Romain Lavielle

Business strategy mentor & founder

Salary / Daily rate

Paris, France

Freelance

Can come onsite

Skills

Product StrategyStrategy & ConsultingMarketing StrategyProduct ManagementSales StrategyMakeAirtableUX Product DesignSEOCoachingUI Product DesignNo-code Automations

Languages

French (Native)English (Fluent)

About me

Intro

Head of dealflow & operating partner @ AVA CAPITAL (100+ startups) // Operating partner / Boardmember / Startup mentor, Strategy, Marketing & Product Lecturer @HEC Paris on business creation methodology Working on my next project (feel free to ask) => Looking for an experienced CTO Can advize on Startup development strategy, product, marketing and sales Can work on product / operations & processes / automations

Links

Work experience

Mentor

Better Call

Jan 2024 - Present

2 years 10 months

Paris, France

Head of dealflow and Portfolio Operating partner (100 startups)

AVA CAPITAL

Apr 2022 - Present

4 years 7 months

Paris, France

Associate Director / Co-founder

12PM

Jan 2010 - Present

16 years 10 months

Paris Area, France

12PM is a NOT SO young consulting agency created on January 2010. We share a common vision of Digital & Internet and try to spread it among our clients. We only work through word of mouth

Associate

Time for the Planet

Oct 1980 - Present

46 years 1 month

Paris, France

Time for the Planet est une entreprise à mission qui souhaite rassembler 1 milliard d'euros pour déployer 100 innovations luttant contre le réchauffement climatique. Il est possible de devenir actionnaire à partir d'un euro investi. Nous sommes la dernière génération à pouvoir éviter un effondrement du climat. Agissons ensemble ! Si vous souhaitez savoir comment vous engager, c’est par ici : https://www.time-planet.com/fr

HEC Paris

Sep 2015 - Present

11 years 2 months

Paris, France

Entrepreneurship certificate co-director

Jan 2018 - Present

8 years 10 months

Paris, France

Direction of an entrepreneurship program (5 weeks to create a startup). 16 masterclasses (from design thinking to pitching a project) + final pitch contest > Program design > Students resources organisation > Lectures on entrepreneurship methodology > Students mentoring

Start-up Mentor

Sep 2015 - Aug 2022

7 years

Paris Area, France

### HEC / 42 Startup Launchpad ### Mentoring of students startup projects in the digital entrepreneur track in partnership with 42 (code school) > Team mentoring > Value proposition > UX / Product design > Communication > Business Model > Pitching

Senior Program Manager

Sep 2015 - Aug 2022

7 years

Paris Area, France

### Major in Digital Business ### > Lecturer: Digital Marketing and Personal branding > Senior account manager: relationship with corporate partners > Business developer: sourcing of new corporate partners > Coaching: coaching students to work with corporates

Senior Program Manager

Sep 2018 - Mar 2022

3 years 7 months

Paris Area, France

### HEC Paris MBA Digital Track ### > Senior account manager: relationship with corporate partners > Coaching/Mentoring: coaching/mentoring students to work with corporates

Senior Program manager

Sep 2017 - Mar 2022

4 years 7 months

Paris Area, France

### Incubateur HEC ### > Business modeling: working on the Incubator business model > Program design and upgrade: add bricks to the program to increase its quality > Startup mentoring: entrepreneur posture, product, business model, business plan, networking... > Sourcing: entrepreneurs, experts & business angels > Data management: setup a data policy, data collection process and data lifecycle, GDPR documents > Tools setup and team training > Tools creation using no-code: Airtable, Zapier, Integromat, Bubble... > Business relations: source corporate partners, create startup programs, integrate Intrapreneurship with Entrepreneurship

Incubateur HEC

Sep 2015 - Mar 2022

6 years 7 months

Paris Area, France

Startup mentor

Sep 2017 - Mar 2022

4 years 7 months

Paris Area, France

Mentoring startups on: > Entrepreneur posture > Product strategy > Product delivery > Digital Marketing > Global financial lifecycle > Team management

Startup mentor

Sep 2015 - Aug 2017

2 years

Paris Area, France

Mentor

SOS PETS UNE APPLICATION DE LA SOCIETE COCOON PETS

May 2016 - Jan 2022

5 years 9 months

Mentor

STYL - Smart Technology You Love

Apr 2016 - Jan 2022

5 years 10 months

Mentor

Copelican

Apr 2016 - Jan 2022

5 years 10 months

Mentor

Bloomizon

Sep 2013 - Jan 2017

3 years 5 months

CEO and Co-founder

Digital-Village.fr

Jan 2013 - Dec 2015

3 years

Paris Area, France

Digital Village is a co-workingspace, digital agency and incubator in Paris. It's a place created around digital jobs and companies addressed to freelances and start-ups who are willing to share experience and develop strong synergies in their domain. We incubate freelances as we incubate and accelerate start-ups.

Project Manager

ABCP

Jan 2009 - Dec 2010

2 years

Paris Area, France

> Creating digital project teams > Managing team and project > Delivering digital project

Business Interactif/Digitas

Aug 2006 - Oct 2009

3 years 3 months

E-marketing consultant / project manager

Jan 2007 - Oct 2009

2 years 10 months

E-marketing Project Manager

Aug 2006 - Sep 2007

1 year 2 months

Fonctional and strategic consulting in e-business / e-marketing (websites, intranets, media, advertising, emailing and seo) Projects managment : from conception to live R&D in marketing and e-marketing Benchmarking Following, results analysis

Digitas France

Jan 2006 - Oct 2009

3 years 10 months

E-marketing and e-business consultant / project manager

Sep 2007 - Oct 2009

2 years 2 months

Business Interactif becomes Digitas France: Fonctional and strategic consulting in e-business / e-marketing (websites, intranets, media, advertising, emailing and seo) Projects managment : from conception to live R&D in marketing and e-marketing Benchmarking Following, results analysis

Web Project manager / E-marketing consultant

Jan 2006 - Oct 2009

3 years 10 months

E-marketing Account Manager

Publicis NET

Jul 2005 - Dec 2005

6 months

Web sites traffic growth, customer database growth. Web sites conception and deployment.

E-marketing Consultant

Publicis NET

Jan 2005 - Apr 2005

4 months


Education

HEC Paris

MS, E-business and ITs

2004 - 2005

2 years

Activities and societies: E-marketing consultant for Publicis Net, Chanel, Réunir

- marketing / e-marketing - finance - crm / e-crm - supply chain / e-supply chain - innovation marketing - ...

EFREI - Grande école du numérique

Ingénieur, Informatique et management

2000 - 2003

4 years

Activities and societies: School Gala organization: a 2.000 people event. Internship at Gesconseil as ERP project manager Internship at Gesconseil as web project manager / developper Internship at Galeries Lafayette as luxury tie seller for Lanvin and Nina Ricci brands

Lycée Saint Louis

Prepa PCSI / PC, Sciences: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry

1998 - 2000

3 years

Lycée Louis-le-Grand

College

1995 - 1998

4 years

Activities and societies: Scientific school curriculum

Lycée Chateaubriand, Rome

Collège, Collège

1992 - 1995

4 years

Activities and societies: Lived in Rome for 3 years Learning Italian


Licenses & certifications

Fondamentaux du Marketing Digital - Digital Active

Issued: May 2025

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