An engineer by training, Philippe spent the first ten years of his professional career serving the oil industry, moving without notice from one drilling platform to another, and from one country to another, North and South America, from Europe to Africa and from the Middle East to the Far East. Desiring to change his lifestyle, he returned to school for a year, in Fontainebleau, to obtain his MBA there. On leaving Insead, he entered the service of the financial world, in a large investment bank...