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BIOGRAPHIES
Melanie Septe
Head of Pricing
&CPQ Product Owner
After beginning her career in an advertising and relational marketing agency, Mélanie Septe spent 7 years at Bouygues Telecom as Product Marketing Manager.
She then joined the world of software publishers and joined the Pricing team at the international level. She currently leads the Pricing team at CEGID and also chairs the Salesforce CPQ & Billing Users Club.
Mélanie is also a member of the Pricing Club's Board of Advisors.
Andrea Merati
Regional Pricing Expert
Andrea Merati has over 20 years of experience in technical sales roles in different industries, from 3D CAD to automation, always focused on process optimization.
Andrea holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering MBA
Francois Lenne
Group Pricing Director
François has devoted most of his professional career to Pricing and has 20 years of experience in the business.
After 5 years as a Pricing analyst in the industry, he joined Office Depot to occupy a position of Pricing Manager for 15 years. Three and a half years ago, François joined the Manutan Group as Head of Pricing.
These different positions give him the opportunity to respond to many strategic and operational challenges, such as price optimization and customer price perception, revenue development and margin improvement, support for sales teams around the subjects of profitability and price negotiation…
He evolves in both B2B/B2C, European, multi-channel market environments, with a strong appetite for transformation and organization projects.
Charles Rimbault
Taster
Charles is a graduate in financial engineering from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He began his career as a financial analyst in charge of financing strategy at Innovafeed, a bio-technology company producing alternative insect-based proteins. Passionate about wine, thanks in particular to family ties in Burgundy, he joined Pernod Ricard in 2022 to work on the long-term strategy of G.H. Mumm and Perrier Jouët, the Champagne Houses of the group.
Considering that wine is a fabulous vector of conviviality, he likes to share and transmit his passion through tastings.
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