CFEM Alumni Brochure: Professional Development
CFEM Alumni have gone on to successful careers in many different facets of the financial industry.
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Professional Milestones
CFEM Alumni have gone on to successful careers on Wall Street and beyond. Here is a sampling of the many companies, divisions, and current roles represented by our former students:
Citi
Morgan Stanley
JP Morgan
Goldman Sachs
BlackRock
BNP Paribas
Bank of America
Barclays
American Express
Nomura
UBS
Invesco
AQR
Bluefin Trading
Two Sigma
GSAM
Charles River Development
MSCI Inc.
Putnam Investments
SIG Sauer
Cboe Global Markets
KGS-Alpha Capital Markets
Western Asset Management
Moody's
BNY Mellon
Airbnb
E Fund Management Co.
Guggenheim Partners
Zhong Da Futures
Argus Information & Advisory Services, LLC
XR Trading
Aflac
Prudential Financial
Point72 Asset Management
FINRA
Millenium Management
ITG
XTF
XR Trading
Orient Securities
Man Numeric
KPMG US
KAUST Investment
Fosun Capital
Dimensional Fund Advisors
CICC
Capgemini
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi
Bank of China
Analytical Research
Amazon
Amazon Lab126
Microsoft
Wellington Capital Management
(List of Alumni Companies Continued)
Ernst & Young
Alliance Bernstein
PWC
RBC Capital Markets
Mizuho
Merrill Lynch
Capital One
Fannie Mae
Credit Suisse
Citadel
Haitong Securities
Societe Generale
Bloomberg
Deloitte
Deutsche Bank
Citic Securities
Guardian
Bridgewater
McKinsey & Co.
Optiver
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors
The Royal Bank of Scotland
Trading Technologies
Titan Song LLC
TIAA
TFS Capital
Symbiont
StellarS Capital
STAND Limited
Smarkets
Simina Capital Advisors
Silverlake LLP
Seattle Northwest
Asset Management
IMC Financial Markets
Scotia Capital
Samsung Finance
Saker Invest
Saint Knights Fund
Rosscommon
Imagine Software, Inc.
Rockefeller University
Openhouse Tutorator
Krung Thai Bank Public Co.
Kroll Bond Rating Agency
Intercontinental Exchange
Instinet Incorporated
Harvest Fund Management
Gerald Group
Hartree Partners, LP
Hanssem
First Principles
Capital Management
Enso Financial Management
Brevan Howard
State Street Corp.
PNC Bank
Residential Capital Management
Reputation Institute
R.G. Niederhoffer Capital Management
Quantinental Capital
PulsePoint
PSI Capital Asia
Pretium Partners
Premium Point
Oz Management
Organic
Oracle
Old Mission Capital
NYSE
Noble Americas
Newcastle University
New York Life Insurance
Morgan, Evan & Co.
Mondelez International
USAA
MEAG New York Corp.
Manas Art Center
Lincoln International
Liberty Mutual
Lending Club
Fitch Ratings
Trez Capital
DIA
Davidson Kempner
Interactive Data
Duolingo
DRW
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What Our Alumni Do
Image of Different Roles/Divisions/Job Functions where our Alumni Operate
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Image of Various Staff, Students, and Faculty Over the Years
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Career Changes
"I am currently working in Marketing Analytics and Data Science. Corporate Derivative Sales was not the long-term occupation for me (particularly the sales portion of it). I decided to look outside finance where I could apply my knowledge of
data analytics."
-Wing-Ho Choi (Class of 2011)
"I'm still with the same employer for whom I interned while at Cornell."
-Benjamin Pickett (Class of 2014)
"I'm working in the energy sector in commodity-structured transactions valuation and execution."
-Sushant Nigam (Class of 2008)
"I am a Brand Manager for a consumer packaged foods company. I decided to pursue an MBA in Marketing after working in Sales & Trading post-Cornell."
-Kyung Park (Class of 2008)
"I'm currently working at LinkedIn as a senior data scientist. My past quant research experience in the financial industry and the technical training I got from CFEM helped tremendously to get my foot in the door [of the tech industry]."
-Luxin Kang (Class of 2012)
"I am using quant knowledge to govern different aspects in Model Risk, including restrictions and model anomalies."
-Yudong Yang (Class of 2017)
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Image of CFEM Community at various events such as the Alumni Happy Hours, CFEM Graduation, etc.
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Career Changes Continued
"I am going back to school to get a PhD in Operations Research at UT Austin. It's something I have been meaning to do since CFEM, and I am looking forward to doing math and working on optimization problems again.
-Remy Pasco (Class of 2012)
"I'm currently pursuing the data analytics field."
-Zhunyou Hua (Class of 2014)
"I build large scale models at Amazon to make reviews more informative. I found limited opportunities to build models in growing a business in the financial domain, but there exists a lot of opportunity to do so in technology.
FE at Cornell was very helpful in developing a strong, conceptual foundation. CFEM is uniquely positioned in NYC to provide an industrial exposure to learning. It can further add value by identifying such interests at the beginning and connecting with relevant alumni who can mentor students."
-Kunal Rajani (Class of 2012)
"I am thinking about switching to startup/venture capital/blockchain companies."
-Xiaoyun Guo (Class of 2015)