The presentation I gave to the new Hult MBA and MIB students to share my experience founding & running the Banking & Finance Club 2010.

1. Student Clubs Banking & Finance Club Property of Hult Banking & Finance Club 2010

3. Financial External Auditor with experience with two of the Big Four Firms.

4. Currently employed with PwC- Dubai.

6. Sun Micro Systems

7. Aramex

8. Booz Allen Hamilton

9. Atlas Copco

10. Electronic Data Systems

12. Vision & Mission

13. Organizational Chart

14. Members

15. Club Activities

16. Executive Speaker Series

17. Workshops (Investment Contest)

18. Research Project

19. Global Case Challenge

20. Job Fair

21. Key Takeaways

23. Overview of the Club- Organizational Chart

25. Members belonged to 14 different countries.

27. Club Activities- Executive Speaker Series (Continued) "Managing Businesses In An Economic Downturn" “Corporate Governance and Doing Business in the UAE" Ms. Claire Duce Ms. Sharon Ditchburn Assurance Partner Managing Partner “Global Banking Industry” Mr. Declan Hegarty Managing Director and Head of Business

28. Club Activities-Workshops (Investment Contest) The contestallows investors to improve their skills through collaboration, competition and aggregated wisdom. A total of 65 Hult students were competing in this workshop. Dubai participants totaled 13 students and we reserved a seat in the top 10 performers every week.

29. Finance Research Project- Banking Industry Banking Industry In UAE Taxes & Investments Financial Crisis Islamic Finance Transparency Regulations

30. Finance Research Project- Who did we meet?

31. Global Case Challenge Dubai 2010

33. A global case where over 300 of the world’s best and brightest young MBAs competed to develop innovative and effective strategies for leveraging leading-edge technologies to educate and empower the world’s poorest children.

35. laptop.org Panel of Judges Mr. David John Brennan Mr. Suhail Bin Tarraf Mr. Ravi Kumar Dubai World Emirates NBD Bank. Etisalat Academy. Dr. Giulia D'Amico Head of Development, OLPC Mr. Kaj-Erik Relander, Emirates Investment Authority.

36. laptop.org Panel of Judges- Continued Mr. HasanMakansiTECOM Investments. Mr. Russell Sy TECOM Investments. Dr. TahirAkhtar IXL Centre in Dubai. Dr. John KerrickProfessor of Business Strategy.

38. More than 9 media companies attended the event, including: Gulf news, Shabab 20, Akhbar Al-Arab, Channel MiddleEast Magazine, and more.

40. laptop.org Competing Teams (UAE)- Continued Team Futurists (Strathclyde University) Team SPJAINIOUS (S.P. Jain) Team Dana Burj (Zayed University) Team Szabistians (SZABIST) Team HOPE (Strathclyde University)

41. laptop.org

43. 1ST Global case competition held in 4 locations.

44. More than 14,000 web hits from more than 112 countries.

45. 1stcase published by Hult.

46. About 325 participants, globally.

47. 33 of the top 100 MBA schools participated.

50. Spend sufficient time in the planning stage (Constitution, staff allocation, target list of companies, projects, timelines, etc).

51. When creating your BOD, make sure to assign clear responsibilities.

52. Leverage business and social networks (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc).

54. Be professional in communicating and networking with high-level executives. Use a mentor!

55. Be open‐minded and accept criticism.

57. Executive Speaker Series.

59. Internships.

60. Club Guidance.