Work in a Startup company!
Elina Pavlidis | January 18, 2010Don’t want to work for an evil corporation?! Check out your alternatives!
In collaboration with Bridgecamp and the MBA Entrepreneurship club, the McGill Entrepreneurs’ Society is hosting an information session about working in a startup company.
The event is preliminary to a career fair that will be held exclusively for startups looking to recruit students (internships/jobs) mid-February.
When? Thursday the 21st of January at 5:30
Where? Bronfman, 3rd floor, MBA lounge
Who? Frédéric Lalonde, serial entrepreneur whose former company NewTrade Technologies was acquired by Expedia in 2002. He has accepted to come talk to McGill students about startup culture, startup ideas and his current project, openplaces.org with two of his developers.
More about our guest speaker: Frederic Lalonde, Expedia veteran and a famous serial entrepreneur, Frederic is currently the founder and CEO ofOpenplaces.org, a travel start-up that aims to be the world’s largest organized repository of maps, pictures, details and advice about every place in the world that anyone has ever travelled to. He started his career in the internet industry when heco-founded Newtrade Technologies Inc, a hugely successful start-up that was acquired by Expedia in 2002. Next, he moved to Expedia, one of the largest travel companies in the world, where he was Vice President of Hotel Supplier Strategy and was responsible for developing the Expedia Direct Connect technology product strategy, and for signing-up the major hotel chain partners (over 10,000 hotels) for Direct Connect. He later became Vice President of Hotels & Packages Product Planning inExpedia and played a key role in the company’s acquisitions of Hotels.com, TripAdvisor and eLong.
(Source : MakeMyTrip.com)
