My story
My journey spans several professions and cultures. Its guiding thread has become clearer over time: understanding how people, knowledge and organisations can work better together.
The guiding thread
A career can be read as a sequence of roles. I prefer to see it as a succession of learning environments.
Each change of context taught me to question my certainties. Across Boston, Houston, Paris, Geneva, London and Toronto, I encountered different ways of building trust, making decisions and sharing knowledge.
Complexity thinking allows me to connect these experiences. It helps me look for interactions, take context seriously and make room for what cannot be predicted.
At ESDIC, as Academic Director and Associate Director, I help define the school’s vision. I design programmes in digital marketing, data, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, focusing on the coherence of skills and professional situations.
Within Groupe EDH, I lead apprenticeship and continuing education activities. The remit includes EFAP, Brassart, ICART and IFA. This experience deepens my work on governance, teams and quality requirements.
At IPSSI, I lead the institution and its teaching, with responsibility for cybersecurity, cloud, web and big data programmes. Coordination between France and Toronto further broadens my understanding of learning contexts.
Data governance consultancy and training become central to my journey, particularly through LEGATRA. At REGDATA in Geneva, and through my continuing work in data security, I bring technical issues closer to practice and responsibility.
I establish SOFT IQ / SOFT IQ DISTRIBUTION between Houston and Paris and develop a Microsoft training and certification centre. Alongside this, I teach in higher education on Bachelor’s, Master’s and MBA programmes in data, marketing and digital subjects.
At Iron Mountain Digital in Boston, I am Managing Director for Southern Europe and Benelux. Establishing subsidiaries, building partnerships and training clients lead me to connect international strategy with the realities of practice.
As Vice-President Europe of Mission Critical Software, between Houston and Paris, I contribute to launching European subsidiaries, commercial strategy and preparations for the initial public offering.
Project management at SEEE, followed by marketing at HARTING and AMP, then sales and marketing leadership at SOLERI CSS, lay the foundations of a career connecting technology with organisational development.
“Experience gains its full value when it becomes an ability to understand and share knowledge.”
THE MEANING OF MY JOURNEYThe foundations
Engineering education in industrial computing and robotics at SUP Télécom, Geneva. Master’s in software development management and software engineering at CNAM, Paris.
MBA in International Business at West Virginia University, United States. An education that supports my work in international environments.
Training in leadership and negotiation at the Sandler Institute, coaching at the Bosworth Institute and neuro-linguistic programming at the NLP Training Center in Houston.
Certification as a director of a higher education institution, validated by the Paris education authority on 17 December 2020. ITIL Foundation and Lifecycle training.
Beyond the roles
I believe in journeys that remain open. The desire to learn, encounter other ways of thinking and move beyond familiar habits nourishes my work as much as the responsibilities I have held.
This outlook stays with me in consultancy and teaching: being present, listening and accepting that an encounter can change a perspective.
A conversation to begin
A project, a transformation, a question about learning.
