Students Apply Knowledge to Become Champs in Future Leadership Program

(Left to Right) Dato’ Sri Nazir Abdul Razak, Group CEO, CIMB Group, Chan Yung Mun, Chan Jinn Yep, Chang Mei Yan, Joyce Oo Pui Yee, Phillip Owens, Director, Future Leadership Programme, Wall Street Journal Asia and Hamidah Naziadin, Head, Group Corporate Resources, CIMB Group

Sunway University Students emerged the champions of the Business Challenge event in the CIMB Group and Wall Street Journal Asia Malaysia Future Leadership Program 2008/2009 held recently. The team made up of four students, Chan Jinn Yep, Chan Yung Mun, Joyce Oo Pui Yee and Chang Mei Yan beat teams from 8 other private and public universities and colleges. The four are pursuing B.Sc (Hons) joint degrees in collaboration with Lancaster University at Sunway.

The Business Challenge comprised the submission of a business proposal, presentation of the proposal and a quiz during the grand final held recently at the Securities Commission. The title of the business proposal was “Opportunities for Financial Services Amidst the Economic Crisis”.
The quiz which was the highlight saw participants engaged in three rounds of quizzes. The final round had a risk and reward element in the game which added spice to the whole exercise. The Sunway team had earned a total of RM8,000 in “investment money” in this round enabling them to beat the other teams in the quiz.

Team leader Chan Jinn Yep shared “This competition provided us a chance to prove that the knowledge gained from our course complimented by our own current affairs knowledge can be utilized in the real business world”. Team mate Chan Yung Mun added “We were trying to gain as much experience as possible and at the same time, it was fun. We just tried our best not to be knocked out”.

For their amazing efforts each team member won a return Air Asia air ticket to Hong Kong, RM500 cash in a CIMB-AirAsia Saver account and trophies.