Suffolk University Sawyer Business School Graduate Programs 2008-2009 - (Page 12) MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION noelio flores has embarked upon an exciting career in global business— a career he first envisioned in his native Cuba more than a decade ago. Knowing he needed the type of education and opportunity available in the United States, Flores made the rough journey by boat in 1994. After several months in Guantánamo Bay, he was finally allowed to enter the United States. Noelio came to Boston and has been actively pursuing his dream, working full-time while attending both college and graduate school. Noelio discovered Suffolk University on his way to work in downtown Boston, while Sargent Hall, home of Suffolk Law School, was being built. “I wanted to study at an exciting, growing place,” he says. Now he has laid the foundation of his career with a Suffolk MBA. “Suffolk is a great school—very supportive,” he notes. “My classmates came from a wide variety of cultures, and I have learned from their different points of view.” The Global Travel Seminar was one of the highlights of Noelio’s MBA program. He traveled to China, an experience he chose for personal and professional reasons. “China is an important market in the global economy, and coming from another communist country, I was interested to see how two systems—communism and capitalism—work in one country,” he says. That experience in China proved timely as Noelio recently began working for Lenovo, an international technology company based in Beijing just entering the US market. As a global business analyst, Noelio outsources financial support services and recently embarked on his first international business trip for Lenovo. Immediately after finishing his Suffolk MBA, Noelio left for the Philippines, a global businessman set to live his dream. Noelio Flores MBA ’07 Global Business Analyst Lenovo, Boston, Massachusetts hometown: Havana, Cuba undergraduate education: Eastern Nazarene College undergraduate major: Business work experience prior to suffolk: Akamai Technologies, Procter & Gamble 12
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