Alumni's Journey to the Boardroom - "Presenting to Boards" (Registration closed)

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Registration for the event has been closed due to overwhelming response. Thank you for your support. 

As part of our mission to provide a lifelong learning experience, and continuously improve our alumni value proposition, I would like to invite you to our first session of the series “Alumni’s Journey to the Boardroom” to be held on Saturday,10 June, 9am – 12:30pm at HKUST Central Campus, Hong Kong Club Building.
 
“Presenting to Boards”  is a onetime opportunity for those senior executives who are required to report to a board, or for those aspiring to be a board director.

 

In the session, Andrew Macintosh will cover the following points:

 
What boards focus on 
Financials: a sample board pack
Risks: mitigants and quality
Strategy: what is left out
 
Effective board presentations: short, aligned, answering questions 
Building a business case: financials, risks, strategic alignment
Delivering an incident report: what happened, optics & media, fallout
Approving an M&A transaction: strategic reasoning, analyst community, pro-forma financials
 
Case study: preparing a board presentation 
 
Getting to “no objection”: how boards decide; building consensus 
Board politics
Identifying roles, players, and factions
Developing consensus
Rubber stamping vs discussions vs decisions
 

Our facilitator for the session, Andrew Macintosh was appointed as Managing Partner, Hong Kong of Delta Capita in 2016. - a China-Africa private equity firm and the adjunct faculty at Macquarie Graduate School of Management. Prior to this, Andrew was a partner in a Chinese private equity firm specialising in oil & gas, and General Manager of Banking at NAB in Hong Kong.  Andrew facilitates for the Australian Institute of Company Directors, delivering their Directors course for future and current Board Directors. An Executive Director himself, he is the Chairman of the Australian Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of Acorus Asset Management, and sits on several other boards including the Australian International School. 

 
Fees for the session are – HKD $600 and include lunch and refreshments.
 

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Tanya Menzel at tlmenzel@ust.hk

 

Jun

10

Date
10.06.2017
Time Zone
GMT+8
Time

09:00 - 12:30 

Venue

HKUST Business School Central, Rm 1501-02, 15/F Hong Kong Club Building, 3A Chater Road, Central, Hong Kong (MTR J3 Exit)

Event Host
MBA/MSc Career & Professional Development
Reg. Deadline
25.05.2017