ValueQuest

Excellence in Financial Services

About ValueQuest

ValueQuest assists financial institutions on various issues: growth, digital, regulatory, operational effectiveness, change programs… Our « quest for value » has different meanings:
- We create value for our clients
- We bring added value in projects
- We embody strong values

In a sector which has become heavily complex and changing, we know that creating value requires a perfect knowledge of the challenges that financial services companies face and of the solutions they can implement. We have decided to be focused and specialized. Our consultants can therefore speak our clients’ language; they can form relevant views on the industry and on their business challenges.

To provide our clients with a good Top Management advice, we decided to recruit only consultants with a strong consulting background and a solid understanding of financial services business. Thanks to our consultant’s profile and personality, we can address business issues in banking and insurance from the most strategic challenges to the most operational details, and to face our clients’ most complex questions.

Key info
Founded in:
2015
Headquarters:
Paris
Size:
2-10
employees
Parity:
20% employees
80% employees
Stéphane
Partner

Stéphane graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and has more than 25 years consulting experience in the financial services industry. He made most of his career within leading and renowned consultancies (such as Bossard, BCG, Roland Berger, Kea) prior to founding ValueQuest in 2015. He does mainly operate in the fields of retail banking, specialized financial services and insurance on a broad range of topics: distribution strategy, multichannel management, improvement of customer journey or customer experience, operational efficiency, innovation management…

His motto: “bringing together business expertise, know-how, and interpersonal skills to succeed on projects!”

Stéphane L.
Partner

Stéphane graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees and has almost a 20-year experience in financial services in consulting and banking. After 5 years in the French Ministry of Transport and 6 years at McKinsey, he took managerial positions at Natixis in France and in the international network, where he was notably Head of Strategy. Before founding ValueQuest, he was Head of EMEA Emerging Countries in Natixis’ CIB. His areas of expertise include: CIB, Finance and Risks, international development, wealth management, on various topics: strategy, organization, change management, innovation management, regulatory…

Jérôme
Consultant

Consultant since graduating from HEC in 2000, Jerome worked for Gemini Consulting for three years and Kea & Partners for more than 12 years before joining ValueQuest in 2016.

Specialized in the financial services sector since 2004, Jerome operated on various contexts and issues ranging from cross-organizational / governance projects (IT, operational efficiency, innovation) to the implementation of strategic plans or the management of business challenges in large banking groups and for midsize players. Building on his broad experience, he is in particular providing expertise on “bancassurance” issues.

Frédéric C.
Partner

Frédéric graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and ENSAE (Statistics & Economics). After 7 years spent on various economic policy issues at the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Finance and the European Central Bank, he joined McKinsey & Co in 2000, and served clients in industry and financial institutions on operational improvement programs and various strategic issues, in particular M&A projects. In 2007, he founded a company in the renewable energy sector. Once his business had been taken over, he moved back to consulting in 2017, and joined ValueQuest in 2018. He is mostly active in Private Banking and Wholesale Banking on various transformation programs.

Martin
Manager

Graduted from EM LYON in 2000, Martin evolves for almost 20 years in financial services, as well in banking groups as in consultancies. After a first experience as a portfolio manager at Deutsche Bank, Martin joins Accenture where he has been involved in various consulting assignments, in particular the creation of a private bank within a large mutual banking group. Martin joins BPCE Group in 2006 where he held various positions in corporate functions at Natixis Wealth Management, Crédit Foncier or Natixis CIB. After an entrepreneurial adventure in robotics, Martin joins ValueQuest in january 2018. His fields of expertise cover in particular retail banking, wealth and asset management, corporate and investment banking on topics such as business transformation, project management, organization, innovation management, operating efficiency...

Flore
Senior Consultant

After obtaining her degree from the Institut d'Études Politiques in Economy and Finance, Flore has been working since 2013 as a consultant in the financial services industry. She acquired a specific expertise in Asset Management and in Insurance. She worked on various kinds of issues: customer relationship management, innovation, marketing, product design, business development, regulatory compliance, and large transformation programs (in particular post merger integrations).

We create value for our clients

Beyond concepts and our ability to innovate and design smart solutions, we are always primarily concerned by the impact we have in our engagements. We measure success of our projects based on demonstrated results, our ability to reach alignment, to foster team commitment, to generate momentum and change for the company

We bring added value in projects

Our teams combine consulting technical capabilities with knowledge of bank and insurance businesses. Our added value stems as much from the relevance of our recommendations and delivering expertise (« What ») as from our ability to understand the specifics and complexity of each organization to define the most appropriate implementation plans (« How »)

We embody strong values

Beyond know-how and sectorial expertise, our style of consulting aims to build with our clients’ management teams true proximity and trust. We give a primary importance to the human factor and we are committed to the highest standards of integrity, intellectual honesty and dedication in our professional behaviours

Headquarters
91 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Paris, 75008, France