Class 2011

Ryan Gunasekera, Lead Solutions Supervisor

Ukari Warmann, Senior Integration CoordinatorSheila Babayan, Principal Applications Architect

Julia Sevilla, Chief Paradigm Strategist

James Orr, Internal Optimisation Facilitator

Jennifer Babaian , Legacy Division Developer

Yearbooks don’t just happen by themselves. In fact, we can safely say that this particular yearbook took the combined ef-forts of the entire student body: the writers, the photographers, the voters, the bakers, the candle-stick makers...

Seriously though, the 2011 yearbook team consists of a few dedicated students who had a great time making this project up from scratch. Together, they created colourful cardboard voting systems, designed layout concepts, held staff meetings via Skype, negotiated for quality (international!) printing, maintained epic Google Document spreadsheets, and pestered classmates for photos, information, stories, and bios. This book represents the best memories of the graduating class, and we sincerely thank the team that worked so hard to bring everything together:

Jennifer Babaian Sheila Babayan Ryan GunasekeraJames Orr Julia Sevilla Ukari Warmann

Message from the Editorial Team

Table of ContentsMessages from our professors

Interlude: your prediction of the graduation class

Student profiles

Interlude: Hidden talents at MBS

Parties

Interlude: Not So Secret Skills

Clubs

Interlude: On Campus

Random moments

SRC

Student Services

Tall Tales

Autographs

Congratulations on a wonderful achievement. I know that each of you have learned a lot during your degree and have made many new friends - if I had any advice it would be to stay in touch. Stay in touch with your learning by staying intellectually curious and taking the opportunity that every workplace will provide you to keep learning and changing. Stay in touch with your classmates by regularly meeting up with them or interacting on email or the web. Stay in touch with the School by com-ing back to alumni events (we hold these internationally as well as domestically) and reunions. We are always keen to hear what our alumni are doing and very proud of the many and different ways in which you serve your companies and communities. You carry our best wishes with you.

Jenny George

Messages...

David AustinTo the extraordinary people I have met this year teaching entrepreneurship. I would like to share with you a little of what you have taught and shown me: When you commit to a path people will give more help than you could ever have imagined. You can achieve more than your current vision allows you to see, it is a choice. Success envisaged in gentle terms has a way of growing. Be open to the joy of learning from the many interruptions on the path to success, each is a gift if you unwrap it carefully. Don’t forget that the entrepreneurship course is like the Hotel California and I hope to see you again soon.

Kind regards, David

Ian Alsopp“ I have appreciated the opportunity to en-able students to becomeentrepreneurial and to create new ventures. Thinking and actingentrrepreneurially becomes a “way of think-ing and living”, it becomes alifestyle where the new opportunity excites and “calls” us to achieve andmake things happen. Become agenda setters and enjoy discoveringopportunities and developing new ventures that create both personal andsocial wealth.”

Cheers,Ian

Mark CrosbyDear Class of 2011, I very much enjoyed teach-ing many of you during your time at MBS, and I wish you all the best as you return to the work-force. I know that you have all learned a huge amount during your studies, but do not forget the maxim of Descartes – “question everything.” Keep on learning, keep on questioning, and use your knowledge, networks and compassion to build a better business and society.

Good luck,Mark

Catherine de FontaneyCongratulations Class of 2011! We are extremely proud of you, and wish you all the very best. Research says that after 5 years, the words “supply and demand” is all you’ll remember about your Economics courses; but we’d be very grateful if you could remember “Added Value” as well!

Best wishes, Catherine

Peter DanaherDear Class of 2011, Sometimes the flow of infor-mation and the pace of change in the workplace can seem overwhelming. One of the best talents you can develop and refine in your working lives is the ability to pick out key pieces of informa-tion. Measure and observe the things that really matter. Also, new trends and “hot topics” can be seductive. However, often they are only a flash in the pan or just a repackaging of what is already known. Watch out for these false leads and vapour trails. Don’t always follow the herd and keep an eye out for information they isn’t right in front of you, but may be in your peripheral vision. Lastly, the most important talent in your working and personal life is the ability to communicate, be it by voice, email, letter, report or power point presen-tation. Always work at improving your communi-cation skills. I wish you luck in your future careers and you unfolding lives. Peter Danaher

Sven FeldmanWith the MBA in your pocket you are now ready to embark on a successful career — be it in bank-ing, marketing, consulting, or actually producing something useful for the world. ;-) Here are my “bullet points” of advice: • Liveyourlifetothefullestanddon’treston what you have achieved, ever• Alwaystrysomethingnew,somethingthat challenges you and takes you out of your comfort zone• Dotherightthing,notwhatiscon-venient or expedient. Do what you believe in and what you can proudly talk about with your grandchildren one day• Ashardasyouworkedforyoursuccess— now and in the future, — never forget that it is you who owes society, not the other way ‘round. Stay humble, contribute your share, en-courage others to do theirs, and try to give back

Best of luck in all your future endeavours!

Kwang LimDear ex-students and everyone in the class of 2011, I wish you all the best as you graduate and move into the next exciting adventure of your life. If there is one piece of advice that I’d like to share with you, it is that you should nurture your mental agility. These days the world is filled with uncertainty and many changes are taking place in our economic and social ecosystems. However, the fundamental lessons that you learned during your MBA will serve you well into the future. Stay cool, apply what you’ve learnt in your MBA, but remember to continually build new skills and experiences in your life. Nurture the friendships and networks that you began at MBS. Most of all, be mentally agile. If you are adaptable in your mindset, everything else will follow, includ-ing new career opportunities, better ways for you to interact with clients and colleagues, new approaches as you tackle the challenges ahead. I wish you every success; your future is bright.

kwang

Jack GoodwinAn American philosopher, Eric Hoffer, had a wonderful quote about learning. He said, “In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” I hope you have had an enjoyable and enriching learning experience at MBS and have learned a lot. How-ever, we live in times of profound change, so you will soon be perfectly equipped for a world that no longer exists. Your learning “journey” should just be starting. As you leave MBS, I hope that you have learned to learn, and that you will remember the “course” isn’t ending, it’s just starting. I’ll close with a quote from another famous American philosopher, Jack Welch: “Wake up every morning knowing it’s the dumbest you’ll ever be.”

It’s been a pleasure to teach some of you. Best wishes to all of you.

Jack Goodwin

Geoffrey LewisFirst the tasting notes: 2010 is an excellent vintage. By selective and judicious blending of diverse varieties we achieved a complex cohort with some with interesting high-notes. Showing some early roughness on the edges of the palate, this softened as the year progressed to result in a crisp, seductively textured class that displayed a full, open, and accessible approach to learning. Undoubtedly has excellent career potential.

Winemaker’s comments: Think about it! I could be spending my time with mature gentlemen of my own advancing years (read boring old farts) sitting around a board table making out to be do-ing something useful – or I could spend my time with energetic, thoughtful, challenging and com-mitted young people who are shaping the future. What a privilege to be able to do the latter.

David PollardI just love being asked to share my thoughts and give advice. So here’re some quite gratuitous pointers. Although the notion of emotional intelligence is a bit ten-years-ago, it does contain an important grain of truth - that in any career getting on with people and being liked is important for doing a good job and being perceived as having leader-ship potential. A related point is that people skills gradually become as important as techni-cal skills in any job that is predominantly ser-vice focussed, and this includes includes people management. Thirdly, friends come and go in any work environment but enemies just accumu-late - so we all need to avoid making them in any working environment where we intend to stay. Competition with others needs to be tempered with with what the Romans called humanitas - common decency.

David Pollard

Kannan SethuramanI would like to thank you for having given me this opportunity to say a few wordsin the annual yearbook.

At the outset, let me first congratulate each one of you for your commitment anddevotion towards excellence and for graduat-ing from MBS with flying colours.

As you rejoice this proud moment, please take the time to recognize the variousindividuals who have made a difference in your life and who have helped achieveyour dreams. I am confident that each and every one of you has the ability tomake a difference to this world. I hope and wish you will continue to aim highand will have the courage to follow your heart and ambitions. I wish you all thevery best in your future endeavours.

Don O’ SullivanDear Class of 2011, Hopefully, your time at MBS has had some influence on the way you think. Now, as you leave us to head back into the workplace, Seamus Heaney’s thoughts on the importance of what you do rather than what you think and say seems appropriate. “Behaviour that’s admired is the path to power among people everywhere.” - Sea-mus Heaney Irish poet and Nobel Laure-ate. Warm regards, Don O’Sullivan

Interlude: your predictionfor the graduating class

Most likely to...

develop the next business strategy framework: Nelson Chan

teach at MBS: Stephen McDonaldguide an African safari: Andre Visser

work for Donald Trump: John Hunt

join the A Team: (Tied) Trevor Flory and Ukari Warmann

discover a new chemical element: Yu-Ann Wang

make the cover of Glamour magazine: (Tied) Jen Babaian and Julia Sevilla

develop superpowers after an industrial accident: Bonze Cheng

retire by 40: Stephen McDonald

Degree: MBAFave moment: All the lovely friends I madeFuture Career: General CounselHometown: Melbourne

Libby Akhounov

Degree: MBAFave moment: In Managerial Econom-ics class, Professor Andrew John tried to teach auction theory using a game. A 20 dollar note ended up being fought over by Kislay and Rohit, and was finally bought for 55 dollars!Future Career: Development FinanceHometown: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Andalib Alam

Degree: Masters in MarketingFave moment: All the times Student Ser-vices pushed things through despite my complete disorganisation (thanks guys)Future Career: Currently healthcare, but to be honest, who knows!Hometown: Warragul, Victoria

Degree: MBAFave moment: Catching up with all the guys and gals at Corkman’s after final exams... oh the relief!Future Career: Management ConsultingHometown: Melbourne

Yoganya Arunothayaraj

Mark Amott

Degree: MBAFave moment: AGSM/MBS cup! Future Career: EntrepreneurHometown: NY, USA

Jennifer Babaian

Degree: MBAFave moment: Crashing a wedding, Cookie Day at the apartment, Tasty Tuesdays; The time we squeezed 25 people into our tiny city flat; The epic charades party Future Career: I hope so!Hometown: Orange County, California

Sheila Babayan

Degree: MBAFave moment: Making a fool out of my-self in marketing class once. The whole class for a second thought that I was crazy, and people had a good laugh at my idiosyncrasy’s expense for the follow-ing week.Future Career: FinanceHometown: New Delhi, India

Rohit Bahl

Degree: MBAFave moment: Probably the sandwiches, also making great friends, having late night syndicate meetings, and end of term drinks Future Career: Destination unknownHometown: Melbourne

Danielle Baird

Degree: MBAFave moment: End of Term (December 2009) Party Future Career: ConsultingHometown: Kathmandu, Nepal

Degree: Masters in MarketingFave moment: Sleepless nights spent at syndicate rooms fighting to meet dead-lines Future Career: Marketing & SalesHometown: New Delhi, India

Vishal Bali

Degree: MBAFave moment: The inter-intake cricket tournament, where our intake defeated every other intake and became the champion Future Career: Consulting/General Man-agementHometown: Hardwar, India

Abhinav Bana

Degree: MBAFave moment: The breaks in between the terms...every moment of those short breaks was worth it! Future Career: Only time will tellHometown: Chandigarh, India (called as ‘City Beautiful’)

Rajeev BatraRahul Bajaj

Degree: MBAFave moment: My fellow MBS mates and the fun we had together. Future Career: Financial ServicesHometown: Bombay India

Vinod Bhat

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Drinks at the end of each term!Future Career: Consulting – Defence Industry / Public SectorHometown: Canberra

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: The friends I have made and the memories they have given me!Future Career: ConsultantHometown: Perth

James Blake

Degree: Masters of MarketingFave moment: Mark Ritson’s end of Brand Management partyFuture Career: A balance between moth-erhood and an executive role in market-ing managementHometown: Perth, Western Australia

Saschelle Blake

Degree: MBA (Marketing stream)Fave moment: Running down on the hardwood with my Squash Club mates.Future Career: Marketing consultingHometown: Seattle, Washington, USA

Adam Blakney

Degree: 36.5 CelsiusFave moment: Secretly eating food in the library. I felt free!Future Career: Internet FixerHometown: Joggeli

Angie Born

Andrew Bishop

Degree: MBAFave moment: Meeting some clas-sic characters and relishing in battling through syndicate work together.Future Career: I would like to stay within the pharmaceutical industry, although I am not sure in what capacity.Hometown: Horsham, Victoria

Emily Brown

Degree: MBAFave moment: Interactive sessions with key decision makers during Leading Policy Reform Future Career: Head of State Hometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: I’m sure it’s on its way...still 6 months to go!Future Career: Be free :)Hometown: mmmm...hard to say...I travel too much, Melbourne these days

Sarah Bruat

Degree: MBAFave moment: walking around town with my first syndicate group Future Career: ManufacturingHometown: Upwey

Damien Burger

Degree: Masters of MarketingFave moment: Working on a variety of assignments with my classmates and seeing things from a new perspectiveFuture Career: Group Account Director in Market Research or starting up my own research companyHometown: Melbourne, Australia

Dennis Butler

Degree: MBAFave moment: Kebab Mondays in Sum-merFuture Career: Marketing in Consumer Goods Hometown: Orange, CA, USA

Chad Bystedt

Richard Brown

Degree: MBAFave moment: First term when we fin-ished “Accounting”~~Celebrate!!!Future Career: Healthcare Industry (pharmaceutical company/hospital) or Insurance IndustryHometown: Shanghai, China

Dong Cai

Degree: MBAFave moment: Ravi telling our Leader-ship & Change class to ‘man up’. GeniusFuture Career: I won’t be working as I’ll be retiring on the millions that our en-trepreneurship project is going to make. Probably Hometown: Cardiff, Wales (officially the greatest country on the world. Fact)

Michael Carpenter

Degree: MBAFave moment: Sam Wylie “it’s plain va-nilla, no pistachio” Future Career: Financial Services, Lon-donHometown: Melbourne

Will Carroll

Degree: MBAFave moment: Joe Montuoro’s dirty Mo-vember moustacheFuture Career: International Develop-mentHometown: Melbourne, Australia

Daniel Carter

Degree: MBAFave moment: MBS goes to BaliFuture Career: Corporate Melbournian... doing stuffHometown: Melbourne, Australia

Nelson Chan

Degree: MBAFave moment: growing a thick 1980’s mustachioFuture Career: renewable energyHometown: The Tarheel State

Jeff Cheek

Degree: MBAFave moment: Syndicate meetings - I heart my syndicates (yeah, all of them!!)Future Career: Possible future careers in-clude FBI, or somewhere I can deliver hap-piness (perhaps a chocolate factory), and hopefully not Wal*Mart, Nike, Billabong or Coles (unless they pay AUD140,000)...Hometown: Hong Kong SAR

Bonze Bong Sin Cheng

Degree: MBAFave moment: WNDC at the Randy Dragon. The MBS crowd is not a good place to get drunk. Oh, you guys can be MEAN! And yes, I had 7 glasses.Future Career: N/AHometown: Singapore, Sunny Island set in the sea.

Casey Chew

Degree: MBAFave moment: The pressure test the school puts you through, and the feeling of relief with a beer in hand at end of term drinks.Future Career: Not sure for how long can I be employable, so would want to start up a Business soon.Hometown: I have 2 – Delhi and Melbourne

Ashish Chopra

Degree: MBAFave moment: Making life long friends Future Career: Corporate FinanceHometown: Ahmedabad-India

Dipali Contractor

Degree: MBAFave moment: Hanging out with friends over summer for a BBQ by the Yarra.Future Career: mmmm.... firemanHometown: Santiago, Chile

Carlos Correa

Degree: MBAFave moment: The ‘conk’ of a coke bottle hitting Jacob’s head in ManPro and sharing a few fine single malts with my friendsFuture Career: Buying companiesHometown: Edinburgh

Paul Coupe

Degree: MBA/Graduate Certificate in Social ImpactFave moment: All the blurry onesFuture Career: Social EntrepreneurHometown: Houston, Texas

Jeff Darlington

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Being told there were classes on AFL Grand Final day Future Career: …. I don’t know, current career perhaps.. Hometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: First end of term party...more like a blank in my memory, thoughFuture Career: Something in strategy...maybeHometown: Lille, France

Degree: MBAFave moment: Coffee in line chatFuture Career: AstronautHometown: Brisbane

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Learning the real use for Yahoo, and the bonding experience of 18 hours per day in weekend modeFuture Career: Singer/SongwriterHometown: Melbourne

Degree: Cook to order (raw, medium, well done)Fave moment: More MBA, more dumb!Future Career: Taking care of my first money tree and grow some more!Hometown: Forbidden City (NO Face-book, twitter, or google!)

Joel Delmaire

Angie Dickinson

Annie Dong

Murray de Jong Chris Dodd

Degree: MBAFave moment: Partying at the end of first termFuture Career: CFO...Chief Fun OfficerHometown: Richmond, Virginia, USA

Degree: 37 Celsius (not too hot to han-dle)Fave moment: Being picked up by ran-dom classmates in a day thx to Sam!Future Career: Globe-trotting connois-seurHometown: Makassar, in the beautiful n chaotic Indonesia!

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Nothing specific. I en-joyed it all (or at least most of it).Future Career: Still thinkingHometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Learning that it is pro-nounced Moet, not Moet from RitsonFuture Career: Automotive General Man-agerHometown: St Kilda

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Sandwiches!Future Career: Entrepreneur/Founder of a successful start-upHometown: St Kilda

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Half time drinks at the pubFuture Career: GM People & CultureHometown: Melbourne

Nicole Dumond

Brendan Egan

Ivonne Edenton

Joshua Elliot

Brett Fairbank

Elissa Fell

Degree: MBAFave moment: Not one single memory (other than Diego’s moustache), but a lot of good times collectively.Future Career: DictatorHometown: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

Degree: MBAFave moment: The Corkman, and all the good friends who joined me thereFuture Career: tbc (call and ask me)Hometown: Melbourne, Australia

Degree: MBAFave moment: THONK goes Jacob’s head as Paul throws his coke bottle at him in Man ProFuture Career: I don’t want to be a con-sultant, I don’t want to be a consultant, I don’t want to be a consultant………… Maybe I’ll be a consultantHometown: Swan Hill, Victoria

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Catherine de Fontenay leading the class on running laps of an empty campus on Sunday afternoons, before another three hours of Man EcFuture Career: Switching the world to renewable energyHometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: The excellent friends of different cultures!Future Career: General ManagementHometown: Lima, Peru

Degree: MBAFave moment: The time people got dressed up in costume for a final exam!Future Career: Consultant, Businessman or Cult LeaderHometown: Kuala Lumpur (but really, from everywhere...)

Tevor Florey

Richard Fox

Nicholas Fraser

Oscar Gagó

Abhinav Garg

Anna Freeman

Degree: MBAFave moment: WOM because it got me excited to start my learning journey.Future Career: ConsultingHometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: Making lifelong friend-ships. :)Future Career: Strategy ConsultingHometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBA (Unprofessional)Fave moment: The very first careers’ session.. when I learned to shake hands! :PFuture Career: Dream job: Judge in the next Masterchef Challenge. Hometown: Kolkata, India!

Degree: Masters in MarketingFave moment: Everything at MBS has been a memorable experience. Hence all of them form favorite memories because each of them are unique and without them I would not have had my own student and complete experience.Future Career: Brand Management Career / Retail or FMCG IndustryHometown: Singapore

Degree: MBAFave moment: Doing MBS rounds and eating Crispy Creme donuts during Sun-day arvo’s Man Ec with CatherineFuture Career: Entrepreneur, Pvt Equity, Consulting (in that order)Hometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: Tony Trombone and Team RJFuture Career: Dad Hometown: Melbourne

Amelia Ghofrany

Ryan Gunasekera

Dipanjan Gupta

Mamta Gupta

James Harrington

Sam Hardikar

Degree: MBAFave moment: Judging of Movember 2009 at the Corkman, where the Mos ranged from Navraj’s full-fledged weapon of mass destruction to valiant attempts proving that yes, people of Chinese and Vietnamese origin CAN grow (something resembling to) a MO... As the guys catwalk and tell the girls why theirs is the best, Jarrett Pinto shows us how it’s done. He swaggers up, poses and with twinkling eyes and a cheeky grin points to his auburn-coloured mo while proclaiming, “One word. Spicy”. The girls (myself included) went wild... Future Career: Healthcare marketing Hometown: Singapore

Degree: MBAFave moment: Winning Entrepreneur Eleva-tor Pitch Competition, Copenhagen Exchange semester!, MBS Bali trip, Attending the Manag-ing Processes exam in swimming costumes, Mr Monkey (R.I.P.), ACCC football nightsFuture Career: Marketing/Advertising Strategy Consultant Hometown: Melbourne local

Degree: MBAFave moment: Professor Ian Harper speakFuture Career: Management ConsultingHometown: Melbourne - New York City

Degree: MBAFave moment: First beer in the CorkmanFuture Career: Assistant to Murray Hewitt - Manager of Flight of the Con-chordsHometown: Christchurch, New Zealand

Degree: MBAFave moment: Everyone’s nervousness during WOM and the way by about the end of mid terms Semester 1, every-one was just so comfortable with everyone else - quite a collegiate (cohort) environment compared to niche groups during undergrad. (Also loved the role plays in MPHP - Sheila Babayan would make a great lawyer and Ravi Chilli an excellent Lee Iacocca!)Future Career: Resources Sector again - hopefully a strat-egy role;Hometown: Wellington, NZ, well essentially Melbourne now.

Degree: MBAFave moment: wednesday lygon nights with the silly Asians!Future Career: Financial servicesHometown: Singapore

Nadira Hashim

Jonathan Heasman

Paul Henderson

Tim Hickman

Alvin Ho

Samuel “didn’t-feel-the-love” Hayton

Degree: Masters of MarketingFave moment: The sandwhichesFuture Career: Director/Executive Man-agement/CEOHometown: Melbourne, Australia

Degree: MBAFave moment: Going on exchange pro-gram to NYUFuture Career: Entrepreneur Hometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBA (Mental Below Average)Fave moment: Play all day long and study all night long!Future Career: Lecturer at MBSHometown: Shanghai, China

Degree: MBAFave moment: All the great MBS people!Future Career: Serial EntrepreneurHometown: Copenhagen, Denmark

Degree: MBAFave moment: The international food festival; especially the Indian table!Future Career: Social EntrepreneurHometown: Melbourne, Australia

Degree: MBAFave moment: Syndicate room discus-sionsFuture Career: Sales Management/ Own-ing my own businessHometown: Seymour, VIC, Australia

Chin-Ching Hsu

Timothy Huang

Jacob Hulsbaek

John Hunt

Edward (Ned) Jeffery

Nimai Horton

Degree: MBAFave moment: Founding the Music Club at MBS.Future Career: Financial Services Hometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: My best memories of MBS are a collection of people, ideas, dreams and opportunities I encountered that made the program transformative on so many levels…Future Career: BankingHometown: Auckland, New Zealand

Degree: MBAFave moment: Sam Wylie’s ‘information asymmetry’Future Career: We’ll see....Hometown: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Degree: Masters of MarketingFave moment: The case studies, the peopleFuture Career: Consumer ScienceHometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: International Exchange Program at Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York UniversityFuture Career: Financial Management / General ManagementHometown: Glen Waverley (Melbourne), Australia

Degree: MBAFave moment: Lunch at Corkman on FridayFuture Career: UnknownHometown: Marseille, France

Sandesh Kale

Hafeez Kamaruzzaman

Smrithi Kamtikar (nee Swamina-than)

Evangelia Kapparis

Scott Kerrison

Alexandre Kesy

Degree: MBAFave moment: Going on the mental jour-ney ...Future Career: Spatial Sciences or ITHometown: Stoneyford, Victoria.

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Ian Harper’s session dur-ing WOMFuture Career: Still considering various options.Hometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: Meeting so many high achievers, and finally answering one of Sam Wylie’s questions correctly in classFuture Career: To be determined... something that makes a difference.Hometown: Brisbane

Degree: MBAFave moment: Hard to single out any but will try: end of term & house parties, cricket, various cultural celebrations and of course jokes of David Trende and Mark Ritson.Future Career: Financial Services/Con-sultingHometown: Mumbai, India

Degree: MBAFave moment: The time Angie proposed and I had to dump Sheila in Leadership in ChangeFuture Career: not-profitHometown: Californadia

Degree: MBAFave moment: Late nights trying to fin-ish assignments, meeting fantastic people from all walks of life, MBS ball, syndicate meetings where we had endless snacks and discussed everything except the assignment itself!Future Career: Who knows what will hap-pen after the MBA mental journey? The wide world awaits!Hometown: Perth and Melbourne

Terry Kildea

Richard Kloeden

Ankit Lahoti

Vanessa Landry

Ivy Lee

John Kim

Degree: MBAFave moment: Getting to know the my classmates in a collaborative environ-ment.Future Career: I want to have a career in Consulting, Marketing and/or Corporate strategyHometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: Working with my awe-some syndicate :)Future Career: MarketingHometown: Melbourne, Australia

Degree: MBAFave moment: The comedic repartee of various lecturers. “That’s like an ant crawling up an elephants ass with rape on his mind!” - Lecturer name withheldFuture Career: Corporate/Business Advi-soryHometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: Richard Speed’s introduc-tion speech during WOMFuture Career: Professional tree hugger Hometown: Kuala Lumpur & Madison, Wisconsin

Degree: MBAFave moment: The vigorous discussion that Alex Levashov and Doug Dow had in bus strat, neither prepared to back down.Future Career: Consulting or Financial ServicesHometown: Wantabadgery, NSW

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: An indulgent flower drum dinner after the last ever day of classesFuture Career: Power dresser and all round expertHometown: Auckland. New Zealand

Tony Lee

Bryan Leong

Mindy Leow

Mark Leslie

Judy Lee

Kate Leuchars

Degree: MBA/Masters of MarketingFave moment: Seeing all the crazy things that people built during the “make-an-egg-parachute” teamwork exercise back in first term Managing people class.Future Career: DesignHometown: Hong Kong, Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: Hanging out with Olga, Omar, Nadira, Robin @ Mark’s place for a BBQ dinner after finishing lots of syndi-cate assignments together!Future Career: Consulting, or strategic rolesHometown: Taipei, Taiwan & Melbourne, Australia

Degree: MBAFave moment: Meeting the wonderful people from our cohort, and my Madrid experience to IE Business School that opened my eyes to Europe and Latin America.Future Career: Management Consulting ot In-ternational Trade with Asia. Long-term: busi-ness owner and entrepreneur.Hometown: Melbourne, Australia, though I come from New Zealand.

Degree: MBAFave moment: When I finish my last MBA class on 24th Nov 2010, after 3 years of hardwork!Future Career:My own bossHometown: Malacca, Malaysia

Degree: MBAFave moment: All the syndicate mem-bers I worked with that broadened my horizons and made me a stronger per-son.Future Career: Consulting, probably specified in supply chain or procurementHometown: Shanghai, China

Degree: MBAFave moment: YouFuture Career: :) NFIHometown: Pune, India

John Leung

Woody Lo

David Loh

Hitesh Luthra

Robin LuoAllen Lin

Degree: MBAFave moment: Fantastic friends, WNDC, the 2009 Roaring ‘20s Ball and “the mental journey”Future Career: Helping people achieve their dreamsHometown: Born in Selangor, Malaysia and now an Australian citizen living in Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: Doing D&D assignment with Jacob. Why did we get into this in the first place?!Future Career: Professional Happiness SeekerHometown: I am from Yokohama, baby!

Degree: MBAFave moment: Managing people class!Future Career: Not Architecture (hope-fully)Hometown: Jakarta, Indonesia

Degree: MBAFave moment: Sarah’s Managing Pro-cesses Hot Cookie Superhero oufitFuture Career: Is something I hope to have Hometown: Was Durban, South Africa...now somewhere in Oz where we can af-ford to buy a house

Degree: MBAFave moment: Meeting a wide variety of interesting people from all walks of life and Dave Trende intoning to ‘come on the mental journey’ which will probably stay in my head forever!Future Career: CommunicationsHometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: perceptual maps at 3am, survival via coffee cups, my life passing me by in syndicate room #11Future Career: consulting, marketing, and day dreamingHometown: Manila

Lydia Marpaung

Yoshi Matsumoto

Stephen McDonald

Weng Mina

Lynette Lye

Deborah McInnes

Degree: MBAFave moment: The balls, the parties, and the syndicate meetings with close friendsFuture Career: Brand Manager! Hometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: Coffee breaks at Seven Seeds; Exchange study in Milan Future Career: Higher education Hometown: Zushi, Japan

Degree: MBAFave moment: Carlos taking over the lec-ture for ten minutes of Macro Economics, and then refusing to answer questions from the professor in the audience.Future Career: Management ConsultingHometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: Discovering individuals with team spirit; Not coming from a finance background I was totally lost in the first two weekends of Corporate Finance. My class-mate’s help meant a very comfortable exam. It would have been very different otherwise.Future Career: Rich and Famous Hometown: Rusape

Degree: MBAFave moment: Ian Harper’s lecture at WOM. Trully inspirational!Future Career: Innovation and Entrepre-neurshipHometown: Live in Australia, born in El Salvador

Degree: MBAFave moment: 1. developing deep friend-ships 2. being inspired by leaders 3. receiving the Tourism Victoria Bursary AwardFuture Career: Leading organisations to successHometown: Melbourne

Danijela Mirosa

Yoshi Mitsui

Joe Montuoro

Freddy Navas

Michael Ngo

James Mugodo

Degree: MBAFave moment: Mid afternoon drinks with certain staff members… you know who you are!Future Career: ConsultingHometown: Melbourne, Australia

Degree: MBAFave moment: Weekend syndicate group meetings at MBS on a sunny day in one of the rooms with a view.Future Career: Telecoms, Engineering, Consulting Hometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: The syndicate roomsFuture Career: IT & TelecommunicationsHometown: Hanoi, Vietnam

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: The great people.Future Career: General ManagementHometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: Making some amazing friends.Future Career: Corporate Social Respon-sibilityHometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: The Sharks syndicate and the wonderful work we did in between dinners and lunchesFuture Career: ConsultingHometown: Melbourne

Dylan Nguyen

Lam Hai Nguyen

David Nicolas

Jenny O’Brien

Andrew Nowicki

Nick O’Brien

Degree: MBAFave moment: Catching up with friends in the courtyard before the start of classesFuture Career: Whatever I choose Hometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: Seeing which group would get body-slammed in Business StrategyFuture Career: IT and Innovation Man-agementHometown: Nairobi & Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: Wearing the brightest jacket (with retroreflective stripes) to Mr. Hakan’s lecture on BenettonFuture Career: Operations Management within Financial ServicesHometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: The people, the sandwich-es, the donuts... although I think Dale demolishing Nick in a Managing people role play deservers a special mention…Future Career: Imparting words of wis-dom for x, where x is....Hometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: So many to choose from. The “special” lunch arranged by Crosby and Lewis ended up being sandwiches yet again, while EMBAs enjoyed a 3 course meal :)Future Career: To achieve success, re-spect and influence along whichever path I chooseHometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: WOM week, the beginning of a long adventureFuture Career: Restaurant critic :)Hometown: Living in Melbourne/Born in Paris

Rosemary O’Brien

Perrine Parrod

Josef Oduwo

Ajay Oommen

James Orr

Ahmet Ozman

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: the great group of people that were the First WeekendersFuture Career: still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up... Hometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: Team building party, it was amazing seeing the excitement and the determination of all of us starting this journey. Future Career: Marketing, Consulting Hometown: Rome

Degree: MBAFave moment: The everyday ordinary chats by the coffee machine with class-mates, friends and random strangers.Future Career: To have a house full of kids Hometown: South Africa!! The land of the amazing Bobotie.

Degree: MBAFave moment: During WOM, having to line up by geo-graphic location of origin and how sure/unsure we were of what to after the MBA, when in my term 1 syndicate, we knew which would be Angie D’s syndicate room, Getting ready and preparing the glasses of beer to serve as part of our syndicate presentation on Marketing challenges in the micro-brewery industry.Future Career: Market researcher by day, events/parties photographer by night Hometown: Mumbai (Bombay), India

Degree: MBAFave moment: Finishing end of term exams!!Future Career: Consulting / General Management Hometown: Melbourne, Australia

Michael Rieusset

Degree: MBAFave moment: The courtyard on a warm and sunny day!Future Career: Financial ServicesHometown: Hyderabad, India

Ravishankar RamanArpana Philip

Marco Piermarini

Alan Peckham Urmimala Rajkhowa

Degree: MBAFave moment: Music ClubFuture Career: Consulting, Operations, Strategy.Hometown: Santiago, Chile

Degree: MBAFave moment: When my man Joe Mon-touro wanted to go outmid-lecture in CUB but instead of walk-ing out of the door, he walkedinto the closet!!Future Career: some fluffy marketing thing…Hometown: KL, Malaysia

Degree: MBAFave moment: BBQ Party at the riverside of YarraFuture Career: Natural Resources Indus-triesHometown: Tangerang, Indonesia

Degree: MBAFave moment: I know it is a little cheesy, but my fav moment was with Carlos and Jarrett on our fishing trip. Great fun, great conversations and great nature... Future Career: ConsultingHometown: Berlin, Germany

Degree: MBAFave moment: Embarrassing myself dancing on a marble bar top with Alex’s wife at midterm drinks party and being kicked out of there. J/kFuture Career: Consulting, private equity if I am luckyHometown: Vladivostok, Russia

Degree: MBAFave moment: Beating Ukari at basket-ballFuture Career: Consulting Hometown: Sand, Norway

Javier Riquelme

Kristian Rizki

Kenneth Rodrigues

Stefan Roeske

Martin Ronaes

Olga Rudenko

Degree: MBAFave moment: End of term karaoke drinksFuture Career: Technology Start-upsHometown: Mumbai, India

Degree: MBAFave moment: I was not confident in public speaking, but I finished my first syndicate presentation with shaky hands and blabbering words. I was feeling low but was touched by my friend “Ariel’s” encouraging words that I will never forget, “Life is not about being the best but keep trying to be the best”.Future Career: Supply Chain IT system management Hometown: Bhilai, India

Degree: Masters in InnovationFave moment: Great lifelong (interna-tional) friends, frantic weekend syndicate meetings, Student Services and faculty who never answered emails!!Future Career: Running my own business (aspiring to be a serial entrepreneur)Hometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: Having great classmates & exam week!Future Career: EntrepreneurshipHometown: Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Degree: MBAFave moment: All the lovely ladiesFuture Career: Whatever seems interest-ingHometown: Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Degree: MBAFave moment: Its more on the hillarious lines.. the Man Pro exam when a susbstantial number of our cohort was dressed to kill...;) ...Sarah ran across the room in her superwoman costume...man that was funny!..of course Hakan was”better dressed” and the exam was “out of the world”...Future Career: Marketing in a telecom firm Hometown: Mumbai, India

Gaurav Sadarangani

Omar Saleem

Anoop Sanghi

Leo Santana

Ananya Sanyal

Matt Schwantes

Degree: PDMFave moment: Pete Haasz in lycra Future Career: GM MarketingHometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: EPP video presentation with Paul Coupe, concerts with Nicole & Angie, exchange program at Rotman with Joel and Jacob and NY with Nader, Jacob, Ash and Rahul! :) Future Career: Business Design, Innovation and Brand Management. Ultimate dream would be to be featured on Wired and Fast Co.Hometown: Philippines and Melbourne

Degree: Master of Management Innova-tionFave moment: The ridiculous lunch time conversations in the sun during the sum-mer.Future Career: Product DevelopmentHometown: Colombo

Degree: MBA/Masters of MarketingFave moment: International Food Festi-valFuture Career: Industrial Marketing Man-agementHometown: Karachi, Pakistan

Degree: MBAFave moment: Class of Brand management by Mark Ritson was good. Cases preparation of Debi was excellent. Cultural debate of Jody was outstanding. Richard customer value creation is awesome. John Acting was really funny on bargaining. Syndicate rooms discussion at MBS was really interactive. Working with entire intake sep. 2009 really cool. Enjoy the MBS festivals and last but not least Melbourne weather very much unpredictable. Develop lots of friendships and establish long lasting relationship with friends. Got a good friend like Omer Shah as well.Future Career: Marketing Manager, Brand Manager, Product Man-ager, Regional Manager. General Manager.Hometown: Lahore, Pakistan

Degree: MBAFave moment: There are a number of fa-vorites, but the best one is yet to come.Future Career: Depends on the market - if Milton Friedman was right!Hometown: Chittagong (Bangladesh)

Velsha Seabourne

Ravisha Sellawetha

Julia Sevilla

Omar Shah

S.M. Shahed

Asif Shahzad

Degree: MBAFave moment: Sitting in a class full of Hakans in Managing Processes ClassFuture Career: Finance & Investments (fingers crossed)Hometown: Tehran, Auckland & Mel-bourne (it’s complicated)

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Designing for Egg Pra-chute for Managing for People & fighting for the design.Future Career: Risk Advisory & Consult-ing Hometown: Jalandhar, India

Degree: MBAFave moment: Syndicate Group Meetings in Term 1Future Career: Financial Services, Con-sultingHometown: Delhi, India

Degree: MBAFave moment: Winning against AGSM at MBS-AGSM cup 2010 (soccer) with 6-0 differential.Future Career: IT architecture and de-sign consulting Hometown: Gorakhpur U.P., INDIA

Degree: MBAFave moment: The basketball timeFuture Career: Financial IndustryHometown: Shenyang, China

Gary Su

Degree: MBAFave moment: My very first memory which is of the treasure hunt at the end of WOM. It gave me my first glimpse of Melbourne City and at the same time it was my first out of school interaction with all my MBS friends from all over the world. Future Career: I am interested in pursuing a career in retail marketing and brandingHometown: Mumbai, India

Nader Sianaki

Amit Singh

Nitin Singh

Vineet Singh

Namrata Sonawane

Degree: MBAFave moment: The final trip to the Whit-sundays. The last memory of student life.Future Career: Marketing Hometown: Colombia

Degree: MBAFave moment: “Are you sure this is a core competence or is this a distinctive competence?” GLFuture Career: Coles Supermarkets Aus-tralia - MerchandiseHometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: the moment when I knew I was not the only Chinese; - In Oct 09 we had a BBQ on the beach of William-stown with MBA seniorsFuture Career: Transportation/Shipping, Banking Hometown: Shanghai, China

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Being part of a great syndicate and working until 3am with my colleagues in a Southbank apartment with a great view!Future Career: Strategy & FinanceHometown: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Degree: MBAFave moment: A class full of HakansFuture Career: God only knows Hometown: Dehra Dun, India

Degree: MBAFave moment: In the first semester our syndicate group would meet over wine and risotto spending many hours in discussion. It soon became clear that we would never get through the necessary workload this way as part time students but it did help cement some great friendships.Future Career: Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability Hometown: Melbourne

Diego Suescun

Mia Tang

Thomas Tassone

Nick Teoh

Mark Thomas

Rahul Tyagi

Degree: MBAFave moment: Lifelong friends that I have made hereFuture Career: General Manager position within a multinational hopefully in the next few years and take it from there Hometown: Moved so many times, it is hard to point out my actual hometown. Melbourne at the moment

Degree: MBAFave moment: finding the question for which “naked ladies” was the correct answerFuture Career: Brand strategy consultingHometown:

Degree: MBAFave moment: About all the end-of-term parties, Mark’s birthday party, first-week-of-juners birthday party, the Graveyard of Shit, Movembers and career servicesFuture Career: MarketingHometown: Leuven, Belgium

Degree: MBAFave moment: I truly enjoyed all the Clubs and Social activities at MBS and it was always a welcome break away from the studies, but most importantly I will always remember the great people I met at MBSFuture Career: When you read this, I will be able to tell you, as for now, I don’t know....Hometown: Pretoria, South Africa

Degree: MBAFave moment: Its peopleFuture Career: I dream of becoming a colonist on Mars...Hometown: Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Degree: MBAFave moment: Mid-autumn festival event organized by China Master Club (October 2009), BBQ event with 09 Sept Intakers on Yarra River Bank (December 2009)Future Career: Financial Services Hometown: Shanghai, China (moved on to Australia on skilled migration)

Priyesh Upreti

Jef Van Acoleyen

Luke van Oudtshoorn

Andre Visser

Li Wang

Yu-Ann Wang

Degree: MBAFave moment: All the times we just took the piss out of each other....love the ca-maraderie!Future Career: Chairman of Liverpool Football ClubHometown: Liverpool

Degree: MBA/Masters of MarketingFave moment: Working on a marketing assignment with Chopa and Dipa from 6pm until 7am the following day.Future Career: Anything but Consulting Hometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBA/Masters of MarketingFave moment: The bottle being bounced off Jacob’s head in the last day of Man-aging ProcessesFuture Career: For me to know and you to find out! (I’m thinking something that involves minions.....I like minions)Hometown: Hermosa Beach, California

Degree: What do you think?!Fave moment: Food festival....awesome!Future Career: Successful entrepreneurHometown: Bandung

Degree: PDMFave moment: Receiving Tim Tam prizes for Hakan’s quizzes during Managing pro-cess lecturesFuture Career: Moving into management position that leverage on current techni-cal and skills learnt from MBS. Hometown: Malaysia

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: everyone from the first MBS weekend cohortFuture Career: Business/Finance consult-ing Hometown: Melbourne

Ukari Warmann

Cheridan Weaver

Damien White

Muli Wibowo

Vera Wong

May Wong

Degree: MBAFave moment: “Interesting” dinner offer-ingFuture Career: I wish I knew now!Hometown: Taiwan!

Degree: MBAFave moment: Lygon nightsFuture Career: HospitalityHometown: Los Angeles, California

Degree: MBAFave moment: Trip to Alpine with friendsFuture Career: Financial ServicesHometown: Auckland, New Zealand

Degree: MBAFave moment: Post exam deliberations at the CorkmanFuture Career: General Management, Infrastructure IndustryHometown: Auckland, New Zealand

Degree: Masters of MarketingFave moment: Case study (like reading a story), simulation role play (interesting), library service (considerate) and student lounge (Coffee!)Future Career: Marketing in the tertiary education sector, or head huntingHometown: China

Degree: MBAFave moment: Singing in International Food Festival 2010, Nov 11thFuture Career: Professional Manager Hometown: Zheng Zhou City, Henan Province, China

John Wu

Ravi Yalamanchili

Darren Tsai Wai Yau

Alex Yee

Bill Yu

Jo Zhou

Degree: MBAFave moment: The final trip to the Whit-sundays. The last memory of student life.Future Career: Financial ServicesHometown: Bogota, Colombia

Degree: MBAFave moment: Exchange to NYUFuture Career: Debt Markets but aspira-tions for Private Equity Hometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: Cooking dumplings at the International Food FestivalFuture Career: Not sure exactly, but it’s gonna be good!Hometown: Toronto, Canada

Degree: MBAFave moment: 1. Going on a mental journey with David Trende. 2. Lament-ing Herbie’s plight.Future Career: Entrepreneur/Politician/DiplomatHometown: Melbourne, Australia

Degree: MBA (Professional)Fave moment: Dancing Jai Ho at MBS Ball 2009Future Career: Something new, challeng-ing, and exciting Hometown: Melbourne, Australia

Since deadlines are made to be broken, we thought we’d be nice and include these latecom-er profiles as well

Juliana Zuluaga

Justin D’Alfonso

Raymond Fang

Myra Foley

Peter Haasz

Degree: MBAFave moment: Hearing one day post, Sam Wylie discuss that the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers was a BIG mistake!Future Career: Investment Analyst, or if I have a lightbulb moment -Entrepre-neur! Hometown: Melbourne, Australia

Mark Jones

Degree: MBAFave moment: Going on exchange to Stern Business School, NYU.Future Career: Capital Project Manage-ment Hometown: Melbourne

Degree: MBAFave moment: Drinking very good scotch with great company in Shanghai on my birthday during ISAFuture Career: That was the point of do-ing the MBA – lock something in – now I’m even more confused. Ah choices…Hometown: Melbourne, Australia

Degree: MBAFave moment: Sam Wylie quoting Romeo and Juliet in the Futures andOptions class and everyone scratching their head for the followingsentence!Future Career: Don’t know yetHometown: Wuhan, China

Adrian Miles

Dianne Sinclair

Arthur Zhu

Interlude . . .hidden talents at MBS

Most likely to tour with a rock band: Nicole Dumond (1st) and Angie Born (2nd)

Most likely to sing in a Broadway musical: Yu-Ann Wang

Most likely to be a Mas-terchef finalist: Abhinav Garg

Most likely to host a radio talkshow: Priyesh Upreti

Most likely to become a professional athlete: Ukari Warmann

Best dancer: Angie Born

Most likely to walk on the moon: Ryan Gunasekera

It wouldn’t be a proper MBA program without some seri-ous student partying – after all, anyone who willingly spends 13 hours locked in a syndicate room needs to cut loose a bit in order to regain sanity! With hundreds of bars, pubs, and venues to choose from, MBS students tookfull advantage of all the fun to be had in Melbourne. It may start and end with the Corkman, but there were plenty of places to party in between!

Another drink to get through another year of MBA for the May 08 ladies

Deb and Ching – a friendship found in MBS.

One thing’s certain about the September Intake girls... they sure clean up well!

James, Orlando, Tino and Andreas sharing a laugh after Sam Wylie’s exam.

Tokio, souva and sangria warms up a cold wintry night for Maria, Will, and

Ivy

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Allen poses with the MBS Singing Sensation, Bill! Bill began his reputation by teaching

the class some diaphragm warm-ups during WOM, and has been going strong with

karaoke sessions, birthday songs, and the Music Club ever since.

Happy to be holding a drink after the man pro mid-term, especially on a night that was almost 3 degrees.

We can say it without a doubt: Scott is a very, very lucky man.

Li Wang helps Chad Bystedt practice his sign language in preparation for Chad’s upcoming

wedding. It never hurts to over-prepare!

Mindy just adores the plaid-and-glasses look on fellow students Jef and Bryan… and we must say, they do pull it off well. Must be

a syndicate thing.

Live for to-day… Plan for tomorrow… Partytonight!

No comments required....one look says it all.

Smiles from the brainy bunch – Victoria, Andreas, and Steph.

This was one of those innocent moments of fun, before anyone had heard the term ‘mental journey.’ Drink up, guys,

because it’s all uphill from here!

Danielle and Nitin sharing a moment of Hollywood glam

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The September 09 intake kicked off their time together the right way, organizing a Beer and Bowling Extravaganza in their first week! This

intake will go down in history as one of the most social classes at MBS.

Tony Trombone and Team RJ drink it up!Wassup Josh? Yo yo wassup Em??

Mindy and Mamta, lookin’ good in some serious Melbourne fashion! As for Jef and

Lynette, behind them… well… who knows?

Dira and Matt are everybody’s favourite MBS love story. Awww… cheers, guys!Partying is such a sweet sorrow

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Interlude . . .Not - so - secret skills

Best conversationalist: (Tied) Mike Carpenter and Adam Blakney

Best powerpoint skills: Luke van Oudtshoorn

Most likely to publish an article in HBR: Nelson Chan

Best public speaker: (Tied) Shei-la Babayan and Rajeev Batra

Best facebook profile: (Tied) Bonze Cheng and Ivy Saludes

Most likely to have a secret identity: Lynette Lye

All the clubs at MBS are student-run. Trans-lated, this means that a few dedicated stu-dents volunteered their spare time to orga-nize events, plan outings, hold meetings, recruit members, publish newsletters, etc. It’s a lot of work, but some of the best events on (and off) campus happened because of the time and effort contributed by these leaders.Thanks, guys!

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ASEANASEAN is a syndicate made up of a bunch of students who have no idea what is written in their mission and vision state-ment, nevertheless united by their passion for good food (such as hot pot and moon cake), good fun (playing mah-jong or congklak) and good company (members of the committee ). We aim to utilise our South East Asian charm and hospitality to provide alternative social settings for MBS-ers outside the fancy lecture rooms. We hope these would help to ease some of the pressure of Segmenting-Targeting-Positioning, BATNA, or even normal distribution that the students often face, no matter whether they come from South East Asian countries or not, whether they in Part-Time, Full-Time or Weekend mode, as long as they are the proud members of Melbourne Business School family.

Ivonne

The blurrier, the merrier

When the sun shines, we’ll shine together

BasketballAs we all know an MBA certainly stretches the brain - but what about stretching the body? Well basketball is certainly a sport that stretches both! With this in mind, in mid-2010 a group of like-minded enthusiasts decided to form a basketball team, playing games every Sunday at Melbourne Sports and Recreation Centre. These elite athletes first bonded as part of the official MBS basketball team that comprehensively dis-patched of AGSM during the 2010 annual inter-varsity sports day. As they basked in the glory of vic-tory they new this was a feeling that they could get used to! However, this feeling didn’t last long - we lost our first game of the season! But we went on to win our next game (current record is 2 wins and 5 losses) and we formed a great bond along the way. Thanks to Ryan Gunasekera for bringing the team together and also to Ukari Warmann, Darren Yau, Matthew Schwantes, James Blake and Bill Yu for showcasing their tal-ents - both on and off the court!

James David Blake

MBS Ballers....enjoying our first victory!

Playing together has been a great op-portunity for the MBS guys to show

teamwork....truly been a pleasure

Athletes of the highest order defending our basket!

China MasterChina Master Club runs a set of special events which are full of typical Chinese style, useful knowledge and interesting stories.

We organized Language Buddy Program, serial sessions that help MBS students know about China, Chinese language, culture, life style, people and the mar-ket. The events use the interact model by which we invite MBS students who have relative background and understanding about China as guest speakers. The fabu-lous presentations are highly welcomed by their special and great topics.

Besides the serious things, the club also provides some interesting events that serve a lot of fun. Mid-Autumn Day Fes-tival is a traditional celebration in China and many Asian countries and we make it a tradition of MBS as well. Together with the ASEAN club, we hold the Asian Game event and the Karaoke Night.

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What about Chinese? Do you still remember any Pinyin that you learnt? You’d better to, cause

you definitely need them one day you go to China. Check this out with Richard.

I too can speak Chinese and there is another certificate from MBS. We are all China Masters

now!

And who is the cutest at the event?

Moon cakes and Chinese Study, do these recall your memorable time at MBS? If not, dig it out. Have you been brave enough to try the du-

rian moon cake on the day?

ConsultingThe consulting club finished up this year in good spirits, hoping to follow a year of record placements (2010) with the hope that we can do even better in the future. The club aims to help students become aware of the consulting industry, and assist those with consulting aspirations to successfully land roles.

We’ve been extremely busy for the past few years. In particular, the annual EY case competition, ethics roundtable, weekly case practices, and company case workshops / presentations have become highlights of the MBS experience. Ad-ditionally we’ve sponsored movie nights and miscellaneous events like ‘the art of dressing,’ which have been both fun and informative (and led to MBS students get-ting a 20% discount at Joe Black!)

Most importantly, we’ve found giving back to the MBS community to be incredibly rewarding -- our role leading the club has been a highlight of our time here at MBS. Thank you for giving us the opportunity, and we look forward to seeing you out there after graduation.

Ronjon

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Students enjoyed the discussion and opportunity to debate the ethical re-

sponsibility in the business world

A distinguished panel joined Ed to pres-ent a wide range of views

Ethics Professor and Gourlay Chair, Ed Freeman, facilitated a brilliant roundtable debating Milton Friedman’s claim that ‘the social responsibility of

business is to make profit

IncultDuring my time at MBS, I got an op-portunity to learn a lot about various cultures of the world. My desire to showcase the culture of my country on a global platform led to me taking active interest in the activities of In-Cult (Indian Cultural Club) at MBS. It has been a fun experience with InCult due to the great interest and enthusi-asm that people at MBS have shown to learn and enjoy different cultures. Our Holi event at the start of the year saw MBSites having a gala time paint-ing each other’s faces with colors; some were seen getting rid of their inhibi-tions and rolling on the colorful floor. The color-painted faces brought the colors of India to the MBS courtyard.Diwali, India’s festival of lights brought a glimpse of Indian culture to MBS. Once again, MBSites were seen enjoy-ing themselves lighting ‘diyas’ and sparklers. Everyone gorged on the deli-cious Indian food and enjoyed betting their candies in ‘Teen Patti’, the Indian version of poker.

Summing up last year, InCult had a lot of fun bringing the Indian culture: colors, food & music to MBS.

Namrata

Festival of Holi, introduces color in MBS students’ life

A colorful break from studies Students enjoying the festival of lights-Diwali

Marketing AssociationThe MBS Marketing Association was once introduced during a student event as the Advertising Club. Clearly, this person missed the lecture during the Marketing core class about what marketing is about, and I’m sure Patrick Butler would like to have a few words with this person. In any case, as you will see from the events, the Marketing Association is hardly about advertising.

We inherited a 1 or 2 event-a-term association, and grew to have more events and members. This term (T3 ’10) was our most successful with 7 events organized during the term (one of the most active in school). Naturally, all you MBA smarty-pants will say that volume does not equal quality, but considering an average turnout per event of around 35 people, I would say that this is a pretty darn good job!

The association will be leaving behind a bit of legacy with the branded events (naturally, being a marketing-based association). We’ve started the Marketing Faculty Speaker Series as well as the highly popular BrandManager@Work speaker series, which we hope will continue long after we are gone. In short, to the new committee, don’t mess this up!!

In all, its been a great experience. We’ve had the chance to meet some amazing leaders, gain some insightful knowledge and build some useful networks. The collage below is a collection of some of the events and brands we’ve brought into the school.

Good work, guys

The team: Mamta Gupta, Nadira Hashim, Bryan Le-ong, Bonze Cheng, Jef Van Acoleyen and Kenn Ro-drigues

Andrew Scott, Managing Director of Whybin/TBWA/Tequila Melbourn, shar-

ing with us his works on “Disrupting Common Thoughts”

Professor Les Johnson on “The impact of Low Price Brands on the Order of Entry

Advantage”

The audience with their Kookai goodie bags listening attentively to Robert Cromb speak.

Robert Cromb talks about how his business Kookai has performed since incorpora-

tion in Australia

MBS Entrepreneurship Club

The MBS Entrepreneurship Club was in serious danger of ex-tinction when Matt Schwantes and Dylan Nguyen bravely took the reigns in Term 3, 2009. Somehow, with no previous experi-ence and loads of obstacles to overcome, Matt, Dylan, and their team of crackerjack secret agents -- er, that is, ‘MBS students’ -- quietly infiltrated the entrepreneurship scene in Melbourne and pulled off a dynamo business plan competition that would become known as the Melbourne University Entrepreneurs Challenge (MUEC), 2010!

Now, organising a $20,000-plus competition would have ex-hausted most syndicate groups... but the MBSEC team isn’t your average bunch of classmates. After the success of MUEC 2010, the braves comrades-in-sponsorship fueled up with some delectable Student Lounge Coffee and jumped right back into the thick of things, putting on flashy events such as the Beer Mat Challenge, IP Power Hour, and of course, the memorable Business Lingo Bingo.

To deflect the burgeoning government interest in the club’s activities, Sheila Babayan joined the leadership team Term 1, 2010, steering MBSEC toward the controversial waters of Speed Networking, an intentionally irregular newsletter, and business planning for a fresher, shinier MUEC 2011. As it stands now, the once-endangered Entrepreneurship Club is well on its way into sustained success, with a new batch of suckers -- er, that is, ‘recruits’ -- ready to step into leadership roles and rule the school. This, my friends, is the stuff legends are made of. Sheila

Net ImpactMBS’ class of 2011 has taken leaps and bounds towards Net Impact’s long term goals. Under the masterful guidance of bourbon-swilling, smokey Jeff Cheeky, the indefatigable and inherently catching enthusiasm of Mindy Leow, and with occa-sional support from Luke ‘pass me the mi-crophone’ van O, we’ve seen: a huge surge in new memberships (big up the Sept. 2010 intake); the first ever Australia-wide Net Im-pact conference; and what promises, at time of going to press, to be the most high profile APAC Net Impact event on record in early 2011; the inauguration of a Melbourne pro-fessional chapter; and a plethora of events geared towards raising the profile of social impact activity. It’s been truly exciting to watch an ever-increasing numbers of future business leaders join the cause and actively engage with making our world sustainable. It’s never too late.

Luke

Melbourne sustainability professionals pack Gads-den Dining Hall during Net Impact’s networking . . . . .

. . . drinks on December 1 to hear Dan Atkins, CEO of the Shaper Group share his review of 2010 and outlook for

2011.

PhotographyWe accomplished quite a bit actually. Ask the reception, and they will tell you that we harassed them for pots, pans, furniture & lighting. We have run behind the kitch-en staff begging them to make us napkin swans. We have had confidential planning meetings at The Corkman! We got a little high on red wine. We threw an afternoon party under cherry blossoms. We gave away tons of cash for pictures you guys sent in. We basically had a ball... and we LOVED your enthusiasm... we LOVED doing it.

Arpana

Shooting cupcakes at the Indoor Photography Workshop!

Winning entry of the Photocompetition by Manuel De La RosaBeginners Workshop with Peter Casamento

PokerThe MBS Poker Club was formed and approved in September 2010 after a bunch of part time students decided their once-a-term poker nights were so much fun that they would be a good idea for a new club. The club now has over 50 mem-bers of both part time and full time students, and held it’s first event on November 12th 2010, with a great mix of 52 beginners and experienced players playing in a members-only lounge in a city bar. It was a very fun night of music, movies, friendly poker playing, and some real com-petitive playing as well. The first MBS Poker Club champion was Will Herron, who scooped the pool at the twenty dollar table twice. Well done Will. The Poker Club Team is already planning next event, so keep your eyes peeled.

James

Andre Visser and Rajeev Batra playing fair on the $10 table.

Chris Gay dealing and teaching on the begin-ners table.

Tino Giriat and Tim Nielsen wheeling and dealing on another beginners table.

SoccerRain or shine, 8o or 38o weather, week 1 or week 9 or finals week; we were there, on the pitch, kicking around and kicking each other. Definitely a club for the hard core, not for the faint-hearted! The main question is: Where were you? The soccer club has experienced its best moments, with a glorious 4-0 win against a lackluster AGSM team. The fact that it was a 7-a-side game and they only had 5 people with no subs while we had 14 people doesn’t matter! It’s all about the spirit and the will to win. We’ve also seen the best of Latin skills, European precision, Asian determination, African power and Aussie brawn. Oh yeah, and there were also the Americans to make up the numbers ;). We’ve also experienced some of our worse moments. More than once, there were a few crunching tackles that saw a couple of players show up the next day in crutches (some people say they were faking to get sympathy from the girls, but who am I to say…). We’ve also had a few pulled hamstrings, mostly from bending down to tie a shoelace. World cup winners, we are not. But for this Beautiful Game, we have pas-sion.

Kenn

“outta the way!! Me first!!”

SportsSince the inception of Sports club in term 3 of 2009, it has been a fascinating jour-ney. Covering every sport in demand, Club has hosted range of sporting events from Soccer, Basketball, Cricket, Squash and Tennis to marathon and biking. Function-ing alongside the other related clubs we ignited the fighting sports spirit among students which got reflected in our 6-0 soc-cer game win against AGSM in 2009.

Inter intake Cricket & Basketball tournaments has seen the healthy rivalry and competitive sprits of students while providing wonderful experience to new-bies. Games created an easy and informal environment for students to interact and network with different batches.

Going by the Melbourne sprit, we ran with the city in Runmelbourne mara-thon and biked along the yarra river. MBS Sports Club continues to provide av-enues to engage in sports and maintain a healthy, sporty and stress free lifestyle.

Vineet

Smile after 21K

Bikes in the city

Inter Intake Basketball BattleIt wasn’t Pedro!

Squash

It’s been a fun year on the hard-wood with over twenty squash club meetings, and hundreds of great points. It was great seeing all of the regulars out there on Friday’s and Saturday’s sweating and subsequently limping during class the next week!

I hope all of the newcomers had fun and got an introduction to the game if only one time. Don’t forget to mention Squash in your job interviews, you never know who’ll take you up for a game!

Hope to see you on the court soon, and remember Squash is the sport of busi-ness!

Cheers,

Adam Blakney“Captains of the Hard Court”!!!

Women in Management(WAM)2010 was an exciting year for WAM, we continued to assist students to make the most of their time at the school as a resource and support platform, where they can better acquaint with fellow female students, faculty, alumni and business professionals in the community.

We had some great events through out the year including:

Women in Finance – Challenges and Opportunities, with guest speakers Jan Begg (ex-Head of PMO, ANZ Bank), and Vicki Allen (COO, Trust Company Ltd.).

Mentorship an Women in Business Roundtable with special guests Melanie Sanders, Bain & Co; Marianne Matin, WHK; Jenny Barbour, Jenny Barbour & Associ-ates.

2010 Annual Women and Management dinner which was held at the Grand Hyatt with around 600 pro-fessional females in attendance. The guest speaker was Elizabeth Proust, AO.

Why Women Make Better Marketers than Men, pre-sented by professor Mark Ritson, pulled a crowd of both males and females!

Thanks to everyone who supported WAM and attend-ed our events in 2010!

Samantha

Women and Mentoring Event

Women and Management Club Committee 2010 –Danielle Baird, Jill Tan, Libby Ark-

hounov, Victoria Huang, Miranda Hill, Samantha Wright, Danijela Mirosa

Mentorship and Women in Business, AT Kearney Boardroom

Wine and PhilosophyThinking and drinking. Not two activities that normally go together, but they worked out quite well for us this year. We kicked off the revital-ised Wine & Philosophy club on the 221st anniversary of the storming of the Bastille with a look at the French Revolution, its causes and the les-sons it holds for us today. And we drank a bit of wine. We then turned our attention to the subject of ambi-tion, and the differences and ten-sions between public and private ambitions. And we drank some more wine. We discussed the role of business school in modern society, focusing particularly on what has made MBS a purposeful and mean-ingful experience for current and former students. We started to drink wine, stopped for bread and cheese, and then finished the wine in the mes. And then there was the winery tour, which was just good fun. In vino veritas.

Jeff

Mike was feeling quite philosophical by the time we got to the third winery

The vine from which the fruit of wisdom grows

Grabbing a bite to eat at Mandala Wines in the Yarra Valley

AGSM CUPThe annual AGSM/MBS weekend was quite a success with MBS winning both the basketball and soccer games and narrowly losing out on the debate. It was a marathon of fun and hilarity ensued all three days (and nights)! Special thanks to everyone involved especially: Vineet Singh, Matt Schwantes, Ryan Gunasekera, Divi Jain, Ravi Yamachilli, Stefan Roeske, Ursula Winters, and Kunal Badiani!

DebateThe debate got under way after a few MBS debaters (especially the ones of Eastern European descent) attempted to corrupt the AGSM crowd with drinks that were served to welcome the contestants before the debate.The format of the debate, with the topic revealed just one hour beforehand, allowed the teams to escape the evils of the beer esky to discuss the topic: “Should Emotional Intelligence (EQ) be given an equal weighting together with GMAT for MBA admission?” Being an affirmative team, MBS started the debate with Kenny opening his deepest secret to the audience that despite his popularity and successful academic performance, he is quite ashamed of his GMAT score. Being a negative on this topic was not easy, especially when the affirmative team does not leave you with something to debate against by saying that GMAT and EQ are equally important. But AGSM did a good job. Both teams were quite aggressive in the debate, which did not stop them from getting smashed together at the Copacabana club afterwards.The adjudicators made it abundantly clear that this was the WORST structured debate they had ever seen. Despite this, they were impressed by some of the key points raised by the teams and the humour they brought into the contest. There were quite a number of comments on things that did not seem significant: the attire (everyone there was professionally dressed), swearing (Kenny and the use of flash cards vs. paper notes). There was a bit of a struggle between the two juries: one gave a preference to MBS while the other heavily favoured AGSM.After the count back, AGSM came out on top, but it must be recognised that the MBS team of Olga, Ajith, and Kenny did their MBS colleagues proud. Congratulations to the team on a strong showing.

BasketballFollowing the unfortunate result of the debate on Friday night, the MBS crew rejoined the battle on Saturday feeling a little worse for wear after the Pina Coladas and Barry Manilow on Smith Street.MBS dominated AGSM in the basketball, running out comfortable 20-point winners. With former college (Paul Wolfert – LSU) and pro (Ukari Warmann – Europe) leading the charge, MBS grabbed an early double-digit lead and never looked back. With over a dozen players lining up for MBS, our team endurance was telling by the end. A great day for all involved.

Special Message to Source from AGSM“MBS Rocks!!” Thanks everyone for an incredible weekend. Seriously, don’t hesitate to look us up if any of you come to Sydney...as far as we’re concerned, you have 25 new friends from the North. Keep in touch!

Unsure of which defensive strategy to employ, Ryan Gunasekera launches into the haka on

the basketball court.

What was supposed to be a spirited debate quickly degenerated into a spirited round of

insult-hurling. Clearly, the AGSM team was in-timidated by the mighty MBS debaters.

There’s nothing like a visit to one of Melbourne’s delicious ca-fes to restore team unity.

Angie and Uke, chicken-fight champions of 2010.

Claws out, MBS team!

The rivalries may run deep, but the MBS/AGSM Cup is always a lot of fun. Now if

only we would start winning...

We came from 27 different countries. MBS was going to be our home for the next two years. We were eager to know more about MBS and about each other. We hope that MBA

from MBS will help us achieve our ambitions. We want to build long lasting friendship with our classmates and everyone at MBS. And yes, we are always eager and ready to have fun un-der the sun !

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Favourite saying: (Tied) ‘There are no syndicate rooms available’ and ‘Join me on the mental journey’

Best backpack: (Tied) Juliana Zuluaga, Ukari Warmann and Nicole Dumond

Cutest couple: Nadira Hashim and Matt Schwantes

Best nickname: Jeff ‘Cheeky’ Cheek (1st) and Ukari ‘Shirley’ Warmann (2nd)

Best laptop: Jen Babaian (1st) and Carlos Correa (2nd)

Biggest SMS addict: (Tied) Nicole Dumond and Urmi Rajkhowa

Best eyes: Mark Amott

Best dressed: (Tied) Alvin Ho, Mathew Galt and Jen Babaian

Best smile: Sheila Babayan

Best hair: (Tied) Paul Coupe and Julia Sevilla

Best couch to crash on: Vanessa Landry

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The SRC initiated the Visibility.Engagement.Action motto during 2010, which enhanced the way the SRC interacted with the student body and ulti-mately resulted in a better student experience for you. During your time at MBS, multiple workshops were held to address specific areas for improvement. An Alumni Mentoring Program was established and is in the early stages of development. The Clubs did a tremendous job in delivering professional advice to you and in providing entertainment with non-academic activities. The Mid Term and End of Term parties were enjoyed by many a student, the International Food Festival was another big hit and so was the SRC Pizza forum. The SouRCe magazine kept you up to date with the latest news and gossip. And lastly, there was a breakthrough in moving away from the sandwiches and provid-ing you with more varieties of dinners. Thank you to all who participated and helped to make the SRC activities a success. Congratulations to each one of you on graduating from MBS and I wish you all the best for the chal-lenges that you may encounter in the future.

Andre VisserSRC President, Term 3 2010

Fooling around after a hard day in the office.

Enjoying the End of Term drinks.

Ladies of Student Services

A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. We remember life best through stories, and these are some of the best we’ve found from our MBS years.

TRIATHLETE

The MBS conference rooms may not have seen such scant clothing, and they would certainly hope never to be so exposed again, as they were on a (thankfully) warm mid-summer day when a lycra-clad character burst into a class of unsuspecting students of the World of Manage-ment, January 2008. In many parts, a semi-naked man raving about something clearly dear to his heart would raise little more than a pass-ing glance. It was therefore perhaps of equal surprise of the bewil-dered class as it was that in fact the speedos had been voluntarily donned by an (allegedly) sane fellow student; in order to offer a rather unique delivery of a presentation skills practice session on the sport of triathlon. Like many presentations, the preparation was short and delivery long, but ultimately it seemed that perhaps some of the stag-gered class might one day stagger through a race themselves.

Scott Kerrison

GI Ho!

In our first semester syndicate we were doing some work on the screen using Alvin Ho’s computer. His screen saver flicked on an showed a picture of Alvin in army fatigues (as he was conscripted in the Singa-pore military for a couple of years). Luke Van O popped out with the nickname “GI Ho” and that’s how Alvin became known in our synid-cate from then on.

Tim Hickman

Ronaldo

When Terry got injured after pulling his hamstring before our first soc-cer game of the term…he pulled it by bending down to tie his shoelace!

Kenn Rodrigues

The “Basically” bet...

As some of you may have noticed, Rajeev Batra has got the ten-dency to say the word “basically” a few times in a conversation. Well ok, at least ten times in a sentence! I finally scraped up all my courage to tell Rajeev about this habit. That is when a light bulb moment hit me between the eyes and I thought ”maybe I can make some money from this”. A bet was created so that Rajeev pays me $0.50 every time I hear him use the word “basically” in a conversa-tion. Let’s just say, it has been a nice little earner for me thus far :-)

Andre Visser

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Subject Exemptions

Chris Dodd trying to prove, as a assurance partner at PwC, that he didn’t need to do the accounting module... and Andrew Nowicki sitting with Richard Speed and slowly ticking off Richard’s impromptu criteria for gaining an exception for Introduction to Marketing, with Richard finally agreeing the being marketing director for Cadbury in Asia was suitable experience.

James Orr

Krispy Kreme

Catherine De Fontenay using Krispy Kreme donuts and apples to bribe the Sunday afternoon Managerial Economics class to run around the quad, up two flights of stairs and back down to the lecture theatre, to ensure we were wide awake (and possible to sober up those who had spent lunch time at the Corkman).

James Orr

Karaoke

It’s not everyday that you wake up to videos of yourself grooving to old classics like ‘It’s Raining Men’ and ‘Like a Prayer’ on Facebook. That’s exactly what the Part Time Class of September 08 woke up to on a Saturday morning after 7 hours of Karaoke @ Party World to celebrate the end of a rather strenuous term at MBS. Mike, Matt, Aaron, Gabby, Libby, Ryan, Smrithi, Vicky, Ned, Ray, Kelly, Abhi and Gaurav partied in true MBS style emphasizing our unofficial motto of ‘Work Hard, Party Harder’. Needless to say, the next day was spent Googling ‘How to untag yourself from Videos on Facebook’. A word of caution for those partying with Ray Doody in the future... take his iPhone and Facebook access off him before you decide to let loose.

Gaurav Sadarangani

Dan PejicAfter humble beginnings in sleepy Geelong Dan’s adventures began at age 18 when he took off on a one way ticket to Europe. What fol-lowed was a year of notorious couch hopping as he uncovered new and more creative ways to outstay his welcome. After breaking up bar fights in South Wales, making jerky in Switzerland and helping Portuguese police with their homework, he returned to Australia to study Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. Homework was often sidelined in favour of jaunts to North America and Asia but due to a miracle/gross administrative error he gradu-ated at the end of 2009. Now an STA Faraday street regular Dan will also be returning to the university part time to study a Masters in International Relations. You may also hear him pop up on a num-ber of Melbourne’s less discerning community radio stations sharing his opinions on travel, music and life.

Bryce GeyerBryce is slowly becoming a wiley veteran of STA travel in Melbourne. His journey started 6 years ago with STA and in that time he ‘ticked’ a lot of boxes in his travel hit list. A good 3 month stint through South America, multiple trips to Europe, North America and South East Asia and an amazing trip to Morocco where after growing his customary ‘travel beard’ the Moroccans where calling him ‘Ali Baba’. The son of a former Police detective and a current Major in the Australian Defense force, decided against following in his fathers footsteps and took the plunge into a career with STA and much to his fathers disdain hasn’t found a razorblade since.

Christina Yiannakis After a few years of studying media and communication at university Chris-tina had had enough of cold lecture theatres and ironic fashion trends so she hit the road. Over the following year she would spend considerable time in Greece, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands and The Czech Republic to name just a few places. On her return she picked up some theatre and film work but Europe was calling her back. Dreaming of French kisses, Italian food, and German road rules she chose to teach English in Eu-rope, eventually settling in Crete. After 6 sunny months living on Greece’s biggest island Christina headed home, classily avoiding their economic col-lapse and scoring herself a job at STA. Christina has been with the company for 10 months now, working in one of the Perth branches as an advisor and assistant manager. She has moved to Melbourne for a change of scenery and the chance to meet some new people so come on in and say hi!

Melissa WrightBorn and bred in Adelaide (so please don’t use that against me !) I first ventured out into the big wide world as a Lion’s Exchange student to the good ol’ USA at the tender age of 17. And what an experience. Ever since, my family has struggled to keep me in Australia. They gave up keep-ing me in Adelaide as I moved to Melbourne 12 years ago. I’ve held jobs in retail, banking and the transport industry but my interest in travel was too much. I decided to quit working and study for a year to earn my qualifications as a Travel Con-sultant. A senior manager at one of the “Big 4” Banks said to me as I was leaving - “there is no future in travel”. Oh how wrong he was ! Since that first plane ride I’ve been very fortunate to travel to some amazing areas of the world. I’ve done the Australian rite of passage in Europe via Contiki, partied in Las Vegas and shopped till I dropped in Bangkok, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur. I’ve been sprayed by the mist at Iguazu Falls and swore I’d never drink alcohol again after a big night in Paraty, Brazil after Caipirinha’s and sugar cane rum. I’ve come face to face with elephants in Africa and snorkelled in the clear blue water of Fiji. I’ve now been at STA Travel for 7 years so there aren’t too many destinations I’ve not sent my clients to. I hope to see you in the branch soon to book your next amazing adventure.

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