Changing Careers with Conrad Chua

The joint Founders of the UK based Brand Experience Agency, Hot Pickle talk about their start up journey, entrepreneurship, user experiences, branding, and the retail experience, as well as Marmite and their favourite barbers! Rupert Pick and Patrick Hammond both Cambridge MBA(2008) take you on their career journey.

Smrithi Ravichandran talks about her leadership role at Flipkart, a fledgling e-commerce company that was then sold to Walmart for a staggering 22 billion dollars. From scaling and global expansion, Smrithi talks about market segmentation, customer and data knowledge and research, as well as development and innovation across the company as a whole; and the creation of the now extremely well establ...

Mat Mildenhall (MBA 1997)talks about leadership and strategy across the advertising and creative industries, tracking the advent and history of global marketing and brands through to today's specific data driven mass precision marketing and individual advertising targeting. Career advice and insights from a long personal history across this globally expanding and continually developing industry se...

Per von Zelowitz (MBA 1991) shares his insights into the Venture Capital sector, the startup sector and working in wireless, across Sweden, New York and now based with PwC.

Ashwini Anburajan (MBA 2009) talks about raising capital and funding through ICOs and other crypto and non traditional mechanisms from her company 22xFund, a start up based in New York. Inclusion, collaboration and invention across the venture capital landscape, specifically from a female entrepreneur and founders perspective.

IBM iX, Managing Consultant Sarah Ishak talks about consultancy and the strategy around digital business. She talks about building your network and working your contacts as you step into a new role and new company, in order to hit the ground running and be as agile as you can.

Iman Karimi (MBA 2010)explores the innovative and disruptive consultancy practices changing the face of global consultancy, as Project Leader and Lead Data Scientist at The Boston Consulting Group and working within GAMMA BCG, London. Focusing on big data and advanced analytics, along with algorithms and data science, Iman shares insights into global recruitment practices, enhanced client relation...

How to identify and manage stress in the workplace for both managers, leaders and of course ourselves. External Faculty, Cambridge Judge Business School and Executive Coach Dr Helena Kim addresses ways to navigate and cope with stress in the workplace. Harnessing stress in your career journey.

We hear from Ambika Mamgain (MBA 2010) Strategic Programme Manager at YOOX Net A Porter, aka YNAP. Looking at the luxury fashion market and the user experience online, especially in the off-season marketplace. A global brand Ambika is based in London and talks about both brands, the user experience and the online and offline consumer journey, as well as being a working mother.

Explore the startup journey with bag designer and entrepreneur Jacqui Gilbert.

Entrepreneur Gordon Downes (MBA 2009) talks about the Nyshex shipping exchange based in New York. Applying digital contracting to bring about change in the international ocean shipping market; discussions cover blockchain to big data and minimising risk and waste as a startup operating in the global shipping market.

Priscilla Li shares her insights working at Capgemini as Head of Applied Innovation Exchange. Digital transformation and digital disruption are at the heart of her story as she explores rapid innovation in the consultancy sector with the advance of AI and new technology.

In this episode we hear from Damian Miller who talks about his journey from Cambridge PhD to Shell's Solar Division to CEO and Founder of Orb Energy. Based in Bangalore, we explore the opportunities and challenges that exist across India for an entrepreneur working in the renewable energy sector.

In this episode we hear from Priya Shah who shares her insights about social business and venture funding in India and beyond. Based at Yunus Social Business Fund in Bangalore, Priya explains how innovative funding strategies are used alongside commercial business modelling to address some of the biggest social problems and put an end to poverty.

Conrad meets Oremeyi Akah (MBA 2010) of African payment solutions company Interswitch at the recent Africa Business Conference held in Cambridge. Learn about the evolution and emergence of electronic payments across Africa in the last 15 years. Interswitch is now one of the largest African FinTech companies. Find out how the financial eco system was developed and built to ensure trust and take up...

Conrad meets with Hemant Mohapatra (MBA 2011) during his alumni visit in Bangalore to find out more about the experience that a venture capitalist needs in his/her career planing.

VC is often romanticized in the media. In this episode of the podcast, Carol Cheung (MBA 2012) from Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC), discusses the realities of the industry with Conrad.

Conrad is joined by Miguel Angel Negrete, from the Cambridge MBA Class of 2012, who provides insights in transitioning across geographies throughout the Finance industry.

In this episode, Conrad is joined by Ben Kingsmill from LinkedIn who highlights the use of LinkedIn profiles to differentiate yourself in the eyes of potential employers.

Conrad catches up with 2014 Cambridge MBA alumna Sasirat Kittichungchit to recount her transition from consulting and supply chain management into life insurance. Learn about how Sasirat built her expertise in data analytics which she has used very effectively in her career transitions.

In the final podcast of this South East Asia series, Conrad chats to Lim Teck Yong (TY) about Shopee, one of the largest e-commerce platforms in South East Asia.

Solving simple problems that are taken for granted in the West can lead to rapid growth in areas such as South East Asia. Ceasar Indra, Senior VP of Business Development at Traveloka, shares his insights with Conrad in the Jakarta head office.

Cambridge MBA Alumna Maija Hovila (MBA 2011) shares her insights on the importance of data analytics and how data can be viewed as "the new oil".

Dr David Stillwell, Lecturer in Big Data Analytics & Quantitative Social Science, joins Conrad to discuss the future of big data in this episode on the data analytics theme.

If you want to work where technology is exciting and making great impact, you need to listen to this interview with Omri Morgenshtern, Chief Product Officer of Agoda.com. Omri talks about how South East Asia is a great place for technology companies especially those that can learn and adapt quickly to both Western and Asian business models.