About Me: After graduating from McGill University in 2004 and not finding employment in Canada, it was time to return back home to Connecticut. For two years, I worked as a Senior Teller at NewAlliance Bank in Vernon. In Fall 2006, I started a full-time MBA program in International Business and Marketing at St. John’s University, Queens, NY. In Spring 2007, I’ve started research for a Masters Thesis. In May 2007, I completed a two-week seminar in finance in London. Any chance I can get to travel is one that satisfies me.
Activities: McGill Tribune (A&E alum editor), French Institute | Alliance Française, my Masters Thesis:
Corporate Social Responsibility Marketing of American and Western European Multinational Enterprises: A Longitudinal Study of Stakeholder Engagement
Interests: 127 rue Prince Arthur est, ARSENAL Football, Café Dépôt (specifically the 24-hr one on the corner of St-Laurent/Prince Arthur, MTL), Computing, Corporate Social Responsibility, Downhill Skiing, Euro-style coffeehouses, Geopolitics, Guitar, HABS Hockey, International Political Economy and Business Debate, La Belle Ville de Montréal, L’équipe de France de Football, Macro-trends (i.e. Tipping points, Long Tails, Black Swans, etc), Montreal CANADIENS Hockey, Olympique LYON Football, Pepe’s Pizza (New Haven, CT), Poetry, Politics, Poutine, Songwriting, Starbucks, Sustainable Business, Triple Bottom Line, Urban Underground Rail Systems (Subway, ‘T, ‘ Metro, Metropolitain, Tube, Underground, etc…), Waxing philosophical
Favorite Music: Top Six: Rane, Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Wilco, U2, Coldplay
Alternative/Rock: The Album Leaf, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Badly Drawn Boy, The Beatles, Beck, Bloc Party, Broken Social Scene, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Doves, Elbow, Engineers, Feist, The Flaming Lips, Franz Ferdinand, The Hives, Kings of Convenience, Kings of Leon, The Kooks, Maxïmo Park, Modest Mouse, My Morning Jacket, Oasis, Pearl Jam, The Pigeon Detectives, The Postal Service, The Rakes, The Rapture, Razorlight, Renata, Sam Roberts, Sea and Cake, Sean Lennon, Sly and the Family Stone, Spoon, Stars, The Stills, The Strokes, Super Furry Animals, Thom Yorke, Travis
Francophone: Capitaine Révolte, Les Cowboys Fringants, Jean Leloup, Malajube, Noir Désir, Stefie Shock, Les Trois Accords
Jam: Addison Groove Project, John Butler Trio, John Mayer (the serious blues guitarist), Medeski Martin Wood, moe., Nero, Sound Tribe Sector 9, String Cheese Incident, Trey Anastasio
Electronica/DJ/Dance: Chemical Brothers, Clint Mansell, Cut Chemist, DJ Logic, DJ Shadow, Four Tet, Jamiroquai, Manitoba/Caribou, Moses Mayes, The New Deal, Particle, Rinôçérôse, Röyksopp, St. Germain, The Thievery Corporation
Hip-Hop: Beastie Boys, Digable Planets, Jurassic 5, Kayne West, Mos Def, The Streets, Talib Kweli
Jazz: The Bad Plus, Art Blakey, Charlie Mingus, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, etc…
World: Amadou and Mariam, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, João Gilberto, Seu Jorge
Favorite TV Shows: 24, 30 Rock, The Apprentice/Beauty and the Geek/Hell’s Kitchen (guilty pleasures), Benny Hill, Bravo TV Wednesday Night Reality Programming, The Colbert Report, The Cosby Show, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, Everybody Hates Chris, Everybody Loves Raymond, Extras, The F Word with Gordon Ramsay, Family Guy, Flight of the Conchords, In Living Color, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Keeping Up Appearances, NUMB3RS, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, The Showbiz Show with David Spade, Yo Gabba Gabba, Les Bougon - c’est aussi ça la vie!, Le Hockey Subway/Molson Ex à RDS (des Canadiens de Montréal)
Favorite Movies: Fight Club, Amélie, 24 Hour Party People, Black Sheep, Boondock Saints, The Bourne Trilogy, A Clockwork Orange, The Corporation (documentary), Gladiator, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart - A Film About Wilco, Lord of the Rings, Matrix, Millions, ? (Pi), Requiem for a Dream, School of Rock, Star Wars, Stranger Than Fiction, Tommy Boy, V For Vendetta, Wallace and Gromit, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, anything with the Three Stooges or the Marx Brothers
Favorite Books: Fiction
* Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
* Fight Club; Survivor - Chuck Pahlaniuk
* The Fuck Up - Arthur Neresian
Non-Fiction
* Capitalisme Contre Capitalisme - Michel Albert
* Clash of Civilizations - Samuel Huntington
* Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
* Imperial Hubris - Anonymous/Michael Scheuer
* No Logo - Naomi Klein
* On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
* Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time - Howard Schultz
* Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America - Giles Slade
* The Wal-Mart Effect - Charles Fishman
* Tescopoly - Andrew Simms
* The Theory of Moral Sentiments - Adam Smith
* any of the books from the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award shortlists
( http://www.ft.com/indepth/bookaward2007; http://www.ft.com/indepth/bookaward2006; http://www.ft.com/indepth/bookaward2005
Childrens’
* Curious George - H.A. Rey
* Harold and the Purple Crayon - Crockett Johnson
* The Hockey Sweater (Le Chandail de Hockey) - Roch Carrier
* Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel - Virginia Lee Burton
* Mike’s Kite - Elizabeth MacDonald
Favorite Quotes: they say the recipe for sprite is lemon and lime. but i tried to make it at home; there’s more to it than that.
“want some more homemade sprite?”
“not ’til you figure out what the fuck else is in it!”
~mitch hedberg
there’s no such thing as soy milk. it’s soy juice. but they couldn’t sell soy juice, so they called it soy milk. because anytime you say soy juice, you actually start to gag. know how come i know there’s no such thing as soy milk? because there’s no soy titty, is there?
~lewis black
i’d gladly pay you tuesday for a hamburger today.
~j. wellington wimpy
i think the presidential seal should be a real live seal. and i will not budge on this.
~tim calhoun (snl weekend update)
beep beep, ribby ribby.
~tracy jordan (30 rock)
Favourite Artists: Dali, Magritte, Miro, Mondrian, Picasso (the cubist period), Pollack, Riopelle, Rothko, Seurat, Tanguy, Vaserely, Pacific Northwest Coast art
Favorite Comics: Lewis Black, Bill Cosby, Lavell Crawford, Flight of the Conchords, Ricky Gervais, Mitch Hedberg, Tracy Morgan, Wanda Sykes, John Witherspoon
Favourite Periodicals: The Economist, Financial Times, Harper’s Magazine, liberal-leaning media, NME, Rolling Stone
Favorite Sports Teams: Montreal Canadiens (National Hockey League)
Ottawa Senators (National Hockey League)
Les Saguenéens de Chicoutimi (Ligue de Hockey Junior Majeur du Québec)
Arsenal (English Premier League football)
Olympique Lyonnais (Ligue 1 French football)
L’Équipe de France (FIFA international football)
Montreal Alouettes (Canadian Football League)
London Wasps (Guinness Premiership rugby)
Who I’d Like to Meet:
Jack Bauer (hero of 24)
Lewis Black (comedian)
The Edge (guitarist for U2)
Jonny Greenwood (guitarist for Radiohead)
Naomi Klein (author, No Logo and The Shock Doctrine)
Saku Koivu (captain, Montreal Canadiens)
Chris Martin (lead singer of Coldplay)
Richard Nixon (former President of the United States)
Gordon Ramsay (Three-star Michelin chef)
Anita Roddick, DBE (founder of Body Shop)
Howard Schultz (Chairman/Former CEO, Starbucks)
George Soros (billionaire philanthropist)
Thom Yorke (frontman of Radiohead/solo artist)
