Our Team

 
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Julien Marzouk

Partner

Julien Marzouk has over 15 years of experience in strategic consulting & coaching internationally. He has helped 50+ leadership teams scale their business, drive strategic alignment and expand to the US. He has a track record for driving growth, improving operations, and successfully creating solutions for complex business problems in the Technology, Financial Services and Consumer Packaged Goods industries. Throughout his career, he has worked with over 100 CEOs on engagements focused on growth strategy, market expansion, scaling, go-to-market strategies and setting up entire operations at both large international & boutique strategy consulting firms.

Prior to co-founding Kinesis Partners, Julien was the Head of the Strategy Consulting team in New York at Altios, where he worked with international companies building growth and go-to-market strategies for their US expansion. Prior to moving to the US, Julien worked as a Strategy Consultant at Advention Business Partners, a spin-off of Bain in Paris, France, where he assisted Fortune 500 corporations and private equity firms with strategic market reviews, corporate strategies and pre-acquisition commercial due diligence. Julien has a passion for solving puzzles, co-creating strategies with organizations in different industries (Technology, CPG & Retail, Manufacturing and Life Sciences). He began his career as a Business Journalist for CNBC Europe, working on identifying investment opportunities in Africa and in the Middle East. He has lived and worked in more than 10 countries. Julien holds an MBA in Corporate Strategy from Bocconi University (Italy) and NBS (France) and a degree in Leadership Development from Columbia University (US).


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Olivier Fayard

Partner

Olivier Fayard is a Marketing and Strategy expert. He held executive roles at leading retailers, marketing services and retail services corporations. He also founded a consulting agency dedicated to retail that he managed for 11 years before being acquired by CA COM Group. 

Within the CA COM group, he led the CA Solutions BU (marketing automation and multi-channel publishing solutions) before taking charge of the Group's international development. Olivier is a Board Member of the Digital Transformation, Marketing and Strategy Master of EM Lyon.

Previous roles :

COO of CA COM Group – Leading communication group in the retail industry
Co-founder of REDSIDE – Consulting agency dedicated to retail
Chief Communication Officer of Casino Group (Leading French retailer)
Chief Marketing Officer of Media Trade (High Co Group)
Business Development Director of Gutenberg On-Line (DDB)
Business Development Director of Club Med
Marketing Director at Casino Group


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Philippe Finkelstein

Partner

Philippe founded his own company in 1988, the Altavia Group, which specialized in marketing services for retailers ($800M revenues in 2009 and 1400 employees). For 20 years he coordinated the development of Altavia’s subsidiaries in Europe and Asia. He also provided support to clients as they expanded abroad. Since 2009, he has lived and worked in New York as an Advisor and Investor in the Tech ecosystem.


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Meredith Bergman

Strategy Consultant

Meredith Bergman is a recent graduate at the State University of New York at Oneonta, where she completed a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Economics and Marketing.

Along with her schoolwork, she participated and presented at the AMA (American Marketing Association) National Conference in New Orleans this past Spring. She helped her school place 6th overall out of 350 national chapters, presenting her work on the Cotton Inc. Case Study, developing a new marketing outline for the company. Meredith was also selected to be a presenter two years in a row in the College Federal Reserve Challenge where she, along with her team, analyzed economic data and recommended appropriate monetary policy in front of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She was a semi-finalist in the competition.