Fitch Bennett Partners International

Jean-Paul Bissen

Jean-Paul then created and managed a mid-market boutique firm which later became member of a new international search network. Jean-Paul served Belgian branches of large corporates as well as growing SME, in the industrial and services sectors. Jean-Paul holds a Master in Business Sciences. He followed a Leadership programme at Ashridge College, and he is a certified Non Executive Director and a JCI recognized trainer. Jean-Paul speaks French, Dutch and English fluently, with notions of German, Italian and Spanish.

Serge Caustur

HEC Brussels School, Serge then joined FIAT AUTO BELGIO, a first professional step in a career dedicated to the automotive sector. Serge Caustur moved to Renault Belgique Luxembourg where he climbed the ladder from the management of a dealer center to the position of General Manager. He had also various senior positions in the Renault Group, such as in the logistics (CAT), the finance (Overlease), the plants (RIB) and other subsidiaries. He was also Vice President of the FEBIAC, the Belgian Federation of the auto and cycles industry. Serge Caustur developed a sound knowledge of the sector as well as an extended network of contacts.

Serge Caustur joins the Benelux team of Fitch Bennett Partners to provide advisory services(strategy and organization of the distribution network), as well as individual and team assessment and recruitment of relevant managers and team leaders.

Frédéric Aymonier

Founder of Fitch Bennett Partners consultancy.

A head-hunter for the past 9 years, Frédéric operates mainly in Europe on four major clusters: Telecommunications, Web, mobile operators, software publishers. Specialising in the search for Top & Middle management positions on Manager or expert profiles.

Jacques-Louis Soubirous

Founder of Fitch Bennett Partners consultancy.

A head-hunter for the past 14 years, with an executive management experience in major international companies, Jacques-Louis assists the companies in France and abroad with their search for executives and top management. HR consultant, his missions occur increasingly often before the recruitment phase: assessment of seniors executives and high potentials, building of the management teams, international development project. Jacques-Louis also holds seminars on the talent management and the organization transformation.

Bruno Frédéric

Bruno Frédéric started his career at Fnac as buyer before joining in 1991 the Matra-Nortel company as retail sales manager to develop the residential and mobile phone activities.Using its B2C and telecom expertise , he integrates Bouygues Telecom to manage the sales and the marketing departments of the operator for the mass-market retailing. Then he prepares the launch of several international brands in the high tech universe before assuming the management of Palm France in 2007. In 2010 Bruno joins a subsidiary of the TDF Group specialized in the geolocation services where he helds the position of marketing and commercial director. Building on these experiments in national and international companies as managing or sales and marketing director, he is specialized in the search for Top & Middle management positions on Manager or expert profiles in the media sector, high tech and premium products.

PATRICK DABERNAT

Patrick Dabernat was General Manager in various businesses : automotive, aerospace and luxury hospitality. His different experiences allowed him to well understanding the complex situations in business, organization and teams management. Patrick developped a good accuity and a constant focus on the human factor, a success key of the driven projects.

Patrick is supporting his customers with its professional expertise in the key positions in small and medium sized entreprises.

Lars Elveback

Lars Elveback leads the FITCH BENNET Partners team in Stockholm. He has worked as an executive search and assessment consultant in the Nordic region for almost 20 years. Lars speaks fluent Swedish and Finnish.

Lars Evelback has a thorough experience in the Nordic region within FMCG, pharma & med-tech, energy, construction & real-estate, IT & electronics, pulp & paper and the public sector.

Lars Elveback

Lars Elveback leads the FITCH BENNET Partners team in Stockholm. He has worked as an executive search and assessment consultant in the Nordic region for almost 20 years. Lars speaks fluent Swedish and Finnish.

Lars Evelback has a thorough experience in the Nordic region within FMCG, pharma & med-tech, energy, construction & real-estate, IT & electronics, pulp & paper and the public sector.

Frédéric Faré

Established for over 10 years in Istanbul with an partnership with many european SME, Frederic Farre and his team are able to assist you in your business development on the Turkish market and the recruitment of key positions in various sectors (Manufacturing, Foods, Retail and Services sectors).

Frederic Farre graduated from the Bordeaux Business School and has over 17 years experience in international business development. Frederic speaks French, Turkish and English fluently with his team.

Frank Zwicki

Frank started his career in Banking at Credit Suisse, later held major positions in the industry at Diethelm Keller in Switzerland and in Germany, at Henkel and Ecolab as Country Manager Switzerland, before he entered the Search Business. Frank operates Executive Search assignments, from Middle Level to C-Level executives, in all sectors with a specific focus on Manufacturing Industry and Consumers Goods. Member of Lions Club.

Frank Zwicki

Frank started his career in Banking at Credit Suisse, later held major positions in the industry at Diethelm Keller in Switzerland and in Germany, at Henkel and Ecolab as Country Manager Switzerland, before he entered the Search Business. Frank operates Executive Search assignments, from Middle Level to C-Level executives, in all sectors with a specific focus on Manufacturing Industry and Consumers Goods. Member of Lions Club.

Frank Zwicki

Frank started his career in Banking at Credit Suisse, later held major positions in the industry at Diethelm Keller in Switzerland and in Germany, at Henkel and Ecolab as Country Manager Switzerland, before he entered the Search Business. Frank operates Executive Search assignments, from Middle Level to C-Level executives, in all sectors with a specific focus on Manufacturing Industry and Consumers Goods. Member of Lions Club.

Jérémie NI

Jérémie NI has a strong experience in leading recruitment missions of Chinese managers for European companies and training their executives and engineers at the Chinese culture and team management.
Jérémie NI graduated from ESSEC Business School in 1990. Since 2010, he has developed a pool of Chinese talents in France from the best engineering and business schools. Jérémie NI is assisted in Shanghai by Pierre NIU ZHENYU and his team of researchers.

Francesco Festa

Your contact in Milan will be Mr. Francesco Festa as Partner Executive Search. Engineer, Francesco has a strong experience in top manager positions in large companies such as Texas Instruments, Alcatel, Alitalia, Emiflex, Pirelli.

Since, Francesco manages succesfully a professional partners team in the following industries: Banking & Finance, Industry, Consumer Goods, Retail, Digital & IT, Luxury and Fashion, Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals.

Norbert Alix-Buguet

After launching his career in the volume retailing sector, Norbert joined the La Poste group in 1988 where he held various sales management and sales leadership positions. In 1994, Norbert started his insurance career path as a general agent and then as director of mass market clients for Marsh. In 2000, the founders of The Phone House approached him to head their Phone House insurance broker activity and additionally in 2005 to head their franchises network. Norbert joined the April group in 2010 as sales director, he then became the managing director of April Enterprises Paris. In 2013, Norbert decided to develop an executive coaching activity where he accompanied one of his clients in restructuring one of its subsidiaries and he became then the Executive Director. With over 20 years' experience in operational management and executive management positions, Norbert is your talent spotter in the insurance sector (insurance companies, mutual insurance companies and brokers) as well as in the retail and franchising sectors.

Aad Vijfvinkel

Aad Vijfvinkel started his career in the insurance sector that led him to ensure various responsibilities as business development manager for other sectors, B-to-C and B-to B. Aad jumped in the recruitment market while joining a selection bureau specialized in sales and marketing positions. He then moved towards direct search, a difficult market where he gains a solid reputation for his performance in searching candidates for difficult positions. He is active both in the services sector and the industrial sector, for position like engineering, production, business development, supply chain. His extended knowledge of the Dutch market offers great support for the Fitch Bennett Partners’ clients.

Jean-Philippe Menetret

Jean-Philippe Ménétret has more than 25 years’ experience in the high-tech industry as Marketing and Business Unit Manager within France and International. He is graduated from ESSEC International General Management, Certified Transition Manager, Professional Coach certified RNCP level 1 and MBTI certified Practitioner.

Change management specialist, he supports today managers and executives at the different steps of their career, such as personal development, career vision statement, career transition or evolution, onboarding or entrepreneurship.

PATRICK PLACKTOR

With his International HR Director experience in Retail and Distribution -Gap, The Phone House- in Real Estates - CBRE, Savills - and Consulting Agencies in Marketing, Communication, PR, Digital - Edelman, Porter Novelli, Care - Patrick is involved in Top and Middle Management positions hunting mainly in these three sectors.

Entrepreneur and consultant, Patrick accompanied for more than 10 years in his owned HR Consulting firm founded in 2004 companies such as Haagendaz, Merci, Morgan, Gentleman Farmer, in transformation and merger and acquisition contexts. As expert in organization and change management, Patrick worked extensively on inter-generational (millennials) impact on businesses. He coaches start-up executives, investment funds on organizational and human impact in growth, and change management. Patrick graduated with a MBA in International Business, HEC (Paris) Leading Strategies, and a BA in Economics and Social Science.

JEAN-MICHEL PAVIOT

Jean-Michel has been working for more than 25 years for large international transportation & logistics companies, in which he alternatively occupied Senior management positions in Sales, Marketing, Customer Service and Strategic Project Leader positions. He has a strong management experience with both operational and functional backgrounds. He also developed specific business skills in B2B services and industrial supply chain solutions as well as Telecom, Banking and Insurance areas. Jean-Michel's constant concern to place human relationships at the center of his activities and achievements, has been for him a key success factor, and definitely remains a great asset of his ability to understand his customers' needs and expectations.

Graduated from Kedge Business School (ESC Bordeaux), Jean-Michel has always remained faithful to his local French south-eastern roots, which helped him keep track on the region's economy and trends.

He is based in Bordeaux area.

LAURENT PENHOUET

Partner

With his 25 years international experience in various industries, Laurent has developed close working relationships with key executives - CEO, Vice Presidents, Managing Directors, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Talent Acquisition, Procurement, CRM & Digital teams and many more.

Based on his experience of understanding strategic stakes and goals, Laurent will work side-by-side with you to successfully identify talented women and men. He truly believes that every client is unique and that helping solve complex and strategic problems is key. He is indeed passionate and committed to support his clients create and energize winning teams who collaborate towards achieving outstanding results.

Laurent has a Master's degree in Business Administration from Paris Sorbonne University and a Master's Degree in Business Law – major in Business & Tax Regulation from Paris ASSAS University.

RICHARD BENTZ

Partner

From 2012 to 2017, Richard Bentz was Director of Corporate Human Resources at Disneyland Paris.

Previously, Richard began his career as a salesman and then Commercial Director in the engineering and computer services sector. He then turned to human resources, becoming a partner in a consulting firm in human resources. In 2000, he joined the insurer Allianz as Director of Human Resources Development, then as Human Resources Director for Senior Management and International Mobility Group. In 2007, he became Human Resources Director for the Support / Technical / Actuarial Departments and Group Marketing.

Talent Hunter, he will accompany you in the fields of Banking Finance, Insurance, IT, Marketing distribution.

Richard is a graduate of the Institut Supérieur de Gestion, an MBA specialized in Strategic Management of Human Resources at HEC, and a Bachelor of Economics at the Sorbonne. He is also an adjunct professor in the Master's degree at the University of Paris-Descartes.

Zoran Marinkovic

FITCH BENNETT Partners are delighted to inform you of the new patnership with Blue Marin Management Consultancies founded in May 2007 and managed by Zoran Marinkovic, General manager, based in Dubai.

This new step will reinforce the development of our international network and provide targeted support to compagnies which are looking for expand their business in the Middle East growing markets.

Headhunter for the past 12 years, with a previous finance experience in blue chips like American Express Cartes in Paris and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare in Dubai. Zoran helps companies to identify and land talents in the entire Middle East. Zoran is located in Dubaï, United Arab Emirates since 2005 and conducts direct search from middle to top management. Zoran is fluent in French, English and Serbian.

Zoran holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Paris West University Nanterre La Defense, and a MBA specializing in International business from Paris School of Business. Zoran is also certified Six Sigma Green Belt from American Express EMEA HQ based in London and has recently completed an executive program on Artificial Intelligence and its implications on business strategies from MIT.

Elena Terol

FITCH BENNETT Partners are delighted to inform you of the new partnership with ExcellentSearch Consultancies managed by Elena Terol based in Madrid.

Elena develops more than 20 years experience in Executive Search companies as Russell Reynolds, Seeliger y Conde and Accord Group. She begins her career in international banking : Bankers Trust and ANZ
Grindlays Bank.

Elena works for multinational companies as a specialist consultant in Financial Services, Consumer Goods, Luxury, Retail Distribution and Leisure & Entertainment sectors.

Elena is MBA by the Instituto de Empresa and is coach certificated by the Escuela Europea de Coaching (EEC) and the International Coach Federation (ICF). She speaks spanish, english, french, with fluency.