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Yves Cornu
FACIL'iti
Managing Director
Presentation
Yves Cornu is Managing Director of FACIL’iti and Vice-President of France's Foreign Trade Advisors in New Aquitaine. With a literary university education (Sorbonne 1985-1990), he resumed his studies at EM Lyon in 2008 (MBA). After a first part of his career in mass distribution (KIABI) he took over the management of a historic silk weaving company in the Lyon region and made it evolve to restructure it, taking it from the 19th to the 21st century. , reposition it on innovative export markets (30% of turnover in China and Brazil) before reselling it. His functions as Vice-President of France's Trade Advisors made him meet Frédéric Sudraud during the conception of FACIL'iti and he decided to join this adventure and use his network to position the start-up at the level worldwide and, for example, to open a subsidiary in Japan from the first year of existence. Yves Cornu is CEO of this subsidiary.
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