l YEAR IN REVIEW 2009 l
INTERNS 2009
NOORA VIKSTEN
ROBERT EKLUND
Robert was born in South Korea, adopted to Sweden when he was two
months. Robert grew up in Uppsala,
Sweden, a town located one hour from
the east coast as well as Stockholm. In
2008, he received his B.A Hons of Arts
in Marketing from the Liverpool John
Moores University and he also holds a
diploma in Marketing and Key Account
Management from IHM Business School
in Stockholm.
Robert started his studies at IHM Business
School 2005, where he experienced
hands on business learning and his first
marketing internship in a product/marketing department within Nordea bank.
During summer 2007 between graduation from IHM and the fall start at LJMU
University, Robert worked as a procurement assistant within DSG International.
In fall 2007 he went abroad to Dublin for
studying his last two semesters at LJMU
University. After receiving his Bachelor
degree, he worked as a B2B Sales Consultant within El Giganten Business.
Working for the Swedish American
Chamber of Commerce in Philadelphia
has given Robert a broader perspective
of how cultural differences and behavior makes an important and sometimes
maybe a crucial role when conducting business overseas, he says. It might
sound a bit cliché, he says, but he really
believe that the American business culture have given him necessary experience to approach future challenges
with confidence.
Noora Viksten grew up in the Southern
part of Finland and moved to Sweden
in 2004 where she has lived since. Noora will receive her Degree of Science
of Master in Business and Economics
from Uppsala University in January 2010.
She has been working at the Swedish
American Chamber of Commerce in
Philadelphia, as a Marketing Intern from
June until October 2009. As well, Noora
worked at the International House Philadelphia as Marketing Intern, from August until October 2009.
Noora has had an overall responsibility
for the daily office management including: financial transactions, recruitment of
new members, membership administration, writing articles and e-newsletters,
and coordinating business networking
events. Noora says that the internship
at SACC-Philadelphia has taught her a
lot about enhancing relationships and
cooperation between organizations as
well as developing innovative and effective marketing materials and methods for events and recruitment.