Detailed background
• Founder of Raidlight
Expertise
- Engineer, product creation, producion and service innovation, co-conception with users
- Project management, entrepreneurship, business creation, corporate strategies in growing businesses
- Digital communication, participatory marketing,
- Territorial economic and touristic developments
Key figures
- Founder of Raidlight-Vertical:
- A turnover of 10M€, 55 employees (at the end of 2018)
- Founder of the INO-Fab at the end of 2018 :
- 12 job positions opened in the textile production in France (at the end of 2018)
- Founder of the Trail Stations network / Ski touring areas :
- 4 employees, 40 sites (at the end of 2018)
- Groupe Skis Rossignol Outdoor Vice-President
- A turnover of 400M€, 1.500 employees (at the end of 2018)
INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENEUR
August 2020 : Take-over of Raidlight as an independant company, Founder & Président
June 2020 : Acquisition of Nature Extreme Développement (Trailrunning event agency), Président
2019 : HEC Executive Education (finances, external growth, trading), INSEAD Certificate in Global Management (digital marketing, strategy ,management)
1999-Feb2019 : Founder & Director of Raidlight,
Leading brand in Trail running clothes and equipments
2018-Feb2019 : Groupe Skis Rossignol Outdoor Vice-President
1999-Feb2019 : Founder & President of the Trail Stations network
2017/… : Creator- Organizer of the « Chartreuse Terminorum », the hardest race throughout Europe, little sister of the Barkley Marathons.
2016-17-… :
Participation in the Barkley (USA, Tennessee), renowned as the hardest race in the world, 2 loops in 2017
2016 : Raidlight-Vertical joins Groupe Skis Rossignol
Integration in the executive board of Groupe Skis Rossignol
2015 : Creation-Direction of the Outdoor INO-FAB project,
Cutting-edge Made in France textile production workshop
2015 : 5th in the Ultra-Trail-Gobi-Race, a non-stop 400km race
in Gobi desert in China (107 hours of effort for uninterrupted 400km)
2014-17 : Elected city councillor of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse,
2014-15 : Integration in the Conseil Montagne 2020
(Rhône-Alpes Regional Council)
2013 : Creation of the Ski touring areas network ©
2011 : Creation of the Trail Stations network ©
2012-15 : Contributor to Trail-Endurance magazine
(N°1 Trail running magazine in France).
2011-… : President of Chartreuse Sport Nature association
(Organization of 2 to 3 Trail races each year)
2010 : French Trail running Team member (FFA)
2010 : Recovery of the company Vertical
2010 : Integration in OSEO-Excellence network
2009 : France Trail running Vice-Champion (FFA)
2008 : Industry Janus de l’Industrie
(Ministerial certificate / Institut Français du Design)
2004 : 9th in the Marathon des Sables
(240km semi-autonomy race in 6 days)
2003 : 2nd in the Grand Raid de la Réunion
« la Diagonale des Fous »
2002-08: Contributor to Jogging International magazine (n°1 Running magazine in France)
2001 : French Champion and 6th in the European Snowshoe Cup
2000 : Winner of the Orientation Raids World Trophy
1999-09 : President of SMAG association
(2 to 3 Trail races organized each year)
1999: Founder of RAIDLIGHT
(Innovative Outdoor sports goods brand)
1996-01 : Designer, MSTT Society
(design/production for major brands).
1996 : Reserve officer of the 7th Batallion of Alpine Chasseurs
7th BCA Blue star
Reserve Officer school of St-Cyr Coëtquidan,
Valedictorian 96/02
1990-95 : Textile engineer HEI-ESTIT (Villeneuve d’Ascq),
Valedictorian 1995
Student council President
Vice-President of the Federation of Lille Catholic University students & elected at the CROUS (Centre Régional
des Œuvres Universitaires)
