Located in Paris, France, Yann is the founding CEO of MutualBenefits, purpose-driven headhunter, working with current and future Impact Leaders.

He is a leadership advisor of European entrepreneurs, private equity investors and organisations transitioning towards a People/Planet/Profit model.

He acted as the strategic advisor and coordinator of the International Venture Club (iventureclub.com), gathering 30 leading investors from corporate, independant and governement bodies to boost investment performance and innovation.

MutualBenefits played a key role in the development of companies such as :

- amiando (now XING)

- Babbel

- Blacksocks

- DaWanda (now ETSY)

- DxOLabs

- Flixbus

- FON (now SFR)

- GameDuell

- Iconosquare

- IRIS Capital

- International Venture Club

- iTaste

- Kampyle

- neu.de (now Meetic)

- OKCupid

- Passado / wasabi

- Pay.On

- Plista (now WPP)

- SecondMarket (now Nasdaq)

- Tallyfox

- TechTour

- Sensorly

- Statigram

- WENGO

- Whitebull Summits

- XING

Prior to that, Yann advised or managed operations of companies such as NEU.de (sold to Meetic in 2008), Club-Internet (ISP sold to T-Online in 2000), Studio Grolier (web agency) and NewsAlert/Inlumen (CMS sold to Dow Jones in 2004).

Yann advised several business event organizers such as Europe Unlimited, the leading organiser of start-up competitions and investment conferences in Europe, ecosummit.net, the smart green economy network, NEXT11 (nextconf.eu), a major digital economy event in Europe and Whitebull Summits, the exit strategies' conferences in Barcelona. He was the Executive Director of the Web & Communities TechTour organized in Montreux late 2007 and Member of the Selection Committee of the French TechTour 2009.

Yann holds a Master of International Affairs Management and a Master in Communication from Paris VIII University.

Yann is a frequent public speaker sharing his experience as an entrepreneur building or advising business leaders since 20 years.