26 Nov 2017

CEMS Alumni Association Prague - Election of the new board

Dear CEMS Alumni,
After a year since our last election, the CEMS Alumni Association Prague (CAAP) is calling for new candidates for its Board who could join the current members who wish to continue their term. We are looking for alumni who have the willingness and little bit of time to develop activities of the Prague CEMS Alumni community and are ready to come up with new insights and ideas, cooperate with other alumni organizations across the globe and with the CEMS team at our home university – VŠE.

Requirements
Candidates must be CEMS graduated alumni and be ready to become official CAA members. Ideally they should work in Prague during their term. Note: Business travel is no problem.

Call for candidates
You may express your interest in running for a particular position or just contact us with your general interest by the 5th of DecemberPlease address your email to vojtech.oplestil@gmail.com. We will then constitute the list of candidates per position and distribute it to all alumni on the 6th of December.
Positions

  • President – responsible as the main representative of CAAP, concrete workload depends on an agreement with other members. The president is one of the statutory representatives of the legal entity CEMS Alumni Association Prague. The president has access to CAAP bank account.
  • Treasurer – responsible for consolidating financials of CAAP. The treasurer is also named as one of the statutory representatives of the legal entity CEMS Alumni Association Prague. The treasurer has access to CAAP bank account.
  • Vice-president – shares responsibilities with the CAAP president, VP can take care of one of the main areas of CAAP (e.g. international collaboration, academic collaboration, organization of alumni events, cooperation with CEMS students).
  • Board members – can be any number of volunteers who would like to help organize events for alumni in Prague in the next term from time to time (event types can be various ranging from social through sports to educative events).
Note: If you want to have a better idea of what activities CAAP ran in the past, please visit http://cemsalumniprague.blogspot.cz/ or just send us a question.
Election
The complete list of candidates will be sent via email on the 6th of December and you will be asked to send your vote till 12th of December.
Results + term start
Results will be announced as soon as all votes are counted and the new team can start its work from 1st January 2018.
We are looking forward to welcoming you "on board". Please do not be afraid to represent the alumni community in Prague. We know everyone’s time is scarce, but you will be for sure rewarded with great feeling from organization of CEMS Alumni events and the time you have to put into this does not have to be any intense workload. For alumni working in corporate partner companies, running CAAP can be seen as great opportunity for career growth.

Vojtech, vice-president of the Board
on behalf of your CEMS Alumni Board Team

19 Nov 2017

Call for new teammates: Join CEMS Alumni Board Team!

Let's build together long-term CEMSational experience in the Czech Republic! 
We invite especially fresh CEMS graduates and international Alumni to come on board 

What is our team doing?
  • We keep the CEMS spirit is alive also after graduation.
  • We organize regular CEMS Talks and CEMS Social gathering.
  • We run CEMS Mentoring Programme.
  • We collaborate closely with CEMS Club and CEMS MIM at VSE to enhance life-long CEMSational experience.
  • Next year, CEMS celebrates 20 years at VSE, which brings vast amont of opportunities how to highlight CEMS Alumni! 

Who are we looking for?
  • Event facilitators, 
  • Creative thinkers, 
  • Community Managers, 
  • Marketing and PR experts, 
  • Technical & IT Specialists.

Interested in joining? Please contact us at cemslumni@seznam.cz.

Your Alumni Board Team

6 Nov 2017

CEMS Talk: Digital First

Thursday 30th November at 7pm: CEMS Talk - Digital First
Top digital leaders sharing their inspiring stories.


Location:
Opero Prague
Registration at: cemsalumni@seznam.cz
Speakers: Petr Smid @Google, Vaclav Graf @Airbnb, Michal Zwinger @Levebee.com
Petr Smid: Head of Consumer Marketing, Central & Eastern Europe at Google
Petr is an exceptional leader, great digital expert and truly inspirational personality not only within the CEMS Alumni Community:
  • Petr spent 7 years at McKinsey and initiated the process of them becoming CEMS corporate partner.
  • Petr helped VSE students to establish country's leading student consulting (Club 307) and digital club (ClickIt - a direct result of CEMS business project)
  • Petr hired 7 CEMSies to his teams at Google and supported several more in joining other teams.
  • Petr is nominated for the CEMS Alumni of the Year. You can still vote here!

Vaclav Graf: Trips Marketing Manager Central & Eastern Europe at Airbnb

Vaclav is an innovative leader passionate about technology with broad experience in both start-ups and global companies.
  • Vaclav launched Uber operations in Prague, the first CEE market
  • As Country Lead managed the expansion of Airbnb in he Czech Republic
  • Vaclav worked a Consultant for a governmental office, EY as well as OECD
  • Currently he is bringing Airbnb experience to Prague, Tel Aviv and Athens
  • In governmental office
Michal Zwinger: Managing Director at Levebee.com (Vcelka.cz)
  • Michal's own introduction says everything: "With passion for perfection and technology, together with my team, we build online services that make people happier. Our apps improve other people's lives."
  • Michal is a managing director at Legentas.com / Rozectise.cz and thereby helps people to read more efficiently.
  • For more than 3 years, he is leading Levebee.com / Vcelka.cz and thereby improves reading capabilities and helps people with reading disorder conditions, including dyslexia.
  • His specialities: User Experience, User Interface, Gamification, E-learning
Pavlína
on behalf of your CEMS Alumni Board Team
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