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FEMBApalooza Top Ten List

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  • We did it!  The biggest FEMBApalooza ever!  Over 1,000 people attended from 18 different FEMBA Class Years, plus faculty, family and friends.

    Mil gracias–a Thousand Thank You’s–to everyone who made FEMBApalooza 4 great!

    Thanks to Christy Marquez (FEMBApalooza manager), the FEMBAassadors and FEMBA Council, Anderson Marketing, FEMBA Student Affairs, Operations, the GAP team, the Center for Global Management, Alumni, Development, Diversity, Full-Time MBA & Executive MBA staff, all our vendors, our “Teaching under the Trees” faculty (Miguel Unzueta, Ian Larkin, Corinne Bendersky, Gonzalo Freixes and also David Cooley from Alumni Career Services), all the Anderson Club representatives and Entrepreneurs, FEMBA caterers Sharon Lee ’15 (Yogurtland) and Shreena Grewal ’17 (Bites Desserts), Alumni-Success-Story Abhilash Patel ’12, Wendy Spinner and all the Anderson Alumni Association Executive Committee members, Senior Associate Dean Margaret Shih, Dean Judy Olian, our FEMBA admissions team: Christy Marquez, Raymond Morada, Maureen Riley, Cynthia Summerville, Vanessa Carlos, Matt Gorlick ’13, and all our student clerks, current and alumni, and finally, Joe and Josie Bruin!  Enjoy the top ten list below, and the whole photo album.

    And now, drumroll please, the 2015 FEMBApalooza 4, Top Ten List:

    # 10  NO RAIN

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    # 9  OVER 1,000 ATTENDING, NEW RECORD, NEW LOCATION

    983 students/alumni/guests signed-in, plus we had volunteers at the Biergarden/Club/Entrepreneur Zone end who didn’t sign in.

    20150719_FEMBApalooza4_BalloonArchShadow_19825130506_0702b15fba_o# 8  THE GROUP PHOTO & UCLA 8-CLAP

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    # 7  FAMILY FUN

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    # 6  FEMBASSADORS & TEAM ORGANIZERS

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    # 5  DEAN JUDY OLIAN

    Judy was on fire, rallying the audience with the three pillars of Think in the Next, especially “Share Success.”

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    # 4  JOE & JOSIE BRUIN

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    # 3  ALUMNI VICTORY  ABHILASH PATEL 2012

    Abhilash greeted the 2018s in Korn Convocation Hall in the morning. He just sold both his companies the Friday before for $60M!  Pretty amazing result, three years post-graduation. Listen to his presentation on Mediasite (forward to 58:30)

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    # 2  TEACHING UNDER THE TREES

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    # 1  WELCOMING OUR NEW 2018 FEMBAS TO THE FAMILY

    We hope you’re as keen to join FEMBA as we are to welcome you!

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