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Founder and owner at Nexya Consulting, to help global businesses to improve operational performance :- World Class management systems- marketing and innovation- business processes performance optimization - projects and customers in industrial and banking sectors.

Director of a Corporate Performance Improvement initiative in Marketing & Sales [8 B€, 5 divisions, 18 independant global companies]- Improving processes and sharing best practices across the 18 companies, worldwide, in strategic marketing, sales strategy, sales management, global account management and tech-service- Re-designing the european sales network to improve business alignment and to reduce costs- Designing and rolling-out a Customer Relationships Management software- Implementing the commercial familly HR management processes

Vice President of the Global Automotive Business [150 M€]- As a result of the decision to restructure the entire business to further improve growth potential, definition and implementation of the organization and processes to handle the Automotive business, worldwide [50 % of total turnover]- Re-definition of the strategy. Focus on : global accounts ; innovative applications under-the-hood ; Korea and China..;- Achievements above expectations : opening new global accounts ; major alliances in innovative applicatios developments ; increased turnover and profitability

Marketing and Development vice president [Marketing, R&D, tech-service worldwide, 200+ hc] at Nyltech Engineering Plastics, a JV between Rhône-Poulenc and the FIAT group [350 M€]. Plants [8], R&D facilities [2] and tech-service centers [6] in Europe, Asia, Brazil, North-America - Post merger integration of the marketing, R&D and tech-service teams, worldwide - Driving a major alliance with a US company on a new high-tech material- Definition and implementation of a communicaton strategy and a plan to create the corporate image of the new company- Key achievments : successful introduction of the new company to the market ; successful integration and excellent cooperations across teams ; new products and applications continuously introduced in the market

Product manager of the Polyamide product line [1 year] and then, Marketing & Development director of the Rhône-Poulenc Engineering Plastics business [250 M€].- Re-engineering the innovation and product development processes to increase new products pipeline output while shortening time-to-market- Improving both marketing [Automotive, Electrical & Electronic, Consumer Good and Industrial markets] and tech-service performance [resources, competencies, processes] to drive business growth by improving market presence and new applications development capabilities [Automotive engine parts…]- Key achievments : significant part of turnover with new products, strong positions gained in automotive under the hood, market share gains and improvements of the company image

Projet leader of a change initiative in supply chain mangement [20 plants], leading up to 20 professionnals with responsibilities ranging from IS and organisation definition to system development and roll-out [manufacturing resource planning, production tracking, production scheduling…]

New products development manager, leading joint developments wtith partnering companies : high reliability and availability electrical generation units for the telecom industry ; supervision unit with diagnosis capabilities

Novatome is a Nuclear Engineering company , focusing on fast breeder reactors, a technology strongly pushed in France immediatly after the oil choc of 1973.- Conducting a joint research program with CEA teams on mechanical behaviour of core sub-assemblies during irradiation (international communication. Computer-based predictive model)- Mechanical and thermodynamical design of the core subassemblies of a pre-series reactor, project canceled in the mid 80’s