Executive MBA Alumni Profile Kok Kin Lee, ’20
Booth’s Executive MBA Program provided the financial skills Lee needed to take the next step in his career.
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- April 11, 2024
- Career Impact
An engineer by training, Kok Kin Lee, ’20, had nearly two decades of experience in the energy and environment sector when he realized that he needed a stronger understanding of finance to take the next step in his career. He turned to Booth’s Executive MBA Program in Asia, where he enhanced his skill set and deepened his finance knowledge.
“The ROI that I would strongly focus on is the financial skill sets that I have as well as the network of Boothies globally around the world,” says Lee, who is now leveraging those skills as CEO of a Singapore-based firm.
“When I took the program, it became quite certain that I could make good decisions because of the multifaceted learning that I could get from Booth,” Lee adds. “That was really what Booth gave me: things that I thought I couldn’t do became possible.”
The ROI that I would strongly focus on is really the financial skill sets that I have as well as the network of Boothies globally around the world.
As an engineer by training, I’m pretty well decked out with technical knowledge. I realized that in order to take the next step in my career, I needed something to do with finance.
And talking to friends, talking to Boothies, it became quite clear that Booth could enhance that skill set, at least to a level that would be necessary for me to do something bigger in my career.
I work now as a CEO in a waste management company based in Singapore.
There’s a lot of decisions that you have to make, from finance to HR to communications. When I took the program, it became quite certain that I could make good decisions because of the multifaceted learning that I could get from Booth. And you are able to quantify every single detail to make the best decision and outcome for the business. That was really what Booth gave me: things that I thought I couldn’t do became possible.