Entries from May 28th, 2009
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Posted May 28th, 2009 By J Bueno | 5 Comments |
Joined the Meltwater New Ventures group in March 2009. Currently working as an Associate in the San Francisco office.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Education: BS, Human & Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University, 2002
MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2008
Fanatical about: Indigenous cultures, meditation, biking, trekking, Eastern Religions, vintage travel accessories and argyle socks
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Seven years ago you would have found me surrounded by children living in extreme poverty in Tibet. Five years ago you would have found me rebuilding a community in rural Mongolia. Three weeks ago, you would have found me working with Tibetan Refugees, a pickaxe in hand, and knee deep in the rubble of a 300 year-old Buddhist Monastery located in a village called Chairro tucked away in the Himalayan mountains of Nepal. Today, I’m on the 2nd floor of a San Francisco high-rise working on investments for Meltwater Group. What’s the connection, the common link, the motivation? The answer…
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Category: Career Reflections
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Posted May 27th, 2009 By Kimling | 3 Comments |
Former TV news reporter who made the jump to Corporate Communications at Meltwater.
Location: San Francisco CA
Education:
BA Philosophy, Wellesley College 2004
MS Broadcast Journalism, Boston University 2005
Fanatical about: Yoga, food, road cycling, great video production and swimming
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I started with Meltwater News in September 2006, joining the most common entry-point into the company, the International Management Trainee program.
Starting out in the Silicon Valley office, I can’t honestly say that I knew what I was getting myself into. I knew from the interviews that I liked the people and that a sales role was going to be challenging. I learned soon after joining the office, that Silicon Valley was the breeding ground for most of the current leaders in the US Meltwater organization. It was a hot office; people were fired up and there was a difficult-to-describe energy and pulse in…
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Category: Career Reflections
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Posted May 26th, 2009 By KathiP | 1 Comment |
Joined Meltwater beginning of 2007 in Berlin, headed to the Munich office for 7 months and is now opening the first Meltwater News office in New Zealand.
Location: currently Sydney, soon Auckland, NZ
Education: University of Passau, Germany
Fanatical about: Ballet, modern art, traveling and food (latest addiction: scones)
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I thought opening up the first office of Meltwater News in New Zealand would be a challenge, but right now I am faced with even a bigger challenge: how to start my very first blog post???
Introducing myself seems like a good idea…
So here goes: my name is Kathrin – called Kathi though by everybody – I am 27, and I started working for Meltwater in Berlin in February 2007, right after graduating with an International Business and Cultural Affairs degree from the lovely University of Passau in Germany.
After graduating I was open to doing a lot of things but I did…
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Category: Career Reflections
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Posted May 21st, 2009 By NickyD | No Comments |
With Meltwater since June 2006, took a world tour with Meltwater News through Silicon Valley, Philadelphia, New York, Buenos Aires, most recently landing in SF to help build the MW Communications effort.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Education: BA Political Economies of Industrial Societies, UC Berkeley 2006
Fanatical about: Cycling, running, Danish Modern, art collecting, music mixes, Bourbon
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It’s not the first time at Meltwater that I’ve been presented with a task foreign and intimidating to me with the expectation that I would step up to the challenge.
Meltwater News represented to me exactly what I wanted out of my first job - the possibility to lay a career path for myself in an entrepreneurial company where I’d be exposed to business on a practical level. At that point in time, Meltwater News had only one US office in the heart of Silicon Valley that was nothing more than a pile of cardboard boxes and unassembled Ikea furniture. I had no…
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Category: Career Reflections
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Posted May 20th, 2009 By JennyGale | No Comments |
With Meltwater since April 2008. Trained in Silicon Valley, and then moved to Austin to work with the first Texas team. Currently the Managing Director of the New York office.
Location: New York, NY
Education: MA, Conflict Resolution and Negotiation, St. Edward's University 2008
Fanatical about: Classic cars, vintage dresses, travel in Eastern Europe, rock climbing, and Pit Bulls
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When asked in January of 2008, “What are your career plans? “…
My answer was the inevitable: ”I’m moving to New York to work as a consultant by day, and fashion designer / entrepreneur by night.”
And that was the plan.
I was already designing, manufacturing, and selling a popular line of Pin-UP Girl inspired dresses in Texas with a small business that I had built from the ground up with my best friend / business partner… and we were most definitely ready to take on the Big Apple, 1950’s style.
I also had a BA in Inter-Cultural Communication, a Minor in Russian Studies, and…
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Category: Career Reflections
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