Providing corporate advisory services to entrepreneurs, business leaders, M&A teams and shareholders / Private Equity funds in the areas of Strategy, Capital Raising, Merger and Acquisition, Company sale, Carve-out and Spin-offsRochefort & Associés is an investment banking boutique based in Paris and Beijing, with partner offices in London, Montreal and New York. The bank has an operational team composed of alumni from Messier Maris & Associés, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, HSBC and Lazard, and has accumulated 60+ years of aggregated professional experience and a closed transaction amount of more than 40 billion euros.For applications please contact re@rochefortassocies.com

Reporting to the President of the Group, my scope covers all Lefebvre Sarrut business units, Publishing and Training, for all geographies (Europe) - 500 m€, 2600 colleagues. My achievements include:- Strategy: design of the strategic three-year plan for profitable growth- Innovation: disruptive business models & technologies (first Machine Learning / Natural Language Processing projects, hiring Data Scientists), launched first European start-up competition for Legaltech and Regtech- Digital Transformation roadmap: increasing the share of >60% of revenue converted to Digital & Subscription-based (SaaS), creation of the group Data Office, new organization for Publishing Production/Content Management- Sales: new organization for multichannel sales forces (agile / lean) (>800 colleagues), new CRM- M&A: Due Diligences & Post Merger Integration, with a large double acquisition deal in Italy, achieved in a few months (200 employees, 60 M€ revenue)- General Secretary: regular review of business operations, shareholders assembly, supervisory board meetingsEditions Lefebvre Sarrut is #1 Legal & Tax Publisher in France (Dalloz, Francis Lefebvre...), #2 in Europe, with >2600 employees and >500 M€ revenue

Strategic planning, strategic analysis for the Executive Committee and Board of Administrators, Operating ModelBusiness reviews & Budgets (build/follow) with Finance DepartmentM&A (due diligences, valuation, post merger integration)Team coordination, personal communication & support to the LeaderChief of Staff to the CEO of : Infrastructure Services operations (1.5B€ revenue)Latin America (0.5B€ revenue)Competitiveness group team, which designs and launch Industrialization & Innovation Program: Investment planning and transformation for 500 M€ cost savingsCapgemini share rise by more than 40% during my tenure

Founded Heliotrop, French industrial company dedicated to solar HCPV technology (High Concentrated PhotoVoltaics). Best-in-class 1024-sun concentration factor, recognized as a global top-5 CPV companyhttp://www.heliotrop.frNational and International Business Development and Sales (Middle East, North Africa, North America), including a major project in Mexico and development in Saudi ArabiaCreation and management of ADEME Investissements d'Avenir HCPV1024SOLEILS project: building a consortium & leading the project with 9 partners, 44 M€ budget, 16 M€ public support R&D, Engineering & Manufacturing: architecture of the organization, regular steering committees to foster all developments, negociation of contracts with CEA, CNRS and international laboratories (total budget 10 M€), negociation with manufacturing partner, co-author of two patents, representant for France for International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standardization committeePublic Affairs: led negociations with several Ministers, Prime Minister, President of France, and numerous public administration

Responsible for M&A Due Diligences for Private Equity funds (LBO) and blue chip groups (French largest 40s, CAC 40). Management of teams of consultantsCorporate Strategy : market analysis, business development strategy, competitive positioning, business development, future market share analysis Sectors: Energy, Infrastructure, Retail, B2B services, Manufacturing, ConsultingGeographies: North and Latin America, Middle East, Europe

Software for Financial Institution back office; Fermat was later acquired by Moody's AnalyticsBasel II Expert, various clients in France and EuropeIn charge of ABN AMRO (Amsterdam, NL) for one year

Worked in France and the PhilippinesOrganization, transformation, change management, outsourcing, IT projects (including SAP) Financial Accounting, Management Accounting, Purchasing, Asset Management Managed teams of Accenture Consultants and mixed teams Consultants & Clients