Poets & Quants Names Two Cox BBAs Best & Brightest​​​​

Congratulations to Cox BBA students Aysegul Ates and Cameron Police, included among 2021’s “100 Best & Brightest BBA Students,” published this week by Poets & Quants for Undergrads. Ates is a finance major with a specialization in alternative asset management. She’s been involved in various student leadership roles at SMU and the Cox School throughout her time as a student, including serving as the international senator in the SMU Student Senate, president of the BBA Energy Club, portfolio manager of the Mustang Spindletop Investment Fund, associate of the EnCap Investments and LCM Group Alternative Asset Management Center and more. She’s also won numerous academic awards and scholarships. Ates traveled from Turkey to Texas to attend SMU and has excelled from the beginning. Upon graduation, she will join Jefferies in New York as an investment banking analyst in the Mergers & Acquisitions group.

Police is also a finance major with a specialization in alternative asset management. Originally from Frisco, Texas, he’s received multiple honors, including having been named a Fellow in the Don Jackson Center for Financial Studies, a BBA Scholar, a Dean’s Scholar, a Sewell Merit Scholars, and a Susie V. and Edgar W. Armentrout Scholar, twice. Among other activities, he served as president of the Boulevard Investment Group, president of the Cox Entrepreneurship Club, and associate and teaching assistant in the EnCap Investments & LCM Group Alternative Asset Management Center. Police has secured a position as an investment banking analyst in the Strategic Advisory Group of PJT Partners.

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