With over 25 years of experience in developing SMEs, mid-sized companies, and large corporations in the industrial and B2B services sectors, Laurent Frienck has held key positions in sales and marketing before transitioning to HR consulting and executive recruitment in 2009.

Over the past 15 years, Laurent has successfully led numerous high-impact projects as a consultant, partner, and most recently as Managing Director of the Paris office for a prestigious firm. His sector expertise spans industrial environments, aerospace and defense, energy, B2B services, and construction. He supports organizations of all sizes, in France and internationally, in identifying and securing top-tier talent, including executives, managers, and technical experts, primarily through executive search

Passionate about languages, Pascale started out as a French and German teacher for foreigners in Germany. During her 24 years as an expatriate in Germany, she gained international experience as a key account manager and area sales manager in various B2B sectors: distribution of electronic components, the technical textiles industry and its many R&D applications, and the B2B2C electrosurgical equipment industry.

Product training and employee onboarding have been a constant feature of his career.

With 24 years of experience in Executive Search and HR Consulting, Romain Prouvost supports clients across Europe, specializing in the “Energy & Energy Transition/Sustainability” and “Brokerage/Insurance” sectors.

Before joining FITCH BENNETT Partners, Romain worked at Neumann International AG, where he built the foundations of his market expertise in “Energy & Energy Transition/Sustainability” at the European level and in “Brokerage & Insurances”. He then founded KRUGER International, revealing his entrepreneurial mindset and leadership, while strengthening his market position and expanding into new sectors such as Luxury and Retail. After a last professional cycle as “Practices Leader” within AD HOMINEM International, Romain is delighted to be reunited with his peers of the Executive Search & HR Consulting at FITCH BENNETT Partners.

In a context of ongoing business transformation, FITCH BENNETT Partners, an international executive search and leadership advisory firm specializing in direct recruitment, transition management, and career advisory, is pleased to announce the appointment of Christophe Fouillac as Partner within its Interim Management Practice.

With 25 years of experience in executive recruitment and interim management, Christophe Fouillac has been supporting companies through their key challenges in leadership continuity, restructuring, and strategic project execution.

He began his career at Michael Page, where he developed an early expertise in interim management, before joining Robert Walters, where he spent seven years helping to build and expand the firm’s interim management offering in France. He then spent over a decade as an independent consultant, advising executive teams and shareholders through complex and high-stakes transformation contexts.

“Interim management is not just a short-term solution — it’s a sustainable lever for transformation, combining expertise, knowledge transfer, and human impact.”  Christophe Fouillac, Partner – Interim Management Practice

His appointment strengthens FITCH BENNETT Partners’ ability to support organizations through leadership transitions and transformation projects, with an approach grounded in trust, proximity, and long-term impact.

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In the course of his career, Laurent has worked as an executive in various industries in France, abroad and as an expatriate, acquiring experience that enables him to support organizations of all sizes. This rich career path has given him the opportunity to hold a variety of management positions, including CCO of Alphabet France, Vice President Market Strategy and then Vice President Commercial Excellence at Carlson Wagonlit Travel, Sales and Marketing Director at Eurotunnel/Getlinc, General and Commercial Director of Loc-Action, a subsidiary of LeasePlan, and International Sales Manager at Europcar.

His experience of working within Executive Committees, in complex, international, matrix or functional environments, gives him a perfect understanding of his customers' strategic challenges. As a generalist, he works in all types of industries and on a wide range of Executive Committee and Specialist functions.

Laurent holds a Master's degree in Business Management, a degree from la Sorbonne and a degree in Business Law from ASSAS. A golfer, he is also an avid mountain biker and long-distance traveler, spending his free time with family and friends between Paris, the PACA region and Copenhagen.

Since April 2012, Richard BENTZ has been Human Resources Director in charge of the Support and Administration divisions at Disneyland Paris. As part of his duties, Richard is responsible for steering and implementing the Human Resources strategy for his divisions in the areas of development, training and social policy. He advises and accompanies internal clients in the implementation of strategy. Richard also leads value-creating cross-functional projects that contribute to improving the company's performance, and supports the changes generated by the evolution of our activities.

Before joining the company, Richard began his career as a salesman and then manager in the IT services sector. He then turned to consulting, becoming a partner in a human resources firm. In 2000, he joined the insurer Allianz as Director in charge of Human Resources Development, then as Human Resources Director, for executives and internationally mobile staff. In 2007, he became Head of Human Resources for the Technical/Actuarial and Group Marketing Departments.

Richard is a graduate of the Institut Supérieur de Gestion and holds a Master's degree in Strategic Human Resources Management from HEC.

Jean-Philippe Ménétret has over 25 years' experience in the new technologies sector as Marketing and Business Unit Director in France and abroad. He is a graduate of ESSEC International General Management, a certified Transition Manager, an RNCP level 1 certified Professional Coach and an MBTI-accredited Practitioner.

A specialist in change management, he now assists managers and executives at all stages of their careers, whether in terms of personal development, career assessment, assessment, career evolution or transition, taking up a new position or setting up a new business. Since its creation, he has also headed the Career Management Department of Fitch Bennett Partners.

Patrick's career path has taken him to key positions in a number of small and medium-sized businesses, with a particular focus on car manufacturers, the air and ground passenger transport sector, the upscale hotel industry and the service sector in general. The versatility of his successive experiences has enabled him to grasp, with great acuity, the most complex situations inherent in the various aspects of company management.

Today, it assists business owners in their development or restructuring projects, and in their quest to find the ideal profile.