment we are running about three uh
chical oil and gas projects I had an
obsession with London Business School to
be honest with you it was a a school of
my dream to join luckily I have become
an alumina of the school and I can say
my expectations were highly fulfilled it
has changed me quite a lot I used to be
I would say stagnant in my thinking and
the way I
became i w i was wherever I reached I
was happy with when I went to this
school I have become I would say a a
change agent not for PE the outside
world but for myself I have always woken
up every morning and said you know how
different can I be today how different
can I do my business how different can I
offer my services to the uh others it
has really kept me always in a constant
Improvement I mean knowing all the
faculty of this school knowing the
people that belong to this school and
this culture has really changed my life
I'm connected to the you know best
network of uh
talents uh I withdraw sometimes on even
the professors that I know that have
taught me I get almost weekly people
contacting me asking me about things
around our region in the Middle East I
relate to people and I look for people
wherever I go and find them very easily
uh on all sorts even South America has a
a strong Alum group that belongs to the
school for me it's a it's the best
resource that I can withdraw from uh at
the moment we are always in the future
in this institution we always look at
how businesses are going to you know
innovate and become 10 years from now
and that's what fascinates me about them
they uh they know and they predict and
they have the stories to tell about how
they see the world of business is going
you know the future is not going to be
the same that we are today and people
need to be better and to do be better is
really to know more and you know I come
from a different part of the world it's
in the Middle East it's so I I want what
I I want to transfer what I know to my
generations and especially my family
first and the people around me my wife
went through the first uh uh lbs MBA in
Dubai and she found it to be a
lifechanging I don't know how we get
along with together when we talk about
Concepts but it is it is something that
has changed our lives to the better

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### Alumni Profile: Savio Kwan MSc09(1976), Independent Non-Executive Director, Alibaba Group
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0mKzbyGdfY

Idioma: en

I nearly didn't get in uh I decided to
come and actually uh sell myself again
and I was very lucky I had another
audience with professor Charles handy uh
and Charles asked me very simple
question uh why should we have you so I
told him a very very straightforward
answer is because I can contribute to
the not only the academic but the
cultural mix of the school uh I remember
we had three Japanese and maybe two to
three uh uh Chinese and a couple of
other uh people but they're essentially
a western uh uh country more than than
any uh they don't have Emerging Market
at at the time I was uh a telecom
engineer my previous education has been
really one of knowing stuff but at lbs I
think the encouragement is to say to ask
you to figure out for yourself uh what
do you think of the the the matter uh
I.E to reason uh uh uh you know your own
thoughts we only have 67 of us uh the
whole class and I think each most of us
has several offers I have three or four
four some was to be a strategic um
development and other other stuff but I
actually went for a sales job which most
people found it very very hard to
understand and it was a technology
driven kind of situation uh emi emi
medical uh at the time but it was Emi
music uh the the the group uh a bit of
it is Emi medical invented the CT
scanner Emi was trying to develop uh the
sales of this uh particular well beating
kind of product all over the world and I
was picked to help them Pioneer the uh
development of the business in Southeast
Asia so I I I jump at at the opportunity
I then went over with this Emi medical
uh purchase by GE to GE and where I stay
17 years after G I became um managing
director of another British company uh
uh so back from us company to British
company called uh BTR we invested couple
hundred million US Dollars buying uh up
a lot of companies that in John Ventures
so that taught me a lot about uh picking
opportunities and also making sure that
it actually happens after that I was
able to join Alibaba which completely
changed my life it was very attractive
for me because it is a challenge to help
a new economy company a startup a
complete startup uh to uh become a
real a corporation we found the the the
model uh so that was the B2B model and
eventually the TBA model which is the B2
c c Toc which is the auction kind of
model and then alip pay now the group
the whole group has over 25,000 people
one of the alarms from London Business
School is the CEO of of the of the B2B
company and I sit on the board as a
independent nonexecutive director a lot
of people have a somehow misconception
of China and possibly about India also
that they don't they just manufacture or
they just right C but they're not
Innovative but I think the opportunities
really quite different why because in
place like China you actually have a lot
of discontinuity you do not have to
develop your telecommunication from the
fix line and then slowly slowly to the
mobile and and also uh uh to today's
very Advanced Mobile you just sleep frog
you actually did without the fix line
and you went straight into into into
Mobile and that's why the mobile phones
are so very developed in China and the
same with internet there's a lot of
innovation going on and how may I
summarize this Innovation is that you
actually changing people's behavior
behavior in terms of work or in terms of
personal Habit in a very significant way
but in a very massive scale you're
talking about the internet there like
over 400 million internet users now in
China and this mind BL boggling and then
the telephone and then the mobile
telephone you're talking about a couple
hundred million maybe 300 million mobile
phone users in in China so I think that
actually brought in a certain scale that
is unprecedented and if you can catch
the uh Habit and and and change their uh
Habit in terms of work or in terms of
play or in terms of a community kind of
characteristics it actually uh give a
totally different meaning to Innovation
as we know it or used to know it to be
an lbs alarm I think if I were to start
again I would have done exactly the same
thing uh and I think the London Business
School uh graduates or soon to be
graduates are sitting on a go mine uh
the opportunity in terms of uh able to
do all kinds of things is almost
unlimited but I think the major
importance is to make sure that
everybody has their own dream

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### Alumni Profile: Jean-Christophe Bedos SLN2000, Chief Executive Officer, Boucheron
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dHdEwDsVcw

Idioma: en

well before lbs I was um I had been
working for 10 years uh within the
luxury goods industry and uh just before
I left uh I was a marketing director of
Cartier um in in France being part of
the Sloan program in the in year 2000
was was was a fantastic ftic uh year
very intense I was self-sponsored and I
I really wanted to be self-sponsored
simply because I wanted to be free um
and I studied intensely the the
entrepreneurial World um I really wanted
to know about the internet Al the this
new emerging industry at the time the
very interesting thing is that in Spring
2000 the bubble started to burst in the
internet the internet World which did
change a little bit all my perspectives
the CEO of the group Rishon group that
owned uh and still owns Cartier
contacted me it was the last week of the
course and he he really wanted to create
a um a new position in London um which
was his rightand man as an executive
manager and I really felt like should I
go back into the luxury goods industry
I've left it I was self-sponsored which
means I didn't necessarily want to go
back um and I had four business plans
cooking you know on the back
burner uh and I went to see the dean at
the time and he said he had me he asked
me a very good question because I didn't
know what to do and he said who would
you jump out of the window for and I
said of course the man I know who is the
CEO of Rishon group he said okay you
probably have the answer and I went back
to the luxury goods industry but a at a
higher level a more Global level and I
wouldn't have been able to achieve this
without my year at at lbs with a slow
program I was on a lucky path I I left
the luxury goods industry in in 1999
because I felt this industry was going
into a dead end it was not embarking
into the new economy with the internet
and all this and since then over the
last 10 years it has not stopped growing
to become a very global um uh and and
and value creating um industry and um
what I've done since I joined Rish Mo um
I was kind of promised in inverted
Commerce that after two years uh I I I
would get a good job if I was successful
and I did exactly after two years I was
promoted to be a managing director of of
Cartier in France the the biggest and
most uh historical organization within
the Cartier group and
after two years I got headhunted to
become the president and CEO of um of um
a very great Jeweler named bueron and
I'm still there honestly without London
Business School and without the Sloan
program I don't think I would have been
able to seize the opportunities of a job
like a CEO of of um a company like
bueron it's it's an international
position of course like most
companies in the luxury goods industry
it's a small business I manag in total
about 300 people worldwide so you could
to take it with with a very narrow
approach but the London Business School
really help me um repackage myself
totally and re really help me feel if
not comfortable at least confident
within many areas of business management
like Finance which was not my core uh
you know skill but I I you know I can
deal with Finance I can deal with legal
issues and intellectual property uh I
can deal with supply chain and um a
manufacturing
and and and and feel like I'm not
completely stupid you know and I can
help my people feel that they have a
leader lbs has done an incredible work
work and and and when you're back at
home in your own country you're far from
lbs but then you open the financial
times and you see that London Business
School is a prominent business school
ranked number one it makes you feel like
oh I bought myself a year of my life 10
years
ago and these guys have done a great job
for me you know you're not in control of
what happens today when you're an Al but
these guys
they do so much for us Alan that you
know it re enforces our belonging you
know sense of
belonging I decided to
volunteer this year in in
2010 uh for our 10year class reunion and
um you know I I decided to be the the
the the class leader for um for the
class gift and we achieved an incredible
record of of uh 95%
um uh participation rate which is
historical and it's it's only because of
this combination of different factors
you know the pride of belonging because
the school is doing great in terms of
ranking the pride of having a great Dean
like sir Andrew and of course 10 year is
like you have to celebrate

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### Alumni Profile: Roger Carlsson MSc17(1984), Executive Chairman, FCT Fund Management PTE LTD
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3c_jSt16a0

Idioma: en

my pre- background to LBS was uh I left
Sweden when I was 18 I went to the US
did an undergraduate degree got a job as
a grain Trader for mer mer General Mills
in Montana of all places that's why I
still wear cowboy boots um and then I I
realized I want to go back to Europe I
want to get some more education some
more background some more tools and I
want to come back to Europe I spent four
or five years in the US and I I felt
that was enough at that time what sticks
out my time in lbs is basically hard
work and a lot of sweating and a lot of
long late nights etc etc pretty typical
student uh no
money Paulo Fetti and I used to on
Saturday night we used to walk all the
way down to Picadilly circus from the
school because we lived at the school at
the time
and we could afford about a beer each
and that was the uh that was Saturday
night entertainment most of the most of
the Saturday nights London Business
school's impact on my care has being
pretty fundamental uh I felt I again
what I really gained from here was a lot
of confidence and some computer skills I
gained a lot of other things but those
are the two things I think I'm a Trader
I've been trading the markets around the
world uh ever since I graduated from
here or didn't graduate actually but uh
since I left here and um
I've been trading the markets and that's
a very good you need confidence to trade
those markets and we've done reasonably
well not as well as some but better than
others and I just feel that that's what
I got out of school the confidence to
know that I know as much as anybody else
out there uh if and I make my judgments
and that's how we managed to make some
money over the time well I mean we
actually wrote the business plan I wrote
the business plan for the fct group of
companies here with uh Stuart slatter as
the supervisor of the project got an A
on that by the way so that was good um
and we actually launched that in Chicago
in 1984 we basically launched a business
plan and from there on I haven't had my
the Milestones when you're you're
running a business at the Peaks we had
270 Traders around the world in all
major Financial Centers Hong Kong Tokyo
Milan Frankfurt London of course New
York Chicago etc etc uh we have a lot
less people now because everything is
computerized right we still basically
doing the same thing plus that we're
managing some funds some other people's
money the the the industry's future and
the challenges that we face I mean it's
huge regulatory changes in in in the
marketplace as we all know after the
crisis in 2008 and I think it's gigantic
opportunities for Niche firms like us
and then the smaller hedge funds Etc
because the banks are going to lose a
lot of their uh ability to conduct some
of these trades that they used to be
able to do so the industry is definitely
in a flux and to me flux means
opportunity typically and uh we we
certainly hoping so to being lbs Alam
I'm uh very proud of having been here
I'm very I still keep in touch with
about six seven of the classmates that
we have we only had 102 people in our
class so it's a very was a very close
nit Community um and I've stayed in
touch with the school pretty much the
whole way through because I was very
proud to have been here and I was very
uh very happy with the education I got
and then as I said the self-confidence
that I've gained here to do to do my
type of business uh so yeah very just
very proud to be a part of it the school
has had a huge impact on on my life and
I'm very happy that I went here and I'm
trying to support the school a little
bit along the way

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### Alumni Profile: Warren Finegold MSc14(1981), Chief Executive, Global Business Development, Vodafone
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wxANdHFRf0

Idioma: en

my career before I joined lbs was
relatively short I was 22 when I arrived
uh at the school and I'd done one year
of work before between you leaving
University and starting business school
which was for my family company so I
sort of thought well do I really want to
work for my father for the next and
years and I decided I didn't and
business school was a good place to go
after that when I think back to uh the
uh the impact the mvas had on me I mean
it was it was really
transformational I was faced I was I
knew I was going to go into business in
some form and the more traditional
method in those days was to become an
accountant and given the choice between
three years of accountancy work and you
know two years of MBA with holidays you
know which were quite long uh it was
really a very easy decision and uh it uh
it really transformed my own career and
and gave me you know quite a large
number of opportunities that I probably
wouldn't otherwise have had since I left
lbs uh obviously when I was doing the
milk round I applied for a number of
different jobs and somehow or other all
the banks I applied to offered me jobs
and nobody else did so I I realized
there was a message in that somewhere
and I joined an investment Bank uh which
was called Hill Samuel I was there for a
few years
and then I was asked to join Goldman
Sachs and did some fascinating work uh
with them uh and um one of uh my most
interesting early jobs was floating a
company called vone uh which is where I
first got to know my uh my current uh
employer and then I moved from Goldman
Sachs after a number of years to to UBS
and I retained a relationship uh with
Vodafone and ended up working on the
largest uh uh m&a deal in history which
was VOD phone's acquisition of of
manisan which is still the largest m&a
deal um ever done then as a result of of
of working quite closely with vone uh
the the previous chief executive who I
got to know quite well sort of rang me
up at the end of 2005 and and asked me
to join the group executive committee so
whilst many companies were Outsourcing
uh various functions I was insourced my
current job is group strategy and
business development director at vone
it's a fascinating time for the mobile
Communications industry because over the
last uh 20 years if you like there's
been this explosion in people using
mobile phones to talk to each other so
you could call it an explosion of voice
um over the next 20 years we're going to
see an explosion of data so people are
going to be using uh these internet uh
access devices and voice will simply be
one application of many applications
which you're seeing on iPhones you're
seeing on Google phones you're seeing on
all sorts of
smartphones which means that the amount
of data carried over the the mobile
networks will go up by who knows 100
times or something like that over the
next 10 years or so and therefore this
will transform the way not only
customers and people use their phones
but it'll also transform our business
because rather than carrying voice we'll
be carrying in uh you know thousands and
thousands and millions of of bites of
data and that'll be what we that'll be
what we do it'll transform the way we
price our services it'll transform the
way we build our networks uh it'll
transform the way we compete uh and
cooperate with with different players in
the industry so it's a very profound uh
change that we're dealing with I'm
tremendously proud of being an lbs uh
Alum uh not just because of the
opportunities it's given me but because
because of the opportunities it can
continue to give uh lots of other people
which is one of the reasons I I continue
to support uh the school in in you know
in a number of ways and uh you know I
was delighted to see the school voted
it's the best business school in the
world by uh by the Ft uh survey I
thought that was a fantastic achievement
and and a great tribute to the work
that's been done you know over the last
30 years or so since I I'm I
left

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### Alumni Profile: Michael Perlman MSc03(1970), Deputy Chairman, Grupo Ibmec Educacional
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbJjRg0EkJY

Idioma: en

parents had emigrated to Brazil
during the war time period I mean forced
emigration refugees if you like i was
doing brazilian schooling and I did o
levels and a-levels and at the age of 16
I applied for a place to Cambridge when
I was 17 I came to England and I
graduated when I was 20 and went
straight to the business school I was
the only non Brit in in the course and I
was made to feel entirely at home and
given that I'd been in England for three
years I did I did feel at home my first
academic impressionism was came from my
first case study we're coming from
Cambridge you had to write copious
essays and delve into god knows how many
books and come up with all the possible
ideas that people had about a subject
and I took lengthy notes it wasn't an
essay that I had to hand in bow ties
when I came for the case study I said
well this is a hugely complex issue if I
went on and on and on and on about this
and in the professor who did the case
that he just looked at me and said yes
but what would you do to this day he in
my professional career this is still a
major major thing with me if you are
faced with a complex issue and once you
get a certain level of management you'll
never get easy issues because the easy
issues will be taken care of it to
another level ah remember you must
always know what you will do and why you
want to do it sounds trite and it sounds
easy but you'd be amazed how many people
are still incapable of doing that my
career was helped immensely by coming of
that there's no question I mean
it was not only learning how to decide
but we did get a lot of skills say I
would never be a statistician but I did
learn to check out what's a statistician
presented me I went back to Brazil and
joined the family firm I remember
introducing information technology into
the company these were the 1970 1971
getting systems to work we're in Brazil
a great thing probably my biggest career
change was about ten years ago when I
sort of handed over managing the family
firm as a as a den was and started with
a partner who me being cambridge neo
Keynesian he is a Chicago Friedman aight
an ex-director of the Brazilian central
bank we started private universities and
we now we have that there's a foundation
which as it says of course is nonprofit
but we also have a for-profit higher
education and ten years on we've got
over 20,000 students longer business
cooler has been part of my life for 40
years it's it's a bit community which
I'm proud to be a part of perhaps had I
not been so involved throughout my life
I wouldn't think so much about it but
whenever there's anything that londonist
London Business School was trying to
arrange in Brazil I tend to be part of
it and
uh I was part of the am part of the
Advisory Council I was chairman of
another board I've always been involved

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