Hi, I'm Ilona Budapesti. Welcome to my profile!
Ilona Budapesti's Bio:
Ilona Budapesti's Experience:
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CEO at Supeek.com
2011 - Present | San Francisco, CASupeek.com is a technology startup aimed to gather online and offline resources for language learning. We serve individuals, corporations and schools with foreign language training needs. Supeek, pronounced "speak," currently offers the following resources: - language schools from 25 countries - language teachers available for direct hire for one-on-one tutoring via Skype - podcasts, CDs, DVDs, and books for 31 languages and an entirely free peer-to-peer language exchange partner network. We provide e-commerce capability and the convenience to checkout on our site across these different types of resources. Our mission is to help 1 Billion people learn a foreign language. Our vision is to achieve peace through language, by breaking down ethnic and national barriers via cultural and language exchange.
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Consultant, Corporate Language Training at Supeek Educational Consulting
2009 - 2011 | San Francisco, CA and Tokyo, Japano Educational assessment, testing and measurement in US$25 million corporate training project at the 3rd largest e-commerce company in the world, Rakuten, Inc. project name: Englishnization o Selection of enterprise level learning platform providers to increase innovation, efficiency and productivity of the global workforce o Planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating instructional programs in the Adult Second Language Acquisition (SLA) setting o Curriculum writing and review for TESOL programs, Executive English for Fortune 1000 and Global 1000 Executives, and English for Special Purposes (ESP) o Extensive vendor review, vendor selection, efficacy measurements, vendor management and negotiations o Creating and administering Intensive English Immersion Courses for Non-US Executives and Senior Executives at a global network of 32 partner school
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Visiting Fellow at Stanford University
2009 - 2010 -
Derivatives Analyst at RBS Global Banking & Markets
2007 - 2009o Exotic Options Structurer for Currencies within the RLMCC Division of RBS (Rates, Local Markets, Currencies and Commodoties) o Invented, priced and sold new complex derivatives generating $200k+ profit/week requiring advanced financial modeling and consultative selling skills
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Derivatives Negotiator at Lehman Brothers
2005 - 2005
Ilona Budapesti's Education:
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Harvard University
2003 – 2007A.B. -
Fudan University
2006 – 2006Audit Mandarin University ClassesConcentration: Harvard-Yenching Fellow -
Tsinghua University
2002 – 2003Intensive Mandarin Course -
United World College of Hong Kong
2000 – 2002International Baccalaureate
Ilona Budapesti's Interests & Activities:
Languages, Martial Arts, Dogs