1. Event report
MFM Round Table event for students and alumni
14 March 2012, in Vlerick Campus Ghent
The concept of the evening is quite brilliant in its simplicity : The students of the Master in
Financial Management class met up with the severely selected Alumni over diner to discuss
their future career path. The preparation of this event started several months ago, when the
students were asked to fill in a query about their potential future career paths. From this
survey, we’ve learned that the interests of the students were both highly ambitious as
widely spread within the financial industry. Therefore, at the night of 14th of March, the
tables were covered by Alumni from very diverse industries : going from the commercial and
investment bankers over the consultants and risk managers towards M&A and corporate
finance specialists.
The best detail of the evening was the fact that the students could switch from table in
between the courses. The students who filled in the query, trying to get in contact with
people from the sectors for which they had an curiosity, didn’t knew what was happening :
suddenly, they had contacts throughout three different sectors within the blink of an eye.
On the other side, the Alumni were also experiencing a great evening of catching up with
old study friends, meeting new interesting alumni and reliving their Vlerick year through the
stories of the students.
Like many good Vlerick stories, this amazing evening ended up at the bar, where students
and alumni were fraternizing and sawing the seeds of some new great Vlerick stories, which
can be told at the round table event of 2013!
By Alexander Demeester (MFM 2010)