Hello everyone!

In this fourth week of confinement, we continue our portrait gallery.

Today, it's the turn of Stéphane Blanc (class of 1998), Purchasing Director at Picard, to share his experience of managing his frozen food distribution company during this health crisis.

The school is also getting involved, offering you a 1-month opportunity to find out how to structure and build an innovative project, by taking its award-winning Mooc Creative Box(FREE!). For further information and registration, see the following Newsletter.

In Friday's edition, we announced our intention to set up online alumni testimonials and streaming of video modules proposed by the community.

To help youfind out more about this initiative, you can follow the daily programs created by our partner"Videoflex" on their Youtube channel. For more information, see the next section of this newsletter.

Finally, this newsletter is an opportunity to pay tribute to Catherine Patier-Charbonnier (88), a lecturer at ESSCA and head ofInnoview. It was she who cameup with the idea of these regular testimonials on behalf of her company innoview.

She initiated this approach at the very start of the crisis, and was able to gather a wealth of feedback from alumni and others.

You can read one of her interviews(Alain Liault (76) - CEO of Celio furniture) below. You can also subscribe to his mailing list(catherine.patier@innoview.fr) to receive his daily publications directly, or find them and follow his news on his LinkedIn page.

Enjoy your reading, and see you on Thursday for issue no. 3 and new testimonials and initiatives.


Patrick Bouillet

Managing Director
ESSCA Alumni