Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Hybrid

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Lausanne

• I joined the MATIS Board after 6 months as an Interim COO. MATIS has developed a unique, portable, easy to use digital imaging technology, with AI tools in the background to enhance analysis. The first target market is for artworks and cultural preservation: want to know what is behind what you see in a painting, ? want to know if the pigments applied make sense given statement on age and origin ? etc.... The company is further expanding in forensics science. Follow us if you are interested.

Jan 2025 – Feb 2026 · 1 yr 1 mo · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

• Inflexion provides Interim Management and Board Services to Swiss small and mid sized organisations, companies, to boost their transformation.

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Geneva, Switzerland · Remote

• Altman Solon is the largest global strategy consulting firm with an exclusive focus on TMT, combining strategic, commercial, operational and technical expertise as well as capital markets perspective. Working with corporates, investment funds, public entities across 13 offices worldwide.

Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 11 mos · Basel, Switzerland

• Established by the Financial Stability Board in June 2014, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) is tasked to support the implementation and use of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI).
• The foundation is backed and overseen by the Regulatory Oversight Committee, representing public authorities from around the globe that have come together to jointly drive forward transparency within the global financial markets.
• GLEIF makes available the Global LEI Index; i.e. the only global online source that provides open, standardized and high quality legal entity reference data. By doing so, GLEIF enables people and businesses to make smarter, less costly and more reliable decisions about who to do business with.

May 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 1 mo · Paris, Île-de-France, France

• Joined the Wingly Board to help its management and teams in becoming THE reference for a digital market place platform in private aviation services. Be it for leisure or transportation, Wingly is making private aviation easily accessible, sustainable and affordable for everybody. The first full electric flights happened already for Wingly members. I contribute my experience in managing rapid and profitable B2C and B2B growth, effective customer base investment, but also compliance across a larger and larger number of jurisdictions. Wingly is already today the largest private aviation community with over 350.000 members and operating from 600+ airports in Europe. Wingly achieved > 60+% GROWTH in both 2020 and 2021, despite the COVID impact, showing that it addresses market needs that deliver further accelerated expansion now that travel and travel restrictions are lifted.

Aug 2017 – Oct 2022 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

• Key member of the executive management team. Led 6 main functions
• Strategy and Portfolio Innovation. 3 Year Plan implementation leading first to boosted profitable growth and then to highly succesful cost containment during COVID. Invested as LP in early-stage funds. Launched several initiatives to complement portfolio in data science, Decentralized and Self Sovereign Identity, drones
• Group wide transformation leadership, with pillars on customer success, people engagement, service and product portfolio rationalization/expansion, adaptation of go to market, streamlining processes.
• Technology. Led group technical governance, information systems, CISO & DPO, created data science team. Drastic rationalization and simplification of solutions and underlying components. Full DevOps adoption. Quadrupled budgets on security. Expanded strategic partnerships
• Corporate Social Responsibility. Program delivered -48% CO2 reduction. Achieved Certified Carbon Neutrality in 2021, years ahead of industry.
• Established a robust Compliance and Ethics activity. Updated Codes of Conduct, Procedures. Reinforced ABAC and Trade Sanctions monitoring and governance.
• Corporate Communications (external and internal)

Jan 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

• Bryan, Garnier & Co is an independent investment bank specialized in European growth companies, providing them with Equity Research & Brokerage, Asset Management and Corporate Finance services. With more than 150 professionals based in London, Paris, Munich, New York, Geneva and New Delhi, Bryan, Garnier & Co combines the range of services and the expertise of top-tier investment banks with the level of attention to clients of a boutique. Bryan, Garnier & Co is a leading advisor to European growth companies on strategic finance transactions such as mergers & acquisitions, equity capital market, LBOs and private placement. Bryan, Garnier & Co is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the United Kingdom, and is member of London Stock Exchange and Euronext, Alternext Listing Sponsor, and is active on all European capital markets.

Nov 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Munich Area, Germany ; Lausanne Area, Switzerland

• Cartagena Capital is a European corporate finance advisory firm headquartered in Munich, Germany, active in M&A and fundraising for small-mid technology companies in Europe.

Dec 2012 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos · City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Civitas Partners is a sub saharan Africa focused investment bank.
• Worked on several african transactions, mainly in TMT. Advised african governments on the restructuring of their TMT industry.

May 2011 – Present · 15 yrs 1 mo · Switzerland

• 8765.ch is a consulting firm. which advised several PE funds or large companies on TMT transactions in Europe and U.S. (target assessment, due diligence, negotiations), raised money for start-ups, led M&A processes for european companies, from early stage to growth stage.
• Interim management of a senior investment banker dedicated to subsaharan countries
• Technology focus including deep tech mandate, proven capacity to work in uncertain environments, mentoring & coaching of management teams

Feb 2011 – Dec 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Medicis Development is a Private Equity Vehicle dedicated to helping CEO and Entrepreneurs to expand internationally, particularly to US/Silicon Valley, raise capital and develop US operations.

Jan 2008 – Dec 2010 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Paris-London
• In charge at group level of €15Bn enterprise market across 30 countries/30% group revenues on all products and services.
• Defined common strategic framework and objectives
• Challenged operations back to growth during crisis at constant profit margins.
• Advised and supported geographies in developing new revenue sources (+ €600 m yearly)
• Advised and supported local transformation projects to improve substantially sales, customer investment & management, customer operations, marketing and controlling.
• Led and contributed to a number of acquisitions (target evaluation, due diligence, synergy implementation)

Jan 2006 – Dec 2007 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Paris-Geneva
• In charge of €5Bn P&L covering network services for global multinationals, selling and delivering in 220 countries.
• Restored revenue growth within two years from - €600 m decline in 2005, while improving profit margins by 2 points.
• Integrated teams in 28 countries, subsequent to 2 acquisitions. Established global governance for pricing, product development, process/cost improvement

Nov 2003 – Dec 2005 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Lausanne - Zürich, Switzerland
• In charge of running customer operations in a CHF1Bn mobile company
• Increased market share 2 points in a maturing market.
• Developed substantially in all channels cross & up-selling of additional services, delivering yearly 2% growth
• Revitalised customer satisfaction, employee commitment, efficiency in call centres after contentious 2002 restructuring. Outsourced low value activities.

Feb 2001 – Nov 2003 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• London, UK
• In charge of Strategy&Planning, and Secretary of Group Leadership team.
• Integrated headquarters teams after acquisition of Orange UK. Implemented key governance processes at group level : strategic planning & framework, budget reviews, international acquisitions
• Designed transformation program, generating €7Bn cash flow over 3 years, through disposal of assets, operational improvements, restructuring. Chaired Steering Committee driving implementation

Sep 1998 – Jan 2001 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Lyon, France
• In charge of customer facing operations for business customers in Lyons region.
• Restored growth in €200M local P&L: stopped loss of legacy market share; accelerated sales of new services mobile, internet.
• Led two internal mergers to reach critical size (660 people).

Sep 1995 – Sep 1998 · 3 yrs

• Paris, France
• Coordinated design, implementation, daily management of new +16,000 people structure for group strategy, international expansion, venture capital, R&D, information systems
• Contributed to business plans, road shows for Initial and Secondary Public Offerings
• Oversaw several FT - Deutsche Telekom projects: international development, R&D, joint innovation

Sep 1992 – Sep 1995 · 3 yrs

• Paris, France
• In charge of €1.3Bn product line on enterprise market.
• Restructured it to face full domestic competition. Rebalanced pricing to costs, stabilised revenues and margins, improved customer service, accelerated sales of digital services