Attila is the Chief Operating Officer of INSEAD since 2018, leading a team of about 300 people in the finance, campus services, procurement and information technology departments, across the three campuses of the school.   Attila was the CIO of INSEAD between 2010 and 2018. During this period, he successfully improved the school’s IT services, as reflected in the highest ever customer…

Pascale Witz has 30+ years of experience in Healthcare, across Pharma, Biotech, MedTech and Diagnostics. A former EVP Pharma and Consumer HealthCare at Sanofi, she previously spent 17 years with GE Healthcare, last as the President & CEO of GE Pharmaceutical Diagnostics. She started her career with Becton Dickinson. She currently serves on various public and private boards in the Healthcare…

Patrick Firmenich is the Chairman of the Board of Firmenich, the world’s largest privately-owned Perfume and Taste Company. He has been serving in this capacity since October 2016, after first joining the Firmenich Board in 2002, upon becoming the CEO of the Company. During his 12-year tenure as Firmenich CEO, from 2002 to 2014, Patrick firmly advanced the Group’s leadership in organic growth,…

Christina Law is Group CEO of Raintree Group of Companies. She is responsible for the overall leadership and management of the group’s portfolio of residential, commercial and hotel investment.  Prior to assuming her current role in 2019, Christina was formerly Group President of General Mills leading its Asia, Middle East, Africa and Latin America region. She joined the Company since 2012…

Guy is responsible for leading and developing the INSEAD HR function and its departments globally. He is the HR Business Partner to the Dean and the Exco. Guy has 20 years of international HR experience at Unilever. He has led regional and global HR expertise areas such leadership and organisation development, rewards and learning. He was member or leader of several HR and business strategic…

Mika Salmi is a serial entrepreneur and recognized innovator in the technology and media sectors. Mika has extensive experience working in numerous countries building and leading companies, creating products, negotiating partnerships, financing businesses, executing M&A strategies, and serving on public and private company Board of Directors. Currently, Mika is a Partner at Lakestar. He…

Chief Executive, Abdon Mills (Helsingborg, Sweden) & Chairman of the Board, Grain Millers, Inc. (Minneapolis, USA). Rolf Abdon grew up in Sweden and after completion of military service studied at the University of Lund. He graduated in 1967 from the Faculty of Law as LlB (Juris Kandidat) and from the Faculty of Business Management as MSc (Civilekonom). After two years in Toronto, Canada, he…

Baron Jean-Pierre Berghmans, MBA'74, is a distinguished industrialist born in 1949 in Namèche, Belgium. He is the son of Jean Berghmans and Baroness Lhoist, and is married to Countess Katherine d'Aspremont Lynden. Together, they have three daughters: Mélanie, Sibylle, and Valentine.Jean-Pierre Berghmans earned a degree in Econometrics with honors from the University of Louvain, Belgium, and a…

Michael Butt has been Chairman of the Board of AXIS Capital Holdings Limited since September 2002. Mr. Butt has over 45 years of insurance industry experience. From 1998 to August 2002, he was a Director of XL Capital Ltd. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of Mid Ocean Limited in Hamilton, Bermuda from 1993 to August 1998 when it was acquired by XL Capital Ltd. From 1982 to 1986, Mr…

Sven A. Kado is currently non-executive Chairman of Marsh and Mercer in Germany, after holding the position of Chairman since 2000. Prior to this, he spent more than 20 years in board positions in the German industry: Nixdorf Computer AG (until then Germany's largest ever IPO, functional responsibility for controlling, finance, taxation, purchasing and real estate), Dyckerhoff AG (initiation and…