THE POST-COVID ERA :
TOWARDS A BUSINESS RESET

He joined Nickel from BNP Paribas, where he held various roles in the marketing and audit teams, before being promoted to lead subsidiaries within the BNP Paribas group. He describes Nickel as being the apotheosis of his career, a unique opportunity to combine growth with values.

After completing her education at the ESCP Europe business school, she began her career in consulting, before moving into a leadership position as a Deputy Director General of a NGO in the microfinance sector. She joined Nickel, as an opportunity she took in order to be able to combine working in a high growth company and doing work with meaning.

A physicist by training, Marc Mézard prepared his thesis on condensed matter physics. He became a research director with the French research body CNRS before becoming the director of a research laboratory in the Saclay University. In 2012, he was appointed head of ENS by the President of France.

In the course of his more than thirty years in business, he has worked for global multinational corporations, but also for small and medium enterprises. When Martin joined the London office, it was a loss making entity with a small staff. It now boasts a team of seventy five, and is the largest business in the Group outside France.

François de Montaudouin began his career in banking before moving into private equity. He then moved out of finance into operational roles. He led a major French distribution group and ran two Middle Eastern family-owned corporate groups. He is perhaps best known as the man behind the project to build a ski resort in Dubai.