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A record proves what you did.
More than 45 missions since the first dock in 2005. Each entry identifies the operational problem, my mandate, the intervention, and the result. About forty countries across four continents, documented through work rather than travel.
Apple · Normandy
Operational · 2026 · Cleanroom
- Problem
- Support a foreign technology company operating in Normandy without the local specialist network required for a cleanroom project.
- Mandate and intervention
- Sourced the required specialists, coordinated the operation, then returned for hands-on inventory and labeling work.
- Result
- The mandate moved from business matchmaking to coordination and field execution.
Absolut System · cryogenics, quantum, space
Operational · 2024-2025 · Two phases
- Problem
- Post-restructuring SME: key people gone, strategic clients (CEA, CNRS, INFN) at risk, single US supplier for a critical technology.
- Mandate and intervention
- Three senior roles held simultaneously: project procurement, business development, supply chain. ITAR/BIS-711 compliance. Recalled by the client for a phase 2.
- Result
- Client continuity secured, €200-500K monthly projects negotiated, 100+ pages of operational documentation.
Pernod Ricard HQ · crisis management
Operational · 2025 · CAC 40
- Problem
- The group's first last-mile transport RFP across 28 European countries, failing after a tier-1 consulting firm's involvement. Nobody at the board could lose face.
- Mandate and intervention
- Five-layer failure diagnosis, data foundations rebuilt before any decision, 200+ stakeholders aligned, direct board reporting.
- Result
- Crisis stopped, foundations rebuilt, project back on track.
LOGATOM · radioactive transport
Strategic · 2021-2024 · Co-founder
- Problem
- Consolidate a fragmented radioactive transport market through a build-up strategy.
- Mandate and intervention
- Co-founder and special advisor: five companies integrated (€1-7M revenue), industrial nuclear prospecting, board member.
- Result
- Group built. Clean negotiated exit after the shareholder family succession.
Airspace Technologies · US startup
Operational · 2021-2023 · $138M raised
- Problem
- Structure the Europe/APAC transport procurement of a time-critical logistics startup, hired on investor recommendation.
- Mandate and intervention
- Network of 500+ partners audited and extended, proprietary AI updated to international transport standards, teams trained. AOG case study: rebuilt a transport supplier's Australia and New Zealand network for a European aerospace manufacturer's time-critical flows.
- Result
- European network hardened, antipodes AOG corridor restored, APAC expansion mapped.
time:matters · Lufthansa Cargo
Strategic · 2016-2018 · Executive board
- Problem
- Disintermediate a client base that was 86% freight forwarders and reclaim EMEA market share against DHL and TNT.
- Mandate and intervention
- Direct industrial sales offensive, executive board member for operational quality, EMEA budgeting.
- Result
- +€23M revenue in three years, direct industrial clients from 14% to 40%.
HamiltonJet · New Zealand
Tactical · 2015 · Christchurch
- Problem
- Run the spare-parts logistics for engines and vessels shipped worldwide, NFO urgencies included.
- Mandate and intervention
- Inventory and stock management, packing and shipping, quality system contributor (KANBAN, 5S).
- Result
- The New Zealand quality standard added to the toolbox.
GEODIS · New York
Operational · 2013 · Nuclear Americas
- Problem
- Prove to the Paris headquarters that the US nuclear market existed. Zero references, zero network to start.
- Mandate and intervention
- Won AREVA, Westinghouse, and Toshiba. Recruited and trained a six-person team from a New Jersey operating base for a US-wide market mission.
- Result
- Revenue from $10K to $4.5M a year in ten months. Subsidiary legitimized, transatlantic corridors opened.
The foundations · nuclear fieldwork
Tactical · 2008-2020 · Areva NP, STSI, NCT, Framatome
- Problem
- Twenty years in environments where the slightest mistake is expensive: the bedrock.
- Mandate and intervention
- Areva NP (2008-2010): €3.5M yearly nuclear transport procurement, dual-use export control. STSI (2011-2012), then a GEODIS subsidiary and today part of Orano: licensed radioactive warehouse, CEA dismantling contracts, 15 security-cleared ADR Class 7 drivers, then European reactor maintenance flows out of Belgium. NCT: first LOGISTIZE mission (2019), dangerous goods, defense authorities, logistics supervision of a radioactive source dismantling project for the IAEA (Antonov-12 charter). Framatome Romans-sur-Isère (2020), EDF group: fifteen days covering at short notice for a key resource on shipment planning, in the middle of an activist mobilization outside the site.
- Result
- Non-negotiable regulatory discipline, learned where it forgives nothing. At Romans the shipments went out: fifteen days, no gap in the plan. The same house twelve years apart, under two different owners.
Schneider Electric · Naval Group and solar
Tactical · 2011 · Grenoble
- Problem
- Hold the project supply chain of the Project Engineering Center at short notice: spare parts for DCNS (Naval Group) vessels, a solar plant in Saudi Arabia.
- Mandate and intervention
- Project procurement and supply chain, export control, inventory management.
- Result
- Flows held, the replacement covered without a break.
The field surveys · six countries
Operational · 2010-2011 · Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Israel-Palestine, Romania, Hungary
- Problem
- Source reliable road carriers in remote areas and help French companies expand in Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
- Mandate and intervention
- Field investigation, local sourcing, deal-making, alone, backpack on.
- Result
- The "where nobody goes" method was born exactly there.
CNRS · Transport Economics Laboratory
Strategic · 2006-2008 · Lyon
- Problem
- Understand the urban last mile through applied research.
- Mandate and intervention
- Shipper interviews, last-mile flow mapping in Lyon, public transport policy audits.
- Result
- Applied-research rigor: the bedrock of my industry studies today.
The workbench years
Tactical · 2005-2006 · STMicroelectronics, Australia, STEF
- Problem
- Learn the trade from the bottom, no shortcuts.
- Mandate and intervention
- Inventory management and SAP improvement at STMicroelectronics, a working-holiday year in Australia, cross-docking at STEF.
- Result
- Fluent English, the forklift license, and definitive respect for dock work.
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