
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 -
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 -
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 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.
THE RESEARCHERS

Thomas ROZIER
Manager
Globetrotter and entrepreneur, after creating his own company, he joined the firm where he is in charge of managing the Talent Researcher team.
He is passionate about marketing, digital, new technologies and new business models (Start-up; Scale-up; Lab's and Entrepreneurial Hub).
Tel : 06 59 15 59 97 / E-mail : trozier@fitchbennettpartners.com

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
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
Of a natural curious and warm He likes to go against people. During his university studies, he had the opportunity to become involved with an international association. Curious to learn more about his environment Jules has evolved within this structure occupying management and training missions to organize the programs and train the people who will intervene in the different missions. This experience guided him to finally make a reorientation in Human Resources.
Thus he did an initial internship in the finance practice of a recruitment firm on a senior executive and executive population. He was able to discover various businesses and sectors that fed him. On the strength of this experience, he finished his university career as an alternant at Allianz France, integrating the Île de France recruitment unit for permanent contracts. As a real advisor, he quickly became the contact of managers within his scope (Support & IT function).
Determined not to develop in a particular sector, he decided to pursue his career at Fitch Bennett Partners. He joins Thomas Rozier’s team to help recruit talent from multiple 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.