Glion Institute of Higher Education (GIHE) is pleased to announce the appointment of Frédéric Picard as the new Managing Director of Glion Switzerland and UK.Before taking over the general management of GIHE (Glion, Bulle, London), Frédéric Picard spent his career in the luxury hotel industry, in Europe and internationally.
Dr. Eleonora Cattaneo has joined the Glion team as of October 1st as the Director for the Master's in Luxury Management and Guest Experience. She has been previously a professor for the Building Brand Equity class within the Master. Dr. Cattaneo has obtained a PhD in Marketing from the University of Pavia in Italy, an MBA from SDA Bocconi, and BA from the University of Bristol and has extensive industry experience in the field of marketing as a consultant and senior advisor for global brands and leading luxury hospitality groups. Her research focuses on rebranding, heritage branding and sustainable buying behaviour in the field of luxury. Prior to her position at Glion, she was Director of executive education at Swiss Education Group. She was also head of programme for the MA Luxury Brand Management at Regent's University and before that she was a faculty member at SDA Bocconi in Milan where she designed and led executive education and MBA programmes.
Mariam Megally is the new Program Director for Glion's Master's in Hospitality, Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Based in Switzerland, Mariam brings a breadth of international business experience to the Master's degree focused on entrepreneurship skills. She began her career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co before entering the corporate food and beverage sector at Starbucks and Nestlé, a career path which culminated in her taking the role of Starbucks Global Strategic Innovation Director for Nestlé. Since 2012, Mariam has served as Strategy Professor for the Executive MBA at Solvay Brussels School in Vietnam. She is also a judge and mentor for the global start-up accelerator Mass Challenge where she provides mentoring for start-ups in food and sustainability.
Laureate Education, Inc., the largest global network of degree-granting higher education institutions, and Eurazeo, one of Europe's leading investment companies, today announced that they have signed an agreement under which Eurazeo will acquire Glion Institute of Higher Education ("Glion") and Les Roches International School of Hotel Management ("Les Roches") from Laureate Education for a total transaction value of CHF 380m.
Glion Institute of Higher Education, one of the world’s top three institutions of higher education for an international career in hospitality management, has appointed Judy Hou as Directeur General/CEO to manage Glion-branded institutions in Switzerland and the United Kingdom, effective January 2014. Prior to Glion, Hou was CEO of Les Roches Jin Jiang Hotel Management College in Shanghai, China. Judy formerly served as the director of human capital for Hotel ICON in Hong Kong. She also was an adjunct professor for the School of Hotel & Tourism Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. During her tenure, Hou successfully developed the first fully integrated commercial and teaching/research hotel owned by the university. Hou has held various key management positions in luxury hotel companies, including learning and development manager for Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group and served training manager for Park Hyatt Washington in Washington, D.C.