👉 Albane works as Head of Customer Experience & Innovation at Groupe Alphand.
✔ She is an experienced Brand and Customer Experience (CX) Specialist with a demonstrated history of achievements in the luxury goods and services industry.
✔ She worked for several years for Luxury Maisons such as Guerlain or Christofle.
✔ She graduated with her MSc in Luxury Management from IUM in 2011.
✔ Albane is also an entrepreneur. She founded FrencHeritage, whose goal is the transmission of French savoir-vivre to individuals and professionals working in demanding codified worlds., in 2017.

International University of Monaco – IUM

👉 For more than 10 years, Caroline Frisenberg has been the Career Coach for the MBA students.

♦ Since 2012, Caroline has run Frisenberg J. & Associates, an Executive Search Firm and proud partner of Kennedy Executive Search. She has successfully recruited talent to both publicly held and privately funded companies across EMEA.
♦ Identifying, recruiting, hiring, and developing superior executive talent is at the core of her competence and affection. She has built several world-class organizations and applies that same drive to her own firm.
♦ Caroline served as President for Kennedy Executive in 2020; today, she is leading a diversity and inclusion practice group across the globe, assisting clients with attracting and retaining a diverse workforce.
♦ Her knowledge and experience in executive recruitment are a plus in guiding our MBA students to outstanding careers.

☑ Etienne Boutan launched Heex Technologies in 2019, a data management software for companies working on artificial intelligence.
Heex Technology filters and organizes a large amount of data for the training of AI models.
☑ Google invested in the company a couple of years after it started!
☑ Etienne graduated with his bachelor’s degree from IUM in 2016. Then he started working as an analyst in the finance industry.
☑ Before his studies, he was a professional basketball player.
☑ He has been featured in Vanity Fair’s 30 under 30 in 2021.

Patrick Brizmann graduated with his bachelor’s degree in 2020.
A few months after his graduation, he launched « Charlotte Grace, » a new luxury jewelry aiming to create unique pieces and connect people from around the world.
Charlotte Grace is a new but already successful jewelry brand. The brand has been featured in Highsnobiety (a global fashion and media brand passionate about products and the stories that shape them), which has recognized the Zipper Bracelet (La Fermeture Éclair) as an Investment-Worthy piece that will stand the test of time.
Charlotte Grace is also cited in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Magazine (Beauty Special March 2022).

Matthieu is a business partner at Oktave, where he oversees consultancy projects and instructional design, developing business-focused and inspiring programs every step of the way.

He graduated with a Doctorate in Business Administration from IUM in 2021, where he conducted research on the topic of the luxury sales team’s efficiency and competencies.

Before joining OKTAVE as manager, Matthieu developed a deep understanding and extensive expertise in learning and development while working in China for 15 years. During that time, Matthieu was responsible for delivering his assignments all throughout Asia to support Fortune 500 companies and provided specialized training in sales and management for luxury retail brands.

👉 Ever since she was a little girl, Charlotte Barbotin has been fascinated by gems and jewelry.
👉 After some business studies and an MBA from IUM in 2015, she worked in the luxury industry for several years.
👉 To follow her passion for the jewelry world, she studied gemology at the Paris Institut National de Gemmologie, where she graduated in 2020.
👉 She felt ready to launch her own companies, “Investing in Gems” and Charlotte.b Jewelry in 2021.

The 16-month program aims to combine the capability of strategic vision on sustainability with understanding the role of technology and innovation in sustainable business. In particular, the program focuses on environmental, energy, and mobility technologies.

This Master of Science will enable students to develop strategic practices and mindsets to identify and size the actions organizations could take to act as catalysts of effective change.

👉 Katharina Kull founded Kull & Consultants, a strategic consultancy specializing in social media, which offers strategic consulting for Branding & social media and social Media Workshops for companies, Account Management, and Content Creation in 2019.
👉 Katharina graduated with her bachelor’s degree from IUM in 2017.
She also studied law because she understood the rising importance of Social Media law for her industry.
👏 Lastly, Katharina is a big fan of female empowerment. This is why she launched her podcast « HappyKidMonday – Monday only sucks if you don’t do what you love » in 2018. She interviews females (& males & everybody with an encouraging story to tell) who share their entrepreneurship journey and, more broadly, about their life as a woman, wife, mum, and professional.

👉 We recently met with Tariq Khoso, an MBA student working as
Financial Controller at VeUP Ltd.
✔ Tariq is a Financial Analyst, Financial Modelling & Accounting Expert with over 10+ years of experience.
✔ « I’m doing an MBA here at IUM because I’d like to branch out from accounting and finance to more general management and leadership. »
✔ « Networking opportunities are one of the strengths of the program. But also, the fact that the faculty is international and that all students in my cohort speak another language adds to the diversity, which is a very stimulating aspect, in my opinion. »

The Master in Sustainability and Innovation Management equips students with the knowledge and skills to manage this change. It offers a broad portfolio of courses to face the sustainability transition and lead a wave of innovation and economic growth that safeguards our planet.

The 16-month program aims to combine the capability of strategic vision on sustainability with understanding the role of technology and innovation in sustainable business. In particular, the program focuses on environmental, energy, and mobility technologies.

This Master of Science will enable students to develop strategic practices and mindsets to identify and size the actions organizations could take to act as catalysts of effective change.

This challenging study program gives students the fundamental tools, skill sets, and insights required to understand the different Sports Industries worldwide.

Monaco is a unique place for international sports events. Students will benefit from a unique hands-on approach by participating in the numerous world-class sports events in Monaco: the F1 Grand Prix, the E-Prix, the Monte-Carlo Rolex Tennis Masters, Sportel, or the Peace & Sportforum, to name a few.

They will work on concrete issues and practice what they learn, applying the knowledge acquired in class to real-world challenges.

They will learn from the best academic researchers on Sports Management, from the US to China, and the new trends in Sports & Entertainment and Esports.