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Enrico Dupre

BA (Hons) International Marketing, 2002

Since RBS London

Enrico Duprè graduated in 2002 and left London to work for the leading Italian sportswear brand “Conte of Florence” in Italy. His main role, as Personal Assistant to the Marketing Director, was to organise sales campaigns. This proved to be a challenging task including dealing with buyers, presenting the collection to clients and filing collection orders.

Whilst Enrico enjoyed the experience tremendously gaining an exceptional insight into the world of fashion, he realised that his heart laid in London. This was not only because he missed the buzz of the capital, but most importantly because he felt that London still had numerous opportunities to offer. It was in July 2003, only a month after returning from his native Italy, that he obtained a placement at Bloomberg, the leading financial information provider. He became part of a team which embarked in a project initiated by the chairman of the company, Lex Fenwich. The project’s aim was to contact 84,000 potential clients in three months in order to sell the Bloomberg terminal.

The London office, where Enrico was based, managed to beat the New York office in terms of calls made. Enrico remembers the environment at Bloomberg as very friendly and collegiate. Again he makes the skills and experience acquired at RBS London responsible for the way he managed to fit into the working world. He thinks the multicultural environment in the London office was quite similar to the one at the college, so that Enrico was accustomed to cooperate with various different people and able to relate and connect instantaneously with his fellow colleagues.

Having a RBS London Education

Enrico found his degree in RBS London to be a tremendous help during his stay in Florence. In his view, the School offered a very stimulating atmosphere where each student’s personality was allowed to grow and express itself. This resulted in students growing into confident and outgoing individuals – this has made communicating with clients much easier. In addition to this, the multicultural environment at RBS London made sure that each student grew around other people’s cultures and ideas. This proved to be helpful in dealing with different customers who each had different needs.

Enrico is currently working on his own enterprise, so far RBS London has proved to be a very valuable stepping- stone into the working world and it will surely continue to be so in his future.

"It has been a really exciting year at RBS London and I’ve learned so much during my time here, as well as meeting  some great people along the way.  When I arrived I was rather nervous of all the challenges that a year abroad would bring, but was relieved to find so many people in the  same boat as me - in a new city with strange surroundings."

Evanna Barrington

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