Executive roles and operational consulting for over 20 years.
Swiss and French national, I live in Lausanne with my wife and three children.
With field experience in diverse environments — from hypergrowth startups to international groups — I have developed unique expertise at the intersection of finance, operations and strategy.
I have built, led, financed, organized and transformed businesses for over twenty years. My path has a distinctive trait: it covers the entire value chain of a company — strategy, finance, governance, operations, systems — with a level of rigor and depth usually reserved for specialists. This dual culture, both generalist and extremely sharp, is now at the heart of my approach at Makaon.
The Entrepreneur
Build, grow, structure, transfer. Not in theory. For real.
I have spent most of my professional life creating, developing and running companies. My first company was born in my teens and was recognized in 1998 as one of the 20 best French B2C startups of the first Internet wave (French Ministry of Economy ranking). Later, I founded SmartGrains, a Paris-based deep-tech startup, winner of the Grand Prix de l'Innovation de la Ville de Paris and selected in 2012 by the Wall Street Journal among the 30 most innovative companies in the world. Finally, between 2015 and 2025, I built and led a group based in Lausanne (VD) that exceeded 100 million euros in revenue. These experiences confronted me with all the realities of leadership: growth, structuring, crises, governance, succession, and above all the daily responsibility of running the house.
The Executive and Strategist
Connecting vision to organization, and organization to results.
I have held general management and strategy leadership positions on several occasions, and I have also spent several years in strategy and organization consulting. This gave me a dual perspective: that of the architect who designs long-term trajectories, and that of the operator who knows that everything is played out in execution. My approach is always the same: clarify the destination, then build the mechanics that get you there reliably, measurably and transferably.
Corporate Finance
Understand, structure, secure and transfer value.
I hold a degree in finance (MSc Finance from Sciences Po, MBA exchange at Columbia University, M&A specialization) and am trained in governance (Startup Board Academy). I have been a board member of several Swiss companies and have set up and led complete finance functions, including one for a group with up to 10 FTEs in finance. My experience covers the full spectrum: corporate finance, controlling, internal control systems, structured finance, mergers & acquisitions. I was trained in the profession at WestLB in New York in structured finance and at FDR Finance – Rothschild in Paris in M&A. Concretely, I know what it means to: make numbers reliable, secure processes, prepare a succession, defend a valuation, and close a deal.
Mastery and Control
A company is worth what it can measure, document and replicate.
I have been trained in the best practices of internal control systems and have designed and deployed several in rapid growth contexts. For me, internal control is not an administrative constraint: it is the invisible infrastructure that allows a company to endure, to be transferred and to be properly valued. This is a natural point of convergence with the fiduciary world: the quality of a firm is reflected in the strength of its processes as much as in the competence of its people.
The Engineer
Think like an architect, reason like a precision mechanic.
I am a graduate of École des Ponts et Chaussées and hold an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Imperial College London, obtained with distinction (summa cum laude), crowned by the best thesis prize in computer science (Morgan Stanley Prize in Advanced Computing). I have published research and developed complex systems in fields ranging from the web to embedded systems and sensor networks. This engineering background has lastingly shaped my way of leading: decompose, model, make reliable, instrument. A company is also a system. And a system must be respected, documented and mastered.
My trajectory: building lasting firms in the AI era
Investing, structuring and transmitting real businesses in a disrupted world.
My work follows a clear trajectory: acting as an architect of lasting firms, by investing in and supporting businesses in traditional sectors - finance, professional services, regulated industries - that are being transformed from within by artificial intelligence. I focus on rooted, profitable structures built over time, where value rests on governance, systems and trust. Fiduciaries naturally fit this framework: they concentrate responsibility, precision and transmission, and today find themselves at a historic inflection point. AI is profoundly transforming their processes and models, without ever replacing judgment or relationships. It is at this precise intersection - between tradition, technology and responsibility - that my background and approach find their full coherence.
Why Makaon?
Makaon (or Machaon) is the son of Asclepius in Greek mythology, the famous surgeon of the Greek army. It is also the name of the Old World swallowtail, a majestic butterfly known for its panoramic vision. This dual symbol embodies our philosophy: the height of perspective to decide, the surgical precision to act.
We offer the vision to decide and the gesture to act.
Values
You don't lead through agitation. You lead through presence.
Facing reality is often uncomfortable. It's always where turnaround begins.
Strategy requires altitude. Execution, a hawk's dive. I practice both.
The lion doesn't rule through agitation, but through presence. It embodies a calm power, an authority that needs no justification. This is the stance I claim: mastery forged by experience, a global vision, and the ability to decide quietly, but firmly. The lion looks far ahead, because it knows exactly where it stands.
Every serious transformation begins with an uncomfortable moment: accepting to face the problem head-on. The dragon is not an imaginary monster—it's what's broken, what's frightening, what paralyzes. Saint George doesn't avoid it, he confronts it. With method, with courage, and without detours.
The hawk always starts by gaining altitude. Then, when everything is clear, it descends fast, straight, without hesitation. This is exactly how I work: understand from above, then act with precision. Strategy sets the direction. Execution makes the difference.