OCMBA Events
The only requirement is that you must be a graduate of one of the 15 OCMBA Business Schools – either the full-time or Executive MBA, PhD or Undergraduate business programs (specialized programs of short duration – ie. 1 week, 1 month or similar extension programs offered by these 15 Business Schools do not qualify for membership in OCMBA). As long as you meet this qualification, you can attend any OCMBA event.
Most of our events are only open to alumni who graduated from an OCMBA business school as mentioned above. However, current students who are working in Orange County during the summer months are welcome to attend our events in June and August
Yes. Most of our attendees are MBA graduates, but some of the OCMBA business schools have undergraduate, PhD and Executive MBA programs – we welcome alumni of these programs too. Also graduates of joint degree programs from these 15 schools as long as one of those degrees is from the Business School.
OCMBA was created specifically for the alumni of the 15 business schools that comprise the group. If you did not graduate from one of those Business schools, you may only attend an OCMBA event if you are the invited guest of someone who is an alumni of one of the 15 OCMBA schools and that person is also attending that event. They must identify you as their guest when registering for the event.
No – there is no fee to join OCMBA. There is typically a fee to attend many OCMBA events, but we keep it to a minimum, just to cover our costs for the venue and food. (Event fees are typically $25-40 for pre-registration.)
Yes. Each OCMBA alum may bring up to 2 guests to an OCMBA event. Fellow business colleagues, spouses and friends are welcome. Please identify them as your guests when registering for events.
Make sure you are on the email distribution list for your local B-School alumni club. If you are an OCMBA alum and attend one of our events, you will also receive emails directly from OCMBA, but only for our 6 events each year (we never rent, sell or share our attendee contact information with anyone and you can unsubscribe from the OCMBA list at any time). You can also join the OCMBA LinkedIn group. Most OCMBA events are also posted on the OCMBA LinkedIn group page as well as some relevant events offered by other B-schools that are open to all OCMBA alums. The links to register for each OCMBA event are provided in the event notices / invitations provided by your alumni club, the OCMBA emails and the OCMBA LinkedIn Group.
No. OCMBA does not publish or email the list of OCMBA attendees – we respect the privacy of our members and attendees. If you join the OCMBA LinkedIn Group, you can see other OCMBA alumni who have opted in to this group (over 1,000 people).
OCMBA respects the privacy of our members and event attendees. So we never publish the list of attendees, nor do we share, sell, rent or trade contact info for any attendees. The only person who will see your name and contact info is the representative to OCMBA from your Business School alumni club. For events where we have a sponsoring company, they will only see your name and email address if you opt-in to be on their contact list at the event.
We welcome involvement and ideas for new events by alums from any of the 15 OCMBA schools. To get involved, please contact the OCMBA representative from your Business School alumni group. See the Contact Us page for the contact information.
Contact Victoria Waiss at vgwaiss@gmail.com with your inquiry. Please note that the decision of whether to include a speaker and/or sponsor is ultimately made by the organizers of each individual event, or sometimes by the full group of representatives to OCMBA.
