This event is the 55th in a series of events covering different professions and career issues. There have been 45 Yale Career Panels, 9 Yale Career Fireside Chats and 1 Yale Career Conversations events. Organized 10 years ago by a group of Yale alumni volunteers, these panels strive to provide candid, unvarnished views of featured professions. They will be able to share their perspectives about current state and future of this important sector, how it is segmented, the career opportunities that are available, and what you should know and consider if you are pursuing a career in the sector. The panel discussion will be broadcast via an interactive streaming video platform that will allow Yale students and alumni to ask questions of the panel and interact with each other. There will be a networking period after the one hour panel.
The organizers of these Yale Career Panels are Justin Koslyn, Julie Sohn, Trish Takemoto, and Peter Young. This panel was organized by Julie Sohn and Peter Young.
Topics:
- What are the different sectors within consulting industry?
- Where is the profession heading (good and bad)?
- How do you get into the profession and what is the typical career path?
- What are the myths versus the realities?
- What are the characteristics of people who tend to do well and are happy in the profession?
- What types of people tend not to do well or end up unhappy and why?
- If you don’t stay in the profession until retirement, what are the exit routes to other professions?
Panelists:
Eun Bi Lee, Principal, BCG (Yale College BA)
Latrise Bassett, Director of Operations, Accenture (Yale College BA)
Rob Henske, Partner, Roland Berger (Yale BS, Harvard MBA)
Moderator and Organizer:
Peter Young, CEO and President of Young & Partners (Yale BS)
Biographies:
Eun Bi Lee, Principal, BCG
Eun Bi Lee, Class of 2013 (Davenport College), joined BCG in Mexico City office as an Associate. Since then, Eun Bi has been working extensively with regional and national health insurers with particular focus on growth and clinical strategy.
Eun Bi earned her B.A. in History from Yale University and received an MBA from Kellogg School of Management in 2019 and continues to work as a Principal at BCG in Los Angeles office.
Latrise Bassett, Director of Operations, Accenture
Latrise is currently the Director of Operations for the Office of the CEO at Accenture. Latrise has spent her full career utilizing industry/domain experience to deliver business value to clients. She implemented and stabilized client processes, maximized client operations and uncovered opportunities to reduce costs, increase revenue, improve customer satisfaction and optimize business processes. Prior to her current role, Latrise was the Director of Operations for the Global IT organization. She was responsible for developing the IT strategy, driving business performance, managing risks, and meeting financial and operational targets. Latrise has spent her career leveraging her professional skills to follow her passion for education and economic revitalization by assisting several NYC based non-profits and small businesses in achieving their mission of assisting disadvantaged youth and underserved NYC families. Latrise is the Executive Sponsor for Corporate Citizenship for New York Metro. She also serves on the board of USA for UNHCR focused on raising awareness and funds to address the global refugee crisis. Latrise has her B.A. in Economics from Yale University. She is based in New Jersey.
Rob Henske, Partner, Roland Berger
Rob is currently a Partner at Roland Berger in Boston where he where he is involved in corporate strategy, focusing on the chemical industry. Prior to joining Roland Berger, Rob was a Vice President at Charles River Associates from 2002 to 2012. Previously, he was a Senior Vice President at Arthur D. Little from 1984 to 2002. His first job after graduating from Yale was with Olin Corporation where he was a process and product engineer. Rob earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Yale University and his MBA from Harvard Business School.
Peter Young (Moderator and Organizer)
Peter Young is CEO and President of Young & Partners, a leading boutique investment banking firm focused on the life science and chemical industries. He manages the firm and is actively involved in client transactions and financings.
Prior to founding Young & Partners, Peter was head of various related industry groups at Salomon Brothers, Schroders, and Lehman Brothers, a private equity investor with J.H. Whitney & Co., and a strategy consultant with Bain & Company serving life science and chemical companies. Peter received an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar), an M.S. in Accounting from the New York University and a B.A. in Economics from Yale University. He is a member of the Committee of 100, has served on the board of Societe de Chimie Industrielle since 1990 and has served for 29 years on the Editorial Advisory Board of Pharmaceutical Executive.
The Series Sponsors
This series is jointly supported by various organizations at Yale University and Yale Alumni organizations, including the Yale Office of Career Strategy, the Yale Alumni Association (YAA), the Yale School of Management, Students and Alumni of Yale (STAY), the Junior Class Council (JCC), the Yale.nyc (the Yale alumni association in New York City), and the Association of Asian American Yale Alumni (AAAYA).
