Mabel was working as a Consultant at United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) till yearend 2020.  

She holds a master’s degree from Syracuse University in USA for Public Administrations and also owns a PMP credential. Her main working domain is Project Management / Finance / Business Intelligence / Public Goods and Services. 

Mabel is delighted to join the Swiss family of project management. She has a strong background in Finance gained mainly from major international banks and global commodities companies.  Mabel has also strong reporting background in particular with Business Intelligence tools like Tableau.  Mabel is currently available to offer her skills to both private and public sectors.  She looks forward to any openings that can use her competences.  Rich in professional experience equally on risk management, international trade, data & reporting, Mabel hopes she can get to know many of chapter members and explore potential mutual benefits through constructive collaborations.  Mabel speak English, French, Chinese (Mandarin & Cantonese) and currently based in Geneva.

Michaela Told is the Co-Founder of HumanImpact5-HI5 LLC, a women-led consulting firm established in March 2020. Michaela currently works with international organizations, private sector, and NGOs to link practice to policy, to support organizational change processes and to develop strategic engagement and partnership plans. Her specialization is around governance and diplomacy in global health, migration and development. She also offers online and onsite executive trainings in these areas.

Prior to creating HI5, Michaela has been co-establishing and managing the Global Health Centre at the Graduate Institute for about 10 years. Earlier in her carrier, she worked for more than 15 years with the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in various project and programme management positions, from leading operations in the field to heading a department at HQ level.

She obtained the PMP in September 2020 to update her practical experience in project management and hopes to engage with other project managers across Switzerland.

Being Austrian national, albeit having a close relationship to Switzerland since the beginnings of her professional life, she loves theatre, music, skiing, and outdoor sports in general. She is also a passionate psychodramatist, believing in the power to act on stage to experience change in real life.

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

Florian is 37 years old and a chemical engineer by background. He has been working in the biotech and chemical industry in Norway, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Having experience in process development, production and projects in both chemistry and IT fields, he is now working in a biotech company, leading IT projects related to the laboratories and the production of hemophilia-related products for CSL Behring.

Florian is a certified PMP (since September this year) as well as a PRINCE2 & AgilePM Practitioner. He expects to learn from his peers through the Swiss chapter and to engage in interesting discussions.

In his free time, Florian goes skiing, rides his mountain bike and spends time with his family.

You can learn more about Florian by visiting his LinkedIn profile.

Raphael is a pioneer in adapting agile and requirement engineering methods in the context of data and analytics projects. He works as a Principal Consultant Data & Analytics at IT-Logix in Switzerland with more than eighteen years of experience in business intelligence and data warehousing.

Raphael is helping organisations to plan and build what's needed for their data & analytics requirements. He is a strategist, architect, requirements engineer, agile coach but also a developer hence providing a holistic view on the projects he is involved with. He started his career with creating reports and moved on to system engineering for business intelligence platforms. He learned to build new data warehouses from scratch and how to optimize this process following an agile process as well as data warehouse automation. His projects led him from small data to big data to smart data, from simple dashboards to sophisticated data science models.

Raphael holds a master’s degree in information management of the University of Fribourg – Switzerland. In 2017 he became a Certified Disciplined Agile Practitioner. He is an active contributor to the community in associations like IBCS, TDWI and SwissVR. He is looking forward to contributing to PMI as well.

You can learn more about Raphael by visiting his LinkedIn profile: