Martina Franzini
Marketing Manager, Galderma
Martina Franzini is from Bassano del Grappa, a town located close to Asolo in Northern Italy. Today she lives and works in Milan, as she has for many years. She is a Marketing Manager at Galderma, a multinational company belonging to the Nestlè Group. Within Galderma she […]
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Scott Newton
Managing Partner, Thinking Dimension
Hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia, Scott Newton joined the CIMBA MBA class of 2002 after working with Avis Budget Group for 8 years. Like many of us, Scott's time at CIMBA was transformational and today he is […]
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Gerardo Sanchez
Director - New Businesses, Coca Cola FEMSA
After graduating in 1994, when the CIMBA program was in Pordenone, Italy, Gerardo joined Nestle as a Product Manager, moved to the Switzerland headquarters as a Confectionery Strategic Business Manager for Latin America, then moved to […]
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Lou Fabiano
COO of Veritas Equity Research Corp
Lou Fabiano is the COO of a small equity research firm located in Toronto, Canada. The CIMBA program had a huge impact on his career and life. Lou commented on his experience in Italy. "I went to school with kids from all over the […]
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Samuele Zanella
Export Manager, Dainese and AGV
Samuele Zanella was the Part-time Student of the Year for 2015. The award is an acknowledgement of the many challenges he overcame to earn his MBA after two long years of balancing work, family, and classes. Samuele said that "leaving work for a month was not at all easy, and I still had to handle many of my job responsibilities […]
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John Villari
University of Delaware, Economics
John Villari is a University of Delaware economics major who attended CIMBA’s spring semester program in 2014. Villari was drawn to CIMBA because he wanted an experience that combined study abroad, leadership development and travel. “My goal is to work for an organization such as the World Bank or […]
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Jordan Rothschiller
University of Kansas, Business Management
Jordan Rothschiller came to CIMBA in fall 2012 from the University of Kansas. When the business management major interviewed for an internship, he cited his time at CIMBA as the accomplishment that had the largest impact on his life. “I talked with the interviewer for a long time about studying abroad, about the leadership and personal development programs […]
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Jordon Urso
University of Connecticut, Accounting
“The CIMBA experience brings out your leadership qualities and gave me a sense of confidence and independence I wouldn’t have gotten at other study abroad programs.” An accounting major at UConn, Urso wants to pursue film producing. […]
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Mark Stemberger
Former CEO, Tomplast, Slovenia
I chose to grow the personally handpicked managers in our company (Tomplast group, Slovenia) to grow and empower through ECIMS programme by CIMBA. In fact, I decided to attend the same programme as well in spite of my own MBA degree, which I completed on Clemson University, South Carolina in 1996 (at the time organised by a CIMBA predecessor). Since the world had not stopped evolving in the meantime, so has the body of managerial knowledge vastly expanded in the last (nearly) 20 years…
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Giovanni Marsili
Production and Logistic Department Director, Chief Scientific Manager, Colorificio San Marco
“From studying humanities to nuclear chemistry, my entire life has been devoted to learning because I’m firmly convinced of the power and beauty of knowledge. In 2004, I attended CIMBA’s Executive Certificate in International Management and Strategy program, with the goal of acquiring business tools but with the unexpected result of changing my perspective…
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