Our latest "alumnispirit" stories

Thi Thom Pham, INSEEC alumna, lived in Thailand until she was four years old, when she and her parents moved to France.

You might think that Elisa Jolivet and Léa Guezais met in the hallway of a space agency, but in fact the encounter happened in the La Fabrik – Sup de Pub incubator. Together they launched Hapaulo, the first platform for babysitting and home care for children, teenagers and young adults with disabilities.

The CRÉA stage started in 2015. The three bachelor years included regular events such as inspiring group projects, fruitful meetings with students of all backgrounds and a stimulating and competitive atmosphere.

General director of Capital Connect and passionate entrepreneur, for the last ten years Nadine Bla has been working to enhance her managerial approach. Her studies at IFG have given her new tools for managing her business and continuing to promote Côte d’Ivoire’s potential.

As international project manager of creative content at Tissot, Sarah Hurter embodies the spirit of a legendary watchmaking brand. The motto “Innovators by tradition” resonates with her work. Constantly on the lookout for new trends, she draws her inspiration from a kaleidoscope of disciplines from fashion to music and from literature to architecture.

Aubin Blanco received a social sciences baccalaureate in the European sections at Lycée Gabriel Fauré before enrolling in INSEEC in Chambéry for a bachelor’s degree in commercial marketing and development. A desire to understand global issues led him to a master’s degree in international management at INSEEC in Lyon.

Florent Chaix, a seasoned investor relations manager, plays the role of spokesperson between businesses and the financial community on the stock exchange. With a career studded with diverse experiences, from KPMG to Renault Group, he manages financial complexities with brio.

Originally from Venezuela, she was trained in New York and reinvented herself in Switzerland, a country that flourishes in luxury, especially watchmaking.

Today, Louis Marty is the heart and soul of Merci Handy, an everyday cosmetics company that favors non-harmful ingredients.

For Inès Bensalah, fashion is a means of expression like any other. The clothes we choose to wear symbolize the way we decide to present ourselves to the world.

From hospitality to cold chain logistics, from leather bags to the medical field, Laura has had a wide variety of experiences that led her to founding and running Innocent Meat today.

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.

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.

Benjamin Levy joined ECE Paris and more specifically, he specialized in embedded systems, aeronautics and robotics, because he loves anything to do with innovation.

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.

If he had to throw a bottle into the sea, he would put a message inside to reassure future generations along the lines of: “you may run aground, but you will grow so much.”

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.

“Working with different people, who have different ways of thinking, I learn something new every day!””

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.

“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.