St. Louis Area Alumni Chapter

Important Note for St. Louis Area Alumni Members:

If you have not received email updates in the past regarding St. Louis Area Alumni Chapter events, and you would like to be notified, send an email to Jean Tucker in the Central Office. Please provide your full name, email address, and school name and year of induction into Beta Gamma Sigma. This is a great way to help us keep you informed about the happenings of your St. Louis Area Alumni Chapter.

 

 

Chapter News, Upcoming and Recent Events

 

Please join Beta Gamma Sigma St. Louis Area Alumni Chapter for Q4 '11 Event!

Event Date
Wednesday, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:00 PM

Where
Pujols5 Restaurant,
Westport Plaza,
St. Louis

Event Time/ Additional Information
 6 to 6:30 p.m. Networking, Free appetizers, Chapter updates
6:30 to 7 p.m. Speaker Fred Travis: Risk Management 101
7 to 7:30 p.m. Q&A, Happy hour, any other business
7:30 p.m. Adjournment, We may stay over dinner (on your own)

RSVP to
ghoshstl@gmail.com


What is Risk Management?

Why should you care?

Who does it and why?


Risk Management is a topic that has been a prominent news feature since the housing crisis and “financial meltdown” of 2008. All of the big banks and brokerages said – and even thought -- they had risk under control; in hindsight, nothing was further from the truth. Since then all are telling the regulators and customers that they have corrected the problems.

But just 3 years later UBS, one of Switzerland’s and the world’s largest banks – who wrote off billions of dollars in bad real estate loans after 2008 – recently lost another $2.6 billion because a junior derivatives trader placed terrible trades and concealed the losses while trying to recover by making ever-larger bets. What makes it worse: less than one year ago, UBS hired a new head of Risk Management to great fanfare.

So what went wrong, and why? Is Risk Management that difficult? And how does it affect you personally?

Speaker Fred Travis, Vice-President of BGS St. Louis Chapter with over 30 years of experience was Director of Safety and Risk Management for Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. and is Owner and Principal of Risk Management Consulting with global practices.


Help Revitalize the St. Louis Area Alumni Chapter.  The St. Louis Area Alumni Chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma needs new volunteers. As a lifetime member of BGS who resides in the St. Louis area, we hope you’ll step up to the plate and get involved. The more members who say “yes” the less effort on any one person’s part – and the more fun everyone can have.

Over the last several months, we have seen a lot of enthusiasm and activity generated by various BGS alumni groups around the globe, and I truly believe that you will find involvement in and the opportunity to network with fellow BGS member colleagues, a uniquely worthwhile and satisfying experience.  Remember, you each graduated "the best" in your business programs.

What we have been hearing from other chapters is that by keeping the chapter activities simple, interesting, informal and inexpensive, it is easier to get busy people involved and allow a group cohesiveness to develop.

So, my request is that you reply to our office if you are willing to participate in this effort.  We will be looking for several people to serve as point people:  someone to identify meeting space located in a somewhat central, convenient location where a group could meet and get to know one another.  Any ideas or offers to assist in obtaining a location are welcome.  Additionally, if anyone is willing to be a local contact person for the group, we would like to know that also.  As we move forward, there will be many more opportunities for involvement by all who are willing. The more people willing to assist in this effort, the smaller the task of each and the greater the opportunity to recharge the chapter into something of great value to you, its members.

We look forward to hearing from each of you. Email Jean Tucker at jtucker@betagammasigma.org or call at 314-432-5650. We truly believe that your involvement in this venture will be personally and professionally beneficial to you.


To download an application for membership, please go to http://www.betagammasigma.org/pdfs/alum_app.pdf and return it to the central office:

Beta Gamma Sigma
125 Weldon Parkway
Maryland Heights, MO 63043


 

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Sam Gosh
ghoshstl@gmail.com

 

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