Our consultants
Chairman
Managing Director Grant Alexander Executive Search
With a Master’s degree in business law, Henri Vidalinc – a graduate of ISG and IMD – began his professional career in a major American automotive group where he served as administrative director and human resources director after occupying several positions in France and abroad. He then joined the insurance sector, serving in turn as a Group Vice President of Operational Excellence, the Secretary General of a subsidiary, and a Deputy CEO. In 2011, he embarked on an entrepreneurial adventure by becoming an associate of a direct approach recruitment firm. Three years later, he took over Grant Alexander, where he has been Chairman since 2014.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Human Resources Consultancy
- Management Team Development
- Senior Executive Evaluation
- HR engineering
- Executive Search
SECTORAL EXPERTISE
- Insurance
- Automotive
- Retail
- Communication / Media
- Consultancy
- Investment Funds
Partner
Non-profit organizations, co-operative and social solidarity Practice Director
With a Master’s degree in economic sciences, François Humblot – an ISG graduate – created Humblot-Grant Alexander in 1990 (renamed “Grant Alexander Executive Search” as of 2009) and ran the company until 2009. With more than 40 years’ experience in corporate consultancy, he is an expert in the implementation of change strategies at executive committee level, the support of senior executives, the optimization of internal organizations, the recruitment of senior executives and top managers, and the implementation of HR management tools. In his long career, he has overseen the recruitment of senior executives and experts in almost all sectors of the economy.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Management Team Development
- Senior Executive Evaluation
- Executive Search
SECTORAL EXPERTISE
- Non-Profit Organizations
- Consultancy
- Social Solidarity Economy
- Professional Organizations and Cooperative
- Public Services
Partner and Regional Director
Industrial sector and support functions consultant
ISG graduate ISG, Alexis Pariset worked in marketing and sales positions for 10 years before joining the executive search sector. Having previously worked in an English-speaking firm, he joined Grant Alexander in 2011 as Regional Director of our Lyon office.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive search
- Search – Support functions
SECTORAL EXPERTISE
- Industry
Managing Director Grant Alexander Executive Interim
Transition Management Consultant
A material sciences engineer, with a PhD in physics and an Executive Master’s from SciencesPo Paris, Alban Azzopardi has worked in key positions in the management of R&D projects and sales for automotive and aeronautical suppliers. In 2007 he started his own entrepreneurial project as an associate in a Transition Management firm, overseeing the industrial sector. In 2016 he joined Grant Alexander to create and develop the Transition Management unit.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Interim
- Change Management
- Transition Management
Senior Advisor
Jean-Philippe Collin, graduated from Centrale/Supelec, earned a PhD in Solid State Physics and started his career at IBM in 1982. He has held several executive positions in the areas of technology, quality and Procurement at IBM, Valeo & Thomson. He founded, together with several multinational companies, Keymro in 2002, a procurement marketplace. In 2004, he joined PSA Peugeot Citroën as Chief Procurement Officer, and subsequently served as CEO of the Scooter Division, then as CEO of Peugeot in addition to being appointed on the Managing Board of PSA.
Jean Philippe retired from Sanofi in September 2017 and is currently developing a consulting practice around: Board Membership, Senior Advisory and Enterprise Efficiency. He is an expert in change management, transformation programs and operational governance in term of organizations, processes and executive talents. He will be acting as Senior Advisor for Grant Alexander covering several functional and sectors practices.
Expertise :
- Senior executive evaluation
- HR Consultancy
- Management team development
- Executive search
- Transition management
Sectorial expertise :
- Industry
- Consultancy
- Bank/Finance
Director / Executive Coach certified Syntec
Grant Alexander - Leadership Development
Anne-Laure Pams joined Grant Alexander as Director of Leadership Development, Consultant & Coach.
Graduated from the University of Law of Montpellier, Anne –Laure also has a Master’s degree in Business Administration from ESC Toulouse. Anne-Laure started her career in marketing within the luxury retail market and worked for international companies. During 12 years, she assisted luxury brands as well as creators in their development abroad.
In 2013, she decided to dedicate her career to talent & people development and joined an international leader. She guided senior executives and managers in key career transition periods, through the development of their leadership assets.
Committed in life, Anne-Laure became a career expert for the association of Alumni’s of the French business school ESCP Europe & supports the charity association La Cravate Solidaire since creation.
Business Expertise
- Executive coaching
- Talent development
- Leadership development
- Career transition
Regional Director
Having graduated from ESSCA in 1999, Godefroy de La Bourdonnaye started his career in Paris as online marketing manager in an English-speaking recruitment firm, where he became a recruitment consultant in 2006 in the Sales/Marketing practice in the Nantes region. He then took over responsibility at this firm for an online recruitment platform project, which he developed and managed for 3 years, first in Geneva and then in Marseille. Back in Nantes in 2011, Godefroy successively held positions as a consultant and regional director in 2 international recruitment agencies. He joined Grant Alexander in 2018, to develop the Executive Search business in Western France.
He also has a broad knowledge of assessment centre /development centre systems, acquired over the course of his career and offers specific expertise in soft skills assessment through the observation of behaviour in situations. His fluent knowledge of English and extensive experience enables him to be involved in the search and selection of profiles of managers and experts with an international dimension.
Business Expertise :
- Executive Search
- Assessment Center
Sectoral Expertise :
- Industries
- Services B-to-B
- Distribution
Partner Grant Alexander - Executive Search
Industrial Sector and Corporate Services Consultant
After graduating from a Tours business school, Anne Moreau started her human resources experience with a consulting company specialized in change management and outplacement. In 1994, she shifted to the search and selection of managers, experts and senior executives. After spending 14 years with two major players in direct approach recruitment, she joined Grant Alexander in 2008. Prioritizing long-term partnerships with her contacts, client companies and candidates, she engages in search and evaluation missions in France and helps strengthen the international teams of French brands.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
SECTORAL EXPERTISE
- Food and Beverages
- Energy
- Industry
- Corporate Services
Retail, Digital-Data and Media-Edition Consultant
A graduate from Paris-Dauphine University with an MBA in Human Resources, Anne-Marie Deblonde spent a large part of her career – after starting out on an academic path in social sciences and communication – as a consultant for several executive search firms in Paris. In 2016, she joined Grant Alexander, where she works with a large portfolio of organizations, from start-ups to major international groups. Anne-Marie Deblonde is fascinated by environments exposed to the profound disruptions that generate new professions (digital transformation, omni-channel, data science, etc). She often runs training courses in schools (workshops on job search, identity and online presence), for local development actors (the impacts and challenges of digital development for employment and jobs).
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
- Organization’s Advisor on Emerging Professions
SECTORAL EXPERTISE
- Consultancy
- Media (Press and Publishing)
- Data science
- B2C and B2B Retail
- E-commerce
- Corporate Services
Always learn to be surprised,
And trust that you can make the future possible - it’s yours to create.
Financial Practice Director
Financial Function Consultant
After graduating from EDHEC business school and London School of Economics, Grégoire Beaurain started his career at KPMG Audit before joining an American firm, the global leader in financial specialist recruitment. In 2011, he founded Walter Flynn International – a recruitment office specialized in support functions. In 2014, he took a H-CORT Performance training session to develop his coaching, mental preparation and management skills. He joined Grant Alexander in 2016. He also is an administrator of theEdhec Alumni Association, a member of the Edhec Group HR & Management Club, and an external lecturer for business schools.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
- Search – Financial Functions
- Search – Support Functions
Partner Grant Alexander Executive Interim
Consultant in Transition Management
Marie Paillard has more than 18 years of experience in the recruitment of executives and managers and has supervised sizeable teams within renowned recruitment firms in Paris. She created and developed the Transition Management brand of a major market player, supervising more than 100 assignments for first-class clients.
In 2018, she attended training at the CFNDI to develop her coaching skills. In 2019, Marie joined forces with the Grant Alexander group to step up the growth of the Transition Management activity.
Passionate about her profession, she supports her clients and interim managers over the long term in order to best meet their needs with a true results-oriented culture.
Business Expertise :
- Executive interim
- Transformation management
- Performance improvement
- Crisis management
- Transition management
- Coaching
Regional Director
Consultant Industry Sector and Support Functions
Having completed Master’s degrees in Virology and Immunology, in addition to a specialised Master’s in Management and Marketing (Toulouse Business School) in 2003, Grégory Garcia-Bratti began his career in a major laboratory specialising in dermo-cosmetics before joining the consulting world.
For 4 years, he advised companies by supporting them in setting up physical offices in Paris, then decided to focus on recruitment consulting and specialised in the Greater Southwest region. He then spent 7 years working for a recruitment firm based in the English-speaking world, first as a consultant and then as a manager, specialising in the construction, finance and consulting sectors.
In 2015, he took over the Regional Management of 2 recruitment agencies (middle and top management) of a large temporary employment group in order to manage and develop teams in the Southwest of France. He worked there for 4 years before joining Grant Alexander, where he grew the Executive Search business in Western France, bringing his sharp knowledge of the job market in this region as well as a broad understanding of its specificities for the search and selection of manager and expert profiles.
His fluent knowledge of English and Spanish enables him to work on an international level.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
- Assessment Center
SECTORAL EXPERTISE
- BTP
- Finance/ Bank
- Consultancy
- Industry
- Marketing
Transition Management Consultant
After graduating in Business and Administration from Sorbonne University, complete with a Master’s Degree in Human Resources from CELSA, Frederic Ledien started his HR career development within Plastics industry and the Automotive sectors. Further on, he consolidated his HR expertise within the health and medical devices sector both in France and at international level before joining a major player in Assessment Services. Leveraging his experience, he performed executive interim assignments for industry and services leaders before joining the Grant Alexander Executive Interim division.
Frederic Ledien is today providing his experience and services to companies willing to perform efficient transformation through Executive Interim.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Interim
- Transition Management
IT Functions Consultant
A graduate from the KEDGE Business School in 1999, Stéphane Decaudin began his career at an IT service company, where he handled the development of key accounts from the banking sector in the area of IT transformation. He then joined an international recruitment office as a recruitment consultant for EMEA region. He joined Grant Alexander in 2008. He supports his clients – major players in the IT services, software companies and companies from the industrial sector – in the recruitment of experts and senior executives.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
- Search – IT Functions
SECTORAL EXPERTISE
- Industry
Real Estate, Construction and Social Housing Sector Consultant
With a Master’s in social law from the University of Lyon II, Priscilla Lesyk began her career in 2000 as a recruitment consultant for an IT services company. She pursued her consultant activity in an international firm amongst the leaders in construction sector recruitment, where she helped develop the Lyon agency. She joined Grant Alexander in 2006, harnessing her sectorial skills for construction, real estate and social housing companies. She oversees the recruitment of senior executives, managers and experts in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur region and all over France.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
SECTORAL EXPERTISE
- Real Estate
- Construction
- Social Housing
Industrial Sector Consultant
With Master’s degrees in foreign applied linguistics and from the Institut de Commerce de Lyon, Sandie Vivier began her career directly in recruitment. After gaining initial experience as an industrial sector consultant, she first joined Grant Alexander as a research officer, before becoming a consultant. Active in the recruitment sector for the past 13 years, she engages in recruitment missions through advertising or via direct approach for key accounts and SMBs.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
SECTORAL EXPERTISE
- Industry
Transformation & Strategy Practice Director
Mamy Ravelojaona graduated from the Supélec School of Engineering and holds an Executive Certificate in Marketing Strategy & Innovation from the Essec Business School. He has held several positions in product development for digital industries including Internet, mobile and telecoms companies (Alcatel-Lucent – Nokia, Siris, SFR, Bouygues Telecom). In 2006, he switched to new business development and corporate strategy career within a world-leading technology consulting company. There he accelerated the growth of the digital division by strengthening 4 strategic capabilities related to IoT, Data (advanced analytics, cyber security), customer experience design and agile practices. Meanwhile he fostered the digital empowerment of vertical markets (financial services, energy & utilities, transportation). He joined Grant Alexander in 2017, as Leader of Digital Transformation Practice – Executive Interim, striving to make the firm a key player in the Digital ecosystem. He is President of Supélec Alumni’s Digital professional network (Supélec Numérique).
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Interim
- Digital Transformation
- Transition Management
Associate Director Grant Alexander Executive Interim
Transition Management Consultant
Joëlle de Saint Martin graduated from the Ecole de Physique-Chimie de Paris (ESPCI) and the IFP School. She began her professional career as a consultant in a strategy consultancy firm.
She then moved to large companies in France and the United Kingdom, working in senior positions on strategic and M&A issues. She was tasked with managing M&A and corporate development departments for leading groups in the world of Telecoms and payment.
In 2017, she completed a coaching course at Dialogue Coach to consolidate her skills in human resources management.
She joined the Grant Alexander Group in 2019 to contribute to the development of the Transition Management business. She specialises in the management roles of Executive Committee members.
Expertise :
- Executive interim
- Change management
- Performance improvement
- Crisis management
- Transition management
- Coaching
Public, Parapublic and Social Economy Sectors Consultant
With more than 20 years of experience in business consulting, Florent Pennuen is an expert in implementing change strategies, executive coaching, organizational efficiency and human resources consulting, including recruitment.
Florent holds a Master’s in Advanced Study of Human Resources Management from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris. He began his professional career in a consulting firm, where for ten years he worked on transformational issues (mergers, site closures, complex project management, etc.), organizational efficiency and social dialogue (negotiation of sector and company agreements, crisis-situation intervention, etc.), primarily concentrating on the industrial sector and service companies. He then joined a large public sector group as HR Director, managing major reorganization efforts before becoming a consultant, first at Bernard Brunhes Consultant (BPI Group) and then, in 2016, at Grant Alexander. Florent continues his career at the service of transformation and in support of public organisation management teams, in particular through discovering key profiles looking to serve the ambitions and the future of this sector.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
- Consultancy in Public Sector Conversions
- Senior Executive Support
SECTORAL EXPERTISE
- Public Sector
- Professional and Cooperative Organizations
- Social and Solidarity Economy
- Joint Bodies
- Social Housing
Transition Management Consultant
A graduate in mechanical and production engineering completed by the Executive Master Trajectories Leaders of Sciences Po Paris, Rémy Longo began his career in the metallurgical industry. As a social entrepreneur, he has led national organizations in the services sector. In 2016, he created the Transition Management company Stratéthic, that joined the Grant Alexander Group in 2018. At Grant Alexander, Rémy Longo is developing the Transition Management business in the French South-East region and has the national responsibility for assignments in the social and solidarity economy sector.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Interim
- Transition Management
Healthcare and Industries Sectors Consultant
With a Master’s degree in Human Sciences under her belt, Cécile Mély began her career in the recruitment field in 1999, working for a consulting firm in the Paris region. In 2003, she joined a major player in direct recruitment in the Lyon Region. In 2012, she entered the industrial world in Human Resources and Recruitment functions before moving to Grant Alexander in 2018 to lead recruitment and evaluation missions for managers and experts in the industrial and services sectors. She operates with a Europe-wide remit.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE :
- Executive Search
SECTORAL EXPERTISE :
- Aeronautical industry
- Environment
- Industries
- Materials
- Healthcare
- Supply Chain
Industrial Sector Consultant
After training at ESC Montpellier with a specializing in Human Resources, Clémence Simon discovered her passion for recruitment after spending two years in China. She started her career as a sourcing officer in a Chinese recruitment firm in Shanghai where she worked for multinational companies in the retail sector. Upon returning to France, she joined Grant Alexander’s Lyon team in 2015 as Researcher before becoming Consultant in the practice Industry in 2018.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
- Sourcing
Development Consultant Africa
Kadia Sylla Moisson has a multicultural background and a Master’s in International and European Trade Litigation Law from the University of Paris X. She has spent a large part of her career in business as a Human Resources Manager. She has worked on major cross-functional HR topics (skills management and HR performance, training, recruitment, disability policy, social relations) enabling her to gain excellent an understanding and mastery of issues relating to the environment and HR.
In 2015, she decided to embark on entrepreneurship by investing in the organisation of events and the promotion of socio-economic partnerships between African and French companies.
Kadia is a woman with a purpose. She is the founding President of the Audacity for Africa association, which works to provide professional training for young people, particularly African women, in entrepreneurial projects.
She is also an expert associated with the French Foreign Trade Advisors in supporting the training of young people abroad.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
Consultant – Southwestern Region
Legal & Fiscal Practice
Morgane Coenen has been recruiting and evaluating executives, experts and senior managers for nine years, since she graduated with a Masters in Business Law from Montpellier University.
She started out heading up the sourcing division of an executive search firm in Paris, where she focused exclusively on headhunting and approaching passive candidates – mainly legal and tax professionals for French business law firms or corporate legal and tax departments.
In 2015 she joined an international recruitment agency in its nascent Southwestern Region office. She built up the firm’s Executive Search network in the region, continuing to concentrate on headhunting and proactively recruiting passive talent.
Morgane takes a strong consulting approach to her work, and has developed a particular interest in soft-skills assessment tools (Assessment Centre) and observing candidates in simulated work situations.
In 2019 she joined Grant Alexander to expand our executive search and assessment operations in the Southwestern Region.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
- Assessment Centre
- Lawyer recruitment
SECTORAL EXPERTISE
- Consulting and Law firms
- Industry
- Services
- Distribution
Digital Practice Consultant
After graduating from UWE Bristol in international business and Spanish, Edouard Normand started his career in 2008 by joining a British recruitment firm specialized in digital roles.
In 2013, after travelling in South America, he cofounds and leads a Colombian crowdfunding platform specialized in music. In 2016, he leads the business development of a French startup specialized in interfacing artificial intelligence.
He joins Grant Alexander in 2019 to support the development of its digital practice. Equipped with a large network of experts in large transforming organizations and smaller structures in the hyper-growth phase, Edouard Normand has acquired a deep understanding of digital roles after holding positions in digital world for the last 6 years.
EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
- Recruitement of digital experts
- Sales and organisational strategy
SECTORS
- Start-ups
- Pure Players
- Organisations in digital mutation
Technologies Practice Consultant
Julie Terpoorter holds a Master’s 2 in Human Resources, specialising in recruitment. She began her career in 2011 at Humblot Grant Alexander as a general research manager.
In 2016, she joined the corporate world, more particularly the world of IT consultancy, to develop comprehensive expertise in the IT sector. She was in turn recruitment officer and Recruitment Division manager for 3 years.
In 2019, she decided to return to her first love, Grant Alexander, as a consultant in the Technologies Practice section, where she assist its clients (leading digital service players, software publishers and companies in the industrial sector) in the recruitment of experts and experienced executives.
EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
- IT staff recruitment
SECTORS
- Agri-food
- Non-profit organizations
- Insurance
- Automotive
- Banking/Finance
- Commerce/distribution
- Communication/Media
- Consulting firms
- Social and solidarity economy
- Energy
- Investment funds
- Real estate, construction and social housing
- Industry
- Professional organizations and cooperatives
- Health and Life Sciences
- Public service
- Business Services
Associate Director of Grant Alexander Executive Interim
Transition Management Consultant
After graduating from SKEMA Business School in 2006, Antoine Grenet began his career at Danone in business development, first within and then outside France, in Asia, Africa and Oceania. He was successively in charge of category development, key accounts negotiations and the National Sales Department at Kraftfoods and Mondelez International. As a player in numerous transformations for more than 14 years (including two mergers and two sales), he developed comprehensive expertise in change management and the evolution of organisations. He joined the Grant Alexander group in 2020 to intensify the development of Transition Management, particularly in the Grand Ouest region of France.
Expertise:
- Executive Interim
- Transformation Management
- Interim Management
- Coaching
Associate Director Executive Interim
Transition Management Consultant
After graduation at University Panthéon Assas (Paris II) and a Master’s degree in Marketing, Matthieu Jan began his professional career in marketing for a major hotel reservation platform. He then joined a subsidiary of IPSOS Group, where he held various key positions in marketing and customer care until the position of Account Director, which he held for 5 years. Matthieu discovered executive interim at Delville in 2016, in charge of the Industry business unit.
Out of the office, you will still find him on rugby fields, as a former player and coach of the Paris Neuilly Rugby Club.
He joined Grant Alexander in 2020 to develop the Executive interim management business alongside Alban Azzopardi and the rest of the GAEI teams.
Expertise :
- Executive interim
- Transformation Management
- Performance Improvement
- Crisis management
- Interim management
Consultant Executive Search
After graduating from ESC Bordeaux (Kedge BS) in 2003, Charles Suinat began his career in purchasing with major international groups (Bouygues Construction, Soletanche Bachy, Louvre Hotels). In 2011, he joined a recruitment firm as an expert consultant in industry and then co-founded the firm CPO Recruitment, specialising in senior management and executive profiles, with particular expertise in purchasing and supply chain professions. When he joined Décideurs Magazine in 2016, he developed publications and events aimed at the Directors and HR Directors of major French groups, and carried out market research on their best service providers (employment law firms, recruitment, training, HR consulting, change management, etc.).
In 2020, he joined our Nantes office as an Executive Search consultant, to support the group’s development in the Greater West region, by assisting companies in the recruitment of their senior executives.
Business expertise:
- Industry
- Distribution
- Services
- Growing companies
Senior Consultant
Grant Alexander - Leadership Development
A graduate of AUDENCIA and a Master’s degree in Psychosociology from Paris VII, Elsa has been offering support, listening and development of talent and potential to entrepreneurs, managers, leaders and their teams for over 20 years.
Her approach is based on a strong entrepreneurial and business culture, and several human science disciplines at the service of individual and collective performance. She works in both French and English.
The DFSSU in Coaching at Paris VIII obtained in 2021 allowed her to work in depth on the issue of Women’s Leadership and to investigate the levers that coaching and mentoring represent in the path of several women leaders.
She joined Grant Alexander’s Leadership Development team in 2021.
As a volunteer, she also does solidarity coaching with refugees and members of associations.
EXPERTISES
- Executive Coaching
- Entrepreneurial coaching
- Team Coaching
- Talent Development
Executive Search Consultant
Isabelle holds a Master’s degree from EDC Paris Business School and an MBA in International Management from Kedge Business School and has more than 20 years of professional experience, mainly acquired in companies in the service and industrial sectors, in business and strategic development functions, in France and Africa.
In 2012, she joined a recruitment firm and created the Marseille office, which she managed for 8 years. Specialized in Legal and Tax, she also works in Finance and Human Resources for a clientele of law firms, SMEs, ETIs and large French and international groups.
She joined Grant Alexander in 2020 to develop the Legal and Tax Executive Search activities.
Expertise :
- Executive Search
- Recruitment of executives, managers and lawyers
- Legal, Tax, Finance and Human Resources
Senior Executive Search Consultant
Grant Alexander Executive Search
Didier Vidalinc holds a dual degree in management (Ecole Supérieure de Gestion) and in law (Licence de droit Université Paris 2). He began his career at Renault SA in 1989, following a varied career path between management of operational entities and support functions in France and abroad. Holding various positions within a French automotive group, such as Sales Director, Marketing Director or General Manager, enabled him to master the different professions of the automotive business.
In the second part of his career in 2011, he leaves the Renault group to participate in the development of private distributors representing Renault and then PSA. He will then be Brand Director in charge of managing the dealership divisions in the South of France.
Didier Vidalinc joined the Grant Alexander Group in 2020 as Senior Consultant for Grant Alexander Executive Search.
Expertise :
- Executive Search
- Human Resources Consulting
- Organizational consulting
Managing Director of Role Crafting
Grant Alexander - HR and Organisation Transformation
A graduate of HEC Paris and holder of an MBA and a Master’s degree in Consulting & Coaching from INSEAD, Bruno began his career as a strategy consultant with Bain & Compagnie. He then spent 17 years as Director of International Development, Director of Executive Development and Managing Director of subsidiaries, where he led transformations in France and internationally.
In 2010, he became an entrepreneur by founding Role Crafing, a firm dedicated to supporting companies, executives and funds. After Grant Alexander’s acquisition of his company in 2021, Bruno will take over the management of the new HR & Organization Transformation activity of the group, which offers collaborative methods and innovative digital tools to facilitate and accelerate collective and/or individual transformations.
Expertise :
- Consulting
- Transformation
- Executive coaching
- Talent development
Associate Director
Grant Alexander - Executive Interim
A graduate of NEOMA Business School, after 3 years of auditing within one of the Big Five, Vincent began a career as Financial Director and Operations Director in Retail and Luxury Goods. He then worked for large groups before developing and structuring brands with strong reputation, in France and abroad. He started in interim management in 2016 and carried out several missions for Fashion and e-Commerce actors before joining a French interim management company (EMT) as Associate Director.
His experience in strategic and operational functions in various sectors gives him a deep understanding of the stakes and issues of his clients, whom he supports in contexts of transformation / structuring and crisis management.
Vincent joins Grant Alexander – Executive Interim in 2020 as an Associate Director.
Expertise :
- Executive Interim
- Interim management
- Transformation Management
- Performance Improvement
- Crisis management
Associate Director
Grant Alexander - Executive Search
Françoise Derolez has been involved in change management and innovation for the past 25 years in a variety of missions for high-tech companies and market-leading organisations with a focus on value creation. Her expertise with organisations, from start-ups to large companies, is appreciated and recognised in the support of new transformational projects. Her personal commitment to associations such as PWN Paris – Profesional Women’s Network Paris -, of which she is co-president, or 2GAP – Gender and Governance Action Platform – demonstrates her CSR involvement in helping companies and society move towards parity, a source of performance and societal balance.
Françoise Derolez is a graduate of Sciences-Po Paris and holds a “Women Board Ready” certification from ESSEC. She is also co-author of “Shaping tomorrow’s workplace: circular economy applied to human resources management” published in 2015 in “Tendances Sociales et Culturelles de la Valeur” by L’Harmattan.
She now joins the Grant Alexander Group to contribute to the development of the Interim Management activity. Her career path naturally leads her to work with executive committees and manager
Expertise :
- Executive interim
- Transformation management
- Performance improvement
- Crisis management
- Interim management
Associate Director
Grant Alexander - Executive Interim
Sacha Tchakarian holds a degree in European Law and has been working as a business developer for high value-added service companies since the early 2000s.
For more than ten years, he has actively developed the interim management activities of an audit and accounting firm for 4 years before attempting an entrepreneurial adventure in the same sector. He then moved to an international human resources consulting group to develop the creation of the subsidiary dedicated to interim management.
He joins the group in July 2021 to develop the Interim Management activity through the Grant Alexander -Executive Interim brand.
Expertise :
- Executive interim
- Transformation management
- Performance improvement
- Crisis management
- Interim management
"Experience is a lantern hanging on the back, which only illuminates the road traveled."
Confucius
Associate Director / Director of the Life Science Practice
Grant Alexander - Executive Search
Graduated from a master’s degree in Business and Employment Law, a Master in HR from Paris II Assas (CIFFOP) and certified Coach at HEC, Laurent began his career in human resources within an insurance leader , then as a consultant within a direct approach recruitment firm. He then worked for twenty years in various HR functions within world leading groups in the pharmaceutical, medical and diagnostic equipment industry, with responsibilities in particular as Director of Talent Management and Director of Human Resources in France, in the United States and at European level.
In 2009, he joined a leading group in defense and security, ground transportation, identity and digital security. He progressed there successively as Director of Professional Development and HR, then as VP of Group Training and Corporate University, and finally as VPRH for a business of 16,000 employees worldwide.
He joined the Grant Alexander group in 2021 as Associate Director and took over the management of the Life Sciences sector practice which is part of Grant Alexander’s global offer and will operate in its various businesses: Executive Search, Executive Interim, Leadership Development and HR and Organization Transformation.
Business Expertise :
- Executive Search
- Transformation management
- Talent Management and Leadership Development
- Coaching / people development
- Development of management teams
Associate Director
Grant Alexander - Executive Interim
Karine Chommeloux holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration and a post-graduate diploma in Labor Law and Human Resources from the University of Paris Nanterre. She began her professional career as HR Manager at the head office of a FIAT Group entity.
She then worked for a dozen years with global industrial and commercial companies that were leaders in their markets, enabling her to gain a good understanding of the matrix and operational relations of large groups.
As a member of the Executive Committee, she was mainly involved in reorganizations and M&A and managed several countries in the HR practice.
She then moved on to various environments such as IT and HR software, notably as an interim manager on high value-added assignments.
It is naturally that she decided to join the Grant Alexander Group in 2022 in order to contribute to the development of the Interim Management activity.
Expertise :
- Business Partnering
- Change Management
- Talent management
- Mergers, acquisitions, harmonization
- Structuring and organization
Sourcing Team
Sourcing Manager
Anne-Charlotte Boissaud has a Master’s degree in business management from IAE Lille and a Master’s degree in human resources from the Institut Supérieur des Entreprises of Montpellier. She started her professional life in an executive search firm where she worked on direct approach missions, particularly in the luxury world. She then handled sourcing for a manager and specialist recruitment firm before joining Grant Alexander’s research department in 2015.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
- Sourcing
Head of Talent Assessment and Executive Interim Sourcing
After graduating with a Master’s in Advanced Study on Management Sciences, specializing in Human Resources, Sophie Germain served in a company as a HR Development Manager for 13 years. She has worked in several sectors of activity (connectics, automobile and healthcare industries) and thus acquired experience of a wide range of environments and HR issues. While working at Areva, Covidien and Nissan, Sophie developed her skills in recruitment, training and talent management in numerous innovative and ever-changing environments.
In 2010, she decided to concentrate on consultancy and has thrived in this area ever since. With her expertise in the approach and analysis of candidates in sales and marketing positions and support roles, she has always worked on middle and top management positions.
Sophie Germain joined Grant Alexander in 2017. She first developed Executive Search for the health sector within the company, then chose to join Grant Alexander Executive Interim as a Talent Assessment Manager. She brings to Transition Management her plural vision of the HR profession, on both the employer and recruitment agency sides, as well as her skills in Assessment. In particular, she is Hogan certified, and uses the Athlete Thinking methodology.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive interim
- Change Management
- Transition Management
Sourcing Manager
With a Master’s degree in Management, Human Resources and Services from ESC Clermont-Ferrand, Léa Suarez Baylac started her recruitment career within an international firm before joining Grant Alexander in 2011 as sourcing manager for the Lyon office.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
- Sourcing
Sourcing Manager
With Master’s degrees in Law and in Business Administration, Delphine Lebarbier began her career in 2008 as a sourcing manager for an Executive Search firm located in Paris. She worked with multifunctional and multi-sectorial missions in particular, with a direct approach for middle and top management in the industrial, luxury, supply chain and technical sectors – an experience she brought to Grant Alexander in 2016.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
- Sourcing
Sourcing Manager
After graduating with an MBA and a Master 2 in International Business Development, Alix Tallon started her professional career in 2013 working for an executive search agency in Lyon where she spent two years as a researcher before furthering her experience at a similar firm based in Nantes. Her executive search experience helped her develop a general approach to finding expert, executive and director-level profiles in a range of business sectors. In 2015, Alix joined a direct approach recruitment firm specializing in executive searching in both the agrifood and fashion and luxury sectors. She joined Grant Alexander’s Lyon office in January 2018.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
- Sourcing
Talent Assessment Manager
Grant Alexander - Executive Interim
Marianne Villemagne holds a Master’s degree in Human Resources Management and is a graduate of ICN Business School in Nancy. She has been working as a search manager for 15 years in recruitment consultancies, hunting and pre-selecting executives, senior executives, managers and experts. She joined Grant Alexander – Executive Search in 2018 to work for large groups and SMEs, particularly in the industrial, engineering, distribution, logistics and service sectors. In 2021, she will join the Interim Management activity as Talent Assessment Manager.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE :
- Executive interim
- Sourcing
- Executive search
- Interim Management
Sourcing Manager
Aurélie Piquet holds a Master’s degree in Technology Transfer and European Project Financing from the ISTIA in Angers and began her professional activity as an HRIS project manager in Industry in Paris. She has worked in particular on the deployment of engineering projects on technical subjects internationally.
She then joined a recruitment firm specialising in optics and photonics related to the aerospace, aeronautics and defence sectors. In January 2019, she joined Grant Alexander’s sourcing team in Nantes.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
- Sourcing
Sourcing Manager
Rose Sarr holds a Master’s in Management and Human Resources Management and completed her first internship as a Research Officer with a major recruitment consulting firm in Paris. She then worked in this profession for more than 13 years in three different headhunting firms, all major players in recruitment consulting, enriching her skills along the way. She joined Grant Alexander in 2019 to assist Consultants on headhunting and pre-selection missions for executives, senior managers, managers and experts in the industrial, consulting, distribution, logistics and services sectors, on behalf of major Groups and SMEs.
BUSINESS EXPERTISE
- Executive Search
- Sourcing
Talent Assessment Executive Interim
Anne-Claire Ohara holds a Master 1 AES from the University Panthéon-Assas and a Master 2 in Human Resources Development from the Institut Catholique de Paris. She joined an Executive Search firm as a research officer before joining a payroll management company where she assists entrepreneurial managers in their consulting activities. She then took charge of the recruitment and management of a network of consultants and interim managers working with SMEs on behalf of a public investment bank. Passionate about human resources, she chose to join Grant Alexander to bring her skills in sourcing and assessment.
Talent Assessment
Grant Alexander - Executive Search
Sophie has a Master’s degree in Management and Business Administration from the IAE in Lyon. She started her career in recruitment in Lyon, working for an international search firm, and then joined a consulting firm a few years later. Sophie has worked on the search for executive profiles, experts and managers for various organisations. She will join Grant Alexander in March 2021..
Chargée de recherche
Grant Alexander - Executive Search
Julie Barale graduated from the Institute of Political Studies of Aix-en-Provence with a Master 1 in International Business, a Master 2 in Environment and a last Master in Human Resources Management. She started her career at Grupo Planeta, a large Spanish communication group, and worked on recruitment for the head office in Barcelona and Madrid, particularly in the publishing world. She then became a recruiter for the NGO Action contre la Faim in Spain where she carried out recruitment missions for the head office as well as for humanitarian missions. She joins Grant Alexander in September 2019 as a research officer.
Sourcing Manager
Grant Alexander - Executive Search
Anna Revol holds a Master’s degree in Law as well as a Master’s degree in Human Resources from the University of Aix-Marseille. She began her professional career in 2020 with an Executive Search firm based in Marseille. This first experience in headhunting allowed her to develop a specialized approach in Legal and Tax. She joined Grant Alexander (Lyon office) in September 2021.
Back Office
Office Manager
A graduated of IPC Colmar, Christine Piroux joined Grant Alexander in December 2017 as the Office Manager after gaining over 20 years’ experience in Executive Search and HR companies.
Facility Manager
Graduated with a Master’s degree in international commercial negotiation, Anne Jeannerod began her career in the publishing industry where she held various commercial positions before deciding to devote herself to her family of four children for a few years. In 2020, she decided to return to the corporate world and joined Grant Alexander to take good care of this “new large family” as Facility Manager.
Communication and Marketing Director
Graduated from the Grande Ecole program at INSEEC Paris and holder of an MBA “Luxury Brand Marketing and International Management” from Sup de Luxe (EDC Paris) and a Master 1 LEA “International Affairs” from Aix-Marseille University, Emmanuelle Farand has more than 20 years of experience in the creation and development of brands in France and internationally, mainly acquired in the Banking-Finance and HR Consulting sectors.
She spent the first part of her career in asset management, notably with an American company, creating and setting up the brand in France before taking charge of marketing and communication for continental Europe. In 2012, she decided to focus on people business and joined a pure-player in interim management to develop the function, strengthen the company’s reputation and support its strong growth.
She joined Grant Alexander in 2020 to consolidate the group’s premium brand image, enhance its global approach and support its development strategy in France and internationally.