MBA Alumni Profiles - CIMBA Italy

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 […]

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 […]

Brandon Cusick

Research Coordinator, University of Kansas Medical Center

Brandon Cusick graduated from Loyola Marymount University of Los Angeles with a major in business law and finance. He worked with small business start-ups and in finance before entering CIMBA’s Full-Time MBA program. After earning his CIMBA MBA, he became the World Outreach Foundation Medical Mission Director in Pokhara, Nepal […]

Alessandro Favretti

Product Manager at De'Longhi in Treviso, Italy

Favretti entered the CIMBA Full-time MBA Program in 2006, right out of school. He had little work experience and knew he needed to improve his English. Upon completing his MBA, Favretti worked in project management for Bridgestone Europe, where he oversaw Bridgestone and Firestone products. In 2012, he became a product manager at De’Longhi, working […]

Alok Tiwari

Managing Director, Venezia Food & Beverages Pvt. Ltd.

Alok is from India. He was a software engineer before he was accepted into the CIMBA Program, which helped him excel in management and entrepreneurship skills. After CIMBA, he joined an Italian Company "CLIVET" as a General Manager - Corporate Strategy. He was later promoted to the CEO, responsible for overseeing their Indian Operations. In 2013, he started his own company "Venezia Food & Beverages Pvt. Ltd." which […]

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 […]

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 […]

Adam Luck

Peace Corps Uganda

Adam Luck graduated from Clemson University and became a business advisor for the Peace Corps where he worked for more than two years in the rural village of Gwollu, Ghana. There, he helped maintain, manage, and promote eco-tourism destinations, and raised funds […]

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 […]