Prior to Rollins, he was the CEO of a small luxury Swiss company as well as a consultant for McKinsey & Company. He was a Visiting Professor at the East China University of Science and Technology (China), the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), Jacobs University (Germany), the University of Fribourg, (Switzerland), the University of Lausanne - HEC (Switzerland), and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Switzerland). He was also an adviser to the Swiss Government as a member of the Federal Commission of Consumer Affairs.