Executive MBA Alumni Profile Anh Nguyen, ’22
At Booth’s London campus, Anh Nguyen, ’22, built a strong network and cofounded a startup focused on art.
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- January 26, 2024
- Entrepreneurship
When Anh Nguyen, ’22, joined Booth’s Executive MBA Program in London, she wasn’t planning to become an entrepreneur. The director of global private equity and infrastructure for a global advisory firm, she had worked in the corporate sector for most of her career and expected to continue doing so.
Then she signed up for Booth’s Global New Venture Challenge class, which prepares EMBA students to compete for startup funding. The experience gave her the opportunity to revisit her passion for art, and she founded a culture-tech startup with five classmates.
Today, she’s CEO of Nimi Collectibles, a platform that connects museums with a generation of emerging patrons, helps develop more sustainable revenue models for the arts, and democratizes art philanthropy. “The Booth experience allowed me the mind space to look into my inspirations,” she says. “My personal ROI of the Executive MBA experience is really the network, the people, the community that I built that will be with me for the rest of my life.”
My personal ROI of the executive MBA experience is really the network, the people, the community that I built that will be with me for the rest of my life.
I have always been interested in getting an MBA. I've been delaying that for a number of years because the opportunity cost of doing a full-time program was too high, especially when I was growing very fast in my career. I was looking at executive MBA programs and found that the Booth program gave me a very unique combination. First of all, a world-class academic rigor that is uncomparable to any other programs I've looked at. Secondly, a global cohort that really spans the US, Europe, and Asia with real physical presence in all three locations.
I am the founder and CEO of Nimi Collectibles. We are a culture tech startup focuses primarily on supporting cultural institutions and museums in developing a better sustainable revenue model. When I joined the program, I did not plan to leave the corporate world and become an entrepreneur. The Booth experience allowed me the mind space to look into inspirations, to then come up with an idea that is very exciting and original, but also very aligned with my hobbies and my interests and my passion.
What has surprised me the most about the MBA experience is how much I actually value and learn from my classmates and the people that I met throughout the experience. Whether they are my classmates or professors or alumni, they are people that will continue to be there for me for the rest of our lives, and they will continue to enrich my experience.