The Fifth Speech for “Large view in management---SEM Alumni Forum” was successfully held in classroom 312 on the day of 18th November, 2014. The honored guest invited this time is the alumni of class of 1986----Lu Yuebing, who is the vice president of Siguler Guff Fund in China and researcher of Coller PE(Private Equity) Research Institutes of London Business School. The topic of the speech is “PE Invest: a machine manufacturing outstanding enterprises.”
At first, the Alumni Lu Yuebing reviewed his related experiences in mother school, also the story that how a lecture once hold in school enlighten him and changed his fate. Mr. Lu encouraged all presented listeners to actively participate in various kinds of speech forums to broaden horizon and increase knowledge for making a clear and right life career planning. When analyzing the PE Investment, Mr. Lu showed the example of Alibaba Group IPO which has been focusing a lot of attention recently in the whole society, including that how five rounds of capital was raised during 15 years, how Alibaba Group completed its listing on New York Stock Exchange with capital of 25 billion dollars, and what important role Siguler Guff has played in fundraising process. When talking about the experience of PE’s engine role in promoting enterprise development, Mr. Lu summarized four points: 1. Careful and selective buying; 2. Driving delivery of the business plan; 3. Management and incentives; 4. Selling well.”
In the following 30 minutes interactive sessions, Mr. Lu patiently answered every question and gave detailed instructions in face of student’s caring on PE issues, for instance, how graduates enter PE companies and some financing methods for College Students start an enterprise.
The secretory Dai Shufen finally made a summary for this lecture and expressed gratitude to Mr. Lu’s wonderful speech.