Pierre Guinet

📍 France, Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, Dubai

Startup, Fintech, Go-live April 2022

Artificial Intelligence - Blockchain - DeFi - Cryptocurrencies - RWA.

Structuring and strategic development of HR in an international and high-growth context (2021-2022)

🔹 Rapid growth: from 10 to 120 employees in one year.

🔹 Building and managing an HR team of 4 people (recruitment, multi-country payroll, personnel administration).

🔹 Defining and implementing all agile HR processes adapted to scale-ups.

🔹 Redesigning employment contracts in each country and ensuring legal and social compliance.

🔹 Implementing an internal payroll software and an ATS to optimize recruitment and onboarding.

🔹 Obtaining JEI status and managing CIR/CII schemes (+€500k annually).

🔹 Developing employer branding: career page, participation in HR events, speaking at schools.

Organizational and strategic adjustments to support transition and sustainable growth (2022-2025)

🔹 Global and autonomous HR management: payroll, recruitment, training, administration, social relations, and employer branding.

🔹 Streamlining HR processes and optimizing costs to reach break-even with 40 employees by the end of 2023.

🔹 Resuming growth in 2025 with staff increasing to 60 employees.

🔹 Maintaining social stability in a tense business environment:

- Supporting teams through transition phases and redeploying employees.

- Implementing an anonymous Brand Survey.

🔹 Deploying a Talent Management policy and structuring the Job Architecture.

🔹 Strategic consulting with C-level executives and the ExCo on human and organizational issues (listening, communication, emotional intelligence).

📌 Results: 215 onboardings, 160 offboardings, 0 litigation.

Founder and director of M-PEARL, an innovative HR startup developing a proprietary Web SaaS solution for talent matching based on semantic AI and a behavioral Soft Skills test, with an anti-cognitive bias approach.

💡 Mission:

Develop a platform enabling companies to improve their recruitment processes, internal mobility, and Talent Management, and allowing candidates to access opportunities and training, without being limited to a few reductive and stigmatizing keywords, while reducing cognitive biases on both sides.

🔧 Key Achievements:

🔹 Creation and structuring of the company, business model development, fundraising from business angels to support R&D and commercial development.

🔹 Recruitment and management of a multidisciplinary team of 6 employees for R&D and sales.

🔹 National commercial outreach: prospecting and acquiring 120 active B2B clients (SMEs, mid-sized companies, HR firms).

🔹 Product development: design of a SaaS solution combining semantic AI matching, Soft Skills testing, and personalized QWL indicators.

🔹 Participation in trade shows and competitions: presenting the solution at HR/tech trade shows in France and participating in several Elevator Pitch competitions.

🎯 Impact:

🔹 Revenue of €110K over 4 years.

🔹 Implementation of a differentiating HR solution aimed at optimizing recruitment and promoting inclusive and fulfilling work environments.

Recruitment // Business Development // Team Management

Sectors: Industry, Energy (Nuclear, Oil&Gas, Electricity), Transport (Automotive, Aeronautics, Rail)

🔹 Human Resources: recruitment interviews, career management and retraining, annual reviews, recruitment of approximately 80 executives in permanent positions (technical studies, project management, quality, production, supply chain).

🔹 Commercial Development: prospecting, client relations, responding to tenders, drafting framework agreements, national referencing.

Average annual revenue generated: €2,000,000

🔹 Team Management: 25 engineering consultants (aged 24 to 55) providing technical assistance. Project monitoring, moral and technical support to teams, managing project changes. Recruitment, training, and management of a junior Business Development Engineer.