Digital Leader Fireside Chat: Ron Kim
Fireside chat with Ron Kim was on zoom and started at 12pm and finished around 12:48 pm on 02/24/2021. Ron Kim is a Chief Technology Office at Merck. He was a computer science undergrad and then got his MBA. He started as a consultant and he told us that companies did not really like consultants that much. He said from where he started, he worked at almost 40 fortune 500 companies which is insane. He had many roles like CIO of Peco and Exelon which is a fortune 100 company. He told us anybody can get to where he is with hard work and determination. He said that he was an introvert and he loves football. He is a regular person but when it is time to work, he gets down to work. He also stated that it is so much easier to go from consultant to corporate than going from corporate to consultant. Watching and listening to Ron inspired me to maybe minor in consulting. I am going to look into that further. This relates to my coursework because he is the chief technology officer at a huge company like Merck and learned so much from him in the 45 minutes he was talking.