Audencia Business School graduate Jérôme Pasquet was named MBA entrepreneur of the year at the 2023 AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards. He tells Tim Banerjee Dhoul how the qualification has furthered his start-up career and helped him launch PeeK’in, a company that aims to become an industry standard for managing lost and found items at hotels feet
AMBA & BGA EXCELLENCE AWARDS
Could you tell us a little bit about your career? I started my career in the UK as a supply chain and logistics engineer at Schneider Electric, where I enjoyed working with sales and marketing, together with the manufacturing, purchasing and distribution departments. I moved to Paris three years later, where I developed expertise in forecasting, as well as sales and operations planning, as a business consultant for PwC at the turn of the millennium. I was travelling and staying in hotels across the world during the era of globalisation and at a time when outsourcing manufacturing was a key business trend. After the birth of my first daughter, my wife and I decided to change career paths and I joined a full-time MBA programme at Audencia Business School, with a view to pursuing entrepreneurship. After a supply chain manager position at the cosmetics company
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