"Kenan-Flagler encourages you to customize your education"

Juan Langlois
MBA Class of 1997
Vice President
Latin American Advisory Group, JPMorgan

In Chile, legal education begins right after high school, so I felt I was starting business school from ground zero. That idea quickly faded as our class worked together through the first-year curriculum that put evryone on the same page and gave me the skills I needed to make the career change.

In my first-year study team, I learned that teamwork involves aligning a lot of visions.

I had to make compromises, hear other people and give feedback. Now, as vice president in the Latin American Advisory Group, I realy on the lessons I learned during those late-night work sessions with my study team. Today, most of my work involves working in multidisciplinary teams that must perform complex analysis and produce high quality work under pressure.

The interpersonal skills and strong general management foundation I got as a first year at UNC provided a superb grounding to take full advantage of my concentration in finance during the second year. Kenan-Flagler encourages you to customize your education. I combines my experience as an attorney with intense finance skills to land a position as an investment banker in Chile following graduation. I returned to the legal field as a mergers and acquisitions attorney during the Asian Crisis, then joined JPMorgan.

My connection to Kenan-Flagler has remained strong. I actively participated in recruiting and helped coordinate several trips for students to meet executives and entrepreneurs in Chile while I was working there. And since moving to New York in 2002, I've been amazed by the network of alumni here.

I never could have made the transition into investment banking without the well-rounded education Kenan-Flagler provided. With the atmosphere at UNC, it wasn't a leap, just a natural next step.