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International Expertise: Creating Your Global Career
If you have even just dreamed of having a global career, our distinguished panel of experts will provide valuable insights into achieving your international career objectives.
International Expertise: Creating Your Global Career
Monday, November 6, 2017
Jobs with international responsibility often earn higher salaries and
are more rewarding. Plus, as the world becomes increasingly globally
integrated, international business skills and experience are important
in career advancement. At our upcoming Wharton Careers program, you
will learn strategies make your career truly global as you take it to
the next level. If you have even just dreamed of having a global
career, our distinguished panel of experts will provide valuable
insights into achieving your international career objectives.
You will learn:
- What skills are most important in managing international operations and doing business around the world
- Which geographies offer the most opportunities and challenges
- Life hacks to improve chances of your success globally
PANELISTS
 Moderator: David Kaufman
David Kaufman is the Director of Global Strategies at Nixon Peabody
LLP. In this role, he manages and helps develop strategy for the firm’s
International Practice, international offices, and relationships with law
firms around the world. He has a long history of doing business in China and
has worked with NP’s robust China Practice since its creation. Outside the
United States, NP has offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore,
and London. In 2016, his work touched 140 different countries.
 Alfred Chu, Starlite
Investment Group and Yimei Capital
Alfred Chu has over seventeen years of
global venture capital experience. He is currently a partner with Starlite
Investment Group and Yimei Capital, both international institutional and
family office investment management funds covering alternative assets
globally. Alfred manages the fund of funds and direct investment programs
both in the US and China. Alfred started his venture career in Silicon
Valley in 2000 at Panasonic’s corporate venture fund then spent eight years
in China starting in 2006 focusing on early stage, venture capital
opportunities as a partner for TDRH Capital and IPV Capital. Early in his
career, Alfred was an investment banker at Citigroup and a financial analyst
at Hewlett-Packard.
Alfred holds an MBA from the Wharton School of
the University of Pennsylvania, and a BS from the Haas School of Business,
University of California Berkeley, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and
Magna Cum Laude.
 Claire Gao, Deloitte Americas/US Chinese Services Group
Claire Gao is the head of market development for the Deloitte Americas/US Chinese Services Group (CSG). She works with the Deloitte Global Country Services Group leader to form and execute China strategies for the Deloitte Americas region and the US group. She oversees the CSG team and partners with the Deloitte experts to bring various US/China cross-border services (audit, tax, consulting and advisory) seamlessly to clients.
Prior to her current role, Claire was a manager at the Deloitte advisory practice and specialized in enterprise risk management and finance transformation advisory services. She has over 17 years of working experience and had served many private and public clients in various industries in both US and China.
Claire holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Economics and Management School of Tsinghua University and received her MBA degree from the Wharton school. She is also the current president of Wharton Club of Northern California.
 Raj Gollamudi, One Prime Capital
Raj Gollamudi is a
Managing Partner at OnePrime Capital, an investment firm based in Palo Alto.
He was previously an Investment Director at Intel Capital. Before joining
Intel Capital, Raj was an Investment Partner at Omidyar Network, an impact
investing firm where he was responsible for technology investments in
emerging markets. Prior to that, Raj was a General Partner of BlueStream
Ventures, a $300 million technology venture capital firm which he co-founded
in 2000. Raj began his career as a software developer at Sun Microsystems.
Raj has an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School, a Master's in Computer
Science from Clemson University, and a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering
from BITS Pilani in India. He is also recently appointed as a Board Member
of the Wharton Club of Northern California.
Register
Online
Date: Monday, November 6, 2017
Time:
5:30pm – 8:30pm; panel discussion starts at 6:30pm
Location:
Nixon Peabody LLP | One Embarcadero Center, 18th Floor | San Francisco, CA
94111-3600
Cost: FREE for WCNC members, but
pre-registration is required. Drinks and snacks will be provided.
Non-member alumni and other guests: $25.
New membership is available at
http://www.whartonclub.com/memsub.html
A special thanks to David Kaufman of Nixon Peabody to host this event.
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