Henri dAnterroches

President & Co-Founder Climbing District Group | Urban Climbing & Lifestyle Ecosystem (11+ venues) | Scaling Communities & Premium Hybrid Spaces (Sport × Coworking × Social Club)

Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

About

Experienced founder, creative director and business designer with 30 years across digital, brand strategy, marketing and content production. Designer, shaped by agency culture and design craftsmanship, and forged through fast-moving entrepreneurship: launching ventures, building teams, and turning concepts into operating businesses. My edge: a rare blend of creative vision and execution discipline, able to invent worlds, and scale them.

Experience

  • Founder & President at Climbing District
    Jul 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 1 mo

    Climbing District is a lifestyle ecosystem: urban climbing gyms, training studios, yoga & Pilates, coworking, coffee shops and Social Clubs. A network built around community as much as performance. We build spaces where people move, work, breathe, connect and belong. Traction: • 11+ venues across Europe (Paris, London, Milan)
 • Flagship event: Team Boulder Arena, Europe’s leading pro-am climbing festival (multi-city qualifiers, finals in Paris, TV & platforms Live broadcast, DJ sets, watch parties)
 • Partnerships with leading brands (Arc’teryx, Scarpa) and creative communities.
 What I believe: Successful brands don’t sell performance: they create ritual, meaning and identity.
 Our mission: scaling a premium, profitable, cultural and community-centred network across Europe. Content is the force multiplier: the story that turns users into members, and members into a movement.
 What I’m building today: • International expansion & acquisitions
• A scalable premium model with strong local unit economics
• Interconnected member communities between cities • A seamless urban experience from gyms, climbing walls to Social Club • Gamified member journey: turning movement into measurable progress, ritual and community reward Open to conversations: • Brand development, • Strategy and value-creation consulting, • Brand partnerships, • Community & Content, • Long-term investors, • Property groups, • Cultural projects.