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1. WesTrek 2008Info Session November 8, 2007
2. Agenda What is WesTrek?
How do I sign up?
Company update
Next steps
Contact information
Q & A
3. What is WesTrek? WesTrek is a nationally recognized, student-run conference that brings together MBA students from Harvard Business School and dynamic companies in the San Francisco Bay Area
Now in its 12th consecutive year, WesTrek expects to draw 50+ companies and 100+ HBS students
Dates for WesTrek 2008
Dates: Monday, January 7 through Thursday, January 10
Cost: $150 ($25 discount for TechMedia & West Coast club members)
Deposit: $100 (will refund upon completion)
Napa WineTrek: Friday, January 11 (cost and itinerary TBD)
4. What is WesTrek? WesTrek goal – enable participants to achieve two objectives:
Network with SF Bay area companies
Resume book
On-site company presentations
Sponsored company dinners and networking events
Space for all company events allocated via lottery
Have fun and get to see the SF Bay area
Social events with fellow participants
Social events with HBS alumni and Stanford GSB students. (open to all participants...)
Wine Trek to Napa on Friday (separate registration)
5. What is WesTrek? WesTrek is…
A flexible framework that allows each participant to target the companies they are interested in visiting
A great opportunity for you to network with companies and make contacts that will help your job search
A chance to have fun with lots of other HBS students WesTrek is not…
A complete itinerary where the entire group travels together to all the same company events
A series of job interviews where you should attempt to close the sale and expect to get hired on the spot
Focused exclusively on either career or social events
6. Participating Companies 11/8 update: Target companies
Technology (Alex Kirn, Wan Li Zhu, Marco Ottonello)
Confirmed: eBay, Salesforce.com, nVidia, Plug and Play Tech Ctr., Second Life
In Progress: Google, Yahoo, Apple, Oracle, VMWare, Youtube, Slide, Abbott Lab, Adobe, Cisco, Symantec, SAP
VC & PE (Joe Narens, Rick Armbrust)
Confirmed: Silver Lake Partners, Texas Pacific Group, SVB Capital, FFL, Golden Gate Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
In Progress: Vector Capital, Bessemer Partners, Carlyle Group, Draper Fisher Juvetson, Sequoia, Summit, IDG Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Consulting & Financial Services (Marcin Karnowski, Anh Pham-Vu)
Confirmed: Bain, BCG, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, The Capital Group
In Progress: Booz Allen & Hamilton, Dodge & Cox, Offit Hall Capital Management, JP Morgan, Hellman Friedman, ValueAct Capital, Sageview Capital, Calera Capital (formerly Freemont)
Others (Lisa Kostova, Ellen Lee)
Confirmed: Clorox, Safeway, Genentech
In Progress: DelMonte, Gap, Method Products, Williams-Sonoma, Levi Strauss
7. Next Steps Important dates
Complete trek information poll – by Nov 18
http://poll.hbs.edu/poll/taker/pollTaker.jsp?poll=118454
Submit trek payment via the registration poll – by Nov 18
Book travel arrangements - ASAP
Select lottery preferences - early December
Receive lottery results - mid December
Attend WesTrek - January 7-10
Participant responsibilities
Airfare, lodging, and transportation within Bay area
Sign up for events that will maximize the trek’s value to you
Attend all company sessions confirmed on your schedule
(No $100 deposit refund if you miss any event)
8. WesTrek 2007 Team President – Yao Li (yao@mba2009.hbs.edu)
COO – Ellen Lee, Ben Joe
CTO – Ali Wasti
Industry Track VPs
Technology – Alex Kirn, Wan Li Zhu, Marco Ottonello
VC/PE – Joe Narens, Rick Armbrust
Financial Services/Investment Management – Anh Pham-Vu
Consulting – Marcin Karnowski
Consumer Products – Lisa Kostova
Social VP – Lisa Kostova
9. Q & A ?
10. Who do we talk to?(a sample of the 50+ companies in 2007)
11. WesTrek (sample schedule from 07) Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Morning 1
nVidia, Silver Lake Partners, Del Monte Foods
Morning 2
eBay, Salesforce.com, McKesson, Goldman Sachs, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Afternoon 1
Adobe Systems, Vector Capital, Booz Allen Hamilton, The Capital Group Companies
Afternoon 2
Bain & Company, Trident Capital, Dodge & Cox, Clorox, Intuit founder Scott Cook
Dinner
Palm, Inc., Bain & Company