Career Development Workshop and Job Fair



Saturday, June 16, 2007
Where: MIT, 6-120, Building 6 (Eastman Laboratories)
Street Address: 182 Memorial Drive (Rear) (Building 6 Room 120),
Map:
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=6

Organizers:
SAPA-NE
MIT Economics and Talent Forum (MIT ETF)
Harvard China Review

 

 

                                                                                                                                  Program

1:00-1:30 PM           Registration and Job Fair

1:30-2:10 PM           Partha S. Ghosh

                                   Chairman & the Chief Mentor of Boston Analytics, Chairman of the Board of Advisors of Access International, and Chairman of Intersoft K.K.
                                   Founder/Managing director of Partha S Ghosh & Associates.

2:10-2:40 PM           Adam J Thomas
                                   Associate Director, Human Resources, Pfizer Research Technology Center

2:40-3:10 PM           Bin Wu, Ph.D.
                                   Founder and President of Phosphorex, Inc.

3:10-3:20 PM          Break

3:20-4:00 PM          Thomas Deng
                                  China Strategist, China Research Head, Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C.

4:00-4:30 PM          Marantz Jing, MD, Ph.D.
                                  Senior Medical Director, Millennium

4:30-5:00 PM          Wei Zhang, Ph.D.
                                  President, Harvard Square Consulting, Inc.

5:00-6:00 PM         Job Fair

6:00-8:00 PM         Dinner



For more information, please visit our website: http://www.sapaweb.org

Chair (SAPA-NE): Yongchun Shen

Co-Chairs (SAPA-NE): Bingli Ma, Derek Tou, Dongli Chen, George Li, Hou Li, Qing Huang,
Shawn Pu, Weijun Ma, Xianglin Shi, Xiaotian Zhong.

Co-chairs (MIT ETF): Ke Duan, Jianglong Chen, and Qian Wang.

Co-chairs (Harvard China Review): Cynthia Zhang, Lin Li, Xie Danxia.


Organizing committee:
Bingli Ma, Cathy Cai, Cynthia Zhang, Daming Gou, Danxia Xie, Derek Tou, Dongli Chen, George Li, Hou Li, Huimin Chen, Jenny Li, Lin Li, Ji Lei, Jianglong Chen, Jie Yu, Jinhua Zhang, Jun Zhao, Junjun Wu, Junke Liu, Ke Duan, Kechun Li, Mark Lin, Qian Wang, Qing Huang, Shallwei Sun, Shawn Pu, Weijun Ma, Wenge Wang, Xianglin Shi, Xiaotian Zhong, Yongchun Shen.

Registration fee:
           Free for SAPA, MIT ETF and HCR members, unemployed, MIT and Harvard students.
           $10 for all other participants.

SAPA membership renewal and application available on site:
           $20 Regular Membership fee
           $10 Students and Postdoctoral fellow (Valid ID required)
           $200 Lifetime membership fee

Dinner ticket:
           $25


                                                                   More information about the speakers

Partha S. Ghosh
Based in Boston, is a renowned strategist and an innovator of Business and Economic models. He is currently in an advisory role with multiple organizations world wide. He is the Chairman & the Chief Mentor of Boston Analytics, a firm specializing in providing precision analytical services/financial modeling tools to corporate and government agencies. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Advisors of Boutique Cross Border M & A/Strategic Alliance Advisory firm Access International, and Chairman of Business Intelligence firm Intersoft K.K based in Tokyo. Earlier Mr. Ghosh was a partner at McKinsey & Company and is the founder/Managing director of Strategy/Policy advisory firm Partha S Ghosh & Associates.
In the last thirty years as a true global citizen and a professional consultant to leaderships of prestigious organizations, corporates and governments, he has been involved in a broad spectrum of engagements, primarily focusing on strategic and policy issues in technology based industries specifically in the energy industry. His strategic problem solving work has included global strategy development, innovation and change management, and re-structuring / re-engineering of major companies. More recently he has been helping major companies renew their business models based on information technology/e-commerce and the evolving network/knowledge economies including distributed power generation. He has also served heads of state in more than half a dozen countries on strategic and policy issues related to deregulation of industries, privatization, globalization, energy (Hydrocarbon and Renewable) and socio-economic advancement. In various leadership forums, he has chaired committees focused on state-of-the-art issues related to management and governance. On specific courses /projects he has been active at MIT and Harvard University on strategic management /policy design and leadership issues, and more recently with the Tufts University on Globalization & Innovation. His clients view him as a "creative problem solver" and a "visionary leader." Several CEOs who have worked with him view him as a leader who "inspires leaders to build lasting legacies".
EDUCATION: Mr. Ghosh has two advanced degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts where he studied from 1975 to 1977. He holds Master's Degrees in (i) Chemical Engineering with emphasis on New Energy Systems & Biotechnologies, and (ii) Business Administration with concentrations in Finance, Information Technology, and International Business. He was A Rotary Foundation Fellow. He obtained his honors, Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering, at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur, India in 1971. He won the Institute Medal as the number one graduating student. His thesis on "Thermal Cracking of Wax" was judged the best in India.

Adam J Thomas
Associate Director, Human Resources
Pfizer Research Technology Center
Adam Thomas has served as the head of Human Resources (HR) for the Pfizer Research Technology Center in Cambridge for 4 years. Prior to this Adam worked as an HR generalist at the Pfizer site in Sandwich, UK, primarily support the scientific disciplines. In his previous roles Adam worked as a consultant for the Corporate Leadership Council, a leading HR consultancy, and as an HR generalist for Brann, a marketing company based in Bristol, UK. Adam has a Masters in HR from the Bristol Business School and a degree in Law from the University Of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Bin Wu
Bin Wu is the Founder and President of Phosphorex, Inc. Prior to founding Phosphorex he held positions from bench chemist to senior technical staff in various industries for over ten years. His expertise covers the areas of specialty chemicals, biopolymers, drug delivery and nanomaterials.
Dr. Wu received his Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from University of Massachusetts Amherst with Professor Robert W. Lenz. He has worked in several companies including Du Pont, UCB and Kimberly-Clark. He has published 12 papers and holds 12 patents.
Founded in early 2005, Phosphorex develops and supplies various types of nanospheres and microspheres, which are becoming an indispensable tool for ultra-sensitive assays, multiplex detection, signal enhancement and optical imaging. In our laboratory, fluorescent, phosphorescent, near-infrared and color dyes are encapsulated in polymers to form particles with sizes ranging from 30 nm to 2 µm. With carboxyl groups on their surfaces, these nano– and microspheres can be directly conjugated to antibodies, proteins, peptides, and other biomolecules.

Thomas Deng
China Strategist, China Research Head
Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C
Executive Director, Thomas Deng, has been the China Strategist for Goldman Sachs since 2004. Thomas has been working in the financial industry since 1995 and is a highly ranked analyst by different investor surveys. Prior to joining Goldman, Thomas worked for CSFB as a Director in the China equity research department in Hong Kong. Thomas has covered many China-related industries including China financials, technology, transportation and conglomerates. Thomas also worked as a derivatives specialist, focusing on forex and treasury markets, before moving to equity research. Thomas has been a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder since 2000. He has an MS in Economics and an MS in Statistics from the University of Utah, where he is also a PhD candidate in Economics. He graduated from Wuhan University with a BS in International Finance in 1989.


Marantz Jing
Dr. Marantz is the Senior Medical Director, Global Medical Affairs at Millennium Pharmaceuticals. She heads up Publications, Medical Information, and Health Economics. Prior to her Medical Affairs role, Dr. Marantz also worked in Financial Planning & Analysis and R&D Strategy and Operations at Millennium. Prior to joining Millennium, she was a management consultant with the Strategic Decisions Group, specializing in product strategy and portfolio management. Earlier, she was briefly affiliated with Goldman Sachs and Massachusetts General Hospital after her post-doctoral research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She obtained her MD from Tongji Medical University from China, her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Medical University of South Carolina, and her MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Wei Zhang
Wei Zhang is the President and Founder of Harvard Square Consulting, Inc., a boutique management consulting firm serving clients in healthcare, technology, and financial service industries. Its work includes strategy and business development for multibillion dollar clients, due diligence for venture capital firms, business building and new product launches for small or startup companies, and executive coaching.
Wei has more than sixteen years of experience in management consulting, operations, and biomedical research. Before founding Harvard Square Consulting, Wei spent six years with McKinsey & Company, a leading management consulting firm. Prior to McKinsey, Wei was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford Medical School. While at Stanford, she co-founded CNetWork, a non-profit organization providing professional and social services to Asian communities in the Bay Area. She holds a Ph.D. in Immunology from Harvard Medical School, where she received the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship in Biological Sciences and the Baxter Foundation Award. She earned a B.S. in Biochemistry from Peking University.
Wei is active in the community. She has been an invited speaker at conferences organized by various professional organizations, which include Harvard China Review, MIT Economics and Talent Forum, The Chinese Finance Association, and the Greater China Business Council. Wei was an editor and a columnist for Bio/Pharma Quarterly, a publication of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA). She is an active member of many professional organizations, including the BayHelix Group, which is a professional association for leaders in life sciences with Chinese origin, and Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association (SAPA).
 
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