Geneva Alumni Chapter — 5,000-Plus Graduates Worldwide
The Webster Alumni Association offers graduates meaningful opportunities to stay connected, whether by reconnecting with classmates, exploring new career paths or engaging with Webster’s global network. With alumni representing more than 150 nationalities across diverse industries, the Alumni Association is a valuable resource for lifelong networking, professional development and community engagement.
For those based in Switzerland, alumni are invited to participate in open-campus events throughout the year. Faculty and staff often welcome graduates as guest speakers, mentors or panelists, enabling them to share their expertise with current students. These interactions enrich campus life and strengthen the bonds within the Webster community.
The Alumni Association plays an essential role in supporting the University’s mission and fostering a vibrant and interconnected community that extends well beyond graduation.
Connect, Lead and Give Back
Our Mission: Purposeful Connection
The mission of the Webster Alumni Association is to build meaningful connections among graduates and between alumni and Webster Geneva Campus. Our alumni exemplify the impact of higher education in society and the workplace, serving as ambassadors for Webster’s values and its commitment to quality, globally focused learning.
A Diverse Global Network
The Alumni Association network enables graduates to explore new professional paths, stay engaged with Webster and connect with fellow alumni from different years and disciplines. The diverse range of pathways pursued by our 5,000-plus Geneva alumni reflects the breadth and strength of the Webster experience.
How You Can Make a Difference
Alumni contribute to the University in numerous meaningful ways, including:
- Mentoring individual students.
- Participating in admissions outreach.
- Serving on expert panels and speaking to student groups.
- Supporting scholarships and other development initiatives.
These contributions play an essential role in strengthening our community and expanding opportunities for future students.
A Lifelong Global Connection
Upon graduating from Webster, you automatically join the global Webster Alumni Association — an international network connecting graduates to one another and to their alma mater since 1923. Membership is free, and today the Association includes more than 250,000 alumni from 150 nations. This vibrant community spans entrepreneurs, innovators, educators, artists, policymakers, scientists, athletes and leaders who contribute to communities around the world.
The Geneva Chapter, established in 2005, brings together more than 5,000 local alumni, many of whom stay connected through our Facebook and LinkedIn pages. The Alumni and Development Department supports graduates worldwide and encourages continued engagement with Webster and with fellow alumni. Staying connected provides access to professional and social networking opportunities, keeps alumni informed about campus activities, and links them to events and gatherings across the globe.
The Geneva Chapter: Your Local Hub
The Geneva Chapter supports the broader mission of the Webster Alumni Association by fostering meaningful connections among graduates and strengthening engagement with Webster Geneva Campus. Our goals include:
- Strengthening ties among alumni through regular professional and social activities.
- Uniting graduates who are interested in the achievements and continued progress of Webster University.
- Supporting development initiatives of the Webster Geneva Campus, with a focus on educational programs and student success.
If you are a graduate of Webster Geneva Campus and would like to learn more or get involved, we invite you to contact us.
Connect with the Geneva Alumni Team
geneva.alumni@webster.edu
+41 22 959 80 10
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Alumni Success: Mimi Partha Sarathy
Mimi Partha Sarathy holds a bachelor’s in Cost Accounting from Webster Geneva, where she also graduated in 1991 with a double master’s degree in Finance and Marketing, specializing in Financial Planning and Advisory.
Sarathy currently owns and operates a personalized investment management company, as well as a wellness center specializing in the practice and education of yoga to more than 200 students.
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[Instrumental music starts and plays in background softly.]
Text on screen: Webster Geneva Campus logo, Alumni Testimonials
[Webster Geneva campus, trees and city from the air.]
Text on screen: Mimi Partha Sarathy
[Sarathy sits at a long table.]
Sarathy: Namaste! It's so wonderful to be here at Webster Geneva. My name is Mimi Partha Sarathy. I graduated from Webster in 1991. I did my double master’s in Finance and Marketing, and my cost accounting degree from here. I live in Bangalore, in India, and run two businesses. My first business is Sinhasi Consultants Private Limited, a personalized investment management company where we manage investments, do financial planning for high-net-worth individuals in India. I set up this company in 2005, and we celebrate 20 years next year, which I’m really excited about it. We provide holistic financial planning, who cover the entire spectrum of financial management and investment management.
My second passion is my other company, Krishna Wellness Yoga Center. Coming from a family of the arts and who are patrons of the arts and culture, and I myself am a Bharatanatyam classical dancer from the age of 8 — it naturally lent itself into connecting to something culturally oriented. Yoga, along with dance, has always been special to me. I set up Krishna Wellness Yoga Center in 2014, 10 years ago. And today, we have over 200 students who come and learn yoga from me in my yoga center in Bangalore. We also run the diploma of yoga from KYM, which is the number one yoga school in our country in association with them. We're on our batch six, taking 28–30 students every 15 months, and it’s been the greatest journey.
My businesses combine wealth and wellness and without one the other cannot exist. You could have all the money in the world, but if you’re not healthy physically, emotionally and mentally, it may not have that much value. At the same time, you have all the health in the world and you don’t have money so that may also not be bring happiness to someone. So I am very privileged and honored to be part of founding and driving two companies that integrate wealth management space and the wellness space. That’s what I do in Bangalore, in India.
Text on screen: What was your most memorable experience?
[Webster Geneva campus buildings in the background.]
Sarathy: I was at Webster from January 1989 to 1991 until the time I graduated. My late father, who passed away in 2013, was one of the directors of the IUCN Education Commission in Gland, in Switzerland. Coming from an Indian family, my parents were very clear they would only send me to Geneva to study because my dad was coming here often. to Geneva and he researched and found Webster for me. He was so, so happy when he came here for the first time, which had this old building as the campus, and it was like a family. Webster for him was like a family. What better place for my daughter to be educated than at Webster?
And therefore, I was here, I did my bachelor’s in Cost Accounting, and then did my double master’s in Finance and Marketing. And I did very well. I also got certified as one of the top, best America school students in Who’s Who Among American Universities and Colleges, which is a certificate I proudly hang up in my office, even today.
Text on screen: How Webster helped you build your career?
[Webster Geneva campus buildings in the background.]
Sarathy: One of the most special things about Webster at that time is there were students from over 60–70 nationalities. Coming together of all of us of similar ages, very different backgrounds and coming here to study you actually met and interacted with people and at that time, there was no internet the way it is today for us to get news from at the click of a button.
But to be able to share experiences directly and to learn with people, students from countries I had not even heard of in the same classroom. And with a global panel of teachers, Because I did my master’s in Finance and Accounting, we actually had our professors that were working in top positions in corporate life in somewhere in Geneva or visiting professors, etc. So people who taught us were also people who had hands-on experience on their job. And the students, my God, mingling with these students from various countries and nations and from various walks of life, and various challenges, and various joyful moments. It brought us all close together. And those three years were some of the best of my life. My parents visited me regularly. Every year. And Webster had just became like family to us during that time.
And that’s what I still take away from Webster is that foundation that the world even now has become a smaller place and with possibly even more challenges. Even today, I hear that Webster Geneva has students from over 80 different nationalities, which is extraordinary. In a world that faces increasing challenges, direct interaction with such diversity remains one of the most powerful takeaways from Webster. That is what Webster is known for, in my view. And that's what that foundation of making it a globally, small community, making us aware of so much. The awareness of this global richness and this global society was my greatest takeaway.
Text on screen: What advice would you give to students?
[Webster Geneva campus buildings in the background.]
You know today, choosing a school for you is one of the critical choices that you make. And the number of educational institution choices that one has today is possibly extremely confusing, and one doesn't know which direction to take.
And one of the things that every time I come back to Webster. I mean, of course, I graduated in 1991, so that was almost you know more than, what it's about 30 plus years, 33 years. Webster has remained grounded in its foundation values of bringing in people from various countries and building this strong bound and foundation of a global integration of education across various verticals. And I would only you know, wish for every student that this is also something that enriches their lives and they take away the global village of Webster Geneva. And that for me is my greatest wish for every student at Webster.
Every time I come to Webster, I am so warmly welcomed over the past three decades now. And it doesn't matter when you graduated, or how long it has been — once you're Webster family, you'll always a Webster family. And every time I have come, I have had the warmest of love from everybody at Webster and for that, I am ever so grateful, and this is what for me is my biggest blessing and takeaway. So thank you, thank you. Thank you for always being there for me. Thank you.
Text on screen: Webster Geneva campus logo
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Alumni Success: Simran Kaur Bansal
Meet Simran Kaur Bansal, a Webster alumni, with dual bachelor's degrees in Business Administration and Economics and a master’s in Commodity Trading, is now thriving as a Product Trading Operator at Total Energies TOTSA. Bansal's story is a testament to the power of perseverance and education.
Transcript
[Instrumental music starts and plays in background softly.]
Text on screen: Webster Geneva Campus logo, Alumni Testimonials
[Webster Geneva Campus, trees and city from the air.]
Text on screen: Simran Kaur Bansal
[Bansal sits inside at the Webster Geneva Campus at a table near lighted windows with foliage outside.]
Bansal: My name is Simran. I am an alumnus of Webster Geneva Campus, and I was here from 2019 to 2021. I graduated with a double major in Economics and Business.
Text on screen: How Webster helped you build your career?
[Webster Geneva Campus buildings in the background.]
Bansal: For me, Webster helped a lot in the sense that it provided all the basics I needed to know and even more. Since professors come from so many different backgrounds, and most of them work at the same time as being professors, they’re up to date on everything we need to know. It was really good having live, relevant information, and that really helped push me to where I am today.
Text on screen: What was your most memorable experience?
Bansal: Well, we started with COVID — I guess that would be the most memorable experience, but not in a bad way. It helped a lot of us. Being by yourself, learning by yourself, and so having the courage to ask. Because maybe sometimes in a classroom, you just wait for someone else to ask because you might be too shy, but during COVID, you had to go out on your own and become more independent. It was a learning curve, and I think it helped a lot of us, regardless of what happened.
Text on screen: How was your journey after graduation?
Bansal: So, I finished Webster in 2021, and then joined a master’s degree (program) at the University of Geneva in commodity trading. I did that for a year, and once I finished with that, I started working at TOTSA, which is the trading branch of Total Energies, here in Geneva, as well. I’m currently a trading operator there. The basis of my job is quite simple when you look at it on paper — it’s just bringing like cargo from point A to point B. But as a trading operator, you’re the ones who are in charge of talking with traders, credit, with finance, and basically all these different counterparts to make sure that one voyage goes well, from A to Z. So, we’re problem solvers because nothing ever goes as planned, but mainly on paper it’s quite nice. And to be honest. in real life it’s quite amazing if you enjoy solving issues.
Text on screen: What advice would you give to students?
Bansal: My advice is going to be very cheesy, but I’ll say: never give up. That’s not a joke, because you will have so many obstacles in front of you, and if you give up at the first one, you will never know what’s there at the end. I had my fair share of it, and I’m happy I was with people who pushed me to go forward. That’s how I got to where I was. So yes, it’s very cheesy to say “never give up,” but you need to try. And as long as you have not tried, you’ll never know. So, even if you think there’s a 90% chance you’ll fail, just try — you never know.
Text on screen: What do you feel to be back on campus today?
Bansal: Yeh, so I had lunch in the cafeteria for the first time. I never got the opportunity during COVID because it was shut. It’s a beautiful campus, and I kinda regret not being able to, you know, take part of it, or being here more often. But I’m always happy to be here.
Text on screen: Webster Geneva Campus logo
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