Archives des Reaching the top - Audencia's iconic alumni

by Katie Francois 2 September 2026

Valérie Le Chevillier – Le Goff
A communicator for the eye of a crisis

A SciencesCom graduate back in 1996, Valérie went on to spend 25 years working for communications firms (Ketchum, Edelman, and Publicis), deemed a veritable training ground in exigency according to her testimony. Since 2021, she has been head of communications at Lactalis, the dairy industry’s global leader and the leading player in the French agribusiness industry. A meeting with this behind-the-scenes expert who is now at the communications helm of ...

by Katie Francois 6 February 2025

Pascale Quester
A remarkable rise to the top of the university ranks

When we enter Pascale Quester’s living room through the lens of her laptop camera, we find her surrounded by boxes. She has just moved from Adelaide in Australia to start a new role as vice-chancellor of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.

by Florence Alix-Gravellier 10 September 2024

Audencia MS MROS , Inspiring life journey , Reaching the top

Bertrand Vecten
Man of the earth, master of the waters

Discreet by nature, Bertrand Vecten (MROS 99) was by no means predestined to become a legend when, back in the summer of 1996, the tip of his boat sped forward inching towards Olympic silver, in one of the closest-contested finals in rowing history.

by Florence Alix-Gravellier 10 September 2024

Audencia International MBA , Inspiring life journey , International , Reaching the top

Jon Harr
The superstellar engineer-philosopher

Fifty-year-old Jon Harr (MBA 05) comes from Oslo. After a career in engineering and then working as project director at the National Centre for Space Studies (French CNES) in Toulouse, he returned to Norway to head the Norwegian Space Agency. Since 2022, he has been Operations Director for Andøya Spaceport, the first spaceport to be established in continental Europe, located in the Vesterålen archipelago in northern Norway.

by Florence Alix-Gravellier 10 September 2024

Audencia Bachelor , Reaching the top

Cyrille Glumineau
The sales-made man

A graduate of the Saint-Nazaire ECG programme, now Audencia’s Bachelor in Management, 53-year-old Cyrille Glumineau (BACH 92), is the General Manager for Sales Central & Southern Europe at Reality Labs, a business and research unit of Meta (formerly Facebook), that produces virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (VR) equipment and solutions.

by Florence Alix-Gravellier 10 September 2024

Audencia Grande Ecole , International , Reaching the top

Delphine Francois Chiavarini
The roadmap of an aligned leader

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.

by Florence Alix-Gravellier 10 September 2024

Audencia EIBM , International , Reaching the top

Jesus Abia Arias
An odyssey from Valladolid to L’Oréal HQ

From his beginnings as Product Manager Biotherm Spain to being appointed the Managing Director of Prada, Mugler and Valentino in Europe, 39-year-old Jesus Abia Arias has metamorphosed whilst continuing to remain true to himself. He has made his exemplary 15-year career as part of the L'Oréal group the source of a profoundly humanistic vision of management, performance, and life. His time spent in Miami, as Travel Retail Area Manager, then ...

by Guy-Pierre Chomette 21 February 2024

Audencia Exec MBA , Entrepreneur , Reaching the top

Fabrice Beillevaire
Cheesemakers par excellence, from father to son

Fabrice Beillevaire, referring to the Executive MBA he earned at Audencia in 2020. "If I hadn’t followed this training programme, I would have found myself completely at a loss. I would never have been able to manage things in the way I do today,”

by Florence Alix-Gravellier 13 March 2023

Audencia MS MDC , International , Reaching the top

Mathieu Aguesse
Exploring possibilities

Mathieu Aguesse is a 2015 graduate of ICAM School of engineering and Audencia’s specialised master in Marketing, Design and Creation (MS MDC). From his offices in San Francisco, he runs the US version of Schoolab, an innovation studio that trains, advises and supports its clients in responsible innovation.

by Guy-Pierre Chomette 13 March 2023

Audencia SciencesCom , Reaching the top

Stéphane Dugast
Adventure junkie

After graduating from SciencesCom in 1998, Stéphane Dugast went to sea as a reporter for Cols Bleus, the magazine of the French Navy. Although he is a reporter, director, author and lecturer, he could also be described as a storytelling explorer.