Office Hours

In this week’s episode of Office Hours, Adam is joined by Loic Choquet, CEO of Apex Fund Services (Luxembourg). In addition to digging into Loic’s journey and how his personal experiences shaped him, they focus on how leaders shape culture and the impact of culture on organisations.

References:

https://today.rtl.lu/opinion/opinion/ims-event-highlighted-discrimination-2288720

https://epbn.eu/wise-project/epbn-wise-video-testimonials-2026/

Guest contact:

Loic Choquet: www.linkedin.com/in/loic-choquet-ab7b00a/

With Eva Devine, Matina Korma and Dima Ghazle

How do internships work? Are they now an essential step in by Eva Devine, Global Head of Fund Oversight and Governance Services at Aztec Group, Matina Korma, Human Resources Director at BDO, and Dima Ghazle, Employer Relations Manager at the Luxembourg School of Business. getting a job? Or, are they a brutal extended assessment centre?

In this week’s episode of Office Hours, Adam is joinedTogether, they answer these questions, and more.

Contact:

Aztec: aztecglobal.co.uk

BDO: bdo.lu

Dima Ghazle: www.linkedin.com/in/dima-ghazleh/

With Martyna Adamska, Project Manager and MC at CinEast Film Festival and Geoff Thompson, Festival Coordinator and President of Festival Events

Who organises the film festivals in Luxembourg? How do they work? Is there any chance of Tom Cruise or Natalie Portman making a guest appearance?

In this week’s episode of Office Hours, Adam is joined by Martyna Adamska, Project Manager and MC at CinEast Film Festival and Geoff Thompson, Festival Coordinator and President of Festival Events. Together, they answer these questions, and more.

References:

oops.uni-oldenburg.de/5064/1/sipfol20.pdf

Links:

Cinéast: www.cineast.lu

British & Irish Film Festival Luxembourg: www.festivalevents.lu

What is the best way to hunt for jobs if you can’t get to the job fairs or need a break from the finger food at networking events? Do you need to look beyond Linkedin, if so, where? And with the rise of AI, how do we connect a real person with real skills to a real job?

In this week’s episode of Office Hours, Adam is joined by Richard Neale, Director of LetzRecruit and Raluca Stoica, Chief Product Officer at RMT Labs. Together, they answer these questions, and more.

References:

adem.public.lu/en/marche-emploi-luxembourg/statistiques/chiffres-cles-adem.html

www.luxtimes.lu/luxembourg/job-satisfaction-among-luxembourg-workers-drops-to-lowest-level-in-decade/128832338.html

Links:

Skillbourg: www.skillbourg.com

LetzRecruit: www.letzrecruit.lu

Is being a ‘trailing spouse’ a life of luxury, or a life of boredom? What are the tips for settling? And is it a pool of un-tapped talent?

In this week’s episode of Office Hours, Adam is joined by Jessica Nägele (Partner President of the Luxembourg Chapter of the International Dual Career Network), Santiago Franco (Business Analyst at UTMOST) and RTL’s very own Hayley Allam (host of Mom Life in Luxembourg). Together, they answer these questions, and more.

Contacts:

Jessica: www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-naegele/

Santiago: www.linkedin.com/in/safrancor/

Hayley: www.linkedin.com/in/hayley-allam-7a3348/

How do you start up a social network app? Where do you get the funding from? And will Macron’s dream of the French government using only French made tech become a reality.

In this week’s episode of Office Hours, Adam is joined by Christos Floros, founded of the European social media network, Monnett. Together, they answer these questions, and more.

References:

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/01/27/france-to-ditch-us-platforms-microsoft-teams-zoom-for-sovereign-platform-amid-security-con

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c747x7gz249o

Guest contact:

Christos Floros - @christosfloros" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/18/macron-urges-european-preference-in-tech-to-avoid-becoming-us-or-china-vassal_6747586_4.html

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/01/27/france-to-ditch-us-platforms-microsoft-teams-zoom-for-sovereign-platform-amid-security-con

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c747x7gz249o

Guest contact:

Christos Floros - @christosfloros on Monnett (and other social media platforms)

In this week’s episode of Office Hours, Adam is joined by Sam Staincliffe, the co-founder and CEO of Uplift360. How did Sam’s career lead to the CEO position? How can Uplift360 ease Europe’s supply chain anxieties? And what did Sam learn when she was a private investigator in Las Vegas? Together, they answer these questions, and more.

Guest contact:

www.uplift360.tech/

How do you do business in the ‘final frontier’? Who are the people who work in the space industry? Why is Luxembourg a space hub?

In this week’s episode of Office Hours, Adam is joined by the Jordan Vannitsen (CEO of Odysseus Space), Javier Stober (Lead Mechnical Engineer at Lunar Outpost) and Sabrina Alam (CEO of Matter Space and Defence and Space Lead at Uni.lu). Together, they answer these questions, and more.

Guest contact:

Jordan Vannitsen: www.linkedin.com/in/jordanvannitsen/

Javier Stober: www.linkedin.com/in/javier-stober/

Sabrina Alam: www.linkedin.com/in/sabrina-alam-451779b2/

Who are the people who work in the charity sector? How do they help others? And how has their business changed after the increases in cost of living over the past few years?

In this week’s episode of Office Hours, Adam is joined by Myriam Jacoby, Strategy Quality and Innovation Manager from at the Red Cross, and Esther Leick, Director of Communication and fundraising at Medecins Sans Frontieres Luxembourg. Together, they answer these questions, and more.

Contact:

Red Cross: www.croix-rouge.lu/en/

MSF: www.msf.lu/en

References:

https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/

https://www.worldgivingreport.org/donor-insights

How does the rental market work in Luxembourg? Are enough new properties being built to keep up with demand, and if not, why not?

This episode of ‘Office Hours’ is a reunion, where Adam is re-joined by his very first guests, some of Luxembourg’s real estate agents. Maurits van Rijckevorsel, Pierrick Dhellemes, and Pit Spautz share their insights into the rental business, the state of housing in the Grand Duchy, and much more...

Guest contacts:

Maurits van Rijckevorsel: [email protected]

Pierrick Dhellemes: [email protected]

Pit Spautz: [email protected]

Other references/links:

https://statistiques.public.lu/en/actualites/2026/stn03-26-construction.html