For Delphine Francois, a career path is something you carve out for yourself, with no fear of the par-for-the-course twists and turns, nor forgetting that the finish lines are merely stages along the way. This is how a young Parisian came to wind up in Cleveland, Ohio, after studying in Nantes, and travel the world, living in some sixteen cities in five different countries.

How did the daughter of a construction contractor with no connections, who grew up in a rural area of south-western France surrounded by cows, ever become the first female CEO of one of the most prestigious jewellery brands in the world?

Marie Françoise Marie-Nelly’s life is showered with a series of events that, in hindsight, could be good premonitions.

In 2022, Didier Gaffinel celebrates 30 years of service at Crédit Agricole. After 16 years of investment banking and its notoriously strenuous regime, he later transitioned to managerial positions, inheriting the huge responsibilities that come with heading up divisions of over 800 employees.