Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program: Graduation Ceremony, Class 2000-2001

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[evdate 2001-04-06] Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program Class 2000-2001 Graduation Ceremony Citibank Lecture Theatre April 6, 2001 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Program of Events Procession of Faculty and Students Welcome Greetings Speaker Address Top Professor Award Hooding and Ceremony Student Address Dr. Steve DeKrey Associate Dean & Founding Director 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 Donald P. Jacobs Dean of Kellogg Graduate School of Management Northwestern University Professor K C Chan Acting Dean of School of Business and Management The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Dr. Lawrence T. Wong Chief Executive The Hong Kong Jockey Club Recipient: Professor Gary Biddle The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Award presented by student representative: Andrew da Roza Ms. Erica Kantor Assistant Dean and Director Executive Master's Program Kellogg Graduate School of Management Northwestern University MI: Chris Tsang Associate Director: Postgraduate Programs School of Business and Management The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Steve E. Cox Graduation Class Photo Recession of Faculty and Students Dinner reception to follow in Academic Concourse Master of Ceremony Ms. Judy Au, Program Manager of EMBA, HKUST 11 Professor Donald P. Jacobs Dean of Kellogg Graduate School of Management Northwestern University To the Graduation Class: I am especially pleased to celebrate your achievement as graduates of our joint program in Hong Kong. As you represent the last graduating class in our joint program over which I will serve as Dean of the Kellogg School. I would like to present you with a special Challenge to play a continuing role in strengthening the alliance between HKUST School of Business and Management and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. We are proud to welcome you into the world community of more than 40,000 Kellogg alumni. 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 Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany. I trust that you have fond memories of meeting them at the Allen Center in Evanston 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 contacts will increasingly become more essential to success. Nothing pleases me more than the success of our graduates. 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. We are grateful to your families for their support. And we can all be grateful for 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 t hank Acting Dean KC Chan and Associate Dean Steve DeKrey for helping to make this a formidable and successful partnership. 2 Professor K C. Chan Acting Dean of School of Business and Management The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology To the KH03 EMBA Graduation Class: Congratulations to all 40 of you on your successful completion of the Kellogg-HKUST EMBA program' Your graduation year will be marked by special events at both Kellogg and HKUST As many of you know, this year Dean Jacobs will retire after 44 years of dedicated service to Kellogg. For 26 years of those years. he served as the Dean. His vision and support have been crucial to the establishment of the Kellogg-HKUST partnership. What was lauded as a novel idea just three years ago has become in reality a very successful and highly praised regional program. For this, Dean Jacobs deserves our deepest gratitude. At HKUST, this year marks the first decade since our founding. Ten years is a very short time for a business school. We are proud to have achieved a number of significant milestones, including the accreditation by the world's two major business school accrediting bodies, AACSB in the US and efmd in Europe. We are also the only Asian school to be listed among the world's top SO business schools by the Financial Times. We are happy to see that as our list of accolades grows, our EMBA classes also continue to set new records, in areas such as class size, years of work experience and salaries. KH03, however; remains a very internationally diverse group with participants flying in to attend classes from 10 different cities. The fad that one of you even flew in regularly from Memphis,Tennessee to attend class should set a record that will be difficult to break I have no doubt that the experience you gained from your participation in this program and the knowledge that you acquired through learning from our professors and from among yourselves will continue to be major assets in your future endeavors. From this day, you become part of the big families of both the HKUST and Kellogg alumni. We welcome you and look forward to being in frequent contact with you in the future. Dr. Steven J. DeKrey Associate Dean and Founding Director Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program School of Business and Management The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology To Kellogg-HKUST Class Three: This is a very proud day for all of us. Let me begin with congratulations. First. to the families and sponsor's, who have valued the EMBA education offered to the participants of the program, and who have supported them through 16 demanding months to the two partner schools which have dedicated themselves to preserving what is best of the past and to inventing the future boldly and competently. And of course, congratulations to the graduates of this class. You have successfully accomplished yet another key milestone in your management evolution. A major change has occurred in all of you and you will never be the same. Giving more reasons for us to rejoice on this occasion is that this graduation year coincides with the 10th anniversary of HKUST, the history of which our EMBA program is proudly a part I would like to thank the University's Founding President Chia-Wei Woo, Founding Business Dean and now Acting Vice-President for- Academic Affairs Yuk-Shee Chan, Acting Dean K. C. Chan, retiring Dean Donald P. Jacobs of the Kellogg School, for their- vision and support which precedes us here. Let me take this opportunity to offer my deepest gratitude to retiring Dean Donald P. Jacobs. Under his 26 years of leadership the Kellogg School has achieved worldwide prominence. As the founder of Executive MBA programs at Kellogg in the mid seventies we all owe him our thanks. For my part, let me recognize Don as the individual who has had the greatest impact on my professional life. I remain eternally grateful. After you joined this program it became clear that you would set a new standard of academic diligence. You were immediately devoted to your coursework and your dedication has paid off. Only recently have you taken time out to connect socially. This evolution has worked very well for you and the program. I know our faculty have very much enjoyed working with you. We will all miss having you on campus. What you have achieved will be with you forever. When you think back on the times you spent here and in Chicago know that you have earned the right to claim alumni homes at two distinguished business schools. Please come home often. Be proud, be well, be happy. Congratulations! Ms. Erica Kantor Assistant Dean and Director Executive Master's Program Kellogg Graduate School of Management Northwestern University To the Graduation Class: Congratulations! It is time to celebrate the 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. Germany of Hong Kong. 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. And we hope that for many years to come, as well you look upon the HKUST School of Business and Management and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University as a great opportunity in your lives. You have played a very special role at Kellogg, taking part in one of our very important partnership programs. You are now a part of us forever Each school - both HKUST and Kellogg - rightly honors you and welcomes you as an alumnus. Enjoy your success. And may success be with you always. 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 hospitality of the Allen Center is ready to again welcome you. My congratulations to you and your families. Graduating Class 2000-2001 (KH03 ) Joseph Cavatoni Albert Chan Patrick Chan Thomas Chan Christopher Olav Feng Chen Lilly Chen David Cheng Margaret Cheng Steve Cox Andrew da Roza Mario Da Cunha Miranda Dean Glover Teddy Hui Robin Joffe Wenlin Juang Arlene Keh Poh-hoon Khor Thomas King Jeffrey Koh Ralph Lau Ralph Leonard Scarlette Leung Wallace Li Arthur Lin Michelle Lyons Debasis Mahapatra Polly Mak Charles Ng Patrick Ng Yanna Niu Joseph Orr Han Pia Suen Barry Sutch Daniel Tagliere Michael Urquhart Jin Wang Sung-sik Yang GaryYau Allen Yeung Vice President - Global Equity Finance Group, Asia Pacific, Prime Brokerage Regional Business General Manager. Digital & Applied Imaging. Greater China and Korea Executive Director - Finance Chief Executive Officer Senior Director. Structured Finance. Asia-Pacific Chairman Sourcing Manager; Asia Pacific Chairman & CEO Vice President Managing Director: Global Program Management Vice President. legal Regional Manager. Marketing & Sales Asia Quality Leader (MBB) Director- of Finance & Information Service - Greater China Director Distribution Channels Asia Managing Director Vice President Business & Finance Director General Manager Marketing Director. East Asia Assistant Vice President - Life Operations Director· Administration and Finance Director of Finance, Asia Pacific Catering Manager. Racecourses Principal Operations Planning Director. Asia/Pacific Director. Information Services Senior Tax Counsel -Asia Pacific Operations Managing Director Product Manager Vice President, People & Culture Financial Controller IT Operations Manager Engineering Manager Director Chief Financial Officer. Asia Associate General Counsel Director of Asian Sales Manager. Property Department Sales Director; Asia Pacific Region Merrill lynch Japan Securities Co., ltd. Eastman Kodak Company Pearl River IGA Ltd Hop Hing Fast Food l td. World Vision International - China Office Fitch Xiamen Winner Corporation Ltd Moen Incorporated 21 Century BioPharm Group Bank of America NA FedEx FedEx Miele (Hong Kong) Limited GE Power Systems Shanghai Johnson ltd. Gartner Group Inc. CDIB Venture Investment (HK) Co., ltd. CG & E Holdings Corporation Burson-Marsteller (Hong Kong) Ltd. BP Oil China Cummins Corporation, Beijing Branch Pacific Century Insurance Holdings Limited World Wide Fund For Nature Hong Kong The Clorex Intemational Company The Hong Kong jockey Club SandHill Investment Lucent Technologies Asia Pacific Ltd. Unisys China Ltd General Motors China Inc. Pacific Sunrise International Co., Ltd. The Hong Kong Jockey Club Ericsson (China) Co., ltd. Baker & McKenzie, Hong Kong China /Vietnam The Hong Kong jockey Club GVL Ltd. UBS Jones Lang LaSalle Honeywell international Asia Pacific Inc. Southco, Inc, The Hong Kong jockey Club Cadence Design Systems Asia Ltd.

EMBA Program Staff Steve DeKrey Chris Tsang Judy Au Venus Cheng Peri Wong Anthony Yeung Vera So Associate Dean and Founding Director Associate Director: Postgraduate Programs EMBA Program Manager EMBA Program Officer EMBA Program Assistant EMBA Program Assistant EMBA Office Assistant Graduation Committee David Cheng Steve Cox Robin Joffe Scarlette Leung Polly Mak Charles Ng Michael Urquhart Class Representatives Steve Cox Andrew da Roza Polly Mak Charles Ng Hen Pia Suen Live String Quartet Music Musicians Wong Wai Ming (1st violin) Wong Wai Man (2nd violin) So Ki (viola) Letty Poon (cello) The Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA Program Class 2000- 2001