About us


Philippe Ory

Career Center Director
An EPFL graduate (Electrical Engineering – class of 86) and holder of an Executive Master in Supply-Chain Management (IML 94), Philippe has held several management positions in top IT companies such as HP, IBM, Quantum and CNET Networks. He also co-started two companies. Philippe speaks French and English.


Tania Candolfi

Executive Assistant
A certified Business Clerk, Tania Candolfi started her career at the Swiss Engineers and Architects Association (SIA). She then joined the private sector as an executive secretary in a recruitement agency before moving to the travel industry as an accountant. Tania speaks French, Italian and English.Academic Advisor and Career Counselor


Aurélie Secrétan

Conseillère en orientation et insertion professionnelle
A graduate Psychologist from the University of Geneva specialized in Human Resources, Aurelie Secrétan has worked in student placement at Nottingham Trent University. She later joined the Swiss Post, where she was in charge of coaching and enhancing the workforce’s employability in Western Switzerland. She has a lot of experience in conducting interviews and has designed and run several seminars in the fields of career moves and skills developpement. She speaks French, English and German.


Stephen Fischer

Career Counselor
Stephen completed his BA at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, and began his international education career in Mexico teaching English to teens and methodology and pedagogy at university level for language teachers at the Universidad de Guadalajara. Arriving in Switzerland in 1991, he completed a MA-TESOL at the University of London, and moved from full-time classroom teaching to program planning and, in 1995, was asked to take on the international enrollment management for Lemania Group of Schools in Lausanne. During the next ten years, he traveled extensively, recruiting students in more than 50 countries for US and Swiss schools. In 2007, he established career services at EHL, opening their first-ever Career Center a year later. Stephen speaks English, French and Spanish, lives on an organic farm, and has three daughters.


Catherine Marselli-Pasquier

Master internship program Central Coordinator
Graduating as an engineer from EPFL in 1994, Catherine went on to receive a Doctoral degree from the University of Neuchatel. She held several subsequent positions in project development and management in business and in academia. Interested by management, she also obtained an MBA from the University of Applied Sciences School of Business Administration) in Neuchatel. Catherine works in parallel for the Faculty of Science at EPFL where she assists students in searching for their internships and organizes workshops on job search techniques and the (non-academic) workplace. She speaks fluent French and English, and has a good working knowledge of German.


Régina Cardoso

Administrative assistant
Regina earned a Bachelor of Sciences in Social Communication from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, and a Business Clerk certificate in Canton Vaud. After a period in Los Angeles, as part of a language immersion program, Regina arrived in Switzerland in 1996 where she started her career as an educational assistant at Wall Street Institute before becoming a senior administrative assistant in different industry segments. Regina speaks French, English and Portuguese.


Sabine Demerlé

Employer Relations Officer

Sabine Demerlé holds a Master of Science from HEC Lausanne (business administration). She worked in national and international companies from various sectors including banking, watchmaking, automotive and FMCG where she held different marketing roles and specialized in market research. Sabine speaks fluently French and English and has a solid knowledge of German and Spanish. She is the mother of two children, enjoys travelling and loves to go mountaineering.


 



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