Industry expertise:
Agri-Food & Retail
Investor Services
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Capability expertise:
Growth strategy, asset portfolio strategy
Partnerships and “business transformation”
Synergies and integration
Strategic due diligence (buy-side, sell-side)
Economic models & Business planning
Education:
ESCP Europe
Personal Signature
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A Senior Partner within the Kéa group, Nicolas has focused his entire career on business development issues, and particularly on building competitive advantages and uniqueness. Nicolas values structuring the questioning process in order to simplify it, with the aim of accelerating decision-making. He is convinced that through a constant dialogue between thought & action, strategy & transformation, intelligence & intuition and the “soft” & the “hard”, we can build desirable futures.
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Professional Signature
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During more than 20 years of career, Nicolas has developed a wide range of expertise, from strategy to the governance of complex projects, from upstream studies to business construction. He works on all issues surrounding the food value chain: sovereignty, resilience, industrial efficiency, upstream security, decarbonization, profitable growth models, innovation and M&A. It supports the entire chain, from the seed (e.g.: Syngenta) to the plate (e.g.: Sodexo), including animal/vegetable proteins and matters of material balance (Terrena, Euralis, agricultural practices (e.g.: player in luxury leather), biotechnological developments (e.g. biostimulation), the transformation of retail (Leclerc), etc.
