Welcome to Season 2 of the BLK Podcast! On the first episode of the latest season we are hosting one of the “100 Most Influential People in Finance”. Professor Edward Altman is the Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He is also the Director of Research in Credit and Debt Markets at the NYU Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions. Prior to serving in his present position, Professor Altman chaired the Stern School's MBA...

In this weeks episode we Dani Peleva joining us, She is a managing director at the local frame, which is a marketing agency based in London. Dani has more than 10 years of experience in online marketing and SEO, from managing start-up “Fantastic Services’”, to launching new services and working with clients for Local Fame. Dani is heavily experienced in building out a franchise internally and externally. Dani enlights us on the pillars of franchising. Dani also delves into her personal...

On this weeks episode, joining us we have Alex Edmans professor of finance at London Business School and the current Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College. Alex graduated from Oxford University and then worked for Morgan Stanley in investment banking (London) and fixed income sales and trading (New York). After a PhD in Finance from MIT Sloan, he joined Wharton in 2007 and was tenured in 2013 shortly before moving to LBS. Edmans' research is on corporate...

In this episode, we host Katie Yang who is a Business Planning Analyst at Tesla. Katie has also worked in the consulting industry for firms like Deloitte and she is a recent graduate from the University of Michigan where she studied Biomolecular Science and Business Administration. Katie talks about her zest for the sciences and how she was on route to go to medical school until she found passion in the business side of her studies. Katie takes us through her daily routine at Tesla, and how...

Melekot Abate is a Private Equity Senior Associate in the health care sector at Goldman Sachs. Mr. Abate is a Princeton graduate who has worked for the likes of Google, and Mckinsey & Co. In the episode, Mr. Abate tells us about his upbringing in Yemen, and Ethiopia, and his undergraduate experience at Princeton, which led him to work at Mckinsey. Mr. Abate tells us about his personal interest in finance and how this ultimately led him to get his MBA from Harvard business school. This...

In this week's episode, we have Mr. Estevão the Global Director of the World Bank Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment group. Mr. Estevao has worked for the Ministry of Finance in Brazil, the new development bank (Shanghai), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and Tudor Investment Corporation. Estevão is Brazilian, holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, and has published extensively in journals, books, policy reports, and the print media. In the episode, we discuss Mr. Estevãos personal...

On this week's episode of the BLK podcast, we are joined by the CEO and CO-founder of BLK capital management. Angel is a senior at Harvard College studying Economics with a secondary in Psychology and Computer Science. He is also the Founder and CEO of Zuvy, an iOS app that allows college students to get paid for freelance work on their campus, and is an Incoming Associate Product Manager at Google. On the podcast, Angel discusses his personal experience with finance (how this transitioned to...

On this episode of the BLK Podcast, we are joined by Gerry O'Reilly, who is a portfolio manager at Vanguard. We have an extremely intriguing conversation on bubbles within the market, a vanguard mindset of investing, how teenagers and young adults should start investing. Mr. O’Reilly elaborates on the functionalities of ETFs and Vanguard's role in the popularity of them. We talk about the Gamestop craze, and how that motivated a younger generation to start investing. Mr. O’Reilly gives us a...

Building A Better Future for Tomorrow: features the current president of BLK Captial management, a 100% black-owned and student-run hedge fund, Seven Richmond. In this episode, Mr. Richmond talks about his affinity for learning languages  (Mr.Richmond currently speaks 5 languages), Chess, and naturally finance. Mr. Richmond shares his experience whilst working in Goldman Sachs, and his exceptional personal growth while being part of BLK. Mr. Richmond details what his daily routine consists of...

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