Macquarie Investment Banking.

A Senior Vice President at Macquarie Capital Advisors is a senior execution and advisory role within an investment banking platform known for infrastructure, asset management, and complex capital markets work. At this level, the job requires leading major transaction workstreams while also managing the expectations of clients, counterparties, lenders, legal advisors, public stakeholders, and internal senior bankers. The role sits close to the practical pressure of getting difficult deals completed.

Ching-Yen’s Macquarie experience involved marquee transactions, including the value realization of assets within Macquarie Essential Assets Partnership, the proposed sale of New Brunswick Power assets to Hydro Quebec, and Borealis Infrastructure’s Teranet transaction and long-term extension of the land registry and writs agreement. Work of that nature requires more than financial modelling. It requires understanding infrastructure assets, public-company dynamics, stakeholder incentives, political sensitivities, regulatory constraints, and the strategic reasons a buyer or seller would move forward.

In a senior advisory role, execution quality matters because complex transactions can fail for many reasons. A banker has to maintain momentum while protecting the client’s position, identifying risks early, coordinating diligence, translating analysis into negotiation strategy, and keeping senior decision-makers aligned. The work demands judgment under ambiguity, because the most important question is often not what the spreadsheet says in isolation, but whether the transaction can survive real-world complexity.

Large transactions force advisors to separate signal from noise. That same discipline applies to student pitches. A student founder may have many features, stories, or ideas they want to include, but the strongest pitches reveal the core insight quickly. They explain what problem matters, why the solution is credible, and what next step would prove the idea has traction.

For SchoolPitch, Ching-Yen’s Macquarie experience reinforces a judging style that values substance, preparation, and strategic thinking. He is able to evaluate whether a student has identified the real issue or is simply describing an exciting concept. That perspective helps the competition reward students who can think clearly about execution, not just students who can speak confidently.