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At Akoya, we are committed to making the company more human, both in the engagements we carry out and in our daily office life. At Akoya, kindness is a must, curiosity is a prerequisite, and excellence is a given. Working with Akoya, an expert in its field since 2010, means collaborating with a team that is as available as it is proactive. Discover its members!

Adrien Matusalem

Senior Consultant

Alexandra Barillet

HR Business Partner

Alice Pretet

Manager

Alicja Białas

Senior Account Manager

Antoine Aubois

Co-Founder & Partner

Arthur Darondel

Consultant

Axel Fantino

Account Manager

Axelle Bonnard

Senior Consultant

Camille Raffin

Manager

Célia Doreau

Senior Manager

Chloé Geiger

Business Intelligence & Innovation Digitale Consultant

Christelle Villard

Manager

Clémence Besdel

Consultante

Constance Bavant

Consultante

Eugénie Duffour

Consultant

Flore Masurel

Senior Consultant

Jean-Charles Picco

Manager

Jean-Rémi Marques

Manager

Jocelyn Muret

Co-Founder & Partner

Louis Brondin-Laplace

Account Manager

Luc Le Petit

Consultant

Marie Fenni

Senior Consultant

Martin Boisset

Senior Consultant

Matthieu Woods

Consultant

Maxime Chevallet

Manager

Mila Tabacoff

Manager

Nicolas Goujon

Senior Consultant

Rachel Yates

Consultant

Rémi Pannekoecke

Consultant

Sven Ullern

Senior Account Manager

Swann Magrina

Financial Business Partner

Thérèse Schorter

Senior Consultant

Tom Spinetta

Manager

Victoire Calil

Consultante

Xavier Le Page

Partner

Adrien Matusalem

Senior Consultant

Adrien obtained an MSc in Global Management from NEOMA BS and specialized in Digital Disruption at Dublin City University. Before that, he worked for a startup in the coaching industry as Project Manager during which he became enthousiast for HR issues and solutions related to human. In particular, he led projects about recruiting and onboarding, as well as client’s attractivity and fidelity or even the traduction of the website. He joined Akoya in 2022 and has had the opportunity to implement Strategic Workforce Planning solutions within multinationals.

#SWP

Alexandra Barillet

HR Business Partner

Alexandra graduated from Skema Business School with a specialisation in Human Resources. Following several experiences  during her studies, notably in the luxury and cosmetics sector at Estée Lauder, Cartier and then L’Oréal, she then integrated Siemens Group where she worked on recruitment and employer branding topics for three and a half years. During her work at Siemens, she developed an employer brand proposal specific to the group’s various activities (industry, infrastructure, transport, etc.) to promote the brand externally and support recruitment and D&I issues. Alexandra joined Akoya in 2022 as HR Business Partner to support and accompany the teams on various HR issues (Talent Acquisition, Talent Management…).

#HRBP #employerbrand

Alice Pretet

Manager

Alice graduated from ESSEC Business School, where she specialized in Strategic Business Analytics during her last year, after a first specializaiton in Business Management in Asia on the Singapore campus. She starts her career as a Project Manager at Agorize, a startup leader in Open Innovation Challenges, and then works at the Sustainability, Insights & Innovation department of Shiseido. She later joins Akoya as a Consultant, and works on various topics: Talent management, development, and HR processes redesign (as the Talent Review for instance), for both large companies and scale-ups.

#talents #experience

Alicja Białas

Senior Account Manager

After graduating from ESCP Europe in Management and from Poznań University of Economics and Business, Alicja adds another string to her bow by taking an entrepreneurship course at Lion by The Family to better understand the startup ecosystem and their methods of innovation. She began her career as a Global Channel Manager and Business Developer at Pradeo, a cyber security startup, where she was responsible for deploying the client portfolio internationally. Alicja joined Akoya in 2019 and is now developing our activity in the Pharmaceutical, Food & Beverages, Energy and Utilities industries.

#bizdev #pharma #food #energy

Antoine Aubois

Co-Founder & Partner

After completing an Engineering degree at CentraleSupélec, Antoine specialized in Strategy and Management at HEC Paris. He began his career as an Analyst at Accenture and Business Developer at Total, before co-founding Akoya in 2010. Since then, he has focused on issues of strategic transformations of people in companies, including Strategic Workforce Planning, Organizational Design and HR function structuring. At Akoya, Antoine is the privileged point of contact for our clients in the pharmaceutical and food industry sectors.

#pharma #food #swp #organization

Arthur Darondel

Consultant

Graduated of ICAM, Arthur worked for 2 years and a half at Wavestone – a digital transformation consulting company – before joining AKOYA in September 2023. During this period, he worked on IS overhauls, mobile fleet renewal and workplace transformation. Keenly aware of the human problematics in business, he joined the firm as a consultant and now works on talent management and internal reorganization issues.

#transformation

Axel Fantino

Account Manager

Driven by human and business relations, Axel has gradually developed expertise in managing key accounts, establishing quality business relationships, loyalty, as well as customer satisfaction.

As a reference point for CAC 40 large group clients, its objective has always been to provide consistent and strategic support to key HR decision makers.

From recruitment to international mobility, Axel joined the Akoya adventure in 2024, determined to position himself at the heart of HR strategy and meet today’s challenges.

Axelle Bonnard

Senior Consultant

Graduate from Lyon Ecole des Beaux Arts, Axelle created her own cabinet making business while earning a doctorate in art and social sciences. After five years of activity, she decided to move into consulting dedicated to the human dimension, in a leadership training association, where she developed skills around human issues at the heart of companies. She then joined Akoya in 2022 as a Consultant.

#swp

Camille Raffin

Manager

A graduate engineer from Ecole Centrale de Paris, with a specialization in industrial engineering, and a master’s degree in artificial intelligence, Camille started as an analyst for Arkema and then Louis Vuitton, before becoming Data Scientist for Aéroports de Paris. She joined Akoya in March 2020 as a Consultant, fulfilling her desire to put her analytical skills to work for a better understanding of human issues in business. After a project of sizing HR teams in the retail sector, she is currently involved in the digital redesign of an onboarding seminar for a French industry player.

#ai #digital

Célia Doreau

Senior Manager

Graduated with a Master’s degree in Law and from Sciences Po Paris, Célia has over 25 years of experience in supporting companies. She has worked with CAC40 and SBF120 companies on over 30 projects, including the creation of Veolia Environnement’s Group Health & Safety Prevention Department and the roll-out of Rémy Cointreau’s Sales Academy. She created and deployed EFESO’s transformation offering (500 consultants, 75 countries).

She also accompanied over 100 decision-makers in consulting and co-development projects as part of 7 Key People Leadership Circles, 4 of which she created herself.

She acted as CEO of Golem.ai, a SaaS artificial intelligence start-up, by creating its market, increasing sales from 0 to 3 million in 4 years and recruiting over 40 people. She set up marketing, sales, delivery and customer relations, helped define the product roadmap, chose the CRM and took part in the board, codir, comop and public relations.

#AI #change #transformation

Chloé Geiger

Business Intelligence & Innovation Digitale Consultant

Chloé holds both a Master’s degree in finance from EDHEC and an engineering degree from ESTP. As part of her studies, she did a two-year work-study program in equity management at Caisse des Dépôts. Interested in data issues, she then trained for a job at the crossroads between technical subjects and understanding business needs. Particularly attracted by subjects centered on human issues in business, she joined Akoya in 2024 as a Business Intelligence & Innovation Digitale Consultant.

Christelle Villard

Manager

Graduated from HEC Paris and Political Science at Berlin’s Freie Universität, Christelle joined Akoya Consulting in 2016. As Manager today in the Consulting strategic team, she supports HR functions in their human challenges of tomorrow, across several sectors and expertise. She is the spokesperson for Akoya Tech You Up, our annual event gathering more than sixty of our customers and prospects to share experiences as key players in the deployment of innovative HR solutions. In her role of mom and manager with high standards of excellence, the parenting policy set up in Akoya with 80% workload enables her to combine her personal life and her engagement within the team.

#HRTech #Digital HR strategy #Skills #SWP

Clémence Besdel

Consultante

Clémence holds a dual degree from the Grande Ecole program and the MSc in Strategy, Organization & Consulting from EDHEC Business School. Following internships in CSR consulting at Positive Company and as an ESG analyst at CACIB, Clémence has developed a growing interest in issues related to the human dimension in the professional context. She joined Akoya in 2024 as a Consultant.

Constance Bavant

Consultante

Constance holds a Master’s degree in Management from SKEMA, specialising in HR. During her studies, she had the opportunity to have several experiences abroad, in Germany and South Africa, but also to do internships in human resources within inernational agri-food companies. Wishing to deepen her HR knowledge with a strategic dimension, she joined Akoya as a Consultant in 2024.

Eugénie Duffour

Consultant

Holding a Master in Management from ESSEC Business School, Eugénie joined Akoya in 2022 as part of her apprenticeship. Interested in human resources issues within major groups, she asserted her international expertise by following the Global Manager in Africa and Global Manager in Asia courses at ESSEC’s Rabat and Singapore campuses respectively. As a consutlant since 2024, she works in particular on the evolution of jobs and the construction of skills frameworks.

Flore Masurel

Senior Consultant

Flore graduated from EDHEC Business School where she obtained a Master’s degree in Business Management and a MSc in Global & Sustainable Business. After an internship in project management at makesense and an internship in management and human resources consulting at idoko, Flore developed an interest in people-related issues in business. She joined Akoya in 2022 as a Consultant, where she works on Strategic Workforce Planning and defining skills frameworks for large companies.

#SWP #skills

Jean-Charles Picco

Manager

After graduating from EDHEC with a specialization in Consulting, Jean-Charles lived in Argentina where he advised and accompanied a travel agency director. He then worked for several years as an internal consultant for large companies in the Energy & Utilities sector, as well as for a large firm working with public clients. Jean-Charles has conducted organizational diagnostics for several administrations, combining an in-depth data analysis with a qualitative approach based on interviews. He joins Akoya in 2022 as a Consulting Manager.

#data

Jean-Rémi Marques

Manager

After a scientific preparatory class, Jean-Rémi obtained a double degree from EDHEC in Business Management and Corporate Finance. He first worked in finance in audit and financial rating before continuing for 5 years in strategy and transformation consulting in banking, insurance and social protection sectors. He joined Akoya in 2022 as a Consulting Manager.

#bank #insurance

Jocelyn Muret

Co-Founder & Partner

After CentraleSupélec, Jocelyn continued his studies at the Institut Français du Pétrole where he completed a double degree in engineering. He started his career in the industry, at Technip, as Cost Controller on several large international projects. After a short expatriation in Qatar, he returned to France to co-found Akoya. His career path positions him as the reference contact for clients in the Energy and Utilities sectors. Over the years, he has developed an expertise on issues related to talent management, both from an organizational and individual point of view.

#talentmanagement #criticalroles #talents #energy #utilities

Louis Brondin-Laplace

Account Manager

Graduated from the BBA program at EDHEC and holding a Master of Science in Management and Leadership from the same institution, Louis joined Akoya as an intern in 2023. Prior to joining Akoya, Louis completed internships as a sales representative and a FP&A controller before developing a keen interest in human issues during his final year of studies. Within the firm, Louis worked on assignments involving the creation of training paths, workforce and skills forecasting and the harmonization of skills repositories, before moving on to the role of Account Manager for the energy and retail sectors.

Luc Le Petit

Consultant

Luc graduated from CPE Lyon as a chemical engineer before completing his education in the Grande Ecole program at emlyon business school where he specialized in innovation and strategy. After an experience as a researcher at Henkel, Luc turned to strategy consulting. He started his career in a young strategy consulting firm specialized in data where he worked on making large companies in the industrial sector, media or international organizations, data-driven. He joined Akoya in 2021 and is currently focusing on the redesign of the Learning strategy of a large group in the luxury sector.

#Data #AI #Analytics #Luxury #Organisations

 

Marie Fenni

Senior Consultant

Marie graduated from Neoma, where she pursued a master’s degree in human resources, right after having an experience as a management controller in the public sector that allowed her to develop her analytical skills. Attracted by human-related issues, she then joined the Human Resources Department of a large French insurance group to work on recruitment issues. As she wished to combine her attraction for HR and business strategy, she joined Akoya in 2022 as a consultant where she works on a Strategic Workforce Planning project for a Retail group.

#swp #retail #talentacquisition

Martin Boisset

Senior Consultant

Graduating from ESCP Europe after a 4-year track through Paris, Berlin and Cape Town, Martin specialized in Corporate Finance. He studied Public Administration at Assas University and gained experience in the public sector while working at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His willingness to evolve in a challenging and fast paced environment led him to join Strategy and Management Consulting. Before joining Akoya Consulting, he worked at Mayer Prezioso, where he advised financial services companies.

#SWP #Skills

Matthieu Woods

Consultant

Matthieu graduated from a double Master’s degree in Management (IÉSEG) and Finance (Queensland University of Technology). During his past experience within various industries (banking, food, consumer goods), he worked in the areas of data, operations, and marketing. Now willing to focus on people, Matthieu joined Akoya in 2023 as a consultant.

#peoplestrategy

Maxime Chevallet

Manager

After graduating from EDHEC, Maxime then completed his Master of Global Business at the University of Victoria, where he had the opportunity to study in Canada, Taiwan and Austria. After several professional experiences abroad, including Business France in Chicago and Octagon in London, he joined Akoya in 2017. He is the author of the white paper on personalizing of the employee experience published in January 2020 as part of our Akoya Disrupt R&D unit.

#experience #customization

Mila Tabacoff

Manager

Mila holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunications Engineering and a Master’s Degree in ICT for Smart Societies from the Polytechnic University of Turin.

In 2018, after her graduation, Mila entered the world of consulting working for leading consulting firms, supporting national and international companies in Organization Design and Business Transformation journeys, and specializing on the Food & Beverage and FMCG sectors.

In October 2023, Mila joined Akoya Consulting as a Manager.

#transformation #organizationaldesign

Nicolas Goujon

Senior Consultant

Nicolas graduated from EDHEC with a MSc in Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence. With a strong interest in analytical subjects, he completed his first internship in project management and data analysis at a startup in the retail sector. During a second internship at a recruitment firm, he developed a passion for human-related topics within organizations. In 2023, he joined Akoya as a consultant, where he primarily works on a Strategic Workforce Planning for a pharmaceutical company.

#SWP

Rachel Yates

Consultant

Rachel holds a master’s degree in Human Rights from Sciences Po Paris, with concentrations in project management and sustainability. During her studies, she completed internships at the Maryland State Archives (USA) and at BNP Paribas in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) team. Originally from the USA, Rachel has a passion for social issues in an international context. Having joined Akoya in January 2024, she works, among other topics, on employee experience and organization issues with multinational companies.

Rémi Pannekoecke

Consultant

A graduate of the Master’s in International Strategy and Influence from SKEMA, Rémi initially worked as an entrepreneur in the poker industry, as a player but also as a coach and content creator. Interested in human issues in business, he joined Akoya in 2023 as a consultant.

Sven Ullern

Senior Account Manager

After 5 years of studies in Rotterdam, Sven graduated with a Master’s degree in Business Information Management at RSM. He then joined Adyen in Amsterdam, a Dutch unicorn making a sensational IPO in the Finance Technology industry. After two years as a Technical Account Specialist, Sven joined Akoya as a Business Developer focusing on the Automotive, Defense and Aerospace, Luxury and Construction Industry sectors.

#bizdev #luxury #defense #aerospace #automotive #construction

Swann Magrina

Financial Business Partner

Swann is a certified accountant, trained at IAE before working for six years in accounting and financial audit firms, where he developed his skills in finance, management and administration. He joins Akoya to support the firm on its strategic and financial issues.

#finance #performance

Thérèse Schorter

Senior Consultant

Thérèse is a graduate of Ecole Centrale Paris, with a specialization in physics and international project management. During her studies, she became involved in several associations, including OSER, which offers tutoring to underprivileged high school students. After her studies, she went to Cambodia to coordinate the projects of a rural development NGO for one year. At Akoya since April 2019, she has been working on a business and skills repository for a scale-up, and on a Strategic Workforce Planning for the R&D site of an automotive supplier.

#swp #skills #automotive #scaleup

Tom Spinetta

Manager

Tom graduated from Ecole Centrale Paris. He started his professional career as a Business Engineer in a technology consulting firm where he offered digital solutions to his clients . He then became a Financial Auditor at KPMG, during which time he worked on the audit of several CAC40 companies, particularly in the aeronautics sector. He joined Akoya in April 2019 and focused, among other things, on a project to reorganize the support model of an IT solution at a French luxury goods company.

#aerospace #luxury #organizations #digital

Victoire Calil

Consultante

Victoire holds a Master’s degree in Management from IÉSEG, with a specialization in Finance. She has worked for 3 years in change management and learning at Accenture, facilitating digital transformation projects in the pharmaceutical, hospitality and luxury sectors. She joined Akoya in 2024 as a Consultant.

Xavier Le Page

Partner

Xavier graduated from ESCP Europe (Diplôme Grande Ecole, Master of Science, Diplom Kaufmann) following a 4-year European program in Paris, London and Berlin, with a specialization in international strategy. He began his career in mergers and acquisitions, then in strategy and management consulting at Apifrance, a firm specializing in Sales and Marketing Strategy for major international groups. He joined Akoya in 2015 to strengthen the team and accompany his clients in their strategic projects of businesses and organizations’ transformation.

#skills #automotive #aerospace #defense

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