Come celebrate Baruch, its Alumni and students at this inaugural event on December 1, 2010.  Enjoy the winter skyline from the 14th floor of the Newman Vertical Campus with complimentary food and drinks. There will be something for everyone through this evening.

Wine Tasting

7:00 - 8:00 pm

Early arrivals will be treated to tasting of six different wines with a talk on the wines, principles of taste and terroir.  Hone your palate and see if you can classify the wines by taste alone.  Compare notes with fellow participants and see if you can apply the evening's lesson to the product in your hand.  

Guest Speakers

8:00 - 9:00 pm

The evening will be puntuated by speakers from Baruch College and from your Alumni Network.  Tune in while networking and catching up to the latest happenings at the ucla (university at the corner of Lexington Avenue).  Brief presentations will alternate with networking intervals.

Ellen King from the GCMC -- Baruch has a dynamite career management center. and it's not just for students.  Alumni are encouraged to take advantage of the top-flight services.  Burnish your skills and find out who's hiring.

Ellen King is the Assistant Director of the Employer Relations Team. She came to the GCMC from JPMorgan Chase, where she spent many years as a Vice President for Human Resources. She works closely with current and potential employers seeking to fill internship and full time opportunities for Zicklin graduate students. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Bridgeport, CT, and a master’s degree in management from NYU.

Baruch Alumni -- The network of your alma mater has been busy and doing some pretty darn cool stuff.  Listen in and find out what's going on and how they did it.

Ashok Kamal -- CEO & Co-Founder of Bennu, LLC, which is a socially responsible product development and marketing company that completes the recycling loop (www.bennuworld.com). His career spans the for-profit and nonprofit sectors, including launching an independent hip-hop entertainment company, leading a youth development organization in New York City and working at KLD Research & Analytics, the pioneering sell-side research firm for socially responsible investors.

Ashok graduated in 2010 from Baruch College's Honors MBA program. Ashok received the 2010 Briloff Prize in Ethics from Baruch College and his recent writings on sustainability and clean technology have been published on Reuters and the leading green blogs. He is also an advisory board member of the Entertainers 4 Education Alliance, which promotes youth empowerment and educational achievement.

Jon Mason -- CEO and Co-founder of Trace Visual Effects

Jon graduated from Baruch’s MBA honors program in 2010, majoring in Entrepreneurship and Finance.  At Baruch, Jon and his team won 1^st prize and $30,000 in the traditional track of the Baruch College and Merrill Lynch Entrepreneurship Competition.   With the seed money from the competition, Jon and his partners founded Trace Visual Effects, raising close to $200,000 from Angel Investors.   Trace operates in the visual effects industry, servicing the company’s that bring movie magic to life.   Trace provides overnight services to these clients, allowing them to seamlessly transform their operations into a 24/7 model. 

Linda Gharib -- Strategic Account Manager at Microsoft Advertising

Linda Gharib is a seasoned marketer with experience partnering with advertising agencies, Fortune 100 companies and major brand accounts including Delta Air Lines, Kraft Foods, Procter & Gamble, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Macy’s, Wachovia, Verizon, TD Ameritrade and FedEx.  Linda works closely with her clients to develop integrated digital marketing strategies that successfully perform towards all conversion, ROI and awareness goals on the Microsoft O&O properties such as Bing, MSN, MSNBC, CNBC, WSJ, Xbox…. Linda joined Microsoft’s search marketing division in April 2007 as a Search Media Analyst and is currently working on the display side of the business as a Strategic Account Manager.

Linda was instrumental in launching the Microsoft Advertising Digital Challenge, an international digital advertising case competition and worked closely with the Direct Marketing Association to sponsor and modernize the 2010 Direct and Interactive Collegiate ECHO competition.

Mingle

9:00 - 10:00 pm

After Party

Artica Bar & Grill

384 3rd Avenue

New York, NY 10016

10:00 - ?? am

There will be Happy Hour specials throughout the night. $4 beers and $6 cocktails.