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Xavier Tandonnet

Managing Partner

Human Resources – General Management & Company Takeover
Transition Management

+33 6 99 41 08 51
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After starting a degree in literature, Xavier Tandonnet studied Private Business Law and Political Science (Toulouse, South of France) before following a HR postgraduate program. After a five-year period in the French Marine Corps as Platoon leader then legal officer, Xavier joined an Anglo-Saxon recruitment firm in 2004. For four years he carried out his duties dedicated to HR function.
In 2004, he co-founded aperlead, he led the HR department and managed departments of General Management & Finance, Industry & Purchasing, and Sales & Marketing. Meanwhile, his partner developed the Tax & Legal activities. In 2009, after his partner’s departure, Xavier managed the whole team and took part in the HR department. Since 2017, he also implements a new service of interim management under the brand Aperlead Transition.
From 2012 to 2016, Xavier was a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris (the Paris Institute of Political Studies). He is also a member of groups (NCU, CUI, SAR), professional associations (ANDRH) and a Think-Tank. In 2016, he joined the Ethical Committee of Syntec Recruitment Consultancy.
He enjoys reading, gardening, hunting, sailing, running, playing tennis and rugby.

Matthieu Le Conte

Partner

Purchasing, Industry & Supply chain
Transition Management

+33 6 68 51 75 39
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Matthieu Le Conte holds a Master Degree in Law (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, the most famous French University) and obtained a Master in Management at ISG (Business School). He began as a consultant working as team manager in an Anglo-Saxon recruitment firm for several years. There, he conducted research in consolidation, audit and management control for finance departments in companies and for audit firms.
In 2008, he joined an international executive search firm. There, he mainly recruited talents from the industry sector, managers, executives as well as experts possessing specific skills, in France, Europe and Africa. He worked in the industry sector as HR Development Manager and Human Resources Manager. In 2011, he joined aperlead and is now in charge of the Industry, Supply Chain & Purchasing Department. Thanks to this dual HR experience in industry and consultancy, Matthieu recruits in all functions in industry and purchasing. From management functions (Operations, Industry, Factory, Purchasing, Supply Chain and so on…) to middle and top management positions and focused on engineers.
He likes history, architecture, tennis and traveling.

Marie-Agnès de Malefette-Bouyssou

Executive Consultant

Legal & Tax

+33 6 66 17 37 32
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Marie-Agnès de Malefette-Bouyssou took literary training within a degree in literature. Then, she decided to follow a legal training. She holds an Advanced Master Degree in Business Law, a DJCE- Diploma in Legal Advice for Businesses and a CAPA- Certificate of Aptitude for the Profession of Lawyer.
For nearly 10 years, she worked as a lawyer in prestigious business consultancy firms based in Paris (DS Avocats, Poitrinal/ Deloitte, UGGC). Then, she put her career on hold in order to take care of her family. In 2011, she joined aperlead as a consultant. Nowadays, she is in charge of the development of the Tax & Legal Department. She conducts assignments consisting in recruiting company legal advisers, tax specialists and lawyers (co-workers and partners). Her expertise lies on her deep knowledge in legal professions in company as well as in firms.
Marie-Agnès particularly likes reading, singing, the theater and human resources. She is also involved in several voluntary activities.

Baudouin Doutrebente

Senior Partner

Sales & Marketing

+33 6 99 43 75 47
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Baudouin Doutrebente studied History and Geography. Then, he followed a preparatory class in Science-Po and finished his training in ISG (Business School). As part of his studies, he did several internships, in general departments and in logistics and marketing, for key players specialized in asset management, sea transport and retail.
In 2008, he joined aperlead as a Research Officer. For a year, he recruited Marketing profiles and Lawyers. In 2009, despite the economic context, he wanted to move forward and became consultant. As he was interested in sales and client relation sectors, attentive to the product, he widened the firm’s offer by pioneering a new practice: Sales & Marketing. From this time, he has supported his French and International clients through recruitment process of sales and marketing managers, including their respective teams. He became a Partner in 2017.
He is really interested in gastronomy and cuisine as well as art. He likes the outdoors and contemplating the beauty of all things.

Côme Bussière

Consultant

Finance (Corporate Finance, Corporate and Investment Banking, Asset Management, Private equity, Audit / Financial Advisory Services, Real Estate Investment Management)

+33 7 61 73 80 93
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Côme Bussière, after two years of preparatory classes at the Lycée Janson de Sailly (PCSI / PSI), integrates HEI that he graduated as engineer. Interested in a dual training, he then completed his course by joining the Em Lyon Business School, within the master’s degree in financial engineering, that he also graduated.
During his career, he first had the opportunity to join Crédit Agricole Immobilier Investors (Investment and Asset Management division), then Lazard Frères Gestion for the Institutional Management section. Since then Côme discovered Mazars Company, first as an auditor and then as a Transactions Services analyst. It is from those first experiences that he joined aperlead in 2019 as a direct approach recruitment consultant in the Finance department.
Nature lovers, he is very keen on hunting, spending time with good friends, drawing and dreaming.

Jean Etcheberry

Consultant

Sales & Marketing

+33 6 61 29 86 26
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After an international bachelor’s degree in political sciences and humanities in Angers (France), Jean Etcheberry moves to Beirut (Lebanon), where he tackles 2 years of master’s degree specialised in foreign affairs and the arab world. Throughout his studies, he undergoes numerous internships for the french parliament, in corporate consulting for the defense industry, and two NGOs.
He begins his career in Lebanon for a french development NGO. Successively, he is project manager in Beyrouth, and african program manager in Paris, then discovering entrepreneurship and participating in the development of a recruitment company. Later on, he enters a first Parisian recruitment consulting firm, before joining aperlead in july 2019 as consultant for the Sales and Marketing practice.
Passionate for foreign policy, he travels whenever he has the opportunity. Originally from the Basque Country, he likes the good things, such as gastronomy and the mountains.

Consultants

Xavier Tandonnet

Matthieu Le Conte

Marie-Agnès de Malefette-Bouyssou

Baudouin Doutrebente

Côme Bussière

Jean Etcheberry

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