Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program: Graduation Ceremony, Class 1999-2000

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[evdate 2000-04-16] Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program Class 1999-2000 Graduation Ceremony Citibank Lecture Theatre April 16, 2000 Program of Events Procession of Faculty and Students Welcome Greetings Speaker Address Top Professor Award Hooding and Ceremony Student Address Graduation Class Photo Dr. Steven J DeKrey Associate Dean and Founding Director of Kellogg-HKUST EMBA Program School of Business and Management The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Professor Chia-Wei Woo President The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Professor Yuk-Shee Chan Dean of School of Business and Management The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Mr. Paul Chow Chief Executive. HSBC Asset Management HK Ltd. Recipient: Professor Kellogg Graduate School of Management Northwestern University Award presented by student representative: Mr Yuka Yeung Ms. Erica Kantor Assistant Dean and Director of the Executive Master's Program Kellogg Graduate School of Management Northwestern University Mr. Chris Tsang Associate Director; Postgraduate Programs School of Business and Management The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Mr. Brent Robinson Mr. Winston Siu Recession of Faculty and Students Reception to follow in Academic Concourse MC: Ms. Judy Au, Program Coordinator of EMBA, HKU5T Professor Donald P. Jacobs Dean of Kellogg Graduate School of Management N010thwestern University To the Graduation Class: I am pleased to celebrate your achievement as the second graduating class of our joint program in Hong Kong. We are proud to welcome you into the world community of more than 40,000 Kellogg alumni. You can be proud as well, that you have continued to make the alliance between HKUST Graduate School of Business and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University an overwhelming success, You join an ever-growing cadre of global management program alumni. with your peers in Evanston, at the Recanati School in Israel and at the Koblenz Corporate Graduate School of Management in Germany. You will recall you negotiated with representatives of these classes in Evanston during your live-in week in September. It has been our experience at Kellogg that the bonds formed in intensive learning sessions such as the program you have just completed provide a lifetime of contacts and networks. With the newest technology being employed in all of our Kellogg programs, our students and alumni can be in immediate contact with each other in all corners of the globe. In our inter-reliant world of business, these cont acts will increasingly become more essential to success. You and your families can be proud of your hard work, and your commitment to learning while maintaining the heavy responsibilities of family and business life. This is a significant accomplishment, and I thank your families for their support. We hope that the knowledge gained from this international executive MBA program is already impacting your career and your sponsoring-company's future. You are certainly deserving o f success and we wish you the best of good fortune. The success of this program is due to the vision of the faculty and administration of HKUST. They recognized the potential for such a global program and continue to expertly meet our customer's expectations. I would like to thank Dean Yuk-Shee Chan and program director Steve DeKrey for helping to make this a formidable and successful partnership. Professor Yuk-Shee Chan Dean of School of Business and Management The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology To the KH02 EMBA Graduation Class: I am most delighted to congratulate all of you, on behalf of the Business School. on this joyful occasion of your graduation The last sixteen months that you have gone through could have been t he most hectic and demanding period for you despite the busy schedules that you are accustomed to as corporate executives. We al-e pleased to join in with your family, friends and corporate sponsors to honor you for your accomplishments! Though life as an EMBA'er was probably overwhelming at times, I wish your experiences at Clear Water Bay and Evanston would always bring back fond memories. In terms of timing the Graduating Class of 2000 was really unusual. As a starter you can be assured that there would not be another class of EMBA straddling the millennium in another thousand years Furthermore, the period of your study from 1999 to 2000 also witnessed a number of milestones in the Business School's development. You were the first users of the School's new executive education facilities in the University Annex that was completed in the summer of 1999 to bolster the School's capability in this burgeoning area. In another vein, 1999 and 2000 have also brought the School two international achievements. We became one of the first two Asian business schools accredited by the AACSB - The International Association for Management Education in April 1999, and the only school in Asia accorded a place in the world's top 75 business schools by the Financial Times in January 2000. The advancement and wider application of technology continue to change the landscape of business in the new millennium. The markets have become truly global with e-marketing and e-commerce. New concepts such as price-revenue ratio and optimal brick-and-click planning are indeed thought provoking and undoubtedly challenging for corporate executives like you. With the knowledge and insight that you have gained through the participation in t his program, I am confident that you will be even more adept at making the most of the opportunities that await you ahead. I would like to wish all of you great success in your future endeavors. We look forward to seeing you often, having your advice and support as alumni, and working with you 31 Dr. Steven J DeKrey Associate Dean and Founding Director of Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program School of Business and Management The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology To Kellogg-HKUST Class Two: This is a very proud day for all of us. A day which has come much faster than we had ever imagined. When you first started attending our EMBA program in January of 1999, the notion of being EMBA alumni was a distant dream indeed. Here we are. Here you are, our second EMBA graduates. Your dream has materialized. It is exciting to be part of a start up. just look at the stock markets. While perhaps less risky than a dot com that is what we have been about these past few years. Together our University under President Woo's leadership. the School of Business and Management under Dean Chan's leadership, the Kellogg school under the Dean of Deans Don Jacobs, your companies and families! Everyone in this room today shares in our creation, your triumph. Congratulations to all of you. From the applicant interviews to your final class sessions with our distinguished speakers, KH02 has remained special. You won't deny the challenges and you will never say it was easy. but here you are. You did it! Being our second has put extra pressure on you as a class. You have set high standards and you have all taken extra pride in working with us to be the best you can be. I have enjoyed being with you these past months and I look forward to connecting to you as Kellogg and HKUST alums. Wherever you go, know that you have gained two new homes today. One is here in Clear Water Bay and the other is in Evanston Illinois. You are among a very select group of EMBA students in the world who can make that claim. Be proud of your program. It will be part of you forever. 4 Ms. Erica Kantor Assistant Dean and Director of the Executive Master 's Program Kellogg Graduate School of Management Northwestern University To the Graduation Class: Germany or Hong Kong. You have just crossed the finish line. It is time to celebrate t he completion of this monumental task you began 16 months ago. I hope you are proud. You have every reason to be . But I also expect that you find today somewhat bittersweet Bitter in saying goodbye to your classmates with whom you have bonded over the course of this program. Sweet in that you now have your lives back Families and friends can now be the recipients of your full attention. This is the common feeling at graduations around the globe for Kellogg's Executive MBA program, whether in Evanston, Israel. You have accomplished a great deal. You can now place your books on your bookshelves but keep them near you will draw on the knowledge you have gained for many years to come. Thank you for joining us. You have played a very special role at Kellogg, taking part in one of our very important partnership programs. Just remember. you have two degrees in one. And each school rightly honors you and welcomes you as an alumnus. Enjoy your success. And may you be even more successful in t he future. To your families, I would like to express an enormous thank you for your' support Whenever business or' pleasure takes you to Chicago, drop by! The Allen Center is ready to welcome you. Again my congratulations.

Graduating Class 1999-2000 (KH02) Alexander lee Ong Alvin So Anthony Alfieri Brent Robinson Bruno Ury Byron Kempen Cammy Yiu Charles Caldwell CharlesYip Chen Wen-chuan Craig Harris Dennice Wilson Dinesh Shahani Eric Chevalier Fiona Chan Gary Wu Gregg Westrick Hoang-Vinh Nguyen Javier Manzanares Jeffery Palmer Jurgen Rammesmayer Lana Howell Lawrence Liu Linda Brigance Lucy Chow Margaret Sheng Michael Malone Mok Kam Shing Paul Dibbayawan Peter Wong Priscilla Fang Queenie Wong Rachel D1eung Richard Cheng Roger Tai Sang Ho Shin Siegfried Peyer Winston Siu Yuka Yeung Yvonne Fang President Chief Executive Officer Partner Director Deputy Managing Director Business Development Manager Managing Director Human Resources Director; Asia Pacific Managing Director President Director of Sales & Marketing Managing Director - Planning & Engineering, South Pacific Region Chief Executive Officer Manager of Industrial Optimization Senior Manager - Portfolio Management Chief Financial Officer Director Assistant Vice President Deputy General Manager Far East Area Director Financial Director Director - Leasing & Management Chief Financial Officer, Asia Vice President! CIO Senior Vice President, Marketing. Asia Pacific General Manager Director. International Supply Chain Senior Market Research Manager Manager; Marketing. Planning & Sales Development Director; Finance and Accounting Section Head, Structured Trade Finance Chief Executive Officer Executive Vice President Regional Head of Marketing and Distribution (Asia Pacific) Cative Apparel Corporation Subic Bay Apparel Corporation Genesis Global Strategies Ltd. Dakota Consulting Merrill Lynch CMA-CGM Rockwell Automation Asia Pacific Ltd. Monopoly Design Ltd. Rockwell Automation Asia Pacific ltd. Fabio Perini China Ltd. Seriea Corporation Xilinx Corporation Federal Express Sprandi International Ltd. Cebal SA, France HKR International Ltd. Sullair Asia Co. l td. Highgrade Design Ltd. American International Assurance BSCH, japan ICON Health & Fitness, Inc. Sappi Trading Hong Kong Hang lung Group Geis Cargo JM Hong Kong Ltd. Federal Express HSBC Lear JMC Interior System Ltd. Rockwell Automation Johnson Electric Group Philip Morris (Thailand) Ltd. Philips Electronics DG Bank, Deutsche Genossenschaftsbank AG Ladynow Company Jiu Feng Arco Energy Co. Ltd Zhuhai Standard Life Assurance Company Test and Transactions Asia - Operations Manager Schlumberger Technologies (Asia) Ltd, Director Executive Director, Head Private Banking Asia President Managing Director Chairman Kolon Pictet & Cie SOL Holdings Ltd, Birdland (Hong Kong) Ltd. Insinger International lncorporations Ltd. EMBA Program Staff EMBA Program Staff Steve DeKrey Chris Tsang Judy Au Dodi Lee Peri Wong Anthony Yeung Associate Dean and Founding Director Associate Director Postgraduate Programs EMBA Program Coordinator EMBA Program Officer EMBA Program Assistant EMBA Program Assistant Class Representatives Brent Robinson Cammy Yiu Fiona Chan Lana Howell Winston Siu Yuka Yeung Live String Quartet Music by Wong Sze-hang and friends Violinist Wong Sze-hang should be a familiar name to regular concert goers in Hong Kong Him and the other three outstanding musicians forming this quarter are equally superb as soloist chamber musician and orchestra player. They share a common passion for chamber music and their playing is marked by vitality and stylish musicianship. Musicians Wong Sze-hang (violin) Dennis Kim (violin) Meidad Yehudayan (viola) Richard Bamping (cello) The Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program Class 1999-2000