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Cristie is a manager in charge of strategy at David Jones, a leading Australian department store retailer. As such, she spearheads the company’s efforts across a number of strategic initiatives. An accountant by training, with a commerce degree from the University of New South Wales, she says her belief that numbers tell the story—and that Big Data complements the numbers—is what led her to pursue the NYU Stern Master in Business Analytics degree.

Portia has a passion for big data analytics. At 27, the Memphis, Tenn., native works at Google, where she’s currently an account manager for large customer solutions, focusing on the telecom industry. Having had an undergraduate degree in international relations from Stanford and two years at AT&T under her belt before joining Google in 2010, she recognized that the Stern MSBA program would round out her skill set. “I just happened to come across the MSBA program and I knew at once it was the perfect fit for me,” she says.

Shingai describes her experience in NYU Stern’s Master’s in Business Analytics program as “the exciting and intellectually stimulating pursuit of knowledge punctuated with hair-raising deadlines and high-speed epiphanies.” That is high praise from a self-described avid adventurer who has dived with sharks and bungee-jumped off the highest jump in the world.

“The management and analysis of the large amounts of data—including the ability to convert and manipulate this data into meaningful insights for senior management—will be one of the key business skills in the future.” This conviction led Wajahat Ali to apply to the NYU Stern Master’s Program in Business Analytics.

Nick Nishimura hails from Kyushu, in western Japan, but since 2010 has been posted in New Jersey in the North American division of Panasonic Corp. Currently he is a Senior Coordinator and Data Analyst in the company’s Business Analytics Group. NYU Stern’s MSBA program is right up his alley.

When Natalia Migal was seeking to expand her knowledge in risk management, she found a new and unique program—the NYU Stern Master of Science in Risk Management.

The new program, launched in 2009, was a specialized one-year risk management program. At that time, two out of five class modules were offered at NYU Stern, with the remaining three taught in Amsterdam.

Justin Lerner has been professionally involved with risk management in a variety of roles since 1998. Currently charged with risk and policy at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which he joined in 2011, Justin previously spent 13 years at Goldman Sachs in risk roles ranging from managing derivatives risk on the NYMEX and AMEX exchange floors to dealing with Hedge Funds in prime brokerage and clearing.

Rose is an accomplished banking professional with a blue-chip background. She is currently Chief Risk Officer of KCB Bank in Nairobi, Kenya, having joined the organization in 2004 as Divisional Director, Risk Management. Previously, she worked for the First National Bank of Chicago in Nairobi; New York Life Insurance Company in New York; and Barclays Bank in Nairobi. She holds a B.A. in Economics and French from the University of Nairobi and an M.B.A. from Adelphi University in New York.

Wilfrid Xoual, MSRM '13

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.

For Angelica Athie, who was born and raised in Mexico but moved to New York after high school, attending NYU was a longstanding dream. After studying actuarial science at a city university and several years working as an actuary, she explored Stern’s graduate degree offerings and found the master’s of science program in risk management. “As soon as I saw it, it seemed like the right thing to do,” she says.