Presentation
The Club brings together alumni who have set up or taken over a business, or who have the same objective.
It helps develop networking by organizing face-to-face or distance meetings.
Main objectives :
- Exchange feedback on different topics (social, HR, RGPD, team motivation...)
- Recommend people to each other (lawyers, chartered accountants, headhunters, etc.) and recruit the right profiles.
- Use your networks to make contacts
- Continue to acquire skills - training
Guides
Members of our steering committee :
Julien Ciacci (HEI 2007), Founder and CEO - Noria&Partners
Pierre Lefebvre, HEI 2008, Founder and CEO BETTERCALLDAVE
Jean-Gaël Chaize (HEI 2015), Senior Associate - Deloitte France
Benjamin Givelet (HEI 2004) Ent'Repreneur de PME SearchFund,
Anne-Sophie Rosseel (HEI 1993), Consultant - BGE Hauts de France
Benjamin Delecroix (ISA 2007), Business Manager for innovative projects - Euralimentaire
Laurence Benoist (HEI 1990), President of LES CONSEILS DE LAURENCE - Helping you to dare to be benevolent and creative for greater efficiency
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Angélique Anne, General Delegate HEI Alumni and Agathe Dessery, Manager, HEI Alumni
Pierre Lefebvre, HEI 2008, founder and director - BETTERCALLDAVE
After a career in digital communications agencies, ESNs and pure players, in 2018 he created an IT services company: BetterCallDave.
BetterCallDave is all about positive digital innovation, giving your ideas even more meaning, impact and efficiency.
We support our customers with two offerings: Dev4Better & Dev4Music.
With the first, BCD works with them on virtual reality, artificial intelligence and application development projects that make sense for people!
With the second, they deploy their expertise in the online music sector to develop services ranging from music catalog broadcasting to skills for connected speakers.
He is also CTO of Invest History, a company that helps entrepreneurs architect their founding story and enables them to live-pitcher it on its platform.
He also teaches mobile programming at HEI 4.
His areas of expertise for the club: Entrepreneurship; Digitalization and digital innovation; Music Tech
Julien Ciacci (HEI 2007), Founder and CEO - Noria&Partners
With 11 years' experience at Bouygues Construction, including 9 years spent on private renovation sites, he joined the strategy department to implement circular economy actions and create a subsidiary dedicated to the reuse of materials as an intrapreneur.to implement circular economy initiatives and create a subsidiary dedicated to the reuse of materials as an intrapreneur.
In 2018, he joined Data Soluce to develop the company and take it through to fundraising. This startup structures and centralizes building data for simplified asset management.
In 2020, he founded Noria Partners, an independent engineering company offering consulting and project management services for construction projects, bringing together experts in construction, digital and the circular economy.
His areas of expertise for the club: business start-ups, intrapreneurship, entrepreneurship, fund-raising, etc.
Jean-Gaël Chaize (HEI 2015), Senior Associate- Deloitte France
Benjamin Givelet (HEI 2004) Ent'Repreneur de PME SearchFund,
After 15 years in France in the aerospace industry (Safran) and in the Netherlands in Chemicals (DSM) and Semiconductors (ASML), Benjamin set out to become a small business owner. His MBA at IESE Business School (Barcelona) convinced him to follow a pre-financed takeover method taught in MBA programs in the USA (Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, etc.): the Search Fund.
In 2019, still an employee of a multinational in the Netherlands, he is raising funds from around 15 investors, most of them former company directors, who are providing him with experience and capital to look for and take over an SME in France.
Since the beginning of 2020, he has been contacting SME managers by direct approach, to meet them and discuss a takeover project with them. To date, he has met around a hundred of them.
His area of expertise for the club: business takeovers
Anne-Sophie Rosseel (HEI 1993), Consultant - BGE Hauts de France
25 years' experience in coaching entrepreneurs: advice - expertise - business plan development,
Assessing the feasibility of business projects, managing innovative projects and connecting entrepreneurs with the right players (incubators, financial backers, etc.),
Support for start-ups: marketing advice - financial and legal engineering - fund-raising,
Running training courses and workshops on a range of topics: Sales - Management - Legal - Innovation,
Preparation of project proposals and calls for tender,
She is in charge of the Lille incubatest, the BGE Hauts de France incubator.
A success gas pedal for entrepreneurs, this scheme enables you to test your project by invoicing before registering your own business. Thanks to a SIRET number, you can sell, invoice and develop your sales, while benefiting from coaching to develop your network and skills.
https://www.bge-hautsdefrance.fr/incubatest/
She is also a member of the JUNIA ALUMNI Board of Directors.
His areas of expertise for the club: business model, business plan, project presentation, company legal form
Benjamin Delecroix (ISA 2007),Business Development Manager for innovative projects - Euralimentaire
After several years in the fast food industry for a subsidiary close to the DECATHLON group, and experience in supermarkets, Benjamin coaches Foodtech project leaders for the Euralimentaire metropolitan incubator.
The incubator, located at Lille's Marché d'Intérêt National, helps entrepreneurs with innovative food-related projects looking for premises, strategic advice, financing and a stimulating environment.
Since its creation in May 2017, the incubator has supported 56 projects, created over 150 jobs and contributed to €7M in fundraising.
Her areas of expertise for the club: launching innovative projects (FoodTech); financing innovation; foodtech
Laurence BENOIST (HEI 1990), President of LES CONSEILS DE LAURENCE : Helping you to dare to be benevolent and creative for greater efficiency
Laurence Benoist, graduated from HEI in 1990, after 15 exhilarating years in construction and maintenance, managing all types of teams in the field.After 15 exhilarating years in construction and maintenance, managing all types of teams in the field, she turned to human resources to deepen her understanding of relationships within the company, becoming HR Director of a unit of a major French energy group, before setting up her own consulting company in early 2017.
With this company, she assists executives and managers in a variety of organizational (functional and operational) and management issues, and also works on behalf of corporate training organizations.
Passionate about sports, she also had the opportunity to try out other types of management, first as president of an R1 soccer club, then as head of delegation for the French women's national team.
She is also committed to gender equality in all areas, and promotes it within the structures in which she is involved, such as the FFF's Commission de féminization Commission or a joint civilian-military group on the feminization of the French Navy, and through the deployment of a specific approach within her structure called Ensembly.
His areas of expertise for the club: Project management or how to prioritize everything that needs to be done, Recruitment or knowing how to find the right resources, Skills management, Importance of networksand everything to do with stereotypes and the importance of gender diversity in society (women/men, ages, origins).
Angélique Anne, General Delegate HEI Alumni and Agathe Dessery, Manager, HEI Alumni
Partners
INVESThistory
Events and a digital platform, to which you will have access under privileged conditions, the aim of which is to enable you to :
- submit your applications for free support in raising funds
- Listen to selected entrepreneurs, at a preferential rate, during the 5 annual events, ask them questions and possibly lead to an investment.
Projects selected during the events will benefit from free "Founding Story" training/coaching.
Twice a year, INVESThistory offers you the opportunity to learn more about this approach:
- A webinar on 'Récit fondateur, storytelling, personnal branding, or l'art de raconter une histoire pour entrer dans l'Histoire', followed by a workshop the following week.
- A one-day workshop, one week later, to work on your Founding Story (history, structuring, project) - Places limited to 12 entrepreneurs/future entrepreneurs - Preferential price of 100 euros, training provided by Emmanuel de Lattre, President of INVESThistory.
Grandes Ecoles Entrepreneurs - G2E
Association G2E, Grandes Ecoles Entrepreneurs, a federation of clubs created by graduates of Grandes Ecoles, bringing together business creators, developers, buyers and sellers.
This partnership enables us to :
- Receive, share and participate in events organized by members of Grandes Ecoles Entrepreneurs, with invitations on the "HEI ALUMNI" website.HEI ALUMNI" in the "Entrepreneurs Club" and on the private Linkedin group "HEI ALUMNI Entrepreneurs";
- Access as a G2E member to the "HEC Book des Repreneurs".
Objective: add value to buyers and increase the value of the portfolio. Subject to the following conditions:
- compliance with the required format for the framework form
- strict compliance with the buyer's declaration to "be an active buyer". The essential criterion is "to be working full-time on a business takeover project" and "if possible, to have completed a business takeover training course". This excludes current employees.
- For these future buyers, HEC Repreneurs proposes publication twice a year in the "book", which includes their framework sheets, briefly describing their profile. This book is sent to many M&A intermediaries in the takeover world (1000 names!).
Contact: angelique.anne@junia.com - CLENAM welcomes expressions of interest in a company from a prospective buyer who is a member of a Club Entreprendre of a Grande Ecole and an active member of G2E.
Contact:angelique.anne@junia.com
Partnership with R3e-invest
(Regional investment company - HdF) www.linkedin.com/company/r3e-invest
- Organization of an annual event at HEI with 3/4 pitches (student projects and companies),
- Those interested can submit a project, receive support, have access to investors' networks and be invited to R3E's monthly afterworks.
