Brice Jacques Jean le Bihan

- Conducting in-depth market analyses to uncover trends, identify business opportunities, and map competitive landscapes.
- Analyzing and synthesizing complex data into actionable insights to drive business growth and operational efficiency.
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including R&D, Business Development, and Operations, to devise and execute effective business strategies.
- Coordinating with leading US university professors for lab and field trials, sourcing secondary data to strengthen research and development efforts.
- Creating comprehensive reports, interactive dashboards, and regular presentations to inform and guide stakeholders, including the CEO, on strategic business development initiatives.
- Developing business plans and financial models (P&L) to support strategic goals and investment proposals.
- US and Switzerland grant scouting to fund and accelerate growth initiatives.

- Providing start-ups with business development services.
- Relationship Management of potential investors - including angel investors, venture capitalists and asset managers.
- Engage in strategy calls and meetings to set initial strategies with assigned clients.

Prospecting - Acquiring leads - First conversations - Converting

Portfolio companies:
- AIDock (Customs AI software) is an innovative AI-powered platform to streamline and optimize supply chain processes. Leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms, AiDock automates manual tasks, reduces operational costs, and enhances decision-making capabilities.
- Behaviour Lab (Finance software) offers analytics and decision-making processes for asset management, investments, private equity, and insurance firms.
- Jubaan (Babytech - Medical), a non invasive, diagnostics medical device to detect and predict colorectal adenomas.
- (...)

CRM: Monday.com

- Co-organisation of 2023 early-stage program, assuring smoothness of operations for 1000+ pitch presentations of startups in their respective industries (foodtech, agritech, healthtech, AI/ML, fintech, proptech, IoT, Saas and deeptech).
- Acting as primary contact for 20 startups, being between startups and the entrepreneurship program as well as partners, mentors or juges.
- Co-organisation of demo-days at partners' headquarters (Nestlé R&D, Bühler, DSM-Firmenich, Givaudan, SüdZucker)
- Co-organisation of lectures (64) on pitching, raising funds, patents, MVP, product market fit, B2B sales, lean management, peoples management, valuation methods, scaling-up strategy...
- Co-organisation of pitching club/class (every friday), and pitching in front on VCs (Arto AG, VI Partners, ICOS Capital, Emerald Ventures, Swisspost Ventures, Clean Energy Ventures, Una Terra VC, Vita VC)

Software usage:
- Hubspot
- Zoom webinar (pro)
- Asana
- Canva (pro)

Skills: Presentations · Business Ideas · White Papers · Business Analysis · Marketing Communications · English · Sales Presentations · Venture Capital · Partner Relationship Management · Live Events · Event Management · Project Management

Live online and in-person event coordinator:
- Speaker briefing, explaining platform and best practices (public speaking, live event phone and web app)
- Managing live interactivity, notifications, Q&A, email automation, live sessions
- Pre-event and during-event client relationship
- Post event client feedback presentation (metrics and insights: participant engagement, participation etc)
- Structuring web and phone application
- Content uploading