Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
🎯 General Management, Ops & team leadership for fast-moving businesses – Travel / Sport / Experiential ESSEC Business School graduate with 15+ years driving operations and growth in entrepreneurial environments — from early-stage startups to corporate ventures. 🔹 7 years at Suntrade Travel, a travel-tech startup, ending as Deputy GM 🔹 2 years as Sourcing Director at NG Travel, a major French tour operator 🔹 Founder of Remoters, a housing platform for digital nomads 🔹 Currently COO & Acting CEO at Decathlon Travel, the travel subsidiary of Decathlon Group What drives me: building and leading lean, high-performing teams that scale smart; sourcing and commercial negotiation (both B2B procurement and strategic partnerships); and overseeing cross-functional operations, including tech and finance. Deep travel industry knowledge, and a strong interest in the intersection of travel, sports, and events.
Decathlon Travel is the leading marketplace for sports travel experiences. In charge of business operations, my priorities include: - Sourcing new sports travel operators (feel free to reach out 😉) - Ensuring operational excellence both internally and with our partners - Contributing to the continuous improvement of our tech platform
As Acting CEO of Decathlon Travel, I steered the company’s strategic direction and day-to-day operations during a key transition period. Main responsibilities: – Redefined positioning and marketing strategy to support a pivot in the business model – Oversaw the company’s P&L and ensured alignment with group priorities – Drove the business roadmap and rallied teams around growth priorities – Supported team leads across operations, product, tech and partnerships – Represented the company in strategic discussions with Decathlon Group and external partners
Launched a community-driven running initiative in Annecy, blending weekly social runs with a recurring trail race event — “La Ravito”. - Built and animated a local running community with 80+ participants - Organized 8 editions of "La Ravito", a 2-days, 70k trail run (30 runners per edition)
Remoters is a marketplace for digital nomads. - Conceived and implemented a fully fonctionnal no-code stack (Webflow + Typeform + Zapier + Airtable + Sendinblue + Stripe) - Sourced and contracted local partners to scale to 15 destinations, and counting - I set-up the business as a SAAS model in 2023
NG Travel is France’s #3 B2B and B2C tour-operating group (Jet Tours, Kappa Club, Coralia, Promoséjours, Directours…) Head of hotel negociation and contracting : 300M€ turnover / +30% in 18 months Grew the portfolio from 55 to 75 vacation clubs Managed a team of 8 people Launched and managed Kappa City, a new vacation club brand In charge of the group’s new tech projects : xml hotel connectivity, low-cost carrier scrapping…
Suntrade is a B2B travel tech company. - In charge of a SAAS flight solution for hotels : 5M€ ARR - CPO, managing a 8-people IT team in Tunisia - COO, managing a 5-people operations team in Romania - In charge of key clients (Pierre & Vacances, Centara…)
In charge of hotels, airlines, and DMC contracting : 25 destinations / 20M€ revenue Managed a team of 8 account managers + 4 back-office operators Raised a 2M€ Serie A funding in 2015
- Negociated and signed contracts with hotel in more than 10 destinations worldwide - Marketing management of the catalog of products - In charge of the flash sales department - Launching of a B2C website