Amara Uyanna 🇳🇬 Class of Insead 23J

Amara has had an exciting career full of pivots - from the oil & gas industry to being inspired to help communities she saw struggling due to the same industry with virtual reality, and more… Listen in to listen to her brave and bold career moves.

View the documentary she made about the impact of refineries & local communities in Nigeria here: https://youtu.be/bSsBTdONiM0

Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉

Raisa Bruner 🇺🇸 Class of Insead 23J

Raisa is an already accomplished journalist who started her career at the Yale Daily News (writing about SWUGs - go read about it if you are not familiar with frat culture).

Prior to Insead, she worked as a journalist for Time Magazine in NYC for 6 years. She hustled her way into music reporting, which led her to incredible interactions with celebrities (she confirms: they are as insecure as us).

Join us for a dive into the world of a modern reporter and pick up some tips on how to write a great story along the way.

Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉

1 - Used to ski race ⛷️ 🗻

2 - Lived in 10 cities across 5 continents  🌎 🌍 🌏

3 - Went on a date with Sam Bankman-Fried 🏦 🚨

Francesco Bracotti 🇮🇹 Class of Insead 23J

Francesco started off his career on the race tracks going up to F3 (which helped him humiliate us mere Inseaders at Go Karting) 🏁 🏎️

He experienced a tough change in his life at 18 which led him to end the F1 dreams to pursue a career in healthcare, which he realised he was much more passionate about. He provides us with insights into the inner workings of Big Pharma, and makes the case for us to trust these companies to drive innovation within the industry.

Francesco had a lot of crazy experiences in his career: discovering molecules to administer drugs to our lungs (we geek out on mucus quite extensively together 😅), taking on the COVID portfolio during the crisis and being selected as Forbes under 30 (according to him he is just a consistently “lucky” guy).

Stay tuned until the end to elucidate his 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉

1 - He defeated Carlos Sainz 🏎️ 🏆

2 - He had a nervous breakdown 🙀

3 - He doesn’t drink alcohol, smoke or drink coffee 🙅 🥂 🚬  ☕

Johan Lammers 🇳🇱 Class of Insead 23J

Johan is a passionate problem solver who has a strong desire to have a positive impact in this World. We discuss his studies of War, what he would do in an end of the World scenario 🌎 💥, how he became the confident public speaker he is today 🗣️, why he decided to become a consultant (think MANY ☕ 💬) and what his experience on the job was (how do you become optimised? Think MECE? What is your job? What to expect if you start dating a consultant? How to manage your time under pressure?).

Stay tuned until the end to elucidate his 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉

1 - He photobombed the Dutch prime minister 📸 🕺

2 - He was explaining grown men how to load and shoot musket rifles at age 12 🔫  🪖

3 - He drove in a battle tank at a NATO compound 🚧

Raman Garimella 🇮🇳 Class of Insead 23J

Raman is passionate about sports whether it’s sweating on a field or working on aerodynamic gear. It started with cricket, the gentleman’s sport 🏏. He then focused on cycling where he worked his way up from zero to nationals 🚴‍♂️. He is a gritty human who works hard on achieving his goals. His newfound passion is cooking which he has done for 100+ Insead students so far (perhaps you will be lucky enough to get invited to a biryani at his home).

Stay tuned until the end to elucidate his 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉

1 - Has ran 25 marathons 🏃 💨

2 - Taught competitive sudoku solving in an elementary school 🤓 🧩

3 - Used to sleep in a rented house that was a kindergarten during the day 🚸 🏫

Mayank Kapadia 🇮🇳 Class of Insead 23J

Quick episode on how to reduce your carbon 🦶. His partner and him have been trying to live more consciously the past years, and he was finding himself having a lot of individual discussions with Inseaders sharing his knowledge SO we decided to implement our POM learnings and make the process more efficient 😉

Listen to find out:

Link to see how you can reduce your emissions the best:

https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/what-can-we-do-personally-to-reduce-emissions/

Daisy Rustomjee 🇮🇳 Class of Insead 23J

She comes from Pune in India and is an impressive entrepreneur that started a restaurant business with her brother after university. She walks us through her business for good philosophy, which is influenced by her faith, Zoroastrianism. We learn about her experiences starting up her business from managing employees to decisions of quality of ingredients and price. She had to adjust her strategy over time, and weathered  many challenges such as covid restrictions as well as the proliferation of food delivery apps.

Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉

1 - She lives with 2 dogs, 2 cats and a pet squirrel 🐕🐕🐱🐱🐿️

2 - She is a close relative of Freddy Mercury 🎤

3 - She has tasted cow urine 🐮

Stavros 🇬🇷 Class of Insead 23J

Stavros worked his way up the ranks on ships ⛴️ transporting liquefied natural gas ☠️ before coming to Insead. He immerses us into this highly specialised field with high risk situations.

He also introduces us to his powerful life story where he had to become a very responsible human at an early age.

Stay tuned until the end to elucidate his 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉

1 - He’s jumped off a plane ✈️  🪂

2 - He reset his own arm after breaking it on top of a mountain 💪 ⛰️

3 - Coffee is his vice  ☕

Victor Butenko 🇷🇺, Harsh Gajra 🇮🇳 and Tim Rownes 🇦🇺 Insead Class of 23J

Victor, Harsh and Tim are some of the most active participants of Memesead, our very own class group dedicated to sharing Memes and open to both Inseaders and their partners. The telegram group was created by Victor to prevent flooding their section group chat with Memes.

We discuss how the three got into Memes in the first place, what the meme creation process looks like 🤔, why companies should care about hiring memers 🤣, how to create funny memes (there is no magic 🪄 shortcut - sorry), their favourite professors to roast and why 🧑‍🏫, the meme that stopped the class for more than 10 minutes ⌛, … etc

Note: We experimented here and used the two microphones 🎙️ we have for 5 people (Saumya and I interviewing the 3 boys) - this affected the voice clarity so apologies in advance for some parts being less clear. On a positive note, it mostly affected the interviewers which is much less important than our interviewees 😙

Emma Thompson-Murphy 🇨🇦 Insead Class of 23J

Emma is passionate about the outdoors as the co-founder of Moutainsead ⛰️ and the music industry 🎵 which she worked in before Insead. She walks us through her hustler story in the industry working around the World. We also discuss the music industry as a whole (festivals, artists) and how it was affected by Covid / streaming platforms.

Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉

1 - She played competitive ice hockey as a leftwing 🧊 🏒

2 - She was once on a 90-hour train 🚋⏲️

3 - She was snuck across a Russian military checkpoint and illegally crossed the Russian-Georgian border 🇷🇺 👮 🇬🇪