Mark Challenge 2019
The 6th edition of Mark Challenge registered a new record.
For the first time, more than 100 teams registered for the competition. We welcomed 263 participants, representing 49 Universities from 17 different countries.
Thanks to the partnership with the Cluster Yachting Monaco, we launched the first Yachting Special award. Teams had the chance to propose an innovative business concept that was evaluated by a dedicated jury composed of professionals in Yachting and some members of the Cluster Yachting Monaco.
The Grand Final of the 6th edition of Mark Challenge was held in the fabulous setting of the Monaco Yachting Club.
2019 Winners
Category 1 - Bachelor and Master students
Project: Lia Monaco
University: International University of Monaco
Nationality: German Russian French Italian
LIA MONACO is a luxury cosmetic company providing coral friendly sunscreen within the high-end segment emphasizing sustainability and coral protection
Category 2 - MBA, Alumni
Project: Sharealook
University: Business School of Lausanne, Domus Academy
Nationality: German Brazilian
Sharealook is a fashion community platform that revolutionizes the way we consume fashion.
Special Awards
Special Award in Yachting
Project:
University: International University of Monaco
Nationality: Italian Belgium
Sea Ahead is a service company based in the French Riviera, providing two services: sea transfers to access Monaco and daily boat trips around the Cote d’Azur.
Special Award in Fashion
Project: LuxSeaTex
University: International University of Monaco, San Francisco State University
Nationality: American
Luxury Fabric from Reclaimed Sea Plastic

Final Round Jury

President of the Jury
Mr Manfredi Lefebvre d’Ovidio
Manfredi Lefebvre d’Ovidio de Clunieres di Balsorano is Chairman of Heritage Group.
Mei Grandell
Head of Marketing at a luxury fashion brand
Mei is an alumna of the International University of Monaco with an MSc in Luxury Goods & Services, and works in fashion marketing in London. Mei has a decade of experience in luxury fashion and beauty, having previously worked for Burberry, Harrods, and Jo Loves by Jo Malone CBE, as well as start up innovate7 where she consulted the likes of Airbnb, Adidas and Coca-Cola, followed by marketing for social network challenger Tunepics before returning to fashion in 2017. She has written several cover features for trade press about the impact of digital innovations in luxury.
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Axel Hoppenot
Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Monte-Carlo – Société des Bains de Mer
Since 1983, Axel Hoppenot has held senior management, sales and marketing positions and/or executive committee positions in major global or international companies (Procter & Gamble, UTA French Airlines, Accor, DHL, American Express), based in Paris, Los Angeles, London, Frankfurt or Monaco. He currently runs Strategic Marketing and Communication and is a member of the Executive Committee of Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer, the listed company that manages the most valuable touristic assets of the Principality of Monaco (casinos, palaces and hotels, restaurants, bars, night clubs, music festivals, opera house, golf course, tennis club…) and more generally the legendary Monte-Carlo brand. Axel Hoppenot represents Monte-Carlo Société des Bains de Mer on the board of art institutions such as Compagnie des Ballets de Monte-Carlo, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Printemps des Arts, as well as on the board of the Cluster Yachting Monaco and TEDxMonteCarlo. On a voluntary basis, he is past President of Skal International Monaco, a leading association of travel and tourism leaders, and a foreign trade advisor and Vice President of the Monaco branch of the Conseillers du Commerce Extérieur de la France.
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Mihai Ivascu
Serial Entrepreneur, CEO and Founder at Modex Tech
Mihai Ivascu - young serial entrepreneur, with 10 years of experience in establishing start-ups and creating brands in various domains from FinTech to travel and hospitality. The vast experience in start-ups came through his own companies but also from developing brands, marketing strategies and business consulting projects for various start-ups and clients around the world through his first company Ingenium Media Monaco. The range of services offered was completed with complex software products and security solutions created by the other division, Ingenium Software Solutions. The PR, Communication and Brand development division of Ingenium Media was developed with a team of experienced journalists and copywriters and managed to develop from segment-leading press products to winning communication strategies for companies from various domains. His new FinTech Start-up, MoneyMailMe UK, based in London, a social money transferring tool, is backed by a team of experienced serial investors and academic experts. Mihai holds an MBA in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at International University of Monaco and is currently doing his Doctorate of Business Administration at the same university, with the thesis and research focused on Disruptive Technologies for the Financial Industry. He was also listed on Forbes 30 Under 30.
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Rumble Romagnoli
CEO at Relevance & Digital Marketing Professor at IUM
Rumble is a digital marketing consultant specialising in luxury brands & uses digital marketing to target high net worth individuals for his clients. Rumble is CEO of Relevance, an independent digital marketing agency headquartered in Monaco, with offices in the UK and internationally employing 30 staff. Relevance is a full-service digital marketing agency offering 360-degree digital marketing services and performance marketing.
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Serena Auletta
Co-founder e Managing Partner of Migliora Independent Advisor
Business woman with experience in services companies management, with a specific experience in professional firms in Milan. Co-founder of Migliora Independent Advisor, and of 2meet2biz website, an innovative marketplace for equity and M & A transactions, aimed at SMEs, Large Corporate, Start-ups, and Institutional Investors. I am responsible for customer relations, in particular on the companies side, and I follow the transactions during merger & acquisitions activities.
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Matteo Atti
Executive Vice President of Marketing and Innovation, VistaJet
Matteo Atti is the Executive Vice President of Marketing and Innovation for VistaJet, the first and only global private aviation company. His marketing and business expertise spans over 15 years working with leading global brands in luxury, fashion and telecommunications. Matteo started his career in Gucci during the Tom Ford tenure, followed by Italian travel bags company Mandarina Duck as their Brand Manager. A move to Finland with Nokia introduced him to marketing at a global scale, leading campaigns and retail communication ecosystems for over 200,000 shops. Back to fashion, he headed the business development team for Bottega Veneta, catering to the luxury fashion’s elite. In London, he worked alongside Sir Paul Smith to inject a customer centric approach into the brand touchpoints, and refocus the business around its core attributes, products and brand. At VistaJet, Matteo heads a global team in charge of the entire customer journey, from market research to client acquisition, CRM, press, events, adv and digital, and harnessing insights about its UHNWI to introduce exciting innovation programs. Matteo holds an MA in Communication Science from Bologna University and a business qualification from Insead. He is also a lecturer in Luxury Business Development at the International University of Monaco.
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Second Round Jury
Alessio Castello
Professor of Innovation and Project Management at the International University of Monaco
Alessio Castello is a Professor of Innovation and Project Management at the International University of Monaco. He is the former deputy director of the European campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology, where his research focused on innovation based alliances. Alessio conducts courses on entrepreneurship, innovation and Business Simulation in MSc, MBA and Executive MBA programs, as well as seminars on innovation and strategy in executive development programs for large multinational corporations. After graduating in Physics, he spent three years doing research in fundamental solid state physics at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technologies in Lausanne – Switzerland. From 1997 to 2001, he was active in the sales and marketing departments of several companies in the biotech and telecommunications industries; since 2001, he is an independent consultant in strategy and finance for European companies operating in the IT sector. Alessio Castello obtained a PhD from the University of Nice in 2012 and an MBA with honors from the Theseus Institute, Sophia Antipolis - France.
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Mark Markovik
Executive Director at Domaine des Belles Etoiles
Mark is a multinational executive who is a product of IUM (MBA 2007 graduate). The MBA was preceded with a Bachelor Degree of Management obtained at UofL in Canada. In the last ten years was located in Cote d’Azure where started several start ups. Holds a strong experience in sales and new business development. Loves the early stage start ups and has big enthusiasm in business evaluation and development. Currently is working in the field of event management that was one of his latest start ups. Simultaneously is participating in financial investment projects, as well as platform of AI development. Mark holds a passion in creating new value and is enthusiastic when in comes in shaping new business in order to reach the optimal potential.
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Fabrice Marquet
Managing Director of MonacoTech
Fabrice is the Managing Director of MonacoTech, Monaco startup Center of Excellence. His main focus is to create an entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Principality. He got two M.S. degrees (engineering and wave physics) and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering. He worked for more than 12 years in the medical device field on both hardware and software aspects in top-tier institutes worldwide (Langevin Institute, Paris – Philips, Eindhoven – Columbia University, New York – IHU LIRYC, Bordeaux) where he was deeply involved in the entrepreneurial scene performing tech transfer from bench to bedside. For instance, his Ph.D. work contributed to the creation and development of SuperSonic Imagine (shear wave elastography sonogram), a startup founded in Aix-en-Provence in 2005 that had a successful IPO on Euronext in 2014 and more than 120 employees today. 2 of the patents he published with Columbia University improving brain-drug delivery for neurodegenerative diseases led to the creation of Vesselon in 2012, a Connecticut-based startup and were exclusively licensed in 2017. Two other patents are at the core of a startup project at the IHU LIRYC in Bordeaux to develop a complete non-invasive approach for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
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Nazanine Matin
Consultant & Head of Operations at UIB Holdings Pte. Ltd.
Nazanine Matin is an MBA from IUM class of 2014, and a graduate of Engineering from U.C. Berkeley. Nazanine has over 18 years of industry experience and eight patents in Medical Devices. She has worked in R&D, IT, Operations, Audit, Finance, and Cybersecurity across various industries. Nazanine worked for General Electric for over nine years, and is a graduate of GE’s Corporate Audit Staff leadership program. Nazanine has worked for and helped set up various startups throughout her career owned by Oracle, Mubadala, GE including most recently her own start-up in luxury leather goods. Nazanine is passionate about learning and sharing and is the founder and curator of TEDxIUM and TEDxMonteCarlo where has gathered over 1500 people from her community to share ideas worth spreading and has over 2.4 million views on YouTube. She is also passionate about inspiring and mentoring students to help them reach and thrive in leadership positions.
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Simon Ardiss
Non Executive Director of different companies and Business Angel
Simon is an active business angel. He works also a Non Executive Director of different companies: SLB (Legal Firm), Made In Italy Ventures (Digital Platform) and Gipstech Srl (Tech company). He is board advisor to Tekpea a US technology company and works part time in a Monaco based family office. He is partner of Italian Angels for growth the main business angels group in Italy. Ultimately, he has become a promoter of Corporate Governance principles in non-quoted companies and is an author of a book on this subject. Simon earned an executive MBA from SDA Bocconi, he lectures about start-up financing at Bocconi University and teaches entrepreneurship & business planning at the International University of Monaco.
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Markus Schuller
Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship, DBA Candidate, Entrepreneur
Markus Schuller is the founder and managing partner of Panthera Solutions. As Investment Decision Architects ™, Panthera optimizes the choice architecture of professional investors through applied behavioral finance methods. Empowering the decision makers towards comparative advantages in capital markets remains the ultimate goal. As adjunct professor, Markus teaches courses like “Adaptive Risk Management”, “Investment Banking” and “Asset Allocation for Practitioners” at renowned Master in Finance programs of the EDHEC Business School and the International University of Monaco. Markus publishes in academic top journals (i.e. Journal of Portfolio Management, 2018), writes articles for professional journals (i.e. CFA Institute, OECD Insights, etc.) and holds keynotes at international investment conferences. As an investment banker, adjunct professor and author, Markus looks back at 18 rewarding years of trading, structuring, and managing standard and alternative investment products. Prior to founding Panthera Solutions, he worked in executive roles for a long/short equity hedge fund for which he developed the trading algorithm. Markus started his career working as equity trader, derivatives trader and macro analyst for different banks.
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Dr. Arik Roeschke
Managing partner of an asset management company
Dr. Arik Röschke is member of the board of directors of an asset management company and an agricultural investment company in Switzerland and member of the advisory board of a single family office of a Monaco-based investor. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), where he conducted research on Entrepreneurship at the Swiss Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and coached a multitude of would-be entrepreneurs and their projects.
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Olena Prykhodko
Founding Partner of Modelex Education
Olena graduated with a Masters in Law from University of Nice and has been involved into various entrepreneurial projects since the age of 16. In 2018, she was elected the youngest-ever National President of JCI Monaco, and spoke for Modelex at Davos ’18 about challenges facing education today. Olena has also been awarded the State Medal of Ukraine for her outstanding contribution towards youth development.
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Dr. Thomas Papanikolaou
Director and Principal Advisor at Neos Chronos
Thomas Papanikolaou is Director and Principal Advisor at Neos Chronos, an advisory services firm for early-stage startups and large multinational enterprises. He specializes in strategy, business development, and sales growth. Over the course of his international career, Thomas has generated more than 150 million pounds of revenue for the companies he has worked for. As an advisor/coach/mentor Thomas has helped over 100 startups progress in their entrepreneurial journey and now serves on the board of a select few. Thomas lives in Beausoleil, France, and travels to the UK and abroad to work with his clients.
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First Round Jury
Julien de Grandbois
Professor of Entrepreneurship & Business Development at Business School Lausanne
Professor Julien de Grandbois teaches courses on the subject of “Entrepreneurship” at Business School Lausanne. BSL ranked 1st business school in Switzerland. Professor de Grandbois is an approved coach and mentor to entrepreneurial competitions and ‘Venture2018’ with EPFL, the lead Swiss Confederation Polytechnical Institute. Switzerland is ranked the most dynamic technological innovations country in the world and rates 1st in numbers of new start-ups that grow into successfully sustained business ventures. Professor de Grandbois also teaches Negotiation to MBA students of University Institute of Finance and Management in Geneva Switzerland for career development cadres in international operational sectors. Professor Julien de Grandbois is First Jury member with International University of Monaco’s worldwide business plan competition entitled ‘The Mark Challenge’ for project selection in the luxury industries with having an environmental and social impact. With extensive multi-continental experience in corporate and academic cultures, Julien established and managed new start-ups involving small and mid-cap businesses in information technologies, print and media, project finance and fundraising, global banking operations, tourism and management education. He developed business projects in biotechnologies, power generation, pharmaceuticals, universities graduate education, environmental technologies, raising capital for art museums, sports competitions, scientific bursaries, doctoral grants, internet trading platforms and a variety of other start-up companies. Chairman of a global education commission on banking reorganization, he served as Panel Moderator to UN Earth Summits on new environmental technology businesses. Corporate Advisor to reputed global brands, Julien performed intermediation services, raising capital and private/public mediation services. As business professor, Julien created accredited graduate degree programs. Having quality exposure to start-ups, business development, multinational management, Julien lectured on entrepreneurial ideas creating new wealth, on corporate social responsibility, systematic operational management, issues of quality management in industry to foster a world of clean technologies for improved human welfare at the leading-edge universities across the Americas, Europe, Middle-East, China and Asia Pacific regions. Julien advised CEO’s on innovation and change management, and coached entrepreneurial students to create start-ups, do business development and manage operations of small and large companies. Elected Municipal Councilor to five subsequent Geneva Legislatures, Julien de Grandbois established a variety of public works and development projects. His personal motto “Life is also what you make it”.
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Guido Mantovani
Distinguished Professor of Finance, International University of Monaco. Double affiliated of Corporate Finance, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Guido Mantovani (Milan, March 28th, 1965) graduates in Business Administration (major in Corporate Finance) at Bocconi University in Milan in the academic year 1989-90. He got his PhD in Business Administration in the Consortium managed by the same University. Since 2018 he is Distinguished Professor of Finance at IUM with double affiliation with Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His academic experience started in 1990 at Bocconi University as junior researcher (later lecturer) in Corporate Finance and Corporate Risk Management. In 1998 he was appointed as Senior Professor of Corporate Finance at SDA-Bocconi School of Management. In 2001, he started to work at Ca’ Foscari University Venice. In 2009 he became Deputy-President for Lifelong and Executive Education and founded the Ca’ Foscari Challenge School becoming its first Dean (2011-2014). His international teaching experience spreads to ENI Corporate University (1992-2013), VSE University of Economics Prague (1997-99), Harvard Summer School (2006-11), FAU Universitaet Nurnberg (2012-14), Ecole de Management de Strasbourg (2012-17), where he also acted as President of the H.E.R.M.E.S. Universities Network until 2018. He publishes internationally and in Italy on topics concerning contingent claim finance, corporate risk management, information risk premia and entrepreneurial finance. More recently he is focusing more on the financial valuation of human competences, an integrated approach of financial rating and scoring for small and medium enterprises and the relationships between corporate governance and finance. His latest contribute “The Financial Value of Entepreneurship” (Palgrave, 2017) has been recently presented at the FMA Applied Conference at the St. John’s University in Manhattan. He is Scientific Director of the Teofilo Intato Institute of Entrepreneurship in Treviso and involved in different Academic bodies including the Scientific Board of the World Finance Conference and the Global Finance Conference, the chairing of the FMA European Conference 2015 and of the World Finance Conference 2014. He was appointed as scientific advisor of several institution including the European Union, the Italian Confidustria and a huge number of European Financial Intermediaries.
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Laurence Lecoeuvre
Professor of Management & Innovation International International University of Monaco
Professor in Management and Innovation at International University of Monaco since September 2018, Laurence LECOEUVRE teaches International Management, Project Management, Strategic Marketing; and Research Methods. She publishes regularly in peer reviewed journals, books, and chapters. Laurence joined the Academy after nearly 20 years professional within the industrial sector and automotive industry as an International Marketing Director (1984-2001). Within this industrial area, she developed international markets, new projects and managed intercultural teams and representatives worldwide. Indeed she joined the Business School SKEMA in 2001; she earned a PhD in Management (Doctorat en Sciences de Gestion), at the Engineering School of Paris, France (Ecole Centrale de Paris) (January 2005) And then a Habilitation to Direct Research in Management (HDR / Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches en Sciences de Gestion), at Lille University, France (ESA, Lille2) in March 2009. From 2012 to December 2015, she was Associate Dean in charge of the Doctoral programmes and Head of the Department of Management of Projects and of Information Systems & Supply Chains (Lille Campus). She was also Director of the PhD/DBA in Programme and Project Management. Until April 2017, she was Deputy Director of the Master in Management Programme at SKEMA Business School, on Sophia Antipolis campus ; and in charge on the School Exam Entrance of the SKEMA. Moreover Laurence was a Visiting Professor at Ecole Centrale Lille (Engineering School), where she teaches Project Management; Project Marketing; and Intercultural Management from 2006 to 2018. There she has also been associate Dean at the research laboratory LGI (Lille Industrial Engineering) at Ecole Centrale de Lille from 2005 to 2008. Pr. Laurence LECOEUVRE’s research is dedicated to the links between project marketing and project management and also to the importance of governance. Her current research focuses on Service Dominant Logic (as an extension of project marketing) & exchange of values within Megaprojects; on agile PM and on uncertainty in projects.
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Dr. Marika Taishoff
Director of the Executive and Full-Time MBA programs at the International University of Monaco
Dr. Marika Taishoff is currently the Director of the Executive and Full-Time MBA programs at the International University of Monaco. Her area of academic and consulting expertise has long been Services Management, Quality and Marketing, in particular in the Luxury sectors. She has designed and delivered a variety of courses in these topics at the Masters, MBA and Executive Education levels. Prior to joining IUM, Marika worked at such internationally renowned business schools and management education institutions as IMD (The International Institute for Management Development) in Lausanne, Switzerland; Imperial College Business School at the University of London; and Bocconi University Business School in Milan. Originally from New York City, where she completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at Columbia University, Dr. Taishoff has written numerous case studies on best practice in service management and marketing. Many of these cases have been global award winners, and in 2015 Dr. Taishoff was honored by the Case Center as one of the “Top 40 Case Writers in the World”
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Andrea Bookhagen
Professor of Marketing & Product Management at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW), Berlin.
Dr. Andrea Bookhagen is a German citizen and has a Ph.D. in Marketing Management from Technical University Berlin. She is a Professor for Marketing and Product Management at the Fashion Design Department at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW) Berlin, Germany. Before joining HTW in October 2017, she headed the chair of Marketing and Luxury Brand Management at Munich Business School (MBS) for more than six years. She previously worked in various management positions in the global consumer goods industry and is an experienced strategic management consultant. She has specialized expertise on brand management, innovation and qualitative market research. She is also researching on topics related to CSR and sustainability in the textile and fashion industry
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Bertrand Petyt
Chief Operating Officer at Parkview World Group and Adjunct-Professor of Management at the International University of Monaco
After obtaining my MBA in a New-York-City University, I joined the ACCOR hotel group in the USA where I built up a career as an Operations Manager, ultimately being part of the permanent team for two flagship hotel openings. I then moved onto the cruise business by joining the V.Ships Group, where I held several roles both on-board luxury cruise ships (up to Hotel Director/General Manager) and ashore. After 12 years with the V.Ships Group, I was approached by a UHNW family to take over the role of Chief Operating Officer for their Monaco-based holding company, a position I currently hold; in this capacity, I oversee all Leisure assets from a strategic and operational standpoint for a muliti-billion dollars International conglomerate. Bertrand is an enabler of excellence, helping organizations to achieve their goals by rejuvenating management and operational processes. His methodology includes deep-dive business and operational analysis focusing on growth results and personnel retention. Bertrand is a strategic thinker and incisive communicator and currently holds the roles of Chief Operating Officer at Parkview World Group, and Adjunct-Professor of Management at the International University of Monaco.
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Nicoletta Giusti, PhD
Clinical Professor / Director of Luxury Management and Guest Experience Master Program
Nicoletta Giusti PhD is an academic with more than 20 years of research and teaching in the fields of Luxury, Fashion and Design, from the Bachelor level to MBA, in several Business Schools and Universities in Europe. She comes from family business in luxury menswear founded in 1887 and has a wide range of professional and entrepreneurial contacts in the Luxury and Fashion industry. She has worked as a consultant for several fashion firms and is Professor Ambassador for the Program LVMH INSIDE 2018.
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Jukka Aminoff
Entrepreneur, Founder of Luxury Sales Academy, FRSA, Author
Aminoff is the Founder of Luxury Sales Academy and he is in close collaboration with various luxury brands and entrepreneurs. Jukka has written three books Luxury, Buying Revolution and Social Selling Luxury. Jukka keeps a popular business blog in Finnish CITY Magazine. He has appeared in Forbes, The Balance Magazine, The Royal Society of Arts, The Conversation UK and many others. Jukka holds a master's degree MA in Marketing and Innovation from Anglia Ruskin University. Jukka is a Member of The Alumni Board at Anglia Ruskin University and President of The Alumni Council at Laurea University of Applied Sciences. Jukka was the Head Judge in 2018 and 2019 at The Mark Challenge Finland Partial Race. He is also a Member of The Mark Challenge Entrepreneurship Club, Visiting Honorary Professor at Anglia Ruskin University and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts in London. He is also a Member of Foreign Policy Advisory Group for Finland's former Prime Minister.
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Dr. Alexander Kern
Managing partner at Euro-Institute and a Professor of Business Administration at International University of Monaco
Dr. Alexander Kern is German citizen who has a Ph.D. in Corporate Finance & Innovation Management Science from University Aix-Marseille. He is the Managing partner at Euro-Institute at Monaco and Hamburg, Germany and a professor of Business Administration at International University of Monaco. He also have experience in high-performance environments such as consulting, finance, international politics, and online start-ups. He previously worked with the National Bureau of Economic Research as a Research Assistant where his findings were published in 2015 at the European Commission and the German Finance Ministry. He enjoy leading, and working in, teams, maintaining a clear vision of objectives, and keeping up the team spirit.
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Kevin Hin
Luxury brand development consultant
Born in London, United Kingdom, Kevin Hin holds a Master’s degree in International Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics. He is currently launching a consulting firm aimed at expanding the scope of luxury brands and companies around the world, building on over 10 years of experience in the luxury retail sector. Kevin was notably as Deputy Sales Director for wholesale Europe of the APM Monaco jewellery brand (which since July 2013 has opened 250 fully-owned stores in 18 countries around the world). He is also the author and creator of the French Riviera Blog, an online guide for tourists to the region and was the President of the Jeune Chambre Economique de Monaco in 2010 (Monaco’s Junior Chamber of Commerce). He resides in Monte Carlo, Principality of Monaco, where he moved to in 1989.
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Special Award in Yachting
Sébastien Clavé
Yacht broker at Northrop & Johnson Monaco
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Paris Baloumis
Group Marketing Manager at Oceanco
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Gregory Benassi
Secretary of Cluster Yachting Monaco and Project Coordinator at the Yacht Club de Monaco
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Gaëlle TALLARIDA
Managing Director Monaco Yacht Show
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Special Award in Fashion
Yuri Lia
Retail Store Manager at Stuart Weitzman
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Maurizio Vela
Owner of Mcva Sarl
Mcva and Mr Vela task: Talents scouting / agent and brand developer of new contemporary, conceptual and avant-garde fashion designers
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Marie Michaud
Founder and CEO @gangz
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Veronica Sartori
Director of Merchandising Shoes Burberry
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Valentina Cangiano
CEO and Founder at Style Lab
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Filippo Cavalli
Director at Style Capital SGR, General Manager and Board member at Forte Forte Srl, Board member at MSGM
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Location
There are several ways to come to Monaco from the nearest airoport in Nice:
- taking a taxi directly to Monaco will take approximately 30 min and will cost around 100 EUR
- taking the bus 110 Menton-Nice Airport Express will take 1h and will cost 15 EUR
- taking Uber may cost less than taking an ordinary taxi
- taking the bus 99 from the Terminal 1 of the airport until the Nice train station (Nice Ville) where you could take train to Monaco. The whole trip will be around 1-1.5h and will cost 8-10 EUR.
Getting around Monaco
In Monaco, a local bus network allows its passangers to reach almost any location in a short time during the day. An ordinary bus fare is 1.5 and 2 EUR if you buy ticket on board. All buses run until 9.30 pm, then you can take a night bus that goes every hour through the whole Monaco.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us:
email themark@monaco.edu