Lizbeth Pérez, the winner of CEO Challenge 2022, will shadow Manuel Puga, the CEO of Moove, for a day at work
Lisbeth Pérez, a student on the Executive MBA at EAE Business School Madrid, was named the winner of CEO Challenge 2022 and will have the opportunity to shadow Manuel Puga, the CEO of Moove, for a day, to gain an insight into the tasks and functions performed by a CEO.
The winner stated that she was extremely pleased to have won, as “the prize is so exciting, because I am going to put everything I have learned on the MBA into practice as I accompany the CEO of Moove”, explained Lisbeth.
In this 3rd edition of CEO Challenge, a runner-up prize was also awarded to a on the MBA, María Alejandra, who will receive a personalized consultancy session with Jaime Ozores, a Partner and Director at Odgers Berndtson.
María Alejandra explained that taking part in CEO Challenge was a great “opportunity to listen to different opinions from profiles from different areas in order to gain a 360º overview of a company”.
CEO Challenge is an activity organized by the Professional Careers Department of EAE Business School Madrid, in which 22 students from the Masters in Project Management, Supply Chain Management & Logistics, Executive MBA, Marketing Digital & E-Commerce, Human Resources and Talent Development, Big Data & Analytics, Corporate and Digital Communication, Finance and Sales Management took part in the simulation of a Business Case in which they took on the roles of a Board of Directors and hade to reach a decision on a multi-million transaction and assess the viability of the case.
The activity included two working sessions, the first on the 19th October, with a more instructive focus, explaining the dynamics of the event, and the second, yesterday, on 26th October, when the case was presented for the participants to resolve.
After the presentation of the case, the members of the jury, including Kai Möller, the General Director of Casen Recordati; Fernando Bonmatí, the General Director of Chip Card; Guillermo Aos, CEO & Founder of Pleiades; and Eduardo Fernández Casas, the Director of Human Resources at Eurovia, part of the Vinci International Group; gave their final verdict on who would be the winner and runner-up.
Kai Möller, the General Manager of Casen Recordati and jury member, congratulated all the students for taking part and emphasized how complicated the case was, adding that they had really applied themselves to the task at hand and adopted a very participative and creative approach to generating solutions.
The CEO Challenge is an activity that gives participants a realistic insight into the roles that the members of a Board of Directors have to take on in the day-to-day running of a company. EAE Business School has run three editions of the event to great success, as it gives our students “another opportunity to have contact with the business ecosystem and employment market, putting their knowledge, professional experience and soft skills into practice with the aim of continuing to develop as the best-prepared and well-equipped talent of the future to take on new professional challenges”, explained Federica Assandria, the Director of Professional Careers at EAE Business School Madrid.