Venus Tse Weithaeuser was a trained hardware engineer prior to pursuing an MBA. She now works at Credit Swisse, responsible for the overall definition and development of the bank’s digital strategy as well as executing partnerships with financial technology companies. It is hard to imagine someone with a technical background strives and thrives in the banking industry as the industry has always been extremely traditional, jammed with legacies from the “old banking world”.

Philippe Delplancke graduated from the MBA Programme in Entrepreneurship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2014.

Having graduated from CUHK with a bachelor’s degree in computer science only three years earlier, in 2009 Sam Ngan decided to go back to his alma mater and do a part-time MBA for the simple reasons of preparing himself for any challenges in his new role in management, broadening his network and making some friends. He was hardly prepared for the major changes in his life, which the MBA put into motion and even today he sometimes wonders how it all happened.

Gerardo Salandra co-founded AI chatbot creator Rocketbots after an MBA from Hong Kong’s CUHK Business School

Today in Hong Kong, tomorrow in Beijing, the day after returning to Singapore where he is based before going on to Indonesia, Morden Chen is hard to catch these days. Having started his new job with Alibaba three months ago, he is busy fulfilling his dream of working for one of the largest tech companies and covering huge potential markets as the company goes international.

Fritz Lin, Rongxin He, and Raymond Tang founded TOUCHEU after an MBA at CUHK Business School. They’re using their online marketplace to tackle the fashion industry’s dirty secret.