{"id":1073,"date":"2017-12-04T09:05:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T14:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2017-12-11T08:54:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T13:54:43","slug":"alumni-in-review-chris-howell-class-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/12\/04\/alumni-in-review-chris-howell-class-of-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni in Review: Chris Howell, Class of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chhowell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chris Howell &#8217;17\u00a0<\/a>is currently working as a finance and investment consultant. He was interviewed by Isabel Russell, an undergraduate at UVM.<strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What have you been up to since graduation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently working with mission-driven businesses who are raising investment money to fund expansion: structuring a Series A for a SaaS business, working with a farm to purchase additional land, and advising an equity crowdfunding platform.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1074 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/11\/chris-e1512336026602-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/11\/chris-e1512336026602-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/11\/chris-e1512336026602.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Why did you choose to attend this MBA program?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I chose the UVM MBA program to deepen my Vermont network and broaden my business skill set.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was your favorite part about the experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My favorite part of the experience was the people. The academic experience was top notch\u2014thanks to the professors, staff, and classmates who worked hard to create a supportive and engaging learning environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How are you applying the tools\/skills you learned in the program, post-MBA?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Working on diverse consulting projects after the program has allowed me to use the broad range of tools we learned\u2014from organizational design to finance and venture capital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you tell someone who is considering the Sustainable Innovation MBA?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dive in. The program was an exceptionally challenging and immensely rewarding learning experience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Howell &#8217;17\u00a0is currently working as a finance and investment consultant. He was interviewed by Isabel Russell, an undergraduate at UVM.\u00a0\u00a0 What have you been up to since graduation? I&#8217;m currently working with mission-driven businesses who are raising investment money to fund expansion: structuring a Series A for a SaaS business, working with a farm &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/12\/04\/alumni-in-review-chris-howell-class-of-2017\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alumni in Review: Chris Howell, Class of 2017&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[163314,33374,46457,38462,26,426992],"tags":[427001,6901,551],"class_list":["post-1073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us","category-alumni","category-jobs","category-interviews","category-learning","category-life-in-btv","tag-impact-investing","tag-networking","tag-vermont"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-hj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}