I am proud to be a Cornell ECE alum and had four of the best years of my life at Cornell. Cornell's ECE department prepared me well and gave me the confidence to pursue and overcome challenges in various fields, including engineering, finance and now, entrepreneurship, in Asia. The extremely rigorous analytical training at Cornell's College of Engineering, together with access to the broad range of disciplines across Cornell, provided an invaluable opportunity to learn and to stretch my personal limits. Furthermore, the Cornell brand is very strong across geographies and the alumni network is a tremendous resource.
After graduating in 2001, I practiced as a wireless network engineer at Nokia in Southeast Asia for a couple years, then moved on to sales & marketing and business development at Nokia before returning to school to pursue my M.B.A. at Kellogg. After working for a number of years in investment banking in Southeast Asia and Greater China, I recently joined my family business to drive its international expansion out of my bases in Shanghai and Bangkok.
Although I've worked as a "real" engineer for only a couple years, my Cornell engineering education has served me well in all of my other professional pursuits. After all, engineering is about problem solving, and Cornell Engineering provided me with the analytical training and sensitivity that are applicable in diverse fields such as tech, finance, and entrepreneurship and in a remarkable environment that fostered permanent, genuine friendships with my classmates.