Ami Yao
United States of America
CAREER Enrolled in April 2009; Completed master’s degree in March 2011
I have always been passionate about media and marketing so I majored in Mass Communications in college and decided to join KMD after graduating. I never foresaw myself pursuing a career in any industries other than Marketing. Interestingly, I got my first job as an investment associate at a digital venture company in Tokyo. While I enjoyed my days working with both foreign and local innovators with ideas to impact the world, the job also unexpectedly got me interested in finance. I eventually decided to make a career move and got an offer at Bloomberg as an Earnings Estimates Data Analyst in Tokyo and I have been with the company for the next 7 years until today. I am currently leading the Client Service Team covering Japan, South Korea and Oceania markets, making sure the pricing and research data in the Bloomberg system flows consistently and data quality remains reliable and also acquiring new value-worthy data and making such available to Bloomberg clients. The two years at KMD has taught me to be open to all the opportunities around me rather than just sticking to what I think I am interested in. With an open mind, you can end up being a much more capable person than how you would imagine yourself to be.
(This article was written in March 2021.)