Professionals
A team of management specialists which works in association with the currrent company management. Zalis' managers have experience of 10 to 20 years of turnaround management. Included in the team : CFO, HR, Sales Managers, R&D or Technical managers, lawyers...
 Daniel Cohen
Strategy Expert. President & Founder of ZALIS Daniel Cohen has more than 18 years professional experience. He founded Zalis at the end of 2001. Through 15 engagements, he has developed a reputation for successful turnaround of troubled companies. Daniel's reputation is based on a wide range of expertise covering technical aspects right through to financial business aspects. Most recently, he has been involved with:
Previously, Daniel headed various technology companies ranging from medium to large size. He created several companies and subsidiaries with Growth Phase Management, Acquisitions and Mergers, structuring for IPO; in the sectors of: Video Games, Multimedia, Software and Computing Services Companies, Technologies, Imagery, Audiovisual, Communications… Those companies gave him the hands-on experience of dealing with units of 10 to 500 employees. Daniel holds a Master of Electronics and a Master of Automatics & Robotics. He has written technical books and articles about management. He also teaches Masters Students in Bordeaux and Paris (Financial, Risk Management, and Project Management). |
 Eric Le Mer
Director of Operations. (Experience: 20 years) Eric Le Mer (X71) has a vast experience in turnaround and restructuring of Software and Computing Services Companies, of the industry, of SMEs as well as of large groups. Eric is a specialist in high technology (Telecom, Aeronautics and Information Technologies) in an international environment:
Eric joined Zalis in 2002 where he started with the reorganization of the Sales Management of a Software and Computing Services company. Then he monitored various consulting assignments. Prior to this, Eric held responsibilities at a very high level within major groups: ALCATEL ALSTHOM (85-88); SYSECA (80-85) before joining THALES (88-96) where he was in charge of the RITA program turnaround, before becoming General Manager of the Training & Simulation Division (USA and UK). He worked on the expansion of INTERTECHNIQUE (96-97) through mergers and acquisitions. Then, in his capacity as CEO, he tripled the turnover of SYNTEGRA (97-01), a Software and Computing Services company, a subsidiary of BT plc. In 2001 he rescued the Internet start-up UKIBI before joining Zalis. Eric graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (X71) and of Sup Aéro; he also holds a PhD in Mathematics. |
 Ivan Maltcheff
Human Resources Director (Experience: 20 years) Ivan Maltcheff has more than 20 years professional experience in Human Resources. He joined the Zalis team in 2002. He has been involved in Zalis main contracts. For Zalis, he has headed various HR missions during turnaround and restructuring operations. He has headed many restructuring and redundancy plans. He has hired hundreds of people. He is specialised in building incentive plans. Ivan's reputation is based on a wide range of expertise covering change management, incentive plans, coaching, complex systems,… Most recently, he has been involved with:
Previously, Ivan was the Human Resources Director in different companies: Kalisto; Biorad; Sanofi Pasteur; Konica; Jeans C17. These companies gave him the hands on experience of dealing with companies from 300 to 2000 employees on French and International operations. Ivan holds a Corporate Legislation Master, and a Management of Human Resources Master. He has written articles about management and HR, and was the co-author in 2005 of a book on team management in learning organizations. |
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John Lloyd Executive Manager John Lloyd has more than 20 years of professional experience in executive management. He joined the Zalis team at the beginning of 2008 and works mainly in the business-to-business services sector. As well as turnarounds and restructuring, he specialises in mergers and acquisitions and logistics and supply chain management. Most recently he was Chief Restructuring Officer and then Chairman of the CAT group (automotive logistics). He has ten years of international board level experience, and broad international experience in operational, commercial, strategic and financial management. He previously worked for Hays Logistics, TDG group, Schlumberger and Ernst & Young. In these various positions he has led several successful turnaround and restructuring missions, including:
John graduated with a degree in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Birmingham (U.K.) in 1978 and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1981. |
 Chris Thompson
Head of Executive Coaching. (Experience: 20 years) Management & Organisation Development Consultant Chris Thompson has more than 25 years professional experience in Human Resources. He currently specializes in strategy development, leadership, organizational development and talent management, both in a teaching and consulting capacity. Chris is currently a freelance consultant working out of Paris where he has lived since 1974. He joined the Zalis team in 2002. Over the last 5 years, he has helped to build the team, coached Daniel Cohen and run Zalis seminars. He is involved in the creation of the Zalis methodology and processes. Recently he has played a crucial role in Zalis missions. Prior to that, from 1991-2000 Chris was HR Development Manager for Microsoft EMEA and started the Microsoft Employee Survey in the EMEA region, the succession planning process and ran the cross-border high potential leadership development program. In DEC France, he ran the management development group, and started the international training function in ACCOR. He graduated with a B.A. in Theoretical Linguistics from York University (UK) and thereafter taught in universities in Sweden and France before doing a M.B.A. and moving into management education. |
 Roland de Conihout
Director of Operations (Experience: 20 years) Roland de Conihout has more than 20 years professional experience in executive management. He directed several reconciliation operations (transfers, mergers & acquisitions). Today he specializes in Strategy and Management of Outsourcing projects in the industry sector as well as for local authorities and specialized operators. Since 2002 Roland has been very involved in the development of the Zalis methodology (management rules, projects and risks management) as well as in the follow-up and the development of the method. Since 2005, Roland has been working on the strategic aspects of one of Zalis assignments concerning the development of a consulting firm which specializes in project management and services. His operational assistance is dedicated to the implementation of the commercial organization. Beforehand Roland worked as Development and Strategy Director of STERIA INFOGERANCE, since the takeover by the STERIA Group in July 2000 of Experian IT Outsourcing activities for which he was Executive Vice-President. Roland is a specialist of IT Outsourcing activities where he started to work in the 70s as General Director, then President of Méthodes et Informatique, a subsidiary of Bull since 1990, specialized in Facilities Management and of Secours Informatique that later became Intégris. Roland holds a Master of Economic Sciences and a Master of Business Administration of the Institut de Contrôle de Gestion (Business Management Information Control). |
 Dominique Patard
Internet Expert and Director of Operations. (Experience: 15 years) As an external partner, he heads New Technologies consulting missions. International Executive MBA (Paris, New-York 2002), He founded Trackbusters, one of the leaders of the Web positioning Market. He has headed several missions for Zalis SAS. |
 Jean-Paul Vautrey
Executive Manager Jean-Paul Vautrey has more than 20 years professional experience in executive management of ITC Services Companies (CapGemini Telco & Media; Dassault non defense Electronics Company; Atos global Systems Integration Division; T-Systems France (Telco & IT Services Companies). He joined Zalis at the beginning of 2007 and is responsible for the missions in the “Services” sector. Most recently he has been in charge of the development of “Information System” practice. In these various positions, he led and successfully managed significant turnaround and/or restructuring challenges:
Jean-Paul graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (1969) and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (1972). He holds a Master degree in Economics - University of Paris Sorbonne (1972). |
 Jean-François Habert
Administrative and Financial Director Jean-François Habert has more than 20 years professional experience in the Administrative and Financial Management of international groups. Since 2005 he has been working on the financial aspect of Zalis’ main assignments. Jean- François is particularly talented at handling numbers and succeeds in modeling complex financial systems very quickly. He has modelized the activities of all the companies we have worked for. He is particularly experienced in real estate, hotel trade, and the services industry. More recently Jean-François was involved in the following assignments:
Beforehand Jean-François had been Administrative and Financial Director for various companies: Groupe Concept (3 years), Division Tourism/Leisure of the group Sodexho (4 years), Groupe Bernard Tapie (2 years); Avia-Urbaine des Pétroles (Group Elf-Aquitaine, 5 years). Jean-François graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (1978); he is a Doctor in Sciences and Organizations (Paris IX Dauphine 1981), holds a DESS Sciences Economiques (Paris II Assas 1980) and a DECS (1980). |
 Louis Mercier
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