Trophées de l'innovation : 2025 edition

PRESIDENT DU JURY
Pierre Ernst,
Member of the Executive Board and Corporate Secretary of LBP AM

Pierre Ernst has been a Member of the Executive Board and General Secretary of LBP AM since January 2021. Until the end of 2020, he was Chairman of Candriam France, a member of the Strategic Committee and COO of Candriam Group, a pan-European asset management company, having previously held the position of Head of Risk Control. Pierre Ernst also holds and has held various directorships: IS4F (IBM Group) from 2011 to 2017, Ostrum AM from 2021 to 2022, and Iznès, a fintech specialising in fund distribution via blockchain, since 2021. Lastly, he has been a member of the AMF's Consultative Commission on Management and Institutional Investors since 2017.

Sonia Artinian-Fredou, 
Co-founder and President of FIND Climate

Sonia Artinian-Fredou is the President of FIND Climate, the first industrial Greentech innovation hub in the Île-de-France region, which she co-founded in May 2023 and which opened its doors in Nanterre in June 2024. Concurrently, she is also the President of ecosystem, an eco-organization in the electrical and electronic equipment sector, where her mission is to support the transformation of the organization. Before founding FIND Climate, Sonia held several executive positions in large companies. She was the HR Director on the Executive Committee of Lafarge, after serving as the General Manager of Lafarge Romania. She was also a member of the Executive Committee of Michelin, in charge of two operational divisions: high-tech materials and connected services and solutions. Sonia began her career at Capgemini Consulting in 1995, where she developed her expertise in the construction, engineering, chemical, and energy sectors. She is a biologist by training, graduated from ENS Lyon, ENGREF, and the Collège des Ingénieurs.

Géraldine Brasseur,
Investment Director, MGEN

Géraldine Brasseur has been working in the world of investment and financial markets for fifteen years. After studying in France, China and the United States, she began her career in the financial world with a broker, Oddo Securities, in Paris. After this initial experience, she switched to the institutional investor side at Réunica, where she stayed for 8 years. For the past 6 years, she has held the position of Investment Director at MGEN, working to diversify the asset portfolio and integrate a greater proportion of unlisted assets.

Marion Leboyer ,
INSERM health researcher


Marion Leboyer is Professor of Psychiatry at the Université Paris Est Créteil (UPEC). She is Deputy Director of the Department of Psychiatry and Addictology at Henri Mondor Hospital in Créteil (AP-HP). She also heads the “Translational Neuropsychiatry” laboratory, part of the Mondor Institute for Biomedical Research (IMRB, Inserm U955). Since 2007, she has been director of a scientific cooperation foundation, the “Fondation FondaMental” (www.fondation-fondamental.org), which coordinates 4 networks of 55 expert centers, enabling the creation and monitoring of large cohorts of patients suffering from mental illness. She has authored or co-authored over 1,000 international publications and has been one of the most cited researchers (Clarivate) since 2018 ((https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/2353017). In December 2021, she was awarded the Inserm Grand Prix for Research (https://presse.inserm.fr/en/inserm-2021-prizes-science-more-mobilized-than-ever-to-serve-health/44300/). Since 2022, she has directed the Precision Psychiatry Program-Project (PEPR ProPSY) selected as part of France 2030.

Isabelle Luy-Landes,
Head of Corporate Direct Lending, 
LBP AM

A graduate of ESCP and Diplomkauffrau of Berlin's Technische Universität, Isabelle Luy-Landès has 30 years' experience, including 25 years in corporate finance in banking and asset management. Isabelle joined LBP AM in 2021 to take charge of corporate private debt expertise as Head of Corporate Direct Lending.
 
She began her career in 1995 with PriceWaterhouseCoopers as an external auditor, before joining DZ Bank in Frankfurt for two years as an accounting and financial analyst. She then spent 13 years at IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG in Paris, in LBO and corporate finance origination. In 2013, she joined Axa Investment Managers as Senior Investment Analyst in the Leveraged Loans & Private Debt team, where she covered a wide range of Mid & Large Cap investments for 8 years.

Maïlys Ferrère,
Director of the Large Venture Division, Bpifrance

Maïlys Ferrère has been with Bpifrance since its creation in 2013, where she heads Large Venture, the venture growth fund that supports French tech champions. Prior to this, she was Investment Director at the Fonds Stratégique d'Investissement (FSI), after some 20 years' experience in equity capital markets origination at various French banks. She is a graduate of IEP Paris and holds a degree in business law.

Cécile Goubet,
Managing Director, Institut de la Finance Durable

After serving as an advisor to the Minister of Energy Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, in 2022, where she was responsible for the sobriety plan and climate issues, Cécile Goubet has been, since 2023, the coordinator of the acceleration strategy for eco-responsible digital innovation. Cécile Goubet has over 15 years of experience in energy and ecological transition issues, notably at the Caisse des Dépôts, the Directorate General for Energy and Climate, and Avere France, which she led from 2018 to 2022. She joined the Institute for Sustainable Finance in September 2023 as the General Director to enable the ISF to continue its mission as an accelerator of the Paris financial center's action for the achievement of the energy and environmental transition.

Thibault Heckmann,
Officer of the French Gendarmerie, Associate Researcher at ENS Paris-Ulm, Founding Member of Cercle K2

Doctor of mathematics from the École normale supérieure de Paris (Ulm'18), a former research associate at the Universities of London and Cambridge, he is an external expert for the European Union's Cybersecurity Agency (ENISA) and a founding member of Cercle K2. He currently heads the Laboratory for Innovation and Applied Research (LIRA).  A former head of the national digital “data extraction” expertise unit at the Institut de recherche criminelle de la Gendarmerie nationale (IRCGN), he was awarded the European Researcher Prize by the European Academy of Technical and Scientific Police (ENFSI). He is also co-author of the Code Dalloz de la cybersécurité (editions 2022 to 2025).

Josselin Kalifa,
Chief Risk  Officer Group, CNP Assurances

Josselin Kalifa is Chief Risk Officer for CNP Assurances. A Ponts graduate with post-graduate degrees from Sorbonne-Université and Université Paris-Dauphine, he began his career at the Ministry of the Economy and Finance, before joining the French Embassy in Beijing, where he was deputy head of economic services in China. He was then appointed Head of the Foreign Trade Division at the French Treasury. He joined the Caisse des Dépôts savings funds department in 2010, where he held a number of positions before being promoted to director of loans and housing. He joined CNP Assurances in 2017 as Director of Steering and Performance, then Director of Investments France for CNP Assurances in 2021, before becoming Chief Risk Officer in 2023.

Octave Klaba,
Founder & Chairman of the Board of Directors OVHcloud

Born in Poland, Octave Klaba graduated in engineering from ICAM Lille in 1999, and at the same time created OVHcloud for a very simple reason: no supplier was capable of meeting his expectations! 23 years later, OVHcloud is now the European leader in cloud computing, with 33 data centers on 4 continents, offices in 19 countries, over 2,400 employees and more than 1.6 million customers worldwide. OVHcloud is based in Roubaix, northern France. As Founder and Chairman of the Board, Octave focuses on strategy, R&D and corporate culture. Today, in the face of the American or Chinese giants, OVHcloud represents the alternative in the Cloud throughout the world, promoting SMART products and services: simple and fast to implement; multi-local and close to everyone throughout the world; accessible and predictable in terms of price; reversible, open and interoperable; transparent and responsible. Passionate about open organizations, Octave not only promotes transparency and collaboration within his company, but these elements are also integral to his vision of an open and reversible Cloud. Octave's vision is summed up by OVHcloud's motto: "Innovation for Freedom".

Christine Lebreton,
CSIO and Head of Social and Health team and co-Head of Growth team of LFDE

A graduate of ESCP Europe, Christine began her career in 1989 with Ernst & Young. She then worked in the financial markets from 1991, as a financial analyst on European sell-side and then buy-side equities, notably in the healthcare and consumer goods sectors. She continued her career as an equity manager from 2000, notably of a global healthcare fund at Ixis AM, then of European equity funds at Natixis AM and then Mirova. In 2014, she joined LBP AM's European Management team, then Tocqueville Finance in 2020. Since 2024, the year Tocqueville Finance and LFDE merged, Christine has been CSIO of La Financière de l'Échiquier and manager of a “growth” strategy and an “ageing population” thematic fund.

Julien Maldonato,
Digital Trust Leader Partner, Deloitte

Julien Maldonato, Partner and Leader of Innovation & Digital Trust at Deloitte, is shaping the digital future of industries in France. For over 20 years, he has been helping organizations create new ventures and redefine their business models to make them more sustainable and adaptive. An expert in disruptive technologies, he excels at articulating the dynamics of complex systems (neural networks, decentralization, homeostasis, etc.) to generate large-scale transformations.

At Deloitte, he leads services that cover the entire spectrum of innovation: from strategy to the design of new solutions, including digital transformation and sustainable innovation. Passionate about the startup ecosystem, he catalyzes strategic alliances between finance, technology, and other industries, supporting entrepreneurs in their quest for impact.

An engineer from Mines, Julien began his career in Silicon Valley before joining IBM and then Deloitte. Today, he works towards a more sustainable and resilient finance sector. As a judge for the LBPAM Innovation Awards 2024, he is committed to supporting visionary startups that are reinventing the economy of tomorrow.

Patrick Pansier,
Head of Data, Digital & Innovation, LBP AM

A 1997 graduate of L'EERIE IMT Mines d'Alès, Patrick Pansier began his career at Dexia AM in 2001 as Developer, then Front Development Manager for alternative management. In 2007, he was appointed Head of IT Investment & Risk Management for both traditional and alternative asset management. In 2011, Patrick Pansier joined Exane BNP Paribas as Head of IT Postrade, and in 2017 became a member of the Exane Group Architecture Committee, where he was in charge of the operational efficiency project implementing a digital workforce based on robots and unstructured data management systems.
Since 2021, Patrick Pansier has held the new position of Digital, Data and Innovation Director at LBP AM, to take charge of IT and develop digital transformation. Since 2017, Patrick Pansier has hosted round tables at AM Tech day and the BigData trade show. He was a jury member at Fintech For Tomorrow in 2021 and 2022.

Khalid Nasr,
Chief Executive Officer, BANK OF AFRICA

Mr. Khalid NASR,
Executive Managing Director in charge of CIB & Morocco
In November 2021, Mr. Khalid Nasr has been appointed Executive Managing Director of BANK OF AFRICA, in charge of CIB & Morocco. In this capacity, he oversees the activities of Banque au Maroc, Corporate & Investment Banking, International (outside Africa) and Recouvrement.
Mr Khalid Nasr is a member of BANK OF AFRICA's Presidential Committee and Group Executive Committee. He is also Chairman of the Executive Board of BMCE Capital, the Group's investment banking arm.
He also holds several corporate offices within Group entities, notably BOA Group - Director -, Maghrebail - Director -, BANK OF AFRICA United Kingdom - Director, BOA Europe - Director, Salafin - Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Maroc Factoring - Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Damane Cash - Chairman of the Supervisory Board - and BMCE EuroServices - Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Mr. Khalid Nasr has more than 25 years' experience in the finance business, including a significant number of senior management positions. He began his career in France with a leading European insurer. After gaining experience in capital markets with a Moroccan bank, Mr. Khalid Nasr joined BMCE Capital - at its creation - in 1998. He developed market activities as Head of Bond Trading and, from 2005, Head of the Trading Room.

Antoine Rostand,
Co-founder and Chairman of Kayrros

Antoine Rostand is the Co-founder and President of Kayrros, a technology-driven analytics company based in Paris. Kayrros is a world leader in satellite in satellite-based environmental intelligence. Kayrros delivers real-time data, providing strategic decision support to governments and companies to help them anticipate the risks associated with climate change, and monitor and influence the influence the evolution of the energy mix. Previously, Mr. Rostand created Schlumberger Business Consulting SBC, an entity of the eponymous and was Chairman of Electronic Data System (EDS) France. Mr. Rostand is a graduate of École Polytechnique.

Chloé Pruvot,
Director, EDF Gestion

A graduate of Skema Business School, Chloé Pruvot has recognized expertise in asset management, acquired as a manager of several asset classes for institutional and private clients. She then structured and managed the Apicil Group's investment department, where she steered the key functions of Treasury, ALM, Strategic Allocation, Real Estate and SRI. In an environment of persistently low interest rates, she combined financial discipline with the integration of ESG issues to build a robust and responsible investment policy. Today, as Director of EDF Gestion, she oversees a strategic scope covering employee savings, French employee pensions and the management of assets dedicated to the decommissioning of nuclear power plants. Her career path reflects an unwavering commitment to finance that is useful, efficient and focused on major transitions.

Marc Sabatier,
Founder and CEO of Julhiet Sterwen

A graduate of Ecole Centrale de Nantes and IAE de Paris, Marc Sabatier is involved in defining and implementing strategy for companies in France and abroad, and supports them in their major transformation programs. He began his career with Ernst & Young Conseil, before becoming Program Director at Caisse des Dépôts. In 1996, he founded SterWen, and in 2015, following the merger between SterWen and Groupe Bernard Julhiet, he became Chairman and principal shareholder of Groupe Julhiet Sterwen, a strategy, transformation and innovation consultancy. Julhiet Sterwen, with over 100M euros in sales, is today one of the leaders in its market. With a strong commitment to impact and sustainable development, and a passion for innovation and entrepreneurship, Marc has been supporting and investing in start-ups for the past 20 years - over 60 to date. In 2012, he was also a founding partner of 50Partners, a start-up incubator and entrepreneurial expertise fund dedicated to innovation and impact, and a co-founding member of France Fintech.
Themes: innovation, sustainable development and impact, new organizational models, evolving business models.

Philippe Tibi,
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the "Scale-up Financing" project

A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and a telecommunications engineer, he is currently leading an initiative on behalf of the French Ministry of the Economy and Finance to finance France's future technology leaders. Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Fonds de Réserve des Retraites (FRR) and Director of Vigie, he began his career at Atos, then joined UBS as Chief Technology Officer, where he held various positions in London and Paris in the technology and markets sectors, before becoming Chairman and CEO of UBS France. Founder of Pergamon Campus, he is a former Chairman of the French Financial Markets Association (AMAFI) and Chairman of the MEDEF Monetary Committee. He teaches strategy and finance at Shanghai Jiaotong Polytechnic and AUEB Athens.