Hello Everyone,

We hope you all had a wonderful winter break and are energized for the upcoming quarter. We are very excited about our upcoming events and hope everyone can participate to their fullest extent. As of now we are putting the finishing touches on our plans for the quarter, so our calendar will be updated soon.

Our first meeting is scheduled for this coming Tuesday, January 13th, from 7-8pm. We will be having our events in a new location this quarter, Theater & Dance 1701, which is across the bike path from the Student Resource Building. Our speaker for this event, Christopher Blair, is a very experienced stock market investor. Mr. Blair is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He is an active investor and is currently working on his first book. He founded C. Blair Asset Management, a wealth management firm in 1998 based in Greenwich, CT. From 1991-1998, he was a VP and Portfolio Manager at Morgan Stanley, managing technology funds. Mr. Blair is also an active member of the board of Directors for SickKids Foundation.

For this meeting, Mr. Blair will shed light on the world of investing by touching on his career experiences as well as the state of the market today. As this is our first meeting of the quarter, members and non-members alike are welcome to attend. Food and drink will be served, so bring your friends and come take advantage of Mr. Blair’s insight.

Feel free to email us with any questions. Join the Facebook event.

The BEA is currently looking for a new Vice President of Marketing and Vice President of Membership for the remaining school year. If you are interested in taking a leadership role within the BEA and would like to apply for one of these positions, email us at ucsbbea@gmail.com and we will send you an application. The deadline to apply is December 3rd.

If you have any questions about the open positions, please let us know.

Hello Everyone,

We will be hosting our first social of the year with a BBQ this Saturday. Come out and grab a burger and a beverage and meet other BEA members. Stop by early to make sure to get food as this event is open to BEA members and anyone interested in potentially joining.

Join the Facebook event.

If you have any questions, please direct them to one of the officers.

Hello Everyone,

The BEA will be having its final official meeting of Fall quarter this Tuesday evening. This meeting, in coordination with AS Investment Advisory Committee, will be featuring financial advisor Chad Kunsyz from Morgan Stanley to talk about careers in finance and wealth management. Come and hear Mr. Kunsyz provide his insight. Free food will be served.

Join the Facebook event.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask.

Hope to see you all there!

Hello members,

There will be no meeting this week as many of you will be having midterms. We will be reconvening on November 4th at the regular time and place and we will be hosting The Princeton Review who will be informing us on the GMAT and MBA schools.

Good luck with all your exams!

Come check out the Business & Beyond Career Fair being held this coming Wednesday from 1pm-4pm in Corwin Pavilion. There will be 50 featured employers at this fair so get those resumes updated and show these businesses what you have to offer. If you have your resume critiqued by Career Services beforehand you will be eligible for early admission. This is an excellent opportunity for many of you who are looking for a summer intership or a job after graduation.

For more information about the employers and the fair itself follow this link to the Career Services website.

Hope to see you all there!

This coming Tuesday News America Marketing will be coming to speak to the BEA. News America Marketing is owned by News Corporation, the same company that owns The New York Post, Harper Collins Publishers, Myspace, 20th Century Fox, Direct TV and various other media companies. N.A.M. sells promotional marketing programs directly to the many of the nation’s most-recognized companies such as General Mills, Kraft, Nestle, Procter & Gamble, just to name a few. They will be accepting resumes so please bring them with you if you are interested in this type of career. For all of you interested in sales and marketing, this is a great time to learn about the opportunities available in the marketing industry, along with the opportunities offered by News America Marketing and News Corporation.

This event is open to BEA members only. If you are not a member but would still like to attend, you may pay membership dues at the door. Dues are $20 for annual membership and $10 for quarterly membership. If you are not interested in joining you also have the option of paying a $5 entrance fee.

The meeting will be from 7-8pm in HSSB 1174. Free food and drink will be served.

Hello everyone! We will be having our second meeting of the year tomorrow, Tuesday the 14th, in HSSB 1174 from 7-8pm. Our featured speaker for the evening will be Mr. Aaron Edelheit, a local hedge fund manager. Mr. Edelheit has been running his fund since the young age of 24, and has been doing so with 22.4% annual returns for over a decade. He has a vast knowledge of investments and investment strategies and boasts over $20 million of assets under management. For all of you interested in current market and economic trends, this will be an especially insightful event.

Food and drink will be served. Please address any questions or comments to one of the officers.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

Hello everyone! The BEA will be having its first meeting of the year this Tuesday, October 7th, at 7pm in HSSB 1174. Our featured speaker, Sanjit Singh, is the CEO of the transportation and logistics company known as Kantana Corportation. Mr. Singh is a UCSB alumni who recieved an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management. His company was launched in 2007 and has already grown to over $1 million in annual revenues. Mr. Singh will be spending the majority of his talk on the topics of sales and entrepreneurship.

Come to this event to learn more about these topics and about other career opportunities. Free pizza and drinks will be served. If you have any questions please feel free to direct them to any of the BEA officers.

Looking forward to seeing you all there.

Interested in investment banking? Check out this internship opening with Commerce Capital Group, an investment banking firm located in downtown Santa Barbara. CCG is a private investment bank providing mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory, private placements and other financial advisory services, primarily to small and mid-sized companies. The internship will cover a period of ten weeks and will demand 12-15 hours a week. For more information visit our BEA Facebook group.