Imperial Business Podcast

Sports Buff #5: How to take the risk and go into sports

In this episode of The Sports Buff, Daniel is joined by Oscar Cantu. Oscar took a series of risks in his life to pursue his great passion for sports and journalism, which has taken him on a great journey working for Sporty Group, a prominent entertainment company brokering deals with sports leagues such as: the EPL, Bundesliga, and Serie A.

Sports Buff #4: Finding the right mix of passion and knowledge required in the sports industry

In this episode of The Sports Buff, Daniel and Henry are joined by Imperial alumn and current analyst at The Sports Consultancy Oli Ng. Oli had always been a sports enthusiast, but he found a way to turn this passion into a career. Tune in to hear his story. 

IB Green Minds #25: In conversation with Joel Tasche

In this episode, Moritz is joined by Joel Tasche, Founder & CEO of Cleanhub – a waste management and recognition software company. Together with his team, Joel is on a journey to collect plastic waste before it can even enter the world's oceans. Join us for an episode about plastic waste, it’s different players and what role “plastic credits” play in the waste ecosystem!  

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Sports Buff #3: How to win a gold medal while studying at Imperial

Join Henry and Daniel as they interview Jamie Lim, who just won her second SEA Games gold medal earlier this month. Jamie, a world-class karate fighter who doubles as a current MSc Business Analytics student at Imperial, tells her inspiring story and the challenges she’s faced along the way.

Social Media:

• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-christine-lim-08804a242/ 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jamiechristinelim/ 

IB Green Minds #24: Building decarbonization Series 1/2 with Cody Finke, CEO of Brimstone

In this episode, Desiree and Moritz speak to Cody Finke, CEO of Brimstone about building decarbonization and cement decarbonization. Here, they focus on the founding story of Brimstone, Cody’s background, and why he focused on cement decarbonization. Cody shares his experience building a company in this sphere, Brimstone’s differentiation and process of making carbon negative cement, and the challenges the company faces in scaling their solution internationally. Cody, Desi, and Moritz also discuss the market landscape of companies working on cement decarbonization and the pros/cons of each solution. Lastly, they discuss risk and quality standards, stakeholder engagement, and the talent gap facing the industry.  

 

Biography: Cody Finke is the co-founder and CEO of Brimstone Energy, a company working to commercialize carbon-negative cement by using calcium silicate rock. Cody completed his postdoctoral work as a DOE-funded Cyclotron Road entrepreneurial fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Finke received his Ph.D. from Caltech where he studied electrochemistry and industrial decarbonization. Prior to his Ph.D. Cody received a BA in Chemistry from Carleton College where he was awarded a Goldwater Scholarship by the US Government.  
 

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IB Green Minds #23: In conversation with Karman Space Programme

In this week’s episode, Moritz sat down with Shapol and Rohan from Imperial College’s very own Karman Space Programme. The two have been part of the team from the very beginning, both managing multiple different departments. Together with their team they aim to build a reusable liquid bi-propellant rocket, thereby not only supporting the sector’s decarbonization efforts but also contributing to the research breakthroughs needed, to affectively fight the climate crisis here on earth. 

And of course the all so important question about the colonization of Mars was asked as well – so tune in and learn more about how a space programme can actually support sustainability efforts! 

The Sports Buff #2: The ‘Wild West’ of Sports Agencies, with Ben Peppi

Join Henry and Daniel as they discover what its like to manage sportsmen and women in a more digitised era. How does one become a football agent? Are they overpaid, and what is the future of how athletes connect with sponsors? These are all topics tackled in this week’s edition of The Sports Buff.  

A Byte of Business Analytics #3: Alumni spotlight - Butterfly tales of Vanessa Emoldi

Vanessa is currently working as a Data Scientist in Product Analytics at Meta. She completed her bachelor’s degree in economics at Northeastern University in the US. After graduation, she worked as Business Intelligence Analyst across different functions such as web analytics, logistics, and payments at Wayfair for 3 years then moved to the UK.  

She will share with us her career experience across different roles and countries. You may also notice we have a very beautiful podcast title today, butterfly tale. Let’s listen in to find out more.  

Connect with Vanessa via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-emodi/ 

Resources recommended by Vanessa:  

1. Notion for goals-tracking 

1. Data Camp for technical training  

Share with us a statistic, your feedback, and any topic you would like us to discuss via our email address: ibbapodcast@gmail.com  

IB Green Minds #22: In conversation with Ciara Barry

This week is Fashion Revolution Week, an annual campaign bringing together the world's largest fashion activism movement for seven days of action. That's why Claudia invited Ciara Barry, Policy and Campaigns Manager at Fashion Revolution to Green Minds to talk all things fashion. Today's episode also features Delphine-Maire Zacharias, a fellow MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance student of Claudia's, who led the Berlin Ambassador Group of Fashion Revolution. This talk includes: 

• Rana Plaza's collapse importance in the fashion movement 
• What Fashion Revolution does to improve the state of the fashion industry 
• The inequality and wealth distribution in the fashion industry 

• Fair living wage – Good Clothes, Fair Pay campaign 
• GHG emissions associated with the fashion industry 
• Who plays the biggest role in pushing the industry to become more sustainable 

Fashion Revolution Manifesto: https://www.fashionrevolution.org/frw-2023/ 

Bangladesh Accord Website -  https://bangladeshaccord.org/ 

Good Clothes, Fair Pay Campaign: https://www.goodclothesfairpay.eu/ 

Fashion Future and Sustainability online course: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/fashion-s-future-and-the-un-sustainable-development-goals- 

Strategic Marketing #6: Data Journalist Celeste Huang

Strategic Marketing alumni and WARC Media data journalist Celeste Huang joins Senior Teaching Fellow in Marketing and Strategy James Eteen to discuss her current role and trends in media consumption and marketing.