BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Anchorage X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Anchorage BEGIN:VEVENT UID:331@alaskaworldaffairs.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20220321T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20220321T130000 DTSTAMP:20231231T065524Z URL:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/archived-events/speed-mentoring-interna tional-edition-2/ SUMMARY:Speed Mentoring: International Edition DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe Alaska World Affairs Council and the Anchorage School D istrict have teamed up to offer a jump start to high school students consi dering international options in their post-secondary journeys. Students wi ll rotate through 8 minute mentoring sessions with mentors from a wide spe ctrum of industries with international scope. Check out the success of our  past Speed Mentoring events.\n\nStudents will have the opportunity to sp eak with high-level mentors with experience in a variety of fields. Past m entors have included lawyers\, judges\, architects\, medical professionals \, oil and gas\, diplomats\, presidents\, CEOs\, economists\, professors\, non-profits professionals and many more. Keep checking back to find out m ore about the mentors attending!\n\nAll students must submit an applicatio n to participate in 2022 speed mentoring. The deadline to do so is March 1 6\, 2022.\nSTUDENT REGISTRATION\nAre you interested in becoming a mentor f or 2022 Speed Mentoring? Fill out the form below!\nMENTOR REGISTRATION\n\n \n\nKeynote Speakers:\nLenny Moon\, Chief Financial Officer of FLOAT Alask a LLC and Chief Executive Officer of FlyCoin. He has extensive experience in high growth start-ups\, mergers and acquisitions\, and successfully lea ding companies through operational and financial turnarounds. Lenny was a strategy consultant at Arthur D. Little in the late 1990s\, and a venture capitalist at KB Partners in Chicago. From 2006–2012\, he was an investm ent banker with Bear Stearns and Lazard\, where he successfully executed M &\;A\, equity\, and debt transactions across a variety of sectors. He t hereafter served in various chief financial officer roles\, including Payo ff\, a start-up fintech company\, and Motorsport Aftermarket Group\, a pri vate equity-backed holding company. Lenny received a Bachelor of Science f rom the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds an MBA from C olumbia Business School. He serves on the board of directors at HTI\, an o rganization dedicated to freeing victims of human trafficking.\n\nTom Hsie h\, President of FLOAT Alaska LLC\, parent company to FlyCoin\, Ravn Alask a\, and Northern Pacific Airways. Tom began his career in communication te chnology\, joining EarthLink in the 1990s\, where he managed engineering a nd IT functions for over a decade. Tom oversaw Earthlink’s growth from a fledgling start-up through its successful IPO on the NASDAQ exchange. Tom ’s passion for entrepreneurship and innovation has led him to spearhead a number of organizations and initiatives focused on driving social change . He serves on the boards of the Intervalley Health Plan in Pomona\, CA\; the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership\; the Los Angeles County Fair Association\; and the Claremont Graduate University. An active community m ember and business leader in southern California\, he co-founded FLOAT Shu ttle Inc. in 2018\, a venture-funded shuttle airline service catering to c ommuters and corporations in the greater Los Angeles area. In April 2020\, Tom was instrumental in the acquisition of Ravn Air Group. Tom received h is Bachelor of Science in Physics from Harvey Mudd College and has an Exec utive MBA from the Peter F. Drucker School of Management. He and his wife\ , Bree Devones Hsieh\, live a purposeful life and are committed to non-pro fit and civic efforts.\n\nRob McKinney is chief executive officer of North ern Pacific Airways (dba Ravn Alaska)\, where he leads a team of 400 emplo yees and manages a growing fleet of aircraft that fly to destinations that will space across the Pacific.  In addition to being a Learjet captain\, Rob has over thirty years of airline experience piloting commercial aircr aft and managing flight operations.  In 2002\, as VP and director of oper ations at Pacific Wings\, a Hawaiian-based commuter airline\, Rob oversaw exponential customer growth\, tripling passenger traffic during his three year tenure. He thereafter joined Mokulele Airlines in Hawaii as chief ope rating officer\, where he successfully converted the company from a small air touring service into a fully scheduled commuter airline.  Rob returne d from Hawaii in 2007 to join SeaPort Airlines\, a small startup based in Portland\, OR.  As chief operations officer\, and later chief executive o fficer\, at SeaPort\, Rob established commuter shuttle service between Por tland and Seattle. Rob received his BS in Technology from Purdue Universi ty and has an MBA from Ellis College/NYIT.  He hails from the state of In diana.\n\n\n\nThank you to our generous event sponsors:\n\n\nInterested in becoming a featured sponsor for the 2022 Speed Mentoring event? Contact Operations Director Siobhan Choi at siobhan.choi@alaskaworldaffairs.org. 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