Benoît Teppe has over 15 years of consulting experience in Europe and India. He has been advising European companies wishing to start operating in the Indian market since 1999: developing strategic partnerships and joint ventures, sourcing products, setting up sales networks…Benoît Teppe has built up a team of some ten associates based in the main Indian cities (Mumbai/Bombay, Delhi, Chennai/Madras, Pune, Bangalore), and has set up a capacity to cover sales and production activities in the whole country. He has advised many European industrial groups and SMEs eager to start operations in India, as well as many Indian firms seeking a route to the European market or technical partnerships with European companies. Benoît Teppe has conducted studies for public bodies such as the Agence pour la Diffusion de l’Information Technologique or the Centre Technique des Industries Mécaniques and was an official correspondent in India of the French Federation of Mechanical Engineering for several years. Aside from his consulting assignments, he leverages his experience to train Blue Chip company executives on cross-cultural management issues and techniques and is a lecturer of strategic management, marketing and cross-cultural management at several French and Swiss business and management schools.He is regularly interviewed by the business press and is an occasional speaker at institutional conferences related to the Indian market.