Class Updates

Summer 2009

Karthik Suresh (MS18) began a new job this summer at Knight Capital Group, just over a month after getting laid off from Morgan Stanley. "It was definitely a life experience to get laid off during one of the worst recessions in history, and also being a foreign worker, it almost seemed impossible to land a job especially in the financial sector," he reported. He now enjoys his job even more than the last: "I work on Knight Direct EMS which is the Electronic/Algorithmic Trading System of Knight. It provides direct market access, through its broker-neutral trading platform, to multiple asset classes and offers industry leading algorithms. I specifically work on the order routing team and this is definitely something better than what I was doing."

Ramu Panayappan (MS18): "It has been a year since I graduated and looking back, it has been an eventful one. Started to work for a startup as a researcher in Pittsburgh. The crumbling economy had its say on the startup and within months I had to look for other opportunities. Now, I am happy to be part of one of the intellectual teams within Riverbed in sunny California."

Cohon Proclaims "2nd Age of Carnegie Mellon in Silicon Valley," Khosla Envisions "Crown Jewel" for College of Engineering. CyLab reports from the Carnegie Mellon alumni event for the Bay Area in June 2009.

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