INSEAD 2003J Podcast

We talk about going from banking in Sydney, to McKinsey in London and back to banking in Sydney (albeit as an AI expert). 

We talk about going from being a lawyer, to actress, to finance and ending up a big fish in a small pond. 

We talk about a Brazilian's tour from NY, to London, back to Brazil and ending up in Portugal (while working in Investment banking, real estate and insurance). 

We talk about building airplanes in Brazil, working for McKinsey in Portugal and building satellites for the Brazilian government. 

We talk about a proper tour around silicon valley; Yahoo, Walmart Labs, to starting her own company, OpenWardrobe.

We talk about going from investment banking, to consulting to government work back to investment banking and now being a university professor.

We talk about doing a tour of duty around London in the energy space and then making an attempt to 'decarbonize'.

We talk about studying economics in Moscow during the fall of the soviet union, working in tax for PWC and Shell and not being allowed to enter the US (due to a trip to Iraq). Great conversation.

We talk about going from wanting to be a 'media person' to being an actual design consultant and ultimately ending up working for an old school satellite company. 

We talk about going from engineering, to telecom to a PR agency (as well as David's peace initiative - link below) https://www.change.org/p/call-for-a-universal-declaration-of-peace-a-global-commitment-to-nonviolence-dialogue

We talk about going from software sales to venture capital to being a fractional executive and seeing over 40k business plans. 

We talk about going from being a researcher in Norway, to a BD guy in New Jersey to a PE/VC in China. 

We talk about going from haute finance, to farm work to sustainable asset management.

We talk about working in retail banking before INSEAD and working in retail banking after INSEAD. We also talk about the matchmaking skills of one of our batch mates. 

We talk about going from United Airlines to McKinsey to American Express to Capital One. And Daniel has a question about college aged children.

We talk about going from being a structural engineer, to working for the UN in Africa to a 16 year tour of duty at Mastercard to being hired as the CEO of Bancomat.

We talk about going from Canada, to the Israel tech scene; starting in consumer apps and moving to enterprise.

We talk about staying in one place for your whole life and working for the same (chemical) company for the past 21 years.

We talk about going from tech companies in the US/England to the family cement business in India to creating a generative AI agency. 

We talk about working at SAP in Ukraine to playing drums in Fonty to startups and technology companies in France.

We talk about a tour of duty from being an engineer to business development to M&A at a number of large technology companies. 

We talk about going from an agency in India, to distributing international TV content in the US to starting up a fashion brand in India. And, he offered to help get tickets to the 2026 world cup. 

We talk about going from McKinsey to private equity to a clean energy fund to being the CFO of a healthtech company in Cambridge.

We talk about building infrastructure all over the world. 

We talk about Chetan's journey around the world as an investment banker.