Andrea has more than 20 years of experience in international project management, mainly in international projects and in various industries such as medical devices or pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, services, event and construction.
In 2000, she founded her first company in Switzerland to support clients with international SAP implementations. Since then, she has gained extensive expertise in various roles, whether with her own startup, for implementation partners or for software vendors. She is currently the CEO of a company that has developed its own therapeutic medical device and supports clients in the regulatory environment with their IT strategies and projects.

With her eMBA degree in New Business Development, completed in 2021, she is deepening her knowledge of strategic management and developing new business ideas or expanding existing business areas.

Most recently, she supported the Regulatory Affairs team of a German medical device manufacturer for over three years in digitizing to prepare for MDR and building a new data model for registration activities, as well as by leading several Regulatory Affairs tenders to implement strategic tools to support daily global registration and sales activities and ensure product compliance in a highly regulated and competitive environment.

Besides family and friends, she loves the Swiss mountains and spends a lot of time hiking, climbing or skiing and sailing on the nearby Greifensee.

To prove that her project management skills are up to date, she completed the PMP diploma in August 2022 and joined the Swiss PMI chapter to network, share her expertise with colleagues and find new project and job opportunities.

You can learn more about Andrea by visiting her LinkedIn profile.

Ece is originally from Izmir, Turkey. She has an industrial engineering education. Ece started her career in the automotive industry as a quality engineer. After 7 years and lots of experience with OEMs( Audi, Porsche, Ford, Renault), with a large number of customers, VDA and IATF audits, she changed her position to the kitchen of the industry, to project management. She and her family moved to Bern, Switzerland in March'22, since then she has been amazed by beautiful Switzerland. Ece is currently responsible for change management in automotive industry as project manager, helping collaboration of a global team from US to India, Europe to China to adapt to the changes which is inevitable nowadays.

Ece is a member of PMI since 2021, simultaneously a PMP which provides her a widened view. She joined to Swiss chapter to meet other project managers to share knowledge and get to know new people.

In her free time Ece likes to jogging, learning new language, wrestling with her 3 years old boy.

You can learn more about Ece by visiting her LinkedIn profile

Paula is an international executive with more than 15 years of experience in the areas of public affairs, communications, operations, management consulting, and corporate strategy. She is very interested in technology and in how it can help to innovate business models and create more value to people.

For the last 10 years, she worked in a multinational FMCG corporation based in Switzerland, where she led several complex strategic initiatives (e.g. organizational design, transformation, business integration, service delivery). She is a licensed lawyer in Argentina and holds an MBA from IE Business School (Spain) and a Certificate of Global Management by INSEAD Business School (France).

She is living in Geneva with her family, and in her free time she loves getting to know interesting people and enjoying good food, wines, and beautiful landscapes. She speaks Spanish, French and English.

Paula got her PMP certification in August 2022 and joined the PMI Swiss chapter to network and support the community as a volunteer.

You can learn more about Paula by visiting her LinkedIn profile.

Luiz is originally from Brazil, and graduated in production engineering, with focus on project management tools and techniques. He has more than 12 years’ experience on FMCG industry and he started his career working as project analyst, then shortly moved to project engineer and later on to project manager. On this last position Luiz finally also started his international career, moving to Portugal, where he stayed for around 5 years, while expanding his scope of work to projects across several different affiliates inside Philip Morris International. In 2020 Luiz moved to Switzerland where he took over the position of Manager Strategy for Assets & Capex.

Luiz lives in the city of Neuchatel, and loves spending the weekends exploring the different landscapes of this beautiful country, or relaxing by the lake where as a typical Brazilian, he usually grills some meat. Luiz also love sports, and he is very excited in living in a country where he can practice both summer and winter sports very frequently. Photography and music are his hobbies, so Luiz likes to dedicate some of his free time either to play his guitar or go somewhere to take some pictures.

Luiz is applying now for the PMP certification, and he joined the PMI Swiss Chapter since he wants to expand his professional network and share experiences with people from different backgrounds and different experiences. He also wants to further use the PMI platforms to learn new skills and improve the existing ones.

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Davide Marano is a researcher and technical project manager specialized in the creation of digital twins for medical and automotive industries.

He holds a master degree in Automation Engineering and Control of Complex Systems and a PhD in Advanced Mechanics from University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

He is currently working as Technical Expert in SHL Medical AG, a world-leading solutions provider in the design, development, and manufacturing of drug delivery solutions. He has previously worked for Ferrari GT as technical lead in the Powertrain Simulation & Know-How Department and for KISSSoft AG as Technical Project Manager.

Davide is currently studying for the PMP certification and recently joined the PMI Swiss chapter because he would get to expand his professional network in Switzerland and keep up to date from the Project Management and Swiss Business perspectives.

He is originally Italian, now living in the beautiful city of Zug with his wife Gloria. In his free time, he enjoys playing the piano, hiking and sports in general, communicating with new people, cooking.

You can learn more about Davide by visiting his LinkedIn profile

Yulia has over 14 years of professional experience in the Financial industry where she has held different roles.

Yulia has been living and working in Geneva since December 2020. She speaks four languages including English, Spanish, French and Russian.

She is planning to obtain CAPM certificate by end 2022 to complete her knowledge and she joined the PMI Swiss Chapter to connect with local professionals, become more involved with the organization and learn more from her peers.
In her free time Yulia enjoys travelling, nature and sports.

You can learn more about Yulia by visiting her LinkedIn profile.

Mario is 29-year-olds comes from the Deep south in Italy, Sicily.
He holds a BSc and MSc as Mechanical Engineer and after work experiences in Switzerland, Italy, Abu Dhabi, and Germany, in March 2022 Mario moved and settled his life here in Zurich. During this period Mario worked in the Oil & Gas business in Schlumberger, pursuing a Global Graduate Programme in the Operations field ( 6 months in Manufacturing, 6 months in Quality , 6 months in Supply Chain focusing on Operational Excellence projects) to conclude as Project Manager for multi-million Projects for Subsea Equipment for the Brazilian Market.

Since March 2022, Mario has works in the Beverage business as Lean Manager, focusing on improving the plant performances through either small activities or bigger projects. He works in parallel as Program Manager for all CAPEX investment projects in the plant, coaching and supporting every Project Leader during Project execution.

PMP was the right path for Mario to further develop his skills and immediately apply in his daily work what learnt from the PMP courses. He decided to join the Switzerland chapter to enlarge his network, keep up to date with PM topics and learn from experienced PMs their stories and suggestions for a brilliant career in this path.

Before joining university Mario tried a professional tennis career. In his words: “but my pragmatism (and probably lack of talent) brought me to a more secure path”. Currently he is looking for people to play tennis since it remains his hobby and looking forward to enjoying this land in winter for nice skiing sessions.

You can learn more about Mario by visiting his LinkedIn profile

Kaori is French, but she lived almost half of her life in Latin America (Paraguay). She loves everything that has to do with cooking, research, processes and digital.

Kaori is specialized in human nutrition, marketing & project management, but she has been working for more than 5 years on IT projects.

Her objective this year is to pass the PMP certification and evolve as a Project Manager on different approaches.

Kaori moved to Lausanne at the end of July. She worked in Totalenergies in France, and now looking for some work opportunities in Lausanne or Geneva. She joined the chapter to meet people, as she does not have contacts in Switzerland and also to share experiences with other people for better adaptation on work, new ideas on working, methods...etc (as this will be her first experience working in this country).

Kaori is also thinking of volunteering with the chapter and reflecting on the PMO position once she arrives in Lausanne.

You can learn more about Kaori by visiting her LinkedIn profile

Francesco is an IT project manager with experience in the fintech and luxury industries. Currently, he is a project manager working in particular with the Salesforce ecosystem at the luxury skincare company La Prarie, which is located close to Zurich.

Francesco was born near Milano in Italy, and then moved after the university studies to start his Project Management career in Switzerland. He is a double MSc alumnus from Bocconi University and Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, and his academic background is in economics and management of innovation and technology.

He obtained the PMP certification in March 2022 and is glad to be part of the Swiss Chapter as he would like to get in touch with other professionals in the project management field. In his free time, Francesco performs various sports with a particular focus on running as he participated as a 100m and 200m sprinter in the national Italian athletic competitions.

You can learn more about Francesco by visiting his LinkedIn profile

Ahmed is a Technical Project Manager working at UBS in the CDIO, Chief Operating Office in Zürich. With Egyptian roots Ahmed was born & raised in the State of Kuwait and currently based in Switzerland. Ahmed would describe his profile as PMI-term T-shaped, built around Business Process Management & Project Management.

Ahmed holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kuwait in Business Administration & Marketing, a master’s degree in international business from KEDGE Business School in Bordeaux, France & a master’s degree in Information Systems & Business Process Management from the University of Liechtenstein.

His previous projects were mainly in Technology: Virtual Workplaces deployment, Infrastructure & software development, Regulatory Risk Reporting IT infrastructure & currently working on the CDIO Business Process Management & improvement.

During his preparation for PMP certification, Ahmed came to realize the power of the PMI community in the development and support of fellow PMP’s and immediately applied for the Swiss chapter. He would be looking forward to taking part in the various events organized by the chapter.

You can learn more about Ahmed by visiting his LinkedIn profile