Mentor network
The mentors, once they have said yes.
The operators who have agreed to appear, each with the function they have actually run and what they mentor on. The network is larger than this page, and it grows one conversation at a time, because nobody appears before they have said yes.
What is on this page
Each entry gives the seat they hold now, where they are, the domain they have run, and the record they stand on. Named, current, and small enough to be true: we would rather list a dozen people we can vouch for than a hundred we cannot.
Philippe Boissat
Aerospace, defence and satellite communications, Europe and the United States
CEO, 3i3Signature LLC
From 1986 in aerospace, defence and satellite telecommunications: Alcatel account manager on the Aérospatiale account that became Airbus, then executive vice president for aerospace and defence at T-Systems and senior advisor at Deloitte. Director of Eutelsat’s multimedia department when its satellites carried more than 4,400 television channels. Founder in 2005 of 3i3s, a non-profit institute of 1,500 members in Europe.
Miami
Alain Bureau
Mobile virtual network enablement, and telecom businesses built and sold
Advisor at ZE-Charge, and solutions architect at Accacias Architecture Expertise
He owned SISTEER for nineteen years, an MVNE and MVNA that launched more than a hundred mobile operators across fifty countries and raised four million euros of equity and four million of debt over three rounds. Its MVNE arm sold to IGEM Communications and its MVNA arm to Euro Information, both in 2018.
Le Mans
Christian Caraballo
Public financial engineering, development agencies and diaspora finance
Founder, Christian Caraballo Conseils
Founder and director general of France Active Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur for sixteen years, running four guarantee funds, a lending scheme and an investment company: 100 million euros of endowment, more than 4,000 projects appraised, 25 to 30 staff. Since 2018 he has worked continuously in twelve African countries, modelling public financial instruments for the AFD, the African Development Bank, the European Union and Bpifrance.
Marseille
Pascale Caron
AI strategy, governance and operating model transformation
Founder and Chief Executive, Yunova Consulting
Twenty seven years at Amadeus, latterly Managing Director for consulting and innovation and before that for product, running programmes across EMEA, APAC, LATAM and North America. Co-inventor of European patent EP 1,494,116 A1. She founded Yunova Consulting in 2018 and Yunova Pharma in 2020, and co-authored EntrepreneurIA in 2025 on more than a hundred interviews with entrepreneurs, executives and AI experts.
Monaco
Jean-Christophe Combe
Health, medico social and the social economy
Founder, Combe Advisory
Former French Minister of Solidarity, Autonomy and People with Disabilities. Before that, Director General of the French Red Cross, an 18,000 person group running 650 health, medico social and training establishments and operating in seventeen countries. He sat on the Keolis executive committee for marketing, innovation and social responsibility.
Paris
Mai Dyson
Narrative, brand and executive communication
Founder and Creative Director, mAIsha Studios
Fifteen years across film, media, marketing and technology. She was Director of Media Operations and Executive Producer at Magic Labs Media, where the work included the Amazon Original Uncommon Ground with Van Jones. A certified AI filmmaker and a Women in Film Creative Producer Fellow, she guest lectures at the University of Miami Business School.
Los Angeles
Bernhard Fauser
Technology go to market and commercial transformation
Former Senior Vice President and Managing Director, HP
Profit and loss responsibility up to six billion dollars across thirty four markets. He ran the consumer, commercial and enterprise businesses of HP for Central and Eastern Europe from 2019 to 2025, and before that was Managing Director of Lenovo Germany, where he integrated the IBM x86 and Medion acquisitions. At HP in Germany from 1994.
Reutlingen
Seán Gallagher
Value selling and deal advisory
Cofounder and Executive Partner, NEWNOW
Thirty years in global technology. President and Managing Director of Xerox France, and Vice President EMEA at Cisco, where he delivered fourteen consecutive quarters of market leading growth on a business above three billion dollars. Sixteen years at HP before that, ending as Vice President and General Manager for Western Europe.
Paris
Susanne Heis
Print category P&L across central and eastern Europe, and post-merger integration
Retired. Formerly Vice President at HP.
Thirty-six years at HP, latterly Vice President for the print category across central and eastern Europe, carrying P&L for Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Turkey and Israel. She ran the EMEA integration of Samsung’s printing business and was interim Managing Director of HP Austria for six months in 2020.
Vienna
Lee Hobeika
Go-to-market and sales operations for technology companies
Founder and General Manager, Supersub
He set up and ran Uber Eats inside sales from two sites covering the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and South Africa, having first built the direct sales channel for restaurant acquisition in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Seven years across Google and Uber before founding Supersub.
United Arab Emirates
Eric Yves Mahé
Transformation, turnaround and international scale
Chief Executive, EYM Consulting
Profit and loss responsibility up to 500 million dollars and teams above 1,200 people. He was President of the Consumer and Film Division at Kodak and President of Software and Solutions, and founded KODAKIT. Earlier he led growth markets across Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America for Pitney Bowes, and ran Greater China for Computer Associates.
Singapore
Karin Papadopoulos
HR leadership in technology: spin-offs, labour relations and organisational transformation
HR leader, coach and consultant. Formerly Director Human Resources, Kyndryl Austria.
Twenty-four years at IBM, first in sales and then in HR, before four as Director Human Resources and authorised signatory of Kyndryl Austria, where she led every HR workstream of its spin-off from IBM and the founding of the Austrian company. Earlier, nine years as CHRO of the IBM subsidiary Blue IT-Services.
Austria
Pascal Rivière
Sales strategy, operations and go to market
Founder and Chief Executive, Scaling Conseil
Twenty six years at HP and HPE. Chief Financial Officer of HP France, then head of sales strategy and operations, then head of the Inside and Mid Market sales organisation for France and Northern Europe as a member of the HPE France executive board. He is an affiliate professor at ESME and sits on the board of Paris Business Angels.
Paris
Pierre Royer
French FMCG retail: category management, merchandising and national accounts
Franchisee, La Fabrique Cookies
Fourteen years across Danone and Bel in French food retail, ending as National Key Account Manager at Danone. At Bel he ran merchandising policy through eight regional coordinators and handled category exchanges with a national distributor. He has been a La Fabrique Cookies franchisee in Lyon since 2024.
Lyon
Christian Schreiber
B2B sales, CRM and digital transformation in telecoms and consumer goods
Business Advisor, Welas Consult
From 2001 to 2025 at mobilkom austria and A1 Telekom Austria, latterly Director of B2B sales delivery and transformation, leading 140 people in four departments against more than 500 million euros of delivered revenue. Earlier he set up the CRM department, cutting churn by half, and the solution sales unit that delivered 10 per cent revenue CAGR over three years. Before telecoms, brand manager at Coca-Cola Austria, where he repositioned Cappy into a full juice portfolio.
Vienna
Frank Schulten
Cybersecurity and cyber resilience governance
Chief Revenue Officer, Qytos
Thirteen years at Deutsche Bank across Frankfurt, Vienna, Paris and New York, ending as Director of Operations in Paris. He advised the chief executive of Covéa on innovation and change, and was Director of Cybersecurity and Safety at Harmonie Mutuelle. He works with executive committees on cyber exposure as a governance and continuity question, not a technical one.
Aigrefeuille
Arnaud Sliwa-Biset
Retail, multi site services and scaling what works
Founder and Chief Executive, Wegrow
Fifteen years in marketing and general management at General Mills, Danone, Yoplait and Orangina, including a 250 million dollar business unit at General Mills. He founded Wegrow, the platform around twenty global companies use across fifty countries to share and scale their best practices. He is a YPO member.
Barcelona
Doris Steinberger
Specialty care launch and market access
Commercial leader, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology
Head of Commercial at Biogen Austria from 2016 to 2025, with profit and loss responsibility above 60 million euros across multiple sclerosis, spinal muscular atrophy, Friedreich ataxia and ALS. She took market leadership with a fourteen point share gain in three years, and led the Friedreich ataxia launch across eighteen European countries. Before Biogen: Gilead, Novartis and Baxter.
Vienna
Alex Stoll
Sales and customer operations at scale
Managing Director, ASTOVIA
Thirty years in customer facing operations, sixteen of them at vice president level, with budget responsibility from 20 million to over one billion dollars and up to 2,500 people led. At HP he ran EMEA sales operations for a 23 billion dollar business, global sales operations through the HP Inc. separation, and customer success for 13 million subscribers.
Germany
Why it is short
Publishing someone means their agreement, a title they confirm as current, and a portrait they are happy with. That is a conversation with each mentor rather than a formality, and the network is growing faster than the paperwork. Nobody appears here before they have agreed to.
If you should be on this page
The network takes senior operators who have carried the number themselves. Telling us takes four fields and no account.