Macy Marvel has extensive professional experience in the financial sector. Before joining the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne as a full-time faculty member in 1995, he spent eight years as investment strategist and financial analyst for two Geneva private banks. Prior to that, he held the positions of finance trainer at Digital Equipment Corporation, auditor at the Geneva offices of PriceWaterhouseCoopers and of securities analyst at The Value Line Survey in New York. Mr. Marvel has published several articles in professional hospitality journals, as well as numerous hospitality and tourism industry reports for Travel and Tourism Intelligence/Mintel in London. Mr. Marvel is also a frequent presenter and moderator at international hospitality conferences, and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Toronto and an M.A. from the London School of Economics.