
In France, our team enthusiastically counsels our clients with commitment, providing them with key profiles in improving the performance of their organizations.
We assist our candidates with passion and pleasure in building and developing their careers.
THE ASSOCIATES

Frédéric AYMONIER
Founding Partner
As a headhunter for 18 years, Fréderic has been involved in recruitment missions for executives, CEOs, executive committee of directors and functional managers within large ETI groups, startups & unicorns. He operates throughout Europe and also works extensively on behalf of capital investors.
With his teams in France and abroad, he leads a network of talented men and women, advises them in the building of their career paths and assists his clients in organizational transformation, executive committee assessments, coaching of senior executives and high potentials.

Jacques-Louis SOUBIROUS
Founding Partner
Jacques-Louis has been specializing for 15 years in direct approach multi-sector executive search consulting for executive profiles and key positions in France and abroad.
Beyond recruitment consulting, Jacques-Louis supports the development of the firm's Career Management and Interim Management divisions.
With his team, he leads a network of talented men and women, counsels them in the building of their career path and assists companies in the transformation of their organization, the assessment of executive committees, the coaching of senior executives and high potentials.

Bruno FREDERIC
Founding Member
He assists managers throughout their professional life and companies in strengthening their expertise in operational and strategic functions (sales, marketing, finance, HR, general management...) to meet their growth and positioning challenges.
THE PARTNERS

Colomban BOUNINE CABALE
Partner - Executive Search
Multi-specialist and expert in networking, he conducts searches for executives and senior managers through direct approach, in industry (Consumer goods / distribution / retail / luxury), the world of new technologies (NICT / MARKET-PLACE / DIGITAL) and services (Consulting / financial activities).
Colomban works on Sales, Marketing, Finance, Strategy and HR positions and assists his clients in the search for tomorrow's leaders, growth catalyst.

Laurent PENHOUET
Partner - Executive Search
His experience of working within Executive Committees, in complex, international, matrix or functional environments, allows him today to have a perfect understanding of his clients' strategic issues. As a generalist, he works in any type of industry and on a wide range of Executive Committee and Specialist positions.
Master in Business Management, graduate of the Sorbonne, Laurent is also a Master in Business Law graduate of ASSAS. A golfer, he is a passionate mountain biker and a long distance traveller who spends his free time with family and friends between Paris, the PACA region and Copenhagen.

Richard BENTZ
Partner - Executive Search
Before taking up his position in the company, Richard he started his career as a salesman then manager in the IT service sector. He then turned to consulting, becoming a partner in a human resources consulting firm. In 2000, he joined the insurance company Allianz as Director in charge of Human Resources Development, then as Human Resources Director, for managing executives and internationally mobile staff. In 2007, he became Director of Human Resources for the Technical / Actuarial Management on the one hand and the Group Marketing Management on the other hand.
Richard is a graduate of the Institut Supérieur de Gestion and holds a Master's degree in Strategic Human Resources Management from HEC.

Julia IMBERT DES GRANGES
Partner - Executive Search & Career Management
During a professional career of more than 15 years with various hunting firms Top & Middle management, Julia has developed her expertise and know-how on the search for executives, executives and experts mainly for her clients based in the Rhône-Alpes region within Large Accounts and Mid-sized Companies.
Its spectrum of activity is generalist, however with a particular focus recently on the sectors of industry, New Information Technologies & Health.
Passionate about human capital, the evolution of human resources trends, Julia joins us to set up our business in the Lyonnaise and Rhône-Alpes region.
A training lawyer, a graduate of a Master II in Human Resources, Julia is passionate about travel and an accomplished sportsgirl (riding, swimming).
We welcome Julia to our Fitch Bennett Partners team.

Jean-Philippe MÉNÉTRET
Partner - Career Management
A specialist in change management, today he accompanies executives and managers through the different stages of their careers, whether it be with regard to their personal development, their career assessment, their evaluation, their career development or transition, their taking up a position or their company creation project. Since its creation, he has also headed the Career Management Department of Fitch Bennett Partners.

Patrick DABERNAT
Partner - Executive Search
Today, I accompany Company Managers in their development or restructuring projects and in their quest to find the ideal profile.

Alex HOA
Partner - Executive Search
With a generalist profile, Alex started his career in Luxembourg, where he stayed for a little more than 3 and a half years, before joining, 5 years ago, the Fitch Bennett Partners firm, in Paris.
He has been building his expertise for 8 years, around " Industrial " (HealthCare, MedicalDevices, Automotive, Aeronautics, Rail, Food, FMCG, Chemicals, Logistics etc...) and " Banking & Finance "(Risk & Compliance, Private Banking, ALM, Financing etc...) sectors.
Quadrilingual (French, English, Vietnamese and Spanish), Alex refines his field of action in France and abroad.

Aymeric Bouffard
Partner - Executive Search - Transition Management
Since 2018, he has been putting his operational experience at the service of his clients, by recruiting talents by direct approach and selecting executive interim managers to help companies take a step forward.
Aymeric has a B2B approach sensibility marked by his experience in Transport and Logistics, Telecoms and Customer Relationship Management, he has also managed missions for the Industry, Banking, Defenceand Energy sectors for various functions and mostly Top Management roles in France and Europe.
Aymeric worked 18 years for an Anglo-Saxon group, including 4 years in the USA. He is at ease in multicultural environments and is familiar with English and American culture.
Aymeric joins us to strengthen our Executive Search and our Executive Interim Management activity.
Aymeric graduated from business school and completed an Executive MBA at HEC in 2009. His hobbies: sports (squash and kitesurf), motorcycling and his family.

Vincent MIEGE
Partner -
HRD and consultant in international Executive Search firms, he now leads various research missions that cover scopes with significant responsibility or particular expertise, in France and internationally.

Richard LACROIX
Partner - Executive Search
Since 2019, Richard has been putting his operational experience at the service of his clients, conducting recruitment and headhunting assignments to help French and foreign groups of all sizes and sectors build their teams in France and abroad.
Richard joins the FITCH BENNETT Partners team to strengthen our Executive Search and Interim Management practice.
Richard has a business school diploma, completed with another degree in Accounting & Finance, and a project management certification from Centrale Lille.

Pierre-Yves BOULET
Partner - Executive Search
After a few years in industrials and services companies, Pierre-Yves has been supporting his clients for 6 years in their top manager recruitment issues.
Since 2018, Pierre-Yves has specialized in the FMCG sector, particularly food and beverage, electronics, retail, mass distribution on Sales, Marketing, Production and Supply Chain roles.
Pierre-Yves joins FITCH BENNETT Partners to develop the efficiency of our executive search in our international FMCG activities.

Bernard LE CHEVALIER
Partner - Executive Search
For over 15 years, Bernard has been working on recruitment issues and supporting companies on Executive Search and Transition Management assignments. (Relay/Transformation).
Bernard intervenes in all corporate support functions and key operational positions, relying on his business expertise, a network of experienced managers and executives, and the relationships of trust he has built up throughout his career.
Bernard is a graduate of the Institut Supérieur de Gestion and holds a master’s degree in international business (Negocia/ESCP). He is a certified professional coach.
We are delighted to welcome Bernard to the FITCH BENNETT Partners team.
THE RESEARCHERS

Thomas ROZIER
Global Team Leader
Passionate about new technologies and new business models (Start-up; Scale-up; Lab's and Entrepreneurial Hub) with a strong appetite for Professional Services; Sales and Digital to best advise you in the search for talented men and women who will join your company COMEX/CODIR.
Thanks to his well-developed network in financial and strategic consulting, investment funds and private equity, and the start-up ecosystem, he speaks discreetly to managers and candidates in order to keep abreast of industry developments.

Ana POPESCU
Talent Researcher
With a double specialization of Teacher of National Education and Documentary Librarian, a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work and a Master 2 Degree in Human Resources Management, Ana POPESCU has evolved within Romanian companies, specialized in marketing, sales and human resources.
Enthusiastic, persevering, with a genuine interest and curiosity to learn, Ana Popescu followed in parallel trainings in project management, organizational management, negotiation and human resources management by developing communication skills.

Pascale BLANCHEZ
International Senior Talent Researcher
Product training and onboarding of collaborators were a constant in her professional career.
After a retraining as a Human Resources Manager, she joined Fitch Bennett Partners, in order to contribute to the recruitment of the best talents in top and middle management in France and internationally.

Jules BIGO
Talent Researcher
With several experiences in recruitment, Jules has developed his skills in finance and insurance.
Naturally curious, he will also be able to assist you with your needs in other sectors.

Virginie LAURENT
Office Manager
After training as a General Management Assistant, she joined us in 2018.
Virginie assumes the responsibility of Office Manager within the firm with efficiency and dynamism!
She also manages day-to-day relations between the head office and the international offices.
Virginie assists the founding partners in the development of Fitch Bennett Partners , in the administrative, financial and international aspects of the firm.

Manon JEANNE
Talent Researcher
As a former high-level sportswoman, her tenacity commits her to sparing no effort in each mission she undertakes.
Caring and attentive, she enjoys working with multi-sector clients in order to feed her curiosity and meet your needs to the best.

Sam LOZINGUEZ
Talent Researcher
It is through the practice of sports and his first professional experiences that Sam is developing his interpersonal skills.
Like a 19th century American gold digger, Sam will assist you in finding THE nugget.