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As Senior Consultant, Colomban Bounine counsels economic players in the French market in their various strategic and executive recruitments.

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.

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

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.

Since April 2012, Richard BENTZ is Director of Human Resources in charge of Support and Administration functions at Disneyland Paris. As part of his duties, Richard is in charge of piloting and implementing the Human Resources strategy for its divisions in the areas of development, training and social policy. He counsels and assists his internal clients in the implementation of the strategy. Richard also leads value-creating cross-functional projects that will contribute to the improvement of the company's performance and support the changes generated by the evolution of our activities.

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.

Our Direct Approach and Career Management Recruitment Consulting Firm is pleased to welcome a new Partner, based in Lyon, Mrs.Julia Imbert des Granges.

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 has more than 25 years of experience in the new technologies sector as Marketing and Business Unit Director in France and internationally. He is a graduate of ESSEC International General Management, Certified Transition Manager, RNCP Level 1 Certified Professional Coach and MBTI Authorized Practitioner.

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.

I have built my professional career in key positions in various SME/ITEs gravitating more particularly around car manufacturers, the world of passenger transport, ground and air, as well as the high-end hotel industry and services in general. The polyvalence of my successive experiences has allowed me to understand, with a good acuity, the most complex situations inherent to the different aspects of the management of a company.

Today, I accompany Company Managers in their development or restructuring projects and in their quest to find the ideal profile.

Graduate of an International Business School and a Bachelor's degree in London, Alex HOA is an expert in Headhunting and Direct Approach Recruitment of Experts, Middle & Top Management profiles - whatever the job and function (Support, Sales, Digital...).

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 has 25 years of professional experience including 12 years as a business unit manager in France and internationally in B2B services.

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.

After starting his career in corporate finance with international, French and American structures in the Luxury and FMCG environments, Vincent turned to the dominant HR.

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 has 32 years of professional experience including 29 in companies, mainly in positions of Administrative and Financial Director extended to all support functions, on international scopes, in sectors as varied as IT, health, agri-food or transition management.

Richard brings his practice in the Finance, HR, Sourcing Supply Chain and ADV functions, in direct collaboration with the Technical and Commercial operational functions, as well as with the General Managers and

Shareholders. He also has 30 years of outplacement experience, which he developed in his volunteer activities.

Since 2019, Richard has put his operational experience at the service of his clients, conducting recruitment and head hunting missions to accompany French and foreign groups of all sizes and sectors to strengthen their teams in France and abroad.

Richard joins the FITCH BENNETT Partners team as Partner Executive Search and Transition Management.

Richard is a graduate of the business school completed by the DECF as well as a certification in project management from Centrale Lille.

Pierre-Yves, half French and half Spanish, a graduate of a master's degree in marketing and an MBA in International Business, has more than ten years of experience in France and abroad in various sectors of activity

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.