Maria Garrido - EVP, Brand, Lacoste
Colgate-Palmolive hired Maria Garrido in 1997 as one of four international candidates in its Global Management Program. She stayed 13 years. From Mexico City, she ran $200 million in fabric care sales and grew them 34%, then managed dish liquid brands with a 42% share of market from Paris. At Mondelēz, she led the European consolidation of a biscuit brand with $600 million in net sales. Havas made her global chief insights and analytics officer. She also ran Havas X, the group's innovation practice for data science and AI. Deezer was her CMO chapter. From November 2022 to May 2026, Garrido led more than 130 people and a double-digit million-euro budget, relaunched the brand, and created a B2B marketing function. She reversed a five-year decline in market share and drove a 10% gain in incremental revenue, with work that earned twelve global awards for design, innovation, and campaign performance. She joined Lacoste as EVP of brand in July 2026. Garrido has presided over the Entertainment Jury at Cannes Lions and sits on the boards of Havas and Carmila. She also runs Terranam Wellness, a retreat business in an 18th-century manor in Galicia, Spain.
Bastien Meaux - CMO, DialOnce
Each year, 150 CFOs and accounting directors from SBF 120 companies gather at r², the customer event Bastien Meaux created at Runview. He joined the fintech in 2017 to build its marketing department and later took on business development too. The budget was modest. With €175,000 a year, Meaux published more than 120 pieces of content, placed 18 keywords in the top three search results, and ran the ABM campaign that won a TotalEnergies deal in 2024. He led Runview's 2021 rebrand and sat on its executive committee. ComptaSecure, one of the company's two brands, reached 2,000 active users alongside a partnership with l'Ordre des Experts-Comptables. He has been CMO of DialOnce since June 2024. Outside work, he invests in Team for the Planet, which aims to raise €1 billion to deploy 100 climate innovations.
Jérémie Renault - CMO, Notify AI
Jérémie Renault spent six years as chief creative officer at Armstrong Agency before moving to the brand side. HPB brought him in to run corporate communications and operational marketing for its retail brands, among them Gap France, La Grande Récré, and Go Sport. At Camaieu, he went from managing the in-house content factory to directing marketing and image strategy. The department numbered 43. Its seven teams handled customer knowledge, retail marketing, brand, art buying, content, window displays, and social media. His tenure brought a replatforming, a rebrand, and an award-winning campaign. Renault became CMO of Notify AI in January 2023, with a seat on the executive committee and ownership of brand, performance marketing, and the go-to-market map. The company grew 70% that year.
Jean-Christophe Pitié - CMO & Chief Partner Officer, Contentsquare
Moving Microsoft Office to the cloud was a multiyear project. Jean-Christophe Pitié helped lead it. As general manager of worldwide product marketing for Office 365 consumer and B2B, based in Seattle, he ran channel distribution, offers, and pricing for consumer and small business segments, a multibillion-dollar business in more than 190 markets. Revenue per PC and Mac grew six years running. He then headed Microsoft's international digital stores, with a team of more than 100 overseeing Microsoft.com, Xbox, and Windows storefronts. His 22 years at the company began in Paris, in consulting and solution sales, and included three years as marketing director for Office in France. In 2020 he returned to Paris as chief operating officer. Contentsquare named him CMO and chief partner officer in October 2023, with a remit to drive customer demand worldwide and grow its partner ecosystem. Long before Microsoft, Pitié set up pre-sales and services in France and Germany for B2Build, a 28-person construction e-purchasing startup.
Pascal Condamine - CMO, Craft AI
Before he marketed enterprise AI, Pascal Condamine was Indiegogo's main representative in Europe, helping more than 500 entrepreneurs shape crowdfunding campaigns that raised over $5 million. Scaleway hired him in 2020 to design and launch Scaleway for Startups. The community grew past 1,500 startups. As VP of startups, Condamine led a 14-person team in Europe, signed more than 150 partnerships with incubators, accelerators, and VCs, and contributed to an international expansion into eight new regions. Craft AI, a French company focused on industrial, responsible, and sovereign AI, made him CMO in May 2025. His mandate is to turn trust in enterprise AI into qualified pipeline. He created Orchestr'IA, a flagship event held under the High Patronage of President Emmanuel Macron, and published L'IA utile, ici et maintenant (Useful AI, Here and Now), a book with contributions from 40 business leaders. Demand generation has produced more than 1,000 leads. His three-person team also rebuilt craft.ai without an agency.
Catherine Paitel Révillon - Group CMO, Eudonet
At Generix, marketing sourced 60% of new business under Catherine Paitel Révillon. She joined the private equity-backed SaaS provider as CMO in 2019 and sat on its executive committee. Organic traffic rose 40% within three months of a digital overhaul. She also built a new corporate brand platform, with mission, vision, and values, and tied it to employer branding. Her team of 15 covered the group, France, and North America, with five more marketers reporting through a matrix in Benelux, Brazil, Spain, Italy, and Portugal. Account-based work runs deep in her background. At Unisys, she ran dedicated programs for Air France and Orange. CGI later had her building marketing for EDF, ENGIE, Total, and Orange before she became its France marketing director. Eudonet named her group CMO in October 2025.
Julie Delcourt - CMO, Jint
Mozzaik365 first brought in Julie Delcourt as a part-time, fractional CMO in June 2024. Seven months later, the job was permanent. The company, now called Jint, sells an AI-powered digital workplace for Microsoft 365 users. Delcourt came to it through her own consultancy, which has served more than 100 clients in fields from generative AI and cybersecurity to carbon reduction, healthtech, and IoT. Tessan, which makes augmented telemedicine devices for pharmacies, nurses, and communities, hired her as fractional CMO during a management transition. Her toolkit leans hands-on. It runs from ABM and automated outreach to lead scoring, data enrichment, and web scraping, built on more than a decade as a marketing director. Before consulting, she was CMO of Digital Blue Foam in 2023.
Caroline Daudeteau - CMO, datacraft
An escape game that teaches data science is one of the products Caroline Daudeteau oversees at datacraft. As CMO since November 2023, she also runs its club for chief data officers, AI and generative AI training with Sorbonne Université, and tech events ranging from executive days to hackathons and Kaggle competitions. That club started as her own. Daudeteau launched Data Community for CDOs and senior data decision-makers. It later joined datacraft. Community building ran through her earlier role too. At AID, which became AI&DATA, she led a rebrand, created two communities that brought together 230 data and customer experience leaders, and ran the Turing Club for data market players. She also marketed two software products, datakili and the customer data platform UNIXIA. Her data career spans 25 years, including 15 at agencies, with stops at Havas Media and Société Générale.
Patrick Chambeau - Chief Marketing & Communications Officer, Exaion
Patrick Chambeau ran brand and communications at OVHcloud through its IPO on Euronext. His four years there also covered four acquisitions and a communications plan for a group operating in 140 countries. He managed brand, PR, events, and social media with a team of 50 and led crisis communications. Financial markets shaped the decade before. Chambeau was marketing director for EMEA at IPC Systems, which builds technology for financial markets, and VP of brand and communications at Etrali Trading Solutions, an IT integrator for trading communications. He also headed global communications at Orange Business Services. His career began on the agency side as an account lead, running product launches and above- and below-the-line campaigns. Exaion named him chief marketing and communications officer in March 2026, with a seat on the COMEX.
Alice Grasset - CMO, Partoo
Alice Grasset joined Salesforce as a marketing assistant for Southern Europe in 2013 and left a decade later as head of marketing for EMEA Growth Markets. Her programs delivered 30% to 50% year-over-year pipeline growth for eight consecutive years. Events were central to the job. She ran online and in-person gatherings of up to 5,000 attendees and served as a keynote speaker and certified press spokesperson. An earlier stint in developer relations had her hosting three technical webinars a month in three languages for the UK, Germany, and France. After Salesforce, Grasset founded AG Marketing, a boutique agency for startups and scale-ups, and spent seven months as interim head of global field marketing at Aircall. Partoo, an all-in-one local marketing platform, hired her as CMO in September 2024.
Rooms, Pipelines, and Brands
Few of these careers stayed in one lane. Agency creatives moved in-house, sales managers became product marketers, and brand managers ended up running insights and innovation practices. What ties the group together is a habit of proof. Leads, pipeline, market share, and revenue appear on nearly every record, next to rebrands and events built to bring customers into the room. That pairing of in-person reach and hard numbers serves companies selling complex technology well.