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Guillaume DefranceGD

Guillaume Defrance

Expert Data & AI

€990/day
2 projects
Paris, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Guillaume

You transform your organization through Data and AI — I help you do it quickly, effectively, and sustainably.

As Group CDO for 10 years (Crédit Agricole, PMU, Evoriel) and founder of a RegTech (Syned — 2 SaaS platforms, 6 countries), I combine what few profiles offer: strategic executive vision, hands-on technical credibility, and entrepreneurial experience.

I work with CIOs, CEOs, and CDOs in organizations ranging from 200 to 10,000 employees — in BFSI, Retail, Media, and Logistics.

What I can concretely bring you

As a **transition manager or outsourced CDO**, I create or restructure your Data function: team, platform, governance, roadmap — from scoping to use case delivery.

For **consulting missions**, I focus on Data & AI strategy, AI Act / GDPR compliance (including IReF), production deployment of LLMs, or maturity audits.

For **operational missions**, I work directly within your teams: scoping and delivery of Data & AI projects, implementation of data governance and catalog, data quality, architecture and modeling, deployment of AI agents and LLM pipelines.

What sets me apart

- Data organizations built from scratch in a multi-country context (19 Crédit Agricole CF subsidiaries, Madrid subsidiary 80 people, PMU/Equidia GEIE)
- Operational across the entire chain: governance, AI, Agents, ML in production, cloud architecture (Snowflake, GCP, AWS)
- Dual role of executive/tech founder — I can speak with both the executive committee and engineering teams and business stakeholders
- AI Act expert with field experience in large accounts (But, Conforama, BPCE)

Deliverables

Data & AI Strategy, roadmap, maturity audit, organizational design, compliance (AI Act, GDPR, BCBS 239, IFRS 9), LLM/RAG deployment, Data team management.

Availability

On-site or remote, France and international (bilingual English, professional Spanish).
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Conversational

  • Italian

    Conversational

  • French

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 10km)

Experience

  • Evoriel
    Group Chief Data Officer
    REAL ESTATE
    September 2025 - Today (11 months)
    Paris, France
    Structuring of the Data activity and approach for the Group within an LBO framework:
    • Team creation
    • Governance and organization
    • Business Intelligence
    • Data Platform & Data Architecture
    • Data Governance & Data Management
    • New use cases and AI
    • Acculturation
    • LLM / RAG
    • Dashboard redesign
    Change Management Data Analysis Microsoft Power BI Snowflake SQL
  • Iziday
    Partner Data & AI
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    September 2024 - May 2026 (1 year and 8 months)
    Paris, France
    • Development of consulting business for Data & AI issues, primarily applied to BFSI.
    • Focus on GDPR & AI Act regulations
    • Support for the But & Conforama Group in their AI Act compliance
    • Creation of training courses (webinars) and AI Act compliance materials
    GDPR Artificial Intelligence AI Act
  • CMA CGM
    Data Governance
    TRANSPORTATION
    August 2023 - September 2024 (1 year and 1 month)
    Marseille, France
    Within the CMA CGM Data Office, I am responsible for supporting the implementation of the Data Governance strategy chosen by the Group.

    I work transversally with business units, data governance officers, BI, and Data Science on issues ranging from data quality to observability, including benchmarking data governance tools (catalog/glossary).

    I also lead a program to accelerate the strategy's implementation: facilitating business units, gathering requirements, streamlining methods and processes, to address concrete and impactful challenges: ease of information access, relevance of documentation (data and uses), refactoring of an integrated and readable data model, integration of Data Governance with the DPO and Cybersecurity.
    Data Governance Collibra SQL Snowflake Acculturation

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Education

  • Ph.D, Acoustics (Statistical Room Acoustics)
    Université Pierre et Marie Curie
    2009
    Ph.D, Acoustics (Statistical Room Acoustics)
  • Master of Physics
    Université Pierre et Marie Curie
    2006
    Master, Acoustical Physics

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