Careers in Business and Entrepreneurship

Meet an Alum sessions are informal opportunities to build your industry knowledge and make connections with General Course alumni. 

In this session, you'll have the chance to meet alumni who have had a role in building successful start-ups or small businesses. You can ask the alumni about their day-to-day job, how they got started, and for any other career-related advice or tips they’ve picked up from their journey so far. 

This event will be particularly useful if you are:

• thinking about the realities of setting up your own business or working for a start-up
• curious about the sort of work and responsibilities jobs in this area can entail
• interested in finding out how utilising the experience of studying at LSE can be used to get ahead in this area
• keen to build your connections

Meet the Speakers:

Orane Stepczynski (LinkedIn). Orane joined LSE from HEC Lausanne to study on the General Course in 2016-17. After graduating Orane joined the Product Marketing Team in luxury Swiss Watch brand Jaeger-LeCoultre (part of the Richemont group). She later built on her expertise in the sector by becoming a Product Marketing Specialist (Watches) at Bulgari Jewelry (part of the LVMH group).  At the end of 2020, she joined the Swiss-based Food Tech start-up Foodetective, whose mission is to develop a unified API for the restaurant industry, as Global Wholesale Manager. She is also the co-founder of the LSE Alumni chapter in Lausanne and part of the Geneva Alumni committee in Switzerland. Orane is now the Marketing Manager for Swatch & Flik Flak for UK and Ireland

Gintare Balseviciute (LinkedIn). Gintare was a General Course student at LSE in 2013-2014. After finishing her undergraduate degree in Economics at Bates College, Gintare moved to London to further pursue her Master's Degree from London Business School. Since then, Gintare has been navigating through the tech world - from early-stage startups in Techstars London accelerator to unicorns such as Medallia. Gintare is now working at Coursera for Enterprise as a Senior Implementation Manager.

We will continue to confirm alumni for this event.

You may like to read LSE Careers' list of information interview questions for ideas of what you can ask the alumni. You can find out more about LSE Generate, LSE's programme for supporting students and alumni building businesses, on the LSE Generate webpages.