Episode 5 - Georgia Stevenson: Breaking Into Venture Capital

05/13/19 • 16 min

In this episode, LSE student Danyal Adnan sits with Georgia Stevenson, Associate at Northzone, a global early-stage VC fund. Danyal asks Georgia about her journey from being a management student to a VC associate and what she learned along the way. Georgia also shares her advice for LSE students who wish to pursue a career in VC.

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Episode 4 - Puja Turner: Debt Capital Markets in Emerging Economies

Puja Turner is Executive Director and Head of CEEMEA Loan Finance at J.P. Morgan. Puja completed her MBA from Wharton and went on to lead capital markets teams at top banks like Deutsche and Goldman Sachs, before coming back to J.P. Morgan to head the CEEMEA Loan Finance Team. In this conversation, she explains what debt financing is all about and what role it plays in stimulating growth in emerging markets. Puja also shares her advice for LSE students aiming to pursue a career in leveraged finance.

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Episode 6 - Plamen Monovski: All Things Investing

Plamen Monovski is a seasoned investor who helped build the emerging markets team at Blackrock, and served as Managing Director there before joining Renaissance Asset Management as CIO. Today, Plamen is an angel investor on a mission to transform investing in private companies using the power of quant. He also teaches young professionals with promising careers how to invest in the public market so that they build real wealth overtime.

If you are interested in learning more about Plamen's investment course, please reach out to him at [email protected]