ALUMNI IN FOCUS
Consolla ’93
Represents Lafayette
in Tokyo
Patrick Consolla ’93 provides perspective to potential Lafayette students in his region as an alumni admissions representative in Tokyo.
“Most of our target students are attending international schools,” he says. “Having been in Tokyo for over eight years now, I can empathize with their experiences of being an outsider in a densely populated city. However, having also been in the nurturing environment of Lafayette’s small campus, I
can give them advice on the benefits of both worlds.”
Consolla believes his Lafayette education, particularly English classes with John Timpane, taught him the flexibility needed in his job as operations and sales director of the Japan region for Alcatel-Lucent, where he’s also acting as marketing and communications director.
“My liberal arts education certainly prepared me for wearing many hats at once,” says the English graduate. “Every day tends to cover a very wide range of activities from the back office to the front office, but my main objective is finding ways to get our team serving the customers better. This includes a lot of internal negotiation across many organizations in our company in many locations around the world.”
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