dates below are in mm-dd-yyyy format.

progress

01-16-2026

• rep’d at the hku employer talent event (speed networking). this is where the seed was sown. spoke to sheena neo , recruit head of APAC early careers @ BNY (Bank of New York Mellon) singapore, where she said 30-40% of her hires are now from non-trad business majors

02-02-2026

• attended a career talk on campus and made connections. panel consisted of winsome leung (deloitte), donna kirmani (manulife), and samantha kwong (polymer capital). the latter two did similar undergrad major as i!
  • got asked to write a testimony as well

02-04-2026

• received an offer + joined ECG (Eureka Consulting Group), a premier consultancy on campus mentored by Deloitte

02-06-2026

• called jiankai gong , hku student doing finance & molecular bio + currently @ CICC

02-07-2026

• called terence mahony

02-11-2026

• coffee chat with brandon julio hadisaputro , hku student doing molecular bio & finance with several internships in healthcare/biotech investment

02-13-2026

• chatted with larry leung, a senior advisor @ hku cedars careers section (prev. HR + recruit in finance industry)

02-15-2006

• called terence mahony

02-20-2026

• called min sub lee , a biotech equity researcher @ Guggenheim Investment Partners

02-24-26

• called lilian ho , a banker turned career coach @ NextNova
• gained access to NextNova community with resources for comprehensive structure and direction to help with breaking in

02-25-26

• called andrew chen , a healthcare consultant @ Health Advances

02-26-26

• called frankie fong , an equity researcher @ AB Bernstein (formerly)

02-28-26

• attended the first talk of the HKLSS entrepreneurship series at Nan Fung Tower, 88 Connaught Road. spekaer was wilson from novus life sciencs

03-01-26

• submitted for round 1 of HSBC Private Bank Case Challenge 2026

03-03-26

• called conny lin
• applied to GBA Homeland Investments, and in so doing..
• discovered liepin.com , a chinese recruitment platform (i need to improve my chinese.)

03-04-26

• reached out to Lester Ziyi Zhou, equity research @ hku trading group. talked about stock pitching + ER
• met suchir mital (morgan stanley) and pipin tasdyata (bnp paribas)

03-06-2026

• coffee chat with samantha kwong , exec director of platform strategy @ polymer capital (prev. schonfeld, morgan stanley, pinebridge, maybank)

03-10-2026

• finished my first draft of stock pitch on NYSE: ZEPP. subsequently sent out to several people for feedback. further revisions made.
  • next: publish on substack or something

03-12-2026

• coffee chat with lily gu, equity sales @ GF Securities
• coffee chat with lester zhou, architecture & finance student @ hku
• careers talk @ hku. met kevin pereira (blu AI + prev at citibank and BNY), agnes wun , and crystal fok (head of business dev @ cyberport. prev HKSTP)

03-13-2026

• went to jumpstarter 2026 (alibaba)
• met alfonso ballesteros , MD @ crossbow ventures. emailed on 03-14–2026.
• discovered Value Investors Club (VIC). great place for finding stocks + reading pitches. and potential to publish my own writings (though needs to go through a application process)

03-14-2026

• (long overdue) finally revised my cv tailored for finance.
• should i join this competition? https://www.mcgillinvestmentclub.ca/stock-pitch first round is due on 20th march though. find people.