[ekip] n.f. Group of very different people that share a common vision of their profession. Slight obsession with well structured reasonings and referenced documents. Refusal to be restrained and to be locked in a box. A desire to give a voice to sciences, literature, public & private, economy, law, sociology, and innovation.
Pergamon is the firm for transitions and wants to impose a new way of doing public affairs and communications.
Pergamon’s consultants are experts in their subjects and geeks in argumentation and in influence strategy.
A jack of all trades, Jean-Philippe is curious about everything and feeds his thirst for novelty in both his personal activities and his professional career. Quite proud of the fact that he has “never done the same job”, he has been a consultant, an expert in organisation and methods, a manager of contractual relations, a technical adviser, a general delegate and a director of public affairs. In September 2023, he begins his 6th career, as Associate Director of Pergamon. And this will certainly not prevent him from remaining a singer, actor, pianist, clarinettist and guitarist…
After years of wandering among the nine churches and the cathedral of Troyes, Salomé, with her baccalaureate and full of dreams, decided to leave home for the capital. Fascinated by Eastern Asia, especially by Japan, she spent her first year studying Japanese literature and international trade. She then exemplified the French expression “some passions hide others” with a 180° turn. She quit university and joined a BTS to study Corporate Communication. Equipped with a diploma and a student loan, Salomé became an administrative assistant. A revelation, since she realized that she was passionate about paperwork. When she turned 29, she went back for another diploma, this time in Executive Office Management. Several years later and after having gained some experience, Salomé joined Pergamon in September 2022.
Interested in economics, Juliette began her studies in this discipline, first with a preparatory class at ENS D2 and then with a master’s degree in Economic Analysis and Policy at the Paris School of Economics. When she discovered that macroeconomic problems could be solved with an unattractive Hamiltonian and that she had little interest in research, she decided to add a more political dimension to her studies. Armed with experience in embassies and press relations, Juliette joined Sciences Po’s Masters in Public Policy, during which she did a work placement with Pergamon. This experience strengthened her desire to advise economic players by developing public affairs and communications strategies, and she joined Pergamon as a consultant in September 2023.
With a double degree in History and Russian, Sophie’s style is definitely more Solidarnosc than Pravda. Early on, she developed an interest in the positive transformation power of communication. While at EM Lyon business school, which she graduated from in 2020, she used her spare time to create communication and training units for the Cheer up network, a student association that helps young cancer patients look beyond their sickness towards the future. From amateur theater to grand societal projects, Sophie is here to play her part. She became a consultant for Pergamon in January 2021.
Originally from La Réunion, Léa flew overseas to attend SciencesPo Toulouse in 2016. A competitive swimmer and thrill-seeker, she juggled her participation to sports organizations with her studies in public policy. She almost jumped ship to become a sports commentator, but the thought of having to follow French tennis stopped her in her tracks. She first stepped foot into public affairs with former Prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, then in a Parisian strategic communications firm. She joined Pergamon after her end-of-term internship in January 2022.
It was a close call: Patrick could have stayed in an ashram back in 2018, the year he traveled India on his bike. It was his love for the Parisian lifestyle, his lingering for his near native Ireland and the charms of the Brittany coastline that helped put his wheels back on track towards the West. A graduate of Sciences Po Bordeaux, Patrick joined Pergamon as a consultant in January 2021, after an experience at the embassy of Ireland in Paris.
Blending the best of two worlds, Lyon, France and Douala, Cameroon, Clothilde was destined for greatness. While contemplating a life as an actress in her teens, the youth unemployment rate in France, then at 27 %, put an end to her dreams. Quite wisely, she joined the Franco-British joint programme offered in partnership by Sciences Po Lille (France) and the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK). With a degree in public and corporate communication on the French side, and in political science and international relations on the British side, Clothilde began her career at the Cercle de l’Industrie (now known as France Industrie) where she was in charge of the institutional relations for the employers’ association. In 2016, she joined consulting firm Vae Solis Communications where she specialized in communications strategy, press relations, risk prevention, and crisis management. Senior consultant at the agency 35°Nord between 2020-2022, she pursued her dream of glitter and rhinestones by joining Pergamon in February 2022.
A native of Lille and a fervent supporter of the Nord region, Tarek completed a degree in political science and history at the University of Lille. He then went on to gain a master’s degree in history and geography, and became a certified history and geography teacher in secondary schools, as well as a temporary political science teacher at the university that trained him. Caught up in the trials and tribulations of politics and capitalism, he eventually decided to return to his studies in the Master’s programme in Advocacy and Public Affairs at Paris-Dauphine University, doing a work-study placement at France Assureurs (Fédération Française de l’Assurance). Since completing his degree, he has also been involved in community work, as head of public affairs for a national and European think tank. An undisputed Star Wars fan, Tarek joined Pergamon in August 2023 as the first step in his plan to conquer the Galaxy.
Divided between his passion for music, science and writing, Pierre-François hesitated for a long time about his professional orientation. He has kept from this time a talent for improvisation, on the piano or the guitar, solid notions of mathematics and an ability to interpret most of the standards of the French song. After graduating from the CELSA-Sorbonne University, and a passage in scientific preparatory class in Rennes, Pierre-François finally decided to settle in Paris and work in communication. Between 2012 and 2017, he worked at Taddeo, where he developed effective methods for supporting communication departments, developing influence campaigns and argumentative strategies, and supporting social crises. His scientific background allows him to navigate public affairs, regulatory and market access issues in the health sector without difficulty. In January 2018, he joined Pergamon as Director. NB: Pierre-François often disappears on the weekends to give concerts throughout Brittany.
Some references: crisis communication for Volkswagen France (2015); corporate narrative for the environmental strategy and CSR departments of the Renault Group as part of the Drive the future plan (2017); supporting federations, corporate foundations, healthcare players, pharmaceutical, medtech or insurtech companies in their public affairs and communication strategies (recent years); facilitating regional working groups (healthcare professionals, patient associations, elected officials) and drafting of a white paper on improving the treatment of sickle cell disease for Novartis (2021); launchinn an Observatory on access to digital health care, organization of citizen debates and an event with the campaign teams for the Roche Foundation (2022); settling an internal do tank about « global health » (leading the reflection, linking with external stakeholders, developing public policy proposals) for Boehringer Ingelheim (2022).
After years spent hiding in libraries in France, the US, and Germany, and dreaming of a career as a professional tennis player, Charles joined ManpowerGroup in 2010, where he became Public Affairs Manager and mission leader with Françoise Gri, then-president of ManpowerGroup France and Europe. Graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in literature and social sciences, with an accreditation in history and a law degree, he remained in academia and published several studies on youth employment and the new forms of work between 2010 and 2015. He worked at Tadeo from 2013 to 2016, focusing on several topics that were multidisciplinary and that involved social relations. He founded Pergamon in 2017, convinced of the need to provide a new and original approach to consulting.
Some references: Negotiation of the National Interprofessional Agreement of 2013 for ManpowerGroup and Prism’Emploi (taxation of short contracts and interim indefinite work contracts), social relations and communications consulting for the sale of La Redoute (2013-2014), the fusion between Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia (2016); transformation plans of the pharmaceutical company, MSD France (2014, 2018); social modernization of the ADP group (2016); public affairs and social innovation support for Stuart (2017-2018).
