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Students Succeed Globally
The very best students from around the world come to study at the Smith School. They
often return to their home countries to become leaders in business there, while some go
on to top roles in the United State and abroad. For many of our international graduates,
a Smith degree is their ticket to the C-suite. Our international students have impressive
and successful careers on every continent:
AFRICA
Jide Onakoya, MBA ’07
COO,
Elektron Energy Limited,
Nigeria
ASIA
Abhijeet Biswas, MBA ’00
Managing director,
7i Advisors, India
Nipa Dutta, MBA ’05
Senior vice president,
controls director,
Wells Fargo, India
Mehmet Gerz, MS ’94,
MBA ’94
CEO and CIO,
Ata Portföy Yönetimi, Turkey
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Dennis Kang, MBA ’05
CTO,
ZhongAn, China
Ali Tezolmez ’89, MBA ’92
President,
TekPa Group, Turkey
Long Jiang, PhD ’06
CEO,
Goertek Inc., China
Sameer Wadhwa, MBA ’02
Partner,
PricewaterhouseCoopers,
India
Vivian Liu, EMBA ’19
CHRO,
ECARX Technology Group,
China
Ritam Roy, MS ’02
Vice president of program
management and reference
data operations,
JP Morgan Chase, India
Koichi Takahara, MBA ’94
Managing executive of昀椀cer,
Sky Perfect JSAT, Japan
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Jennie Wang, EMBA ’21
CEO,
APAC of VOXFLOR, China
Xiao Xu, EMBA ’06
President,
NT International Limited,
China
Hsiao-Hwa Ying, MS ’85
CFO,
China Synthetic Rubber
Corporation, Taiwan
Wei Zhao, MBA ’04
Senior procurement engineer,
China Mobile Communications
Corporation, China
AUSTRALIA
Stephanie Borgman ’05
Chief of staff,
Google Sydney, Australia
EUROPE
Mikael Baker, MBA ’12
(from Kenya)
Senior digital development and
cybersecurity advisor,
USAID, Tbilisi, Georgia
Daniel Böhringer, EMBA ’09
CEO,
Böhringer Consulting, Switzerland
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