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Operational leader and consultant, 15+ years of experience. Formerly a consultant at McKinsey, I contacted over 2,000 SMEs for a company acquisition search, then acquired and turned around an industrial SME. This journey allows me to intervene in both diagnosis and execution: I focus on the substance and stay until delivery!
I work with SMEs and mid-cap companies on three types of missions:
- Transformation: redesigning the operational model, organizational design, change management, cost reduction, ERP/CRM deployment
- Strategy: strategic vision and direction, customer segmentation, product roadmap
- Growth: go-to-market, sales performance, pricing, product portfolio management
French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km), Tours (up to 50km)
Experience
- CatalyzeCo-founder, CEO & Head of ProductSOFTWARE PUBLISHINGDecember 2025 - Today (6 months)Tours, FranceDesign and development of an AI-native Business Operating System (BOS) for SME executive teams; productizing best practices of operational models into software. Responsible for product vision, roadmap, and concept validation.Led the pre-seed fundraising round, acquired first paying design partners and signed LOIs; validated the value proposition and ICP through field customer discovery.
- SDECCEO & Product DirectorENVIRONMENTALJanuary 2023 - September 2025 (2 years and 8 months)Tours, FrancePost-acquisition takeover of an industrial SME with 70 employees and €11M in revenue; uncovered significantly overestimated profitability and a commercial collapse.Maintained team cohesion through successive crises, turnaround, and workforce reduction (<5 involuntary departures).Complete turnaround: +21% in orders, +13% in revenue, purchasing margin increased from 55% to 63%, workforce reduced by 10% & 45% of employees renewed. Profitability stabilized then improved by 75%.Improved productivity and data quality through operational model redesign, ERP (Clipper) and CRM (Salesforce) deployment, and rationalization of the product portfolio by over 20%.Growth preparation: customer segmentation, strategy, and product roadmap.Management of complex situations: legal disputes, LBO debt renegotiation, product recall.
- SDG TransmissionFounder & Managing PrincipalPRIVATE EQUITYOctober 2020 - January 2023 (2 years and 3 months)Lille, FranceCreation and management of a search fund dedicated to acquiring an SME.Two successful fundraising rounds conducted with family offices, PE funds, and individual investors in Europe and the United States.Contacted over 2,000 SMEs, resulting in 200 interviews, 20 in-depth analyses, 3 LOIs signed, and one finalized acquisition.
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Education
- MBATuck School of Business at Dartmouth2017
- Master of Science (M.Sc.), Space ManagementInternational Space University2010Programme international et interdisciplinaire couvrant les sciences spatiales, les systèmes, la politique, le business et le droit