Pierre Tachot

Super Novae (www.super-novae.org) is a non-profit organization specialized on economic empowerment in conflict-affected countries, with a focus on employability and entrepreneurship (15 million euros of projects in 3 years). Its founding members have long standing experience in conflict sensitive environment and benefit from a wide network of partners in country. Super Novae combines the best of human brains to technological solutions to implement impact-oriented projects which can be monitored on-line on real time. Super-Novae has implemented projects in Libya, Yemen and Gaza

As the Deputy Chief Executive Officer, I play a pivotal role in strategic leadership and operational management, contributing to the organization's mission of SuperNovae

• Strategic Planning and Development: Collaborated with CEO and senior leadership to develop and execute strategic plans aligned with the organization's mission and vision. Contributed insights and recommendations to drive organizational growth, sustainability, and impact.
• Operational Management: Oversaw day-to-day operations across multiple departments, ensuring efficiency, effectiveness, and alignment with organizational goals. Implemented best practices and procedures to enhance operational performance and streamline workflows.
• Partnership and Stakeholder Engagement: Cultivated and maintained strategic partnerships with stakeholders, including government agencies, NGOs, donors, and other key stakeholders. Leveraged these partnerships to expand organization's reach, influence, and funding opportunities.
• Financial Management: Provided oversight of financial management processes, including budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting. Ensured compliance with financial regulations and donor requirements, optimizing resource allocation and maximizing financial sustainability.
• Team Leadership and Development: Provided leadership and mentorship to a diverse team of professionals, fostering collaborative and inclusive work environment. Supported staff development initiatives to enhance skills, capabilities, and organizational effectiveness.
• Advocacy and Representation: Represented organization in high-level meetings, conferences, and forums, advocating for policy changes and promoting awareness of key issues related to the organization's mission. Acted as a spokesperson for the organization, effectively communicating its values, objectives, and impact to external stakeholders.

Management Level:

• Provide guidance to team management regarding all current and upcoming entrepreneurship activities
• Support team management in designing tailor-made activities to reach objectives, both quantitative and qualitative, in favor of entrepreneurs

Project Level:

EU4PSL: EU funded projects

C4: Design and implement 1 one-year entrepreneurship modules within 11 universities, implement Junior enterprises associations and work on educative online platform

• Liaise with French university (Lyon) to design a 1-year program
• Provide technical assistance to Libus manager (Marketing and content strategy)

C2: Design capacity building training and deliver courses for 6 to 8 civil society organizations to help them accompany women and youth entrepreneurs in remote areas of Libya.

Access to finance / Business angel network : set up the first Libyan’s business angel network. Design the technical assistance and work with European association of business angels. Choose the local partners to build the network and create a dynamic agenda to boost the ecosystem.

STREAM: UK funded project - Implementation of an incubator / accelerator in Tripoli

• Follow and provide technical support to Stream team to enhance services offered to entrepreneurs
• Provide technical support to entrepreneurs who benefited from grants to ensure sound management of grants. This could be either collective on-demand training's and/or individualized coaching
• Monitoring performance of grantees, in liaison with monitoring and evaluation officer

Social Entrepreneurship Initiative: UNICEF

• In partnership with other international partners, train trainers to set-up social entrepreneurship club within selected schools
• Ensure follow-up with teachers and replying to their technical questions

Raqam-e: French funded project: Implementation of coding academies in partnership with Libyan’s municipalities

• Design technical assistance (coding, digital expertise) with partners
• Provide technical support to coding schools who benefited from program.

IRAQ: technical assistance to local partners (incubator in Mosul and Baghdad)

• Follow and provide technical support to team to enhance services offered to entrepreneurs

NUMA empowers mission-driven tech entrepreneurs to solve the global problems of 2030 through a variety of activities: acceleration programs for startups, open innovation projects for corporates, events, training and coworking spaces for our communities.

• Responsible for running and managing unique business accelerator program that will support talented tech entrepreneurs.
• Liaise with different players of the ecosystem (universities, research, banks, public institutions)
• Sourcing perfect start ups to join the accelerator
• Designing and implementing robust communications strategy to promote the program
• Designing and executing business plan
• High level workshop and event facilitation
• Linking program participants with potential investors

- Recruiting the team of experts to coach the start ups.

- On-going mentorship of program participants

- Build roadmap that will boost start ups business (and make sure the roadmap is executed)

- Worked with 30 start

• Coach and jury during the Start-Up Week
• Conducted entrepreneurship courses (25 hours)

Nexchange is à venture builder and media platform specialising in Blockchain, Fintech, AI, Healthtech and smart cities.

• Assist Founder in drafting investors' presentation
• Build new and cross-functional team in NYC/London/HK (set objectives/define roles/select right team members/adopt right leadership style)
• Brand ambassador - meet the industry to tell our story / get feedback (Clients included asset managers/ banks / hedge funds / associations / PR ...)
• Build partnerships to increase brand awareness (associations / media / event companies)
• Create events to build the brand and generate revenues
• Assist the strategic plan/product development/content/revenue generation
• Set up a well-established online presence/highly-engaged network

An innovative subscription publication that analyses the investment activities of institutional investors in France.

• Conduct SWOT analysis to assess the project

Raise money to launch the business

• Recruit, lead and motivate a professional team to achieve team targets (administrative, sales, journalists)
• Create and maintain partnership with main French industry associations
• Write articles about the investment needs of institutional investors
• Speak with institutional investors, consultants and PR agencies to design editorial content
• Maximize revenues by selling subscriptions, ads, round table, events (200 sales meeting in 12 months)
• Manage production process, keeping within deadlines and budgets
• Creation/development of a well established award "Les Couronnes InstitInvest"