“His life’s mission is to develop talent. He graduated from HEC Paris in 2024 and from ESCA in 2008 with Masters degrees in management. He is also triple certified by HEC Paris in marketing & digital strategy, innovation & leadership and management of a strategic unit. He has 18 years’ professional experience, both internationally and locally. In 2009, he was one of 37 high-potential young African graduates, selected from 30,000 applications, to be recruited by the Unilever group (€50 billion turnover and world number 1 in FMCG talent incubation according to the 2018 Harvard Business Review). Later, he was one of the TOP 30 managers of the multinational Friesland Campina (€12 billion turnover) in Africa. He has held the positions of Director of Strategic Initiatives – Vlisco Group (Vlisco – Uniwax – Woodin – GTP), Director of Marketing, Communication, Claims & Customer Satisfaction – Banque de l’Habitat de Côte d’Ivoire (BHCI), Global Marketing Director / SVP – Lead Transformation – TRACE Group, Marketing Director for West and Central Africa at FrieslandCampina, Regional Marketing Manager at Unilever Africa, Strategic Assistant to Africa Marketing VP, Young Talent at Unilever West Africa. Today, he is the founder of Mentor Afro, a trainer at the French Red Cross, a professor of MBAs and Masters Bachelors at business schools in Paris, and a professor of leadership development at the FHB University in Abidjan. Through Mentor Afro, he hopes to replicate for more Africans the development programmes that trained him and opened the doors to an international career, despite the demanding and competitive environments he faced.