Executives on Campus

Michael Silvestri, Managing Director, Private Banking, Citigroup and Virginia Sermier, Managing Director, Royal Bank of Canada talk about their career experiences in the banking industry at the JobSmart Career Hour, the Executives On Campus Program.

The event takes place on April 24, 2007 at the Baruch Vertical Campus, Room 14-250, moderated by Ari Jaliya, Baruch student.

Ericka Blackwell, Human Resources Coordinator, Tribune Broadcasting, WPIX/CW11 and Bret Itskowitch, Senior Vice President, Group Director, Strategic Integration and Entertainment, MediaCom talk about their career experiences and qualifications essential for professionals in the media industry at the JobSmart Career Hour, the Executives On Campus Program.

The event takes place on March 27, 2007 at the Baruch Vertical Campus, Room 14-235, moderated by Gilberto Gil, Baruch student.

Steven Coutts, Senior Vice President, National Research Services, Studley and Joshua Weinkranz, Vice President, Northeast Region, Kimco Realty discuss about their career experiences, and share insights on real estate trends and outlooks at the JobSmart Career Hour by the Executives On Campus.

The event takes place on March 20, 2007 at the Baruch Vertical Campus, Room 14-235, moderated by Mike Fedigan, Baruch student.

Eileen Cohen, Managing Director, JP Morgan Asset Management and Kathleen Costine, Head Manager, Bear Stearns Health and Education Finance Group speak about their individual career paths, job functions, experiences within the finance industry at the JobSmart Career Hour sponsored by the Executives On Campus program. The event is moderated by Nelgene Stiell, Baruch student, Marketing Director of the Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society.

The event takes place on March 6, 2007 at the Baruch Vertical Campus, Room 14-235.

Caitlin McLaughlin, Managing Director, Global Campus Recruiting, Citigroup and Jason Harper, Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP speak about their career experiences and presents tips and guidelines for appropriate and successful networking approaches at the JobSmart Career Hour by the Executives On Campus. The event is co-sponsored by Baruch student organizations Golden Key National Honor Society and Society for Human Resources Management.

The event takes place on March 13, 2007 at the Baruch Vertical Campus, Room 14-235, moderated by David Wright, Baruch student.

Patrick Hidalgo, retired President of the Latin America/Iberia Educational Publishing Division of Simon & Schuster, and Richard Pilla, Vice President/Director of People Development, Global Consumer Group for CitiGroup, talk about their careers and job responsibilities, corporate cultures and work environments.

The event takes place on November 28, 2006 at the Baruch Vertical Campus, Room 14-235, moderated by Jennifer Verbanac, Vice President of Membership, Society for Human Resources Management, Baruch College.

The first lecture of the Russell Banks CEO Leadership Lecture Series features Nita Zagat and Tim Zagat, the co-founders and co-chairs of Zagat Survey, the world's leading provider of consumer survey-based dining, travel, and leisure information.

The speakers are introduced by Richard Merians, Baruch alumnus; Founder, Chairman, & CEO, Hygrade Integrated Logistics Systems, Inc. President Waldron makes the opening remarks.

The event takes place on December 4, 2006 at the Newman Conference Center.

Janet Raiffa, Vice President in the Human Capital Management Division at Goldman Sachs, and Lesley Dopp, Senior Vice President of Human Resource with Bank of America, offer their advice on careers to attendant students. Topics include how they get where they are now, their job functions and responsibilities, and skills and qualifications necessary to land a job and succeed in finance.

The event takes place on November 14, 2006 at the Baruch Vertical Campus, Room 14-235, moderated by Julia Rosenfeld, President, Finance and Economics Society, Baruch College.

A panel of distinguished executives in the field of finance discuss their individual career paths and describe some of the skills and qualifications necessary to find a job and build a successful career.

Panelists include Joseph Leone, Vice Chairman and CFO, CIT Group Inc.; Gerald Rothstein, (former) Managing Director, CIBC Capital Partners; and Lawrence Simon, President, Ivy Asset Management Corporation.

A question and answer session follows.

The event takes place on February 28, 2006 as part of Baruch College's Executives on Campus Program (EOC) at the Vertical Campus.

JetBlue Airways founder, chairman and CEO David Neeleman delivers the second annual Burton Kossoff Business Leadership Lecture in the form of a directed conversation lead by Vice President and Dean of the Zicklin School of Business, Dr. John A. Elliott.

Topics covered include Neeleman's multiple entrepreneurial successes leading up to the his founding JetBlue as well as some of the current obstacles facing JetBlue and the airline industry as a whole.

Kathleen Waldron, President of Baruch College makes opening remarks and introduces the speakers.

The 2006 Burton Kossoff Business Leadership Lecture takes place March 7, 2006 at the Vertical Campus as part of Baruch College Executives on Campus program.