Online Graduation ceremony Executive MBA, WU Vienna University, Austria.

Friday 8 May 2020, we had our online graduation for our WU Executive MBA. I said online, and at the same time, I feel really like if it was physically, such a great and deep emotion!

Yes, 18 Months of hard work and at the same time, such a lot of amazing people I was lucky to work with, share with and learn from.

Thank you all my peers, I was lucky to work with each of you, and we will remain in touch for our life time, with respect, pleasure, support wherever you are, whenever you want, whatever you offer or need, that is our Executive MBA team, that is our soul, that is us as one team:

Mirela Marin, Catalin Mihacea, Benoit Rubin, Elena Stefanescu, Tudor Arsene, Busaga Melania, Diana Crisan, Bogdan-Catalin Mihalcea, Razvan Dogarelu, Simona Baltac, Dániel B?yte, Andreea Bucur, Iuliana Cernat, Laurentiu Dragan, Oana Filipescu, Alin Ghenea, Dan Lucian Grosuleac, Georgiana Iancu (Man), Alpar Katona, Daniel Nedelcu, Razvan Gabriel Popa, Iulia Postolea, Theodor Simion, Catalin Spoiala, Andreea Vintila, Lucian Vlaicu

I learned such a lot, from a human perspective during our MBA, with my peers, with all our excellent professors and doctors from the best universities all over the world:

Professor Gunter Stahl, WU Vienna, Austria, linkedin.com/in/gunter-stahl-58a861ab

Professor Christos Ioannidis, Aston Business School, UK, linkedin.com/in/christos-ioannidis-0492b086

Professor Miquel LLado, IESE Spain, linkedin.com/in/miquel-lladó-247188b

Professor Markus Maedler, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany, linkedin.com/in/markus-maedler-75b85294

Professor Manfred Frühwirth, WU Vienna, Austria, linkedin.com/in/manfred-frühwirth-5620a848

Professor Chuck Kwok, University of South Carolina, USA

Professor Alois Geyer, WU Vienna, Austria

Professor Philip Nell, Academic Director, WU Vienna, Austria, linkedin.com/in/phillip-c-nell-73737b13

Professor Bob Lillis, Cranfield School of Management, UK

Professor Bodo Schlegelmilch, WU Vienna, Austria, linkedin.com/in/bodo-schlegelmilch-801ba623

Professor Jaap Boonstra, Esade Business School, Spain, linkedin.com/in/jaapboonstra

Professor Ravi Bapna, Carlson School of Management, USA, linkedin.com/in/ravi-bapna-1249241

Professor Gal Oestreicher, Tel Aviv University, Israel, linkedin.com/in/gal-oestreicher-855356114

Professor Charles Lafond, WU Vienna, Austria, linkedin.com/in/charlielafond

Professor Jason Li-Ying, Technical University of Denmark, linkedin.com/in/jason-li-ying-8604685

?Thank you all of you dear professors, you are unique!

Thank you, all the previous alumni of our WU Executive MBA for their excellent interventions, sharing with us their experience & projects, ideas or even implementations of a specific concept in a lot of domains (Bank, Engineering, New Technology, Digital, Finance, Strategy, Organization, Process optimization and so on and so forth.

Thank you, all the external speakers, it was a great honor to share, learn and think “out of the box”, Thanks a lot!

Thank you, Professor, Doctor Philipp C. Nell for your positive Energy, for your support during all these 18 Months, and your constant advices to help us to build our Capstone Project.

Thank you, Adriana, for the organization of our journey in New-York, Vienna, and each course in Bucharest & Vienna. You are the soul of our MBA, you are a nice person.

Thank you, Professor, Doctor Barbara St?ttinger, for your kind words during our online graduation yesterday, I really appreciate your presence, and the message you deliver about us as leaders: We will Stand Up!

It is so true, to stand up and encourage our friends, teams, family and colleagues, I completely agree with you, that is the way a leader act every single day, whatever is the weather, with or without Virus, we stand up!

I like so much that quotation of my colleague Lucian, that I have to share it with you here: Leader = Talent + Hard work – Excuses

Thank you, Doctor Vladimir Preveden,linkedin.com/in/vladimir-preveden-49539b73, “former senior partner at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants” and Nicoleta Ruckensteiner,linkedin.com/in/nicoleta-ruckensteiner-3a91356, “former Senior Consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants”, for being part of our Jury members with Professor Nell during our Capstone Presentation, your feed-backs were really helpful & “On the Spot!”.

Thank you Puneet Dalmia Ji,linkedin.com/in/puneet-dalmia-78663a129, Managing Director of Dalmia Bharat Group, my Boss Amit Garg Ji, linkedin.com/in/amit-garg-5b85552, my colleague Director HR Siddharthan R. Ji, linkedin.com/in/siddharthanr, my team Rakesh Sharma, linkedin.com/in/rakeshkrsharma, for your support and open mind to allow me to be present and active participant to all my Executive MBA courses, with frequent travel all over the world. I have a deep respect for you, I wanted you to know that.

Thank you, my Family: My daughter He?di, My son Swann & My wife Stephanie for their patience and support during these 18 Months, without you, I won’t succeed, knowing you with me was the best I could dream, you are my heart.

See you Physically in Vienna next year to celebrate altogether our graduation, physically with a lot of Champaign!