We are pleased to announce that our APEX Business-IT Global Case Challenge team has placed second in this year’s competition in Singapore! Congratulations to our team:
- Carlos Hernandez
- Kyle Krystalowich
- Robin Orford
- Kamal Masri (Coach)
APEX Business-IT Global Case Challenge is held annually for teams of undergraduate students from universities around the world, and ran from May 12th to 16th this year. It is considered one of the top competitions for Management Information Systems students in the world. Not only did the team place second overall, after three rounds of competition, but team member Robin Orford received an honourable mention from the judges as best speaker among all competitors. The team has trained hard for months prior to the competition and we could not be prouder of their accomplishments this year.
The other participating schools included:
- Singapore Management University
- University of Minnesota (Carlson School of Management)
- East China Normal University
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University
- Universiti Teknologi Petronas
- The University of Hong Kong
- TU Dortmund
- Copenhagen Business School
- Corvinus University of Budapest
- HEC Montreal
- Shantou University Business School
- University of British Columbia
- Universitas Gadjah Mada
- Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
- Seoul National University
- Tsinghua University
- Bina Nusantara University
- Mahidol University International College
- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- University of South Australia
- Ateneo de Manila University
- Zhejiang University
- University of Manitoba
The 2013 SFU APEX Team, left to right: Carlos Hernandez, Robin Orford, Kyle Krystalowich, Kamal Masri