July 2023
Alumni Spirit | THE ART OF STARTING OVER
Laurent Hayoz has had an atypical career path. A sailing enthusiast and professional sailor, he became Leader Product & Engineering at Décathlon Switzerland, after returning to school at CREA Genève, which introduced him to the digital world.
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Alumni Spirit | REINVENTING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH TIME
When he isn’t diving out of perfectly good airplanes, he’s dreaming even higher. But, Ugo Ikpeazu isn’t building rocket engines. Instead, he is working toward a world where technology serves humanity, dreaming up new systems for a digital social contract that monetizes our most valuable resource, time, in order to free humanity from dreary nine-to-fives, and unleashing their creativity to advance science, medicine, and art. His book, “Philosophy of Digital Currencies” outlines his vision of the future.
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Alumni Spirit | Stopover in Asia, destination space
At the same time, he helped one of his cousins take the exams for admission to French business schools, which led him to apply to the same programs. He chose the INSEEC BBA in Marketing and International Business in Bordeaux.
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Alumni Spirit | Rising to the Challenge
After receiving her science-focused baccalaureate in Mexico, Mathilde Noble returned to France to enroll in a preparatory class for the French grandes écoles (French higher-education institutions requiring a competitive exam for admission). She was admitted into a “Letters and Social Sciences” program at the Institution des Chartreux. […] She obtained a triple degree: a BBA from INSEEC Lyon in France, a BBA from Linköping University in Sweden and a Master of Science in Information Technology from DePaul University in the United States.
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Alumni Spirit | Building a connected world
When he was 17, Frédéric Rombaut’s dream was to be a sound engineer. A music and radio enthusiast, he created his own radio when he was still in high school. […] This is how Frédéric Rombaut graduated from ECE in 1988. The engineering school opens the field of electronic and computer sciences to him. “I realized that what motivated me was technological innovation,” he explains.
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Alumni Spirit | Joseph-OLIVIER BILEY, THE PROBLEM SOLVER
“The degree is what you do with it that matters. INSEEC gave me a toolbox that I used to create my company. I use it every day for its development. I know how to use the right tool to solve each problem,” explains Joseph-Olivier.
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Alumni Spirit | Once upon a time there was Julien Noble
portrait No, this isn’t the title of a biopic. That said, Julien Noble ‘s story bears an uncanny resemblance to a success-story screenplay. And he’s been cast in one starring role after another. Walt Disney Studios Starting in 2010 at Walt Disney Studios as international director of publicity and online strategy, he moved up to…
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Alumni Spirit | THIBAULT DURAND: Rising to the challenge
ALUMNI PORTRAIT “Through sport you have the power to change life”, a mantra shared by Thibault Durand and adidas, the company in which he has been working for 6 years. Now General Manager in Israel, Thibault has built his career little by little, while making sure to link it to sport, his lifelong passion. A…
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Alumni Spirit | Joy SOUILLART: Turning rough diamonds into precious gems
ALUMNA PORTRAIT Bright and enthusiastic,Joy Souillart has made a career of her passion. First in the luxury sector, thanks to theInternational University of Monaco, and then by transitioning into coaching. Turning rough diamonds into precious gems and making them shine, that is Joy’s calling! From press to luxury After a bachelor’s in public relations, Joy…
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Alumni Spirit | Laura Turpin-Dieumegard: Always underestimated, never stopped
Interview with Laura Turpin-Dieumegard, BBA INSEEC alumna Authentic, bold and determined, Laura Turpin-Dieumegard is “the lady with fire in her blood” according to her colleagues at Meta, in London. After 4 years in the business school BBA INSEEC in Bordeaux, Laura proved that with enough determination and rigor, anything was possible, including working at Google…
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Alumni Spirit | From INSEEC benches to operating rooms
Interview with Arnaud Saint-Hilaire Delmas, BBA INSEEC alumni Marketing, medicine… What if these two sectors were more compatible than they seem? This is what Arnaud Saint-Hilaire Delmas, an alumnus of INSEEC in Bordeaux, has proven. After attempting to study medicine, Arnaud went on to study international marketing at INSEEC before returning to his first love:…
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Alumni Spirit | Isma Zmerli, ECE alumnus, engineer, speaker and mentalist
Ingenious engineer, Isma Zmerli now captivates his audience during conferences or mentalism sessions where he brilliantly mixes humor, show, magic and storytelling. On stage or in close-up, he highlights the methods that allow to develop all the potentialities of the mind when we agree to collaborate and to leave aside our limiting beliefs. Science and…
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