The Key to Business Success

June 17, 2024

The College of Business Administration and Singelyn Graduate School of Business Hosts a Key Unveiling and Member Induction Ceremony for Beta Gamma Sigma

The front of Building 164 on the Cal Poly Pomona campus just received an amazing upgrade, thanks to a collaboration with business honors society, Beta Gamma Sigma, which yielded a new key statue in the courtyard of the College of Business Administration (CBA) and Singelyn Graduate School of Business (SGSB). This latest addition to the campus signifies the schools’ ongoing commitment to academic excellence.

Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) is a premier international honor society that recognizes the highest performing students (top 10% of the undergraduate students at the CBA) at the top 5% of the business schools in the world (as accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, AACSB International). BGS is a Business Honor Society — not a student club or a student fraternity, and it is invite-only, so it is a special honor for students who are invited and accepted. BGS is founded on a set of three principles; honor, wisdom, and earnestness, which serve as pillars for everything the society does.

CBA group photo

The current Cal Poly Pomona Chapter features two student officers and three student ambassadors:

Gabriela Gomez, ’25, Student Treasurer
Nicholas Grovhoug, ’24, Student Ambassador
Dylan Gregory, ’24, Student Ambassador
Aliyyah Joseph, ’24, Student Ambassador

The new statue on campus represents the society’s symbol of a key, signifying the Beta Gamma Sigma ideals of honor, wisdom, and earnestness and it is inscribed with the Greek letters which represent the Society’s name. “We ask that all members who wear this key do so with our principles in mind,” explains Preeti Wadhwa, Faculty Advisor of the Cal Poly Pomona Chapter of BGS and Professor of Management & Leadership, and Program Coordinator MHR Department College of Business Administration, Cal Poly Pomona.

The unveiling of the statue was followed by an induction ceremony which featured an introduction from Wadhwa, as well as a tribute message from CBA and SGSB Dean Sandeep Krishnamurthy, before closing with an oath-taking facilitated by BGS student officers and ambassadors.

BGS members

Congratulations to all of the new BGS members who have accepted this year’s invite. There is still time left for any student who has not yet accepted, but act quickly, as new invites are sent out every spring. The CBA and SGSB at Cal Poly Pomona are proud of our new key, which symbolizes our partnership with Beta Gamma Sigma, our continued path of learning by doing, and our unwavering commitment to fostering collaborative opportunities both inside and outside the classroom.

New BGS Members:

Luca Ghalib Accad

Makenzie Fischer

Andres Cabral

Spoorthi Banagere Kumaraswamy

Brandon Ernesto Castaneda

Neelan Ganesan

Ryan T. Chan

Eduardo Garcia

Xuelian Chen

Adib Golestan Habibi

Chun Yu Chueh

Christal Hansen

Rodolfo Cortes Jr

Tarek Itani

Diana I Diaz

Devin Jesus

Kevin Dominguez

George Lambrinidis

John Feng

FengPin Liu

Jaden Masterson

Padmasree Seshadri

Hoang Thao Trang Ngo

Kanwardeep Singh

Geiryf Alexandria Olmos

Khine Swe Thein

Diana Marie Peck

Kuan Han Wu

Thi Tuong Vy Pham

Bing-Ying Wu

Arianna Pinedo-Raygoza

Robin Yeh

Richard G. Rodriguez

Ryan Zhang

2024 Undergrad Graduates

Dylan Gregory

Kasey Chan

Robin Haggenmiller

Nicholas Grovhoug

Aliyyah Joseph

Julianne Lee

Jonathan Lee

Emma Snyder

Alexis Sosa

Sherry Soliman

Felen Wu

Ryan Wong

Carly Campbell

Zihui Zhong

2024 SGSB Graduating BGS Members