Virginie Poncet - After 15 years as a business consultant for high profile international firms (CSC, Accenture, etc), Virginie Poncet has launched a start up in 2000 to transform SME customer relationship management, her missions during that period mostly based in the United Kingdom and the United States. She joined Bpifrance in 2002 where managed the development team of IT projects before moving on to manage and pilot the business analyst team. In 2013, Virginie took on the international consulting activities, a unique innovative practice within the Bank. 

This consulting activity aims at supporting foreign governments and organizations involved in SME development in the acquirement of best practices to create a fertile economic environment. The goal is to spread Bpifrance’s experience and knowledge with worldwide clients (Greece, Morocco, Tunisia, Belgium, Egypt, Senegal…). Virginie Poncet also contributes to the EU projects dedicated to Innovation and SME development throughout Europe.

Being an engineer herself, she is also member of the EPF (engineering college) research council, defining the research policy of the laboratory.