[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.
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.
Originally from Byblos, José will never cease to remind everyone he is Mediterranean (but will be the first to flee from the Parisian sun, on the rare occasions it is out). You’ll often find him with the remnants of paint on his hands, lost in the streets of the city (in part due to his questionable sense of orientation). Having studied political science, international affairs, and law, he maintained an active volunteering role in several organizations, contributing to the fight against illiteracy, engaging in climate action, and spreading awareness about several health issues in rural areas. His work with NGOs in close cooperation with public officials was his first taste of public affairs and communications. Having earned two graduate diplomas from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas and Sorbonne University, he stumbled into Pergamon’s offices and joined as a consultant in may 2022.
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.
For years, Alexis would wake up in the morning to play soccer. Having become champion during his interclass tournament in fifth-grade, he chose to retire and spend his following years listening to David Bowie. He left Marseille, his birthplace, and got his diploma in economic law at Sciences Po Paris, and then attended ESCP Europe. He is known for being an avid reader as well as for his fear of planes. He thus joins the influence department of Havas Paris agency as a consultant in financial and corporate communications. He joined Publicis Media as a communications and PR manager in 2017 and 2018, and then became Assistant Director of the Pierre Deniker Foundation. A few kilos later, he joined Pergamon in december 2021.
Born in Roubaix, Geoffroy explored the Hauts-de-France region until he was an adult, acquiring a keen knowledge of the Opal Coast and the Racing Club of Lens. Devastated by his club’s relegation to Ligue 2 in 2008 and by the rise of its rival Lille, he made the difficult decision to leave his region to join Paris. After several years at Sciences Po, he launched himself into entrepreneurship by co-founding a start-up specialized in online training. The 2017 presidential elections approaching gave him the desire to redirect himself towards public affairs and communication, a sector he has not left since, working for Publicis, Havas or Batout Guilbaud. As an avid reader of the magazine Le Débat (Gallimard), he was offered the opportunity to write and publish several articles for it between 2013 and 2019. Perhaps the climax of his career was the publication in Le Monde of an opinion piece in 2021 in his capacity as a supporter of the Racing Club de Lens. This assertive move allowed him to join the Pergamon team in July 2021.
Graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, with a certification and a PhD in literature, teacher in high school and in university, in France and in the USA, dancer, mime, and even singer at some point, Anne-Sophie had a well-defined future involving libraries, lecture halls, literary research, and knowledge transmission. However, her curiosity and the appeal of politics have torn her away from her initial plans, and put her in the world of influence and press relations, starting off at Havas Paris agency, where she stayed for three and a half years. She later joined Pergamon as a director in October 2020 to continue to prove that it is possible to be, in spirit and in soul, teacher and consultant, and expert in classical literature and energy policy.
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).
