My Path
I was born in Madagascar. I have lived and worked across 15 + countries and visited 40+ (and counting). I hold 4 passports. I am lucky to consider myself a global citizen.
Madagascar → France
The Cultural Shift
Born and raised in Madagascar. Left to study in France. First taste of being "other."
Madagascar
France
Canada → Sweden
The Corporate Structure
Engineering, then Masters in Technology Management. Strategy consultant in Montreal, then joined a Fortune 500 from Sweden.
Canada
Sweden
Ireland
Germany
Netherlands
India → Italy
The Global Scale
Moved to Delhi then Rome. Led transformations of 400 and 1,500 employees. Senior Director across 7 countries in Southern Europe.
India
Italy
Greece
Romania
Poland
Serbia
Bulgaria
Montenegro
United States → Canada
The Leadership Acumen
Moved to the US. VP leading a 6,000-person, $1B transformation. COO managing a $115M P&L across Kansas City, Seattle and Dallas.
United States
Canada
Mexico
Canada → Today
The Executive Edge
Back to Canada. CEO of an AI data services company. 1,000+ employees across Madagascar and Mauritius, serving Amazon, AWS, and Microsoft.
Canada
Madagascar
Mauritius
Kenya
UK
France
What I Believe
The hardest leadership problems aren't technical.
They sit in the unglamorous middle - between strategy and execution, between the boardroom and the ground. Most of what I've learned, I learned in contexts where the frameworks didn't quite fit. That's where I do my best work.
What scales is judgment. Pattern recognition. The clarity to decide under pressure without flattening the realities that make your business what it is.
That's the level I work at.
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