Shaheen Wirk answers "How Are Your Personal Experiences Shaping Your Professional Aspirations?" The experience of losing a friend to cancer serves as a wake up call to Wirk to make sure he is doing meaningful work. He notes how reading a book reminds him "how seeming is believing" and the importance presence and confidence play in how you appear in the world and to others. Wirk shares how losing a friend to cancer has made him take stock of his life. Shaheen Wirk is a senior hedge fund analyst for Bridger Capital focused on pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device investment research and analysis. Wirk earned his BS in Biology and Joint MD / MBA degrees from Duke University. He co-founded the Dream Hope Believe Foundation / Brant Walton Memorial Fund to provide grants to children and young people who have lost parents to cancer.
Experience Community and Giving
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2,500 people dressed in Santa costumes to take a pre-Christmas run around one of London's parks to raise money for a disability charity....
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A charity single recorded by prison inmates raisee money for a campaign to highlight the symptoms of brain tumours.
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Hello Lovelies! Allow me to introduce myself: I am Nancy Li, the founder of Charity4Couture. This charity is to not only sell chic, afford...
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On the set with Robin Williams for our Thanks and Giving promos.
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Trail Hound built some stuff to give away to a kind hearted soul that donated generously to a charity I sponsor.
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Short video promoting the Green Team, an environmental charity which works with young people to restore and conserve wild places...
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Dr. Sylvia Benatti, Assistant Professor of Nonprofit Management in the Master's of Public Administration at the University of the Distri...
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Do you always give to your friends' and co-workers' causes? As part of Ally Bank's "Financial Etiquette with Randy Cohen,...
