Functional Skills

Project Management
Business Unit Strategy
Change Management / Org Design
Product Strategy
Go-to-market Strategy
Technology Strategy
Benchmarking
Commercial Strategy
Growth Strategy

Software Skills

Blockchain

Sector Experience

Technology
Transportation & Logistics
Travel & Hospitality

Languages

English
French

Experience

Threedot Management Consulting
Managing Director
2/2021 - Present
Founder and MD of a consulting firm dedicated to the travel industry
INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION (IATA) Corporate Strategy & Development
Director Industry Strategy
5/2020 - 1/2021
At the beginning of 2020 the world faced a virus outbreak that created a global sanitary and economic crisis, with an unprecedented impact on the travel & tourism industry. Since May 2020 I work full time on a restart plan for the air travel industry, working closely with all stakeholders in the value chain to rebuild together. The industry strategy focuses on the drivers to restore confidence in and demand for air travel, to maintain air connectivity across markets, and to enable new offers for travel during and after the crisis (the "new normal").
INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION (IATA) Product Management / Strategy
Director, Transformation - Financial, Distribution and Data Services
7/2013 - 4/2020
Transforming the air travel industry towards air retailing, Articulating the "Shop-order-pay-enjoy" vision for passengers, Enabling airlines to work more efficiently with other airlines, with retailers (travel agents), with suppliers (airports, ground handlers, caterers, fuel providers, etc.) and with IT providers, by:
• communicating a vision (Simplifying the Business white paper, World Passenger Symposium, World Financial Symposium)
• developing industry standards for tariffs, distribution, reservation and ticketing, messaging, revenue accounting and invoicing
• providing tools supporting standard development, e.g. the aviation industry data model
• transforming distribution (NDC - New Distribution Capability program)
• transforming fulfillment (ONE Order program)
• transforming payment (New Gen Industry Settlement Systems program, Transparency in Payment program)
• driving change in e-invoicing and card fraud prevention
• building an innovation pipeline in distribution and p
New Distribution Capability (NDC) Innovation Fund, LLC Finance
Board Member
10/2014 - 2/2016
The NDC Innovation Fund is an independent private investor in NDC enabled travel startups and travel companies.
INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION (IATA) Product Management / Strategy
Director, Passenger
4/2011 - 6/2013
Between 2010 and 2013 the Passenger department included the following pillars:
- Simplifying the Business (StB) program and StB think tank
- World Passenger Symposium (first edition in October 2011)
- Passenger Services Conference and related committees and working groups
- Passenger Products, including Coding, Publications, Tax products, Interlines tariffs
- New Distribution Capability (NDC) program
- IATA e-services project (100% EMD in IATA BSP)
- Passenger Experience, including Fast Travel, Passenger Facilitation and Checkpoint of the Future
- Baggage Services, including the Baggage Improvement Program
- Worldwide Airport Slots, including two annual Slots Conferences
INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION (IATA) Product Management / Strategy
Head, Passenger Department
7/2010 - 4/2011
I ran the 50-staff department in charge of airline standards
INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION (IATA) Product Management / Strategy
Project Manager, e-travel
2/2010 - 7/2010
I ran the project called e-travel
INTERNATIONAL AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION (IATA) Product Management / Strategy
Project Manager, Bar Coded Boarding Pass
7/2005 - 1/2010
I ran the BCBP project, which introduced the concept of using a 2D barcode for boarding passes and implemented until 95% of boarding passes were compliant. Today most travellers get a 2D barcode on their phone as a boarding pass.
Wiziway Sales
Sales Director
9/2001 - 6/2005
I was the sales director of the company that patented the use of 2D barcodes to encode a web address.
Himalaya Management Consulting
VP Consulting
10/1999 - 7/2001
I was the head of consulting services for the first web agency in France, listed on the stock market in March 2000