Ferdinand Terme

Co-Founder @Pletor

Paris, Île-de-France, France

About

Building Pletor. The platform where marketing and creative teams combine the best AI models to design and automate creative workflows. Like Zapier for visual marketing. Before that: - I contributed to Alma's hyper-growth (FTE from 60 to 300+, became market leader in France...) where I launched our B2B business unit (€300k ARR generated in just 6 months) and led our Growth team (team of 4, lead-generation both inbound and outbound) - I learned the "business toolkit" at McKinsey where I focused on Sales & Marketing topics and had a very international experience (worked with 7 different offices)

Experience

  • Co-Founder & CEO at Pletor
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Professor of Business Strategy Consulting at Albert School
    Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Co-Founder & CEO at Lasqo
    Jan 2024 - May 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Alma ()
    • Growth Lead
      Jan 2023 - Jun 2023 · 6 mos

      Led a team of 4 in charge of Alma's acquisition, both outbound (market mapping, contact enrichment, lead scoring, etc.) and inbound (SEA, SMA, SEO). It was a 6-month interim to turn around the team. Key achievements of the team during this period: • Increased our paid marketing LTV/CAC by 10% by rebalancing our budget across ad platforms and reviewing the basics of our ads (value proposition, visuals, adwords, etc.) • Implemented a more efficient outbound lead generation process in collaboration with our Sales and RevOps teams (1,000+ new leads generated by month) • Leveraged generative AI to improve the quality of our database of leads (enriched 40% of our base with key elements for targeting while removing 30% of the leads that were not relevant)

    • B2B Lead
      Apr 2022 - Dec 2022 · 9 mos

      Launched Alma's B2B business unit: make it possible for professionals to pay later or in installments both online and in-store. Key achievements: • Signed 30+ B2B merchants making up €300k ARR • Piloted the product roadmap, especially the implementation of our in-house scoring system or the addition of a new payment method • Led a cross-functional team: Product Manager, Tech, Risk, Fraud, Operations • Managed a portfolio of international merchants such as Ankorstore, Vroomly, Bihr, Pro Inox, Mirta, Qui Dit Mieux, Blom Market, etc.

    • Business Operations Manager
      May 2021 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr

      Installment payments. Increase your sales by letting your customers pay their purchases over time without worrying about fraud, defaults and collection. In charge of scaling Alma with a special focus on launching the German business and on developing our B2B product. I am also working on other growth-related topics such as Sales Ops and Data strategy.

  • McKinsey & Company (2 yrs 5 mos)
    • Associate
      Jun 2020 - May 2021 · 1 yr

      • Supported clients across various industries (e.g., Consumer goods, Medtech & Pharma, Financial Services, Public sector) and various geographies (Asia, Europe, Africa, Middle East) • Built an emerging expertise in sales excellence: incentives, commercial org & territories • Developed spikes in problem-solving and in ability to engage various stakeholders at the same time (e.g. 15+ clients in 7 countries) on both high-level topics and more operational ones

    • Junior Associate
      Jan 2019 - Jun 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos