Discreet by nature, Bertrand Vecten (MROS 99) was by no means predestined to become a legend when, back in the summer of 1996, the tip of his boat sped forward inching towards Olympic silver, in one of the closest-contested finals in rowing history.
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Fifty-year-old Jon Harr (MBA 05) comes from Oslo. After a career in engineering and then working as project director at the National Centre for Space Studies (French CNES) in Toulouse, he returned to Norway to head the Norwegian Space Agency. Since 2022, he has been Operations Director for Andøya Spaceport, the first spaceport to be established in continental Europe, located in the Vesterålen archipelago in northern Norway.
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A graduate of the Saint-Nazaire ECG programme, now Audencia’s Bachelor in Management, 53-year-old Cyrille Glumineau (BACH 92), is the General Manager for Sales Central & Southern Europe at Reality Labs, a business and research unit of Meta (formerly Facebook), that produces virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (VR) equipment and solutions.
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For Delphine Francois, a career path is something you carve out for yourself, with no fear of the par-for-the-course twists and turns, nor forgetting that the finish lines are merely stages along the way. This is how a young Parisian came to wind up in Cleveland, Ohio, after studying in Nantes, and travel the world, living in some sixteen cities in five different countries.
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From his beginnings as Product Manager Biotherm Spain to being appointed the Managing Director of Prada, Mugler and Valentino in Europe, 39-year-old Jesus Abia Arias has metamorphosed whilst continuing to remain true to himself. He has made his exemplary 15-year career as part of the L'Oréal group the source of a profoundly humanistic vision of management, performance, and life. His time spent in Miami, as Travel Retail Area Manager, then ...
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Fabrice Beillevaire, referring to the Executive MBA he earned at Audencia in 2020. "If I hadn’t followed this training programme, I would have found myself completely at a loss. I would never have been able to manage things in the way I do today,”
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Mathieu Aguesse is a 2015 graduate of ICAM School of engineering and Audencia’s specialised master in Marketing, Design and Creation (MS MDC). From his offices in San Francisco, he runs the US version of Schoolab, an innovation studio that trains, advises and supports its clients in responsible innovation.
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After graduating from SciencesCom in 1998, Stéphane Dugast went to sea as a reporter for Cols Bleus, the magazine of the French Navy. Although he is a reporter, director, author and lecturer, he could also be described as a storytelling explorer.
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“If there’s a message that I would like to pass on to future entrepreneurs, it would be that there are endless opportunities out there,” Olivier says, choosing to sum up his thoughts with the adage: The sky is the limit.
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How did the daughter of a construction contractor with no connections, who grew up in a rural area of south-western France surrounded by cows, ever become the first female CEO of one of the most prestigious jewellery brands in the world?
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