Sylvie is the CEO and co-founder of Lynx Educate. Prior to launching her company, she was CFO of the largest French private higher education group INSEEC U. where she participated in a successful LBO. She held finance, business development, and operational roles at Laureate Education in Latin America over a 13-year tenure, including CFO of Mexico/Central America while based in Mexico and VP Finance Latin America in Miami. She serves on the Board Universidad Insurgentes in Mexico (owned by Linzor Capital) and Lumi Gruppen, a publicly-traded education company in Norway.

Sylvie received an MBA from Wharton and an MA in International Studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her business studies, she received an MA in French literature from the University of Cincinnati and University of Paris, and a BA from the University of Chicago.