Independent director
Valerie Beaulieu, born in 1967, built her career in Tech where she spent more than 30 years, in the United States, Europe and Asia. She began her career in 1991 at ECS, a Société Générale subsidiary specializing in the leasing of large information systems, where she stayed until 1996. As a member of the Executive Committee, she played a strategic role in the merger between ECS and Agena, which became the European leader in business computing in 1995. She then spent more than 20 years at Microsoft, where she led the marketing department in Europe, then managed sales for small and medium business and all partners before becoming Chief Operating Officer of the Advertising division in the United States in 2012. In that role, she was responsible for operations and was the main architect of the partnerships with Yahoo and AOL. After seven years in the Consumer Division, she became General Manager of Small and Midmarket Solutions and Partners in Asia-Pacific before serving, from 2018 to 2020, as Chief Marketing Officer for Microsoft’s US subsidiary, representing 50% of the Group’s worldwide revenue.
At the end of 2020, Valérie joined the Executive Committee of the Adecco group, the global leader in HR solutions, as Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. She is also President of Pontoon Solutions, a subsidiary of the Group based in the United States. She will be a key architect of the revitalization of key accounts and of the Group’s first GenAI partnership. After almost five years with Adecco, she left the Group to focus on her portfolio of non-executive roles and her advisory missions to Private Equity executives and firms.
Valérie Beaulieu has been a French Foreign Trade Advisor and a member of the Board since January 2015, in charge of innovation in Switzerland, and in Seattle and Singapore. She is also a member of the French Tech Advisory Board. Until June 2022, she was also a Director and member of the Audit and Risk Committee of ISS A/S, a Danish company and one of the world leaders in facility management.
Valerie Beaulieu holds a master’s degree in English from the University of Haute-Bretagne, a diploma in International Trade, and a certificate in Business Leadership from the London Business School. She is a French national.
