Alumni

Stay connected with the Business School

The University of Sydney Business School's alumni are among its greatest assets. Around the world, our alumni enjoy the benefits of membership of the University of Sydney's international network.

We encourage all our alumni to stay in touch with the Business School and remain engaged in the teaching, research and industry-based initiatives the Business School offers. By being a part of our alumni community, you can meet fellow graduates, reconnect with former classmates and develop your Australian and international business networks.

Register your details with the University Alumni office to ensure you receive our alumni newsletters and event invitations. We look forward to working with you to provide a world-class school that continues the proud Sydney business tradition.

Get involved

We coordinate a wide range of activities and opportunities for people and companies to become actively involved in the Business School and the education and development of our students. To participate, contact Monica Vanderkley or email business.alumni@sydney.edu.au.

Benefits include:

ongoing development through mentoring, guest speaking and involvement in our community and social enterprise projects
brand recognition and engagement
network building through the University's numerous partnerships
community development opportunities and engagement
involvement and influence on the education and development of our future workforce participants and entrepreneurs.

Ways to get involved

Speaking opportunities

We are passionate about sharing the success of our graduates as well as connecting our alumni with current and future students. We have various speaking and volunteering opportunities available, ranging from involvement in careers panels, recruitment fairs and podcasts to student project marking. To get involved please register your interest.

Mentoring

We encourage alumni to offer our students mentoring in key areas of business and career development. Learn more about the Alumni Mentoring Program.

Welcome to Sydney

Welcome to Sydney is a program connecting international and regional students with alumni. It is our way of introducing our new students to some of the people and places that make Sydney one of the best cities in the world.

Industry Placement Programs

Provide in-company, short-term placements for students. The Business School Industry Placement Program allows you and your organisation to identify and develop the business leaders of the future.

Careers events and recruitment opportunities

The Business School Careers and Employability Office coordinates various careers events throughout the year. If you are interested in recruiting graduates from the University of Sydney Business School, please contact sarah.fletcher@sydney.edu.au.

International alumni volunteer program

A select group of international alumni who volunteer their time to encourage offshore alumni and friends to maintain contact.

Financial support

The Business School is fortunate to benefit from ongoing corporate and individual support, with finances developing research, scholarships, outreach activities and events that benefit both students and industry. Learn how you can support us.

Alumni Awards and Graduate Medals

Nominate outstanding alumni and our most recent graduates for our prestigious annual Alumni Awards program.

Graduation addresses

The University of Sydney Business School has been honoured to have the occasional address at our graduation ceremonies presented by:

2018

Date	Time	Degrees being conferred	Speaker
Wed 30 May	9.30am	UG	Martin Blake NSW Chairman & Australian Leader for Insurance Sector at KPMG Australia (Speech (pdf, 66kb))
Wed 30 May	11.30am	UG	Mark Monaghan Senior Managing Director, Institutional and Corporate Relationships - Australia, ANZ (Speech (pdf, 28kb)) BEc(1981)
Wed 30 May	2.00pm	UG	Karina Kwan Non-Executive Director BEc(1990)
Thurs 31st May	9.30am	PG	Andrew Kuruc Manager, Practice Development NSW/ACT, MLC (Speech (pdf, 48kb)) MBA(Exec)(2002)
Thurs 31st May	11.30am	PG	Patrick Medley Managing Partner, Kedleton & Co (Speech (pdf, 39kb)) MBA(1988)
Thurs 31st May	2.00pm	PG	Freya Smith Chief Legal Officer, OFX (Speech (pdf, 127kb)) LLM(2014)
Tuesday 5 June	9.30am	PG	Robert Thomson Acting Assistant Commissioner - Public Groups & International, ATO MInternatTax(2013)
Tuesday 5 June	11.30am	PG	Clary Castrission OAM CEO of 40k Group (Speech (pdf, 105kb)) EMBA(2017)
Tuesday 5 June	2.00pm	PG	Cristina Cifuentes Commissioner at the ACCC (Speech (pdf, 30kb)) BEc(1983)
Wed 3 Oct	9.30am	UG	Nicholas Molnar Co-Founder, AfterPay (Speech (pdf, 66kb)) BCom(2012)
Wed 3 Oct	11.30am	UG	Martin Blake NSW Chairman & Australian Leader for Insurance Sector at KPMG Australia
Thurs 4 Oct	9.30am	PG	Christine Yates Executive General Manager, NAB (Speech (pdf, 49kb)) BEc(1984)
Thurs 4 Oct	11.30am	PG	Robert De Souza President APAC / CEO Australia & NZ, Aon Benfield (Speech (pdf, 220kb)) BEc(1982)
Thurs 4 Oct	2.00pm	PG	Lesley Jolly Executive General Manager, Human Resources & HSQE, CIVEO (Speech (pdf, 512kb)) BEc(SocSc)(1995) MLLR(2004),
Fri 5 Oct	9.30am	PG	Jeffrey Choi Group Chief Information Security Officer (Group CISO) at Qantas (Speech (pdf, 49kb))
Fri 5 Oct	11.30am	PG	Daniel Petre AO Founder, AirTree Ventures (Speech (pdf, 132kb)) MBA(1986)

2017

Date	Time	Degrees being conferred	Speaker
Thursday, 11 May	9.30am	UG	Andrew Cannane - General Manager Managed Funds Services \| Perpetual Corporate Trust - Managed Funds Services BEc(1994), MBA(Exec)(2005)
Thursday, 11 May	11.30am	UG	Carla Hoorweg, Senior Policy Manager Investment, Technology & Innovation at Financial Services Council MBA(Exec)(2006)
Thursday, 11 May	2.00pm	UG	Kate Watson, GM Information Strategy, CBA
Thursday, 11 May	4.00pm	UG	Nicholas Peter Flood, Client Executive at IBM MBA(2017)
Friday, 12 May	9.30am	PG	Sam Hallinan, Managing Director, Nikko Asset Management
Friday, 12 May	11.30am	PG	Andrew Howard, Chief Operating Officer, REST Super
Friday, 12 May	2.00pm	PG	Adam Gee, CEO of SuperRatings BA(1994)
Friday, 12 May	4.00pm	PG	Jim Dominguez
Thursday, 12 October	9.30am	PG	Skander Malcolm, Managing Director and CEO, OFX BEc(1990)
Thursday, 12 October	11.30am	PG	Wendy Zhu, Senior Economist, ATO BCom(2005)
Thursday, 12 October	2.00pm	PG	Rebecca Mason, Founder, The Time Masons BEcSocSc(2008), MCom(2011)
Thursday, 12 October	4.00pm	PG	Andrew Baxter, CEO, Publicis Worldwide Australia
Friday, 13 October	9.30am	UG	Hiam Sakakini, Co-Founder of ThinkChangeGrow
Friday, 13 October	11.30am	UG	John O'Mahony, Partner \| Deloitte Access Economics BCom(LibStud)(Hons)(2003)
Friday, 13 October	2.00pm	UG	Elsa Payne, Non-Executive Director, Hannover Life Re of Australasia Ltd BEc(1976)
Friday, 13 October	4.00pm	UG	Annie Corlett AM BEc(1980)

2016

Date	Time	Degrees being conferred	Speaker
Friday, 22 April	9.30 am	UG	Mr Rod Henderson, Tax Partner – Energy & Natural Resources, KPMG BEc(1984) LLB(1986) LLM(1999)
Friday, 22 April	11.30 am	UG	Hugh Harley, Financial Services Leader PwC Global Emerging Markets BEc(1984) LLB(1986)
Friday, 22 April	2.00 pm	UG	Julia Newbould, The Stella Network Leader at BT Financial Group BEc(1989),
Friday, 22 April	4.00 pm	UG	Ms Sheridan Lee, Founder and Executive Chair, Shed Enterprises BEc(1985)
Thursday, 12 May	9.30 am	PG	Marina Trusa, Senior Manager of Wealth Management Finance at Commonwealth Bank MCom(2010)
Thursday, 12 May	11.30 am	PG	Peter Gunning, Chief Executive Officer for Russell Investments (Asia Pacific Region) GradDipEc(1989) MEc(1991) BEc(1988) (Speech (pdf, 110kb))
Thursday, 12 May	2.00 pm	PG	Dr Toby Heap, Founding Partner H2 Ventures BAppSc (Syd) ’99, PhD (Syd) ’05, MCom (Syd) ‘11
Thursday, 12 May	4.00pm	PG	John Keith, Managing Director, Head of Financial Institution Coverage of BNP Paribas E.M.B.A.(2011)
Wednesday, 5 October	4.00pm		Mr Niall Henderson, Chief Financial Officer, The College of Law
Thursday, 6 October	9.30 am	PG	Mike Abbott, Head of Operations Australia & NZ at UBER BCom(2004)
Thursday, 6 October	11.30 am	PG	Corey Payne, Executive Director and Founder of the Future Direction Network BCom(2007) MCom(2014)
Thursday, 6 October	2.00 pm	PG	Stephen Porges, Founder and Director of Katasi BScAgr(1985) MBA(1994)
Friday, 7 October	9.30 am	UG	John Kelly, Founder and CEO Atomo Diagnostics E.M.B.A.(2011)
Friday, 7 October	11.30 am	UG	Ms Pascale Helyar-Moray, Founder, StyleRocks BA(1997) MCom(2002)
Friday, 7 October	2.00 pm	UG	Edyta Torpy, Advisory Director, Optimiss Consulting BSc(1991)

2015

Day, Date and Time	Degrees being conferred	Alumni Speaker
7 May 2015 at 9.30am	MCom, GradDipCom, GradCertCom	Ms Anna Booth (BEc’78), Deputy President, Fair Work Commission
7 May 2015 at 11.30am	MCom, GradDipCom, GradCertCom	Mr Bill Ferris AC (BEc’67), Executive Chairman, Champ Private Equity (Speech (pdf, 191kb))
7 May 2015 at 2.00pm	MHRM&IR, GradDip HRM&IR, GradCert HRM&IR, MPhil, MintBus, MMKTG, GradCertMktg, MTM, GradDipTM	Associate Professor Robin Stonecash, Director, Executive Education; Program Director of the Global Executive MBA, University of Sydney Business School
7 May 2015 at 4.00pm	PhD, MLogMan, GradDipLogMan, GradCertLogMan, MMGT, MMGT (CEMS), MPACC, GradDipPAcc	Mr Chris Anderson (BEc’67), Former CEO, Fairfax, Television New Zealand and Singtel Optus
8 May 2015 at 9.30am	BCom, BCom (LibStud)	Dr Kenneth George Coles AM (BE(EngTech)’48), previously Executive Chairman of Conveyor Company of Australia, non-executive director of Stockland Trust, NRMA, NRMA Insurance, Chatham Investment, Permanent Trustee and Coles Myer
8 May 2015 at 11.30am	BCom, BCom (LibStud)	Professor Marian Baird, Director of the Women at Work Research Group, University of Sydney Business School
8 May 2015 at 2.00pm	BCom, BCom (LibStud)	Mr Christopher Mapp (BA’94), Chairman, Omnilab Media Investments
8 May 2015 at 4.00pm	BCom, BCom (LibStud), Hons students, BEc	Noelene Palmer, Head of Operations ANZ, Swiss Reinsurance Company

Beta Gamma Sigma Alumni Network

Beta Gamma Sigma is the international honour society for students enrolled in business and management programs. Each semester the Beta Gamma Sigma nominating committee at the University of Sydney Business School elects eligible graduates and students for collegiate chapter membership.

Membership in Beta Gamma Sigma lasts a lifetime. With 30 international chapters, the Beta Gamma Sigma Alumni Network invites members to participate in a wide range of events and engage with high-achieving business alumni around the world.

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