Founder and Director of TemptingPlaces April 2019 A serial entrepreneur and globetrotter After graduating with a Master’s in Marketing & Communications, Laurence worked and travelled around the world for several years. She began her career in 1998 as a consultant in marketing and communications for international luxury hotel brands, before joining LVMH and the online bank Egg Banking PLC. Having travelled widely as...
CEO of Conformat December 2018 An audacious woman entrepreneurAfter graduating with a degree in electronic engineering and an MBA in marketing, Marie-Hélène Baudoux worked in the automotive sector for over 25 years, holding a variety of posts for the industry’s biggest players. In 2013, while she was taking stock of her career, she saw the opportunity of...
Maëlle Chassard - Co-founder of Lunii September 2018 A born entrepreneurWhen Maëlle Chassard at the end of her studies at the Paris design school, Strate, wrote her dissertation on imagination, she observed that children are using their imagination less and less. To counter the trend, she dreamed up a fun, interactive object designed to draw children away...
Founder of "De l'autre côté du Périph" (DAPC) July 2018 An engaged womanAfter graduating from the Sorbonne with a Master’s in marketing and distribution in audiovisual arts, Laurence Lascary founded her audiovisual production company "De l'autre côté du Périph" (DAPC) in 2008. Her ambition was to promote a new generation of authors, proposing cosmopolitan works of art,...
Managing Partner and Co-founder of Silamir April 2018 After graduating in political science, Juliette Soria started out as a financial auditor with Mazars before working as a consultant with several audit firms – and that’s where she met her future partner at Silmir, Muriel Figer. Together, in parallel to their consulting work, they founded Sekkia in...
Deputy CEO, SYNTONY December 2017 After almost 15 years with Airbus, initially in marketing, then in strategy, communication, and as chief of-staff for the CEO, Béatrice Korsakissok decided to take up a new entrepreneurial adventure with her husband, Joël Korsakissok. Joël had lead the south-west region for Silicom, a telecoms consultancy, for 25 years when he decided...
Founder of RAOUL, a media relations and e-influence consultancy September 2017 After 20 years working in communication agencies specialised in new technologies, constantly rubbing shoulders with entrepreneurs, Sibylle de Villeneuve set up Raoul in 2013. At the time, her client Annie Combelles, founder of Inspearit and a mentor on our mentoring programme, strongly encouraged her to take the...
CEO - co-founder of Karine & Jeff June 2017 Based in the Southwestern French town of Revel,Karine & Jeff is a company that reflects their two creators Karine Tardon and Jean-François Marie. You need to know about the genesis of the project to fully understand the values that underpin this premium organic culinary brand. The couple spent nearly 6...
Founder of La Marmotière March 2017 After ten years in publishing, Raphaëlle Rico and her friend Sandrine Porcheron decided to change their lives and create the place that they couldn’t find for their own children: a day-care center on a human scale, with an stimulating educational program, and where the staff are also concerned about the parents....
CEO and co-founder of PingFlow March 2017 When she was just 23 years old, Claire Jolimont dived into her entrepreneurial adventure with her brother Alexandre. They created PingFlow in 2012, a digital visual management solution for businesses. Claire met Annie Combelles four years later at the G20 YEA summit in Beijing. Annie Combelles, coordinator of the 2016 summit and...
