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Founder and CEO of Wellthie, a company providing innovative solutions that help insurers and brokers navigate the retail health insurance market

1. Can you tell us what prompted you to start Wellthie?

Wilfrid Xoual, the Paris-based Head of Moody’s Analytics business development team, hadn’t even received his degree from the NYU Stern Master’s in Risk Management program when he was able to utilize the Stern network in a professional capacity. “We recently organized a visit in an African country where we sponsored an event on the new Basel regulation,” he recalls. “We needed to contact several banks and consulting firms in the country to understand what angle could be more relevant for participants.

“Venture capitalist and thought leader on innovation, tech entrepreneurship, and business, founding one of the most successful start-up accelerators in Korea and serving as the youngest board member of a public company in Korean history”—that’s how the World Economic Forum describes Daniel, who was named to the Forum’s Young Global Leaders program in March 2016, one of 15 in the Asia-Pacific region.
 

“Stern’s MSBA program is not simply a very deep analytics and machine learning course, but rather takes a managerial and strategic view of data analytics. If one wanted to become a data scientist, there are other alternatives, but if one wanted to strategically manage business and business technology, the broad sweep that MSBA provides is the critical success factor.”
 

Co-Founder of Button, which helps consumers discover and engage with digital commerce companies such as Uber, Opentable, and Ticketmaster on mobile devices. Button was recently ranked #1 on Crain's Best Places to Work in NYC. 

1. Describe a typical day at the office. 

Padma had applied her finance and IT skills across diverse businesses, including a fast-food giant, a major bank, a tech company, and a food manufacturer. When she earned her Master of Science in Business Analytics degree from NYU Stern, she acquired a newly created position in yet a different industry: as operational vice president in charge of business intelligence and analytics at Bloomingdale’s, the upscale department store giant.
 

When Gunjan found herself transitioning from a focus on fund research and analytics to evaluating investment risk across her company’s products, she knew it was time to formalize her role as risk manager for the firm and shore up her formal education in risk management.
 

Biography

Amal Shehata joined New York University Stern School of Business as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Accounting in September 2015, after having been an adjunct professor at the School since 2008. She teaches courses in financial accounting and auditing.

It is hard to miss Claire’s return on investment from earning her Master’s in Risk Management from NYU Stern. Within months of graduating, she had landed a new job in a different sector of the financial world. “I obtained my current position as Risk Manager at Harbour Fiduciary Services through another MSRM alumnus, and it probably would not have happened had I not completed the program,” Claire remarks. “I acquired the breadth of knowledge that enabled me to move from risk management in banking to performing risk management for a private equity real estate fund—in a role I love.”