MBS, GSB welcomed several business leaders as guest speakers in fall 2021
In fall 2021, the Maine Business School and Graduate School of Business welcomed guest speakers to their classrooms, both in-person and via Zoom.
“Faculty brought in world-class speakers from Maine, the U.S. and around the world to share their accumulated knowledge with students,” says Jason Harkins, associate dean of the Maine Business School and Graduate School of Business. “The speakers came from startups, private equity, major consumer brands and Fortune 100 companies, all connecting students’ knowledge to practice. These partnerships are just one key part of the value of studying business at the University of Maine.”
Some of the speakers who shared their expertise with UMaine business students included:
- Pavel Ezekiev, founder of NEO Ventures, spoke to Ivan Manev’s International Management class.
- Brian Rahill, CDO of CourseStorm, spoke to MBA students in Jason Harkins’ Startup and Entrepreneurship class.
- Anastasia Amoroso, managing director and chief investment strategist at iCapital Network, spoke to Sebastian Lobe’s Investment Strategy class.
- Bristyn Leasure, MBS alumna and industry marketing lead at Oracle NetSuite, spoke to Erin Percival-Carter’s Personal Selling and Sales Management class.
- Amber Chadwari, MBS alumna and AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CCP) for Cloud Financial Operations at Amazon Web Services, spoke to Matt Graham’s Digital Business Transformation class.
- Annie Grègoire, general manager for L’Orèal International Distribution – North America, spoke to MBA students in Nadège Levallet’s Managerial Marketing class.
- Tim Graciano, head of data science at Convoy, spoke to Angie Zheng’s MBA students in her Data Analysis for Business class.