Welcome to the International Fine Watchmaking exhibition - better known as the SIHH, a conference held annually in Geneva, Switzerland, where luxury brands worldwide premiere their latest watches, often the culmination of years of intensive research. The SIHH is also an opportunity for watchmakers and designers, the representatives of an entire creative team, to share their passion for watchmaking one-on-one. It is a private event for trade visitors only.
Who is Jean-Marc Pontroue?
Jean-Marc Pontroue was CEO of Roger Dubuis watches in 2016 and is currently the CEO of Panerai. Roger Dubuis joined the Richemont Group in 2008. Richemont owns several of the world’s leading luxury goods companies with particular strengths in jewelry, luxury watches, and writing instruments.
Some of the most prestigious names in the luxury industry such as Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Piaget, Vacheron Constantin, Jaeger-LeCoultre, IWC Schaffhausen, Panerai and Montblanc, are owned by Richemont.
Roger Dubuis, at the SIHH in 2016, emphasized Fine Watchmaking for women and held a women’s-only event.
If Swissair went bankrupt in the past, Swiss International Airlines in Swiss Romand is beginning to thrive with Lorenzo Stoll and stay tuned, it is just the beginning. Dr. Katrina Burrus asked what does he attribute some of his leadership success at Swiss International Airlines with the following questions:
What is one trait he possesses that makes him an effective leader at Swiss? How does he overcome challenges?
What routine does he attribute his success at Swiss International Airlines? How does he relieve his stress? What is one piece of advice he would give to a younger version of himself? For you, Lorenzo Stoll shares his biggest failure and his biggest passion.
Lorenzo Stoll, born 1971, has joined SWISS in October 2013. Holding a diploma of the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, he did start his career working in the tourism and leisure industry at the Montreux-Vevey Tourism Office.
Lorenzo Stoll comes to SWISS from the Nestlé organization, where he has held various executive functions with a strong focus on customer and marketing affairs over the past 12 years. In 2007, he assumed responsibility for the global sales of Nestlé Waters, and two years later he was appointed Chief Commercial Officer of Nestlé Waters Switzerland.
As SWISS’ Head of Western Switzerland, he is in charge of all aspects of SWISS’ business unit in Geneva and stay tuned for the changes that will be happening at SWISS. Lorenzo Stoll was asked what trait of his he attributes to making him an effective leader. How he challenges himself to overcome resistances? What routine does he attribute his success? How does he relieve stress? What advice would he give to a younger version of himself? What was his biggest failure? How can we get the cheapest flights at Swiss?
Dr. Seth Berkley walks us through his successful leadership journey as CEO of GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance. Tune in to learn more through Dr. Katrina Burrus’s questions.
Dr. Seth Berkley joined the GAVI Alliance as its CEO in August 2011. The GAVI Alliance is a public-private partnership whose mission is to save children’s lives and protect public health by increasing access to immunization in developing countries.
Since its launch in 2000, GAVI has prevented more than five million future deaths and helped protect millions of children with new and underused vaccines. Dr. Seth Berkley is a medical epidemiologist by training. He is also a global advocate for the power of vaccines, and the founder and former CEO of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative.
Swiss law professor Xavier Oberson discusses with host Dr. Katrina Burrus the experiences and challenges to which he now attributes his successful international law practice.
Who is Xavier Oberson?
Xavier Oberson is a Professor in Swiss and International Tax Law at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. After his studies at the University of Geneva, he obtained his law degree and his Doctorate in 1990. He then pursued graduate studies and research at Harvard Law School, where he also completed the International Tax Program (ITP) in 1992.
Who is Charles de Boissezon?
Charles de Boissezon is Past CEO of Geneva headquartered Hinduja Bank, a Private Bank, and brings with him 37 years of International banking experience in London, Hong Kong, New York, Geneva, Chile, and Jersey. Charles is both French and British. He grew up in Vietnam and Hong Kong and spent his formative years in Geneva attending the College de Leman School. He then left for the USA to earn his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Have you ever questioned the very nature of existence? Have you wondered how it all started and what secrets the universe holds? For most of us, these matters are beyond our comprehension. And yet, these are questions scientists at CERN - the world’s leading research body for particle physics - are currently exploring.
Dr. Heuer discusses with host Dr. Katrina Burrus the experiences and challenges to which he now attributes his successful leadership and achievements within the scientific community.
Who is Rolf-Dieter Heuer?
Dr. Heuer studied physics at the University of Stuttgart. He then obtained his PhD in 1977 at the University of Heidelberg under Joachim Heintze.
His post-doc studies include the JADE experiment at the electron-positron storage ring PETRA at DESY, and from 1984, at the OPAL experiment at CERN, where he also became a spokesperson of the OPAL collaboration for many years. Having been offered a full professorship for experimental physics at the University of Hamburg, Heuer returned to DESY in 1998. In 2004, he was appointed DESY’s Research Director. In December 2007, the CERN research council announced that Heuer will take office as CERN’s Director General starting 1 January 2009.