GLADYS LAM: My name is Gladys. And I’m a director in the Legal and Compliance department. I would describe my role as protecting BlackRock and its clients by minimizing risk from a legal perspective. BlackRock is actually a little bit different. The global connectivity that is embedded in BlackRock is quite unique. I think dealing with different people from all over the world, different cultures, different backgrounds, is actually very interesting.
And I think it actually helped me grow. I really have learned a lot in BlackRock. When people go to work, you expect to obviously develop your technical skills. What I actually didn’t expect is the growth in terms of my communication skills and my ability to communicate with different people all over the world.
Learning about BlackRock, being such a big organization, is challenging in a way. But it’s great to be able to see how a big organization functions. It’s very exciting to see how different people specialize and then come together and we see the end product. I think this is probably one of the best things in BlackRock.
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