Voices of Insead

Amara Uyanna 🇳🇬 Class of Insead 23J Amara has had an exciting career full of pivots - from the oil & gas industry to being inspired to help communities she saw struggling due to the same industry with virtual reality, and more… Listen in to listen to her brave and bold career moves. View the documentary she made about the impact of refineries & local communities in Nigeria here: https://youtu.be/bSsBTdONiM0 Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉 1 - She is fluent in sign language 🤟🏻 🫰🏻 👌🏻 2 - She called off her engagement 4 weeks before a 2,000 people wedding  💒 ❌  3 - She’s very good with handguns and rifles 💥 🔫

Raisa Bruner 🇺🇸 Class of Insead 23J Raisa is an already accomplished journalist who started her career at the Yale Daily News (writing about SWUGs - go read about it if you are not familiar with frat culture). Prior to Insead, she worked as a journalist for Time Magazine in NYC for 6 years. She hustled her way into music reporting, which led her to incredible interactions with celebrities (she confirms: they are as insecure as us). Join us for a dive into the world of a modern reporter and pick up some tips on how to write a great story along the way. Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉 1 - Used to ski race ⛷️ 🗻 2 - Lived in 10 cities across 5 continents  🌎 🌍 🌏 3 - Went on a date with Sam Bankman-Fried 🏦 🚨

Francesco Bracotti 🇮🇹 Class of Insead 23J Francesco started off his career on the race tracks going up to F3 (which helped him humiliate us mere Inseaders at Go Karting) 🏁 🏎️ He experienced a tough change in his life at 18 which led him to end the F1 dreams to pursue a career in healthcare, which he realised he was much more passionate about. He provides us with insights into the inner workings of Big Pharma, and makes the case for us to trust these companies to drive innovation within the industry. Francesco had a lot of crazy experiences in his career: discovering molecules to administer drugs to our lungs (we geek out on mucus quite extensively together 😅), taking on the COVID portfolio during the crisis and being selected as Forbes under 30 (according to him he is just a consistently “lucky” guy). Stay tuned until the end to elucidate his 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉 1 - He defeated Carlos Sainz 🏎️ 🏆 2 - He had a nervous breakdown 🙀 3 - He doesn’t drink alcohol, smoke or drink coffee 🙅 🥂 🚬  ☕

Johan Lammers 🇳🇱 Class of Insead 23J Johan is a passionate problem solver who has a strong desire to have a positive impact in this World. We discuss his studies of War, what he would do in an end of the World scenario 🌎 💥, how he became the confident public speaker he is today 🗣️, why he decided to become a consultant (think MANY ☕ 💬) and what his experience on the job was (how do you become optimised? Think MECE? What is your job? What to expect if you start dating a consultant? How to manage your time under pressure?). Stay tuned until the end to elucidate his 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉 1 - He photobombed the Dutch prime minister 📸 🕺 2 - He was explaining grown men how to load and shoot musket rifles at age 12 🔫  🪖 3 - He drove in a battle tank at a NATO compound 🚧

Raman Garimella 🇮🇳 Class of Insead 23J Raman is passionate about sports whether it’s sweating on a field or working on aerodynamic gear. It started with cricket, the gentleman’s sport 🏏. He then focused on cycling where he worked his way up from zero to nationals 🚴‍♂️. He is a gritty human who works hard on achieving his goals. His newfound passion is cooking which he has done for 100+ Insead students so far (perhaps you will be lucky enough to get invited to a biryani at his home). Stay tuned until the end to elucidate his 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉 1 - Has ran 25 marathons 🏃 💨 2 - Taught competitive sudoku solving in an elementary school 🤓 🧩 3 - Used to sleep in a rented house that was a kindergarten during the day 🚸 🏫

Mayank Kapadia 🇮🇳 Class of Insead 23J Quick episode on how to reduce your carbon 🦶. His partner and him have been trying to live more consciously the past years, and he was finding himself having a lot of individual discussions with Inseaders sharing his knowledge SO we decided to implement our POM learnings and make the process more efficient 😉 Listen to find out: What are the main steps you can do to reduce your emissions? Can you eat your mexican avocadoes with a peaceful mind? 🥑 🧘‍♂️ What is up with the Insead bin system (who truly understands it)? Could it be improved? 🗑️ ♻️ Clothing consciousness? What to do with all those Strategy& Tees? 👕 Are Americans 🌭 really that much worst than Europeans 🥐 ? Link to see how you can reduce your emissions the best: https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/what-can-we-do-personally-to-reduce-emissions/

Daisy Rustomjee 🇮🇳 Class of Insead 23J She comes from Pune in India and is an impressive entrepreneur that started a restaurant business with her brother after university. She walks us through her business for good philosophy, which is influenced by her faith, Zoroastrianism. We learn about her experiences starting up her business from managing employees to decisions of quality of ingredients and price. She had to adjust her strategy over time, and weathered  many challenges such as covid restrictions as well as the proliferation of food delivery apps. Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉 1 - She lives with 2 dogs, 2 cats and a pet squirrel 🐕🐕🐱🐱🐿️ 2 - She is a close relative of Freddy Mercury 🎤 3 - She has tasted cow urine 🐮

Stavros 🇬🇷 Class of Insead 23J Stavros worked his way up the ranks on ships ⛴️ transporting liquefied natural gas ☠️ before coming to Insead. He immerses us into this highly specialised field with high risk situations. He also introduces us to his powerful life story where he had to become a very responsible human at an early age. Stay tuned until the end to elucidate his 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉 1 - He’s jumped off a plane ✈️  🪂 2 - He reset his own arm after breaking it on top of a mountain 💪 ⛰️ 3 - Coffee is his vice  ☕

Victor Butenko 🇷🇺, Harsh Gajra 🇮🇳 and Tim Rownes 🇦🇺 Insead Class of 23J Victor, Harsh and Tim are some of the most active participants of Memesead, our very own class group dedicated to sharing Memes and open to both Inseaders and their partners. The telegram group was created by Victor to prevent flooding their section group chat with Memes. We discuss how the three got into Memes in the first place, what the meme creation process looks like 🤔, why companies should care about hiring memers 🤣, how to create funny memes (there is no magic 🪄 shortcut - sorry), their favourite professors to roast and why 🧑‍🏫, the meme that stopped the class for more than 10 minutes ⌛, … etc Note: We experimented here and used the two microphones 🎙️ we have for 5 people (Saumya and I interviewing the 3 boys) - this affected the voice clarity so apologies in advance for some parts being less clear. On a positive note, it mostly affected the interviewers which is much less important than our interviewees 😙

Emma Thompson-Murphy 🇨🇦 Insead Class of 23J Emma is passionate about the outdoors as the co-founder of Moutainsead ⛰️ and the music industry 🎵 which she worked in before Insead. She walks us through her hustler story in the industry working around the World. We also discuss the music industry as a whole (festivals, artists) and how it was affected by Covid / streaming platforms. Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉 1 - She played competitive ice hockey as a leftwing 🧊 🏒 2 - She was once on a 90-hour train 🚋⏲️ 3 - She was snuck across a Russian military checkpoint and illegally crossed the Russian-Georgian border 🇷🇺 👮 🇬🇪

David 🇨🇦 and Mattijs 🇧🇪 Valedictorians of Insead Class of 22D David & Mattijs are coming towards the end of their Insead experiences 👨🏻‍🎓🧑🏼‍🎓 They were both elected by their respective campus’ to represent their class & will be making speeches on graduation day. 💬 We touch on mostly Insead centric topics such as: Singy VS Fonty Campus Partners Diversity Favourite classes Stay tuned until the end to elucidate their 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉 Mattijs 🇧🇪 1 - He was the national champion in a high school poem writing competition ✒️ 2 - He first got to know about Insead on Tinder ❤️‍🔥 3 - He used to do archery as a sport 🏹 David 🇨🇦 1 - Has run more than 100km at once 🏃 2 - Is slowly losing his skin pigment ⏳ 3 - Was a professional ballet teacher 🩰

Almaha Almari 🇰🇼 Class of Insead 23J She introduces us to her story, culture and country. Almaha not only had an impressive career, but is also a highly engaged female activist 💪 👭 We talk about the state of female rights in Kuwait, her personal definition of feminism and discuss prejudices that muslim women face in Western society. Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉 1 - Her family owns the only river in Kuwait  🌊 2 - She was the first woman of her family to drive a car 🚗 🧕 3 - She is allergic to camels 🐪☀️🐪

Julia Linthicum 🇺🇸 Class of Insead 23J shares her story with us Julia is the co-president of Outsead: Insead’s LGBTQIA+ club. She shares with us more facts & her experience of being asexual (often referred to as "Ace"). We also discuss how our current society has yet to improve a lot to be more inclusive. Stay tuned until the end to elucidate her 2 truths and a 1 lie 😉 1 - A giraffe once bit her thumb 🦒 2 - She placed in the Irish Dancing World Championships 👯‍♀️ 3 - When she was young, she was once scouted for a small movie role off the streets of Paris 🥐 🧒

Jesse Schow 🇺🇸 Class of Insead 23J shares his story with us Jesse grew up in a religious community in Utah called the LDS church (formerly known as Mormon). He tells us about what it was like to grow up in this community, work as a missionary in the Philippines 🇵🇭 & what led him to lose his faith. Stay tuned until the end to elucidate the following 2 truths & 1 lie that he shared with us 😉 1 - he was expelled from his high school 🎓 2 - he was adopted 👪 3 - he is a direct descendent of Joseph Smith 👴

Supavit Rangdaeng aka Buba 🇹🇭 Class of Insead 23J shares his story with us 🧘 Meditation 🧘 is a key part of his life after experiencing being a monk for a month. He tells us about how meditating keeps him sane & aware, and how we can incorporate it in our daily life to help us make authentic decisions. Stay tuned until the end to elucidate the following 2 truths & 1 lie that he shared with us 😉  1 - he's drank his own pee 🚽🥂 2 - he owns at least 5 closets full of clothes 👞👕 3 - he is an expert massager 💆‍♀️ 

Lucile Feron 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 Class of Insead 23J shares her story with us What it was like to work as an aerospace engineer on launching rockets to space 🚀 💫 🛰️ ? What got her there 👩🏻‍🎓 ? What brought her to Insead 💼?