In 2024, the MIT Sloan alumni community stayed busy doing everything from founding venture capital firms to creating opportunities for second-chance hiring.

For Brian Via, an SFMBA student, every day is an opportunity to create new connections. Follow Brian as he attends his classes, advises classmates, spends time focused on work, and meets with his friend Jeff Lau, currently a global director at Google.

A globally focused leader from Port au Prince, Haiti, Clifford Reginald Nau, SFMBA '22, managed the tech incubator Alpha Haiti and was a professor of public policy at the Centre de Techniques de Planification et d’Economie Appliquee before joining the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA. He has an extensive backg...

Pablo Espuela, SFMBA ‘24, is a global business leader with expertise in digital business strategy, operations, and international affairs.

For nearly two decades, Google has been working on technology that helps people collaborate across continents. “We want to connect people all over the world so that they can to do great things together,” says Suzanne Frey, SF ’06, vice president of engineering and product at the global dynamo.

The annual networking event brings together local alumni and students from all degree programs to strengthen personal and professional ties across the MIT Sloan community.

Before entering the MIT SFMBA, Karen Kumakura Inomata, SFMBA ’23, worked as a senior manager at a global management consulting firm where she connected the pharmaceutical business in Japan to the wider world with a range of projects, including cross-border M&A and market-entry and R&D strategies.

The extended MIT Sloan alumni community had many unique stories to tell this year.

If you ask Rocio Fonseca, SF ’14 , how she is tackling the present crisis, don’t be surprised if she retorts, “Which one?”