I'm Gavin Chen.
I'm from the USA.
I work at Wandera which is a
mobile cyber security company
based in San Francisco.
I'm a Business Development Manager.
I do strategic partnerships
with large cyber security
companies such as IBM,
Microsoft VMware.
So I found my role through working
with the Cambridge MBA Careers Team.
There's an online portal
and all the information
was available on there.
I applied, interviewed, got the role.
The Careers Team helped
me with interviewing,
with doing my CV, with scheduling as well,
so it was a really great experience.
I think that in the Cambridge MBA classes
such as Strategy and Marketing
were really important
for my role because learning
all the bits and pieces
of how to market the product,
how to market the company itself
as well as what specific strategies to use
to partner with these companies,
like what go to markets
they're interested in, what
kind of techno-integrations
they're interested in those
are probably the classes
that are the most interesting.
And in terms of skills the
Cambridge MBA really allowed me
to develop my networking skills
on a higher level than before.
Working with a lot of
other students in teams
was essential to my current role.
Originally I wanted to do
finance, so I went to a lot of
investment banking, private
banking career events.
The Cambridge MBA brought a
lot of the large banks here,
so I went to a lot of those events
as well as they connected me
to like say JP Morgan in
London, but in the end I decided
to pivot away, but it
was still very useful.
I'm one of the Cambridge
MBA 2017 class who
did a triple jump.
I went from location China to the USA.
I went from more finance
oriented events to cyber security
and then I also jumped from
sales to business development.
Attending the Cambridge MBA
the thing I wanted to get out of it was
basic business knowledge
that I hadn't had before
cause I was in Sales, I knew
how to kind of talk to people,
how to really get them to buy things,
but I wasn't really
familiar with the background
of why businesses do what they do.
So I learned a lot of
that here and with that
I was able to go from picking an industry
that's very structured like finance
to something like cyber security
which right now is blowing
up, has a lot of movement,
a lot of new things happening
in terms of product,
in terms of technical things.
I think that someone whose
starting the Cambridge MBA
should take full advantage
of their time here
and that's not just
things like working with
Careers Team or attending
class, doing the group projects,
but also really enjoying
the ability to for example
hop to the rest of continental Europe
in like a one hour flight.
Anyone who comes to the
Cambridge MBA should really enjoy
not just the academic
side or the career side,
but also the personal side because
this is really going to be
the best year of your life
and then after that it sets
you up for success from there.
