The person you work with
Architect by training, business development director by trade, founder since 2018. I built the products, brands and pipelines on this site myself, and I will build yours. No account managers, no hand-offs.
The story
I trained as an architect and spent the first years of my career inside practices, which is why I understand the people I now work for: they sell expertise, they are judged on the quality of the work, and they are too busy delivering it to sell it.
I became Business Development Director for Europe at a Dutch architecture practice, where I built a French-speaking division that delivered about 30% of the firm's growth from new markets. Before that I had filled a new London hotel, The Hoxton in Shoreditch, to 80% occupancy within three months of launch. Those two numbers taught me the two halves of this job: a pipeline is built, not waited for, and a launch is a campaign, not a date.
I founded Fearless Horizons in 2018 to do that work for firms that cannot hire a growth director of their own. Since then I have launched coaching and education brands, SERHANT among them; built a podcast and an advertising business for a Dubai design-media platform; run a Saudi CEO's campaign for the HEC Mercure Award 2026; specified and launched a proptech app for an Australian property-management firm; reframed a Toronto practice's pitch for its first foreign market; and built my own software for architecture and engineering tenders. I also teach international business development at IE Business School in Madrid. When a firm needs more than a project, I join the team as a fractional COO or CSO, two to five hours a week.
I was raised between France, Italy and Gabon and have worked in seven countries. I sell in English, French and Italian, and cover Spanish and Portuguese markets with local partners. That is the added value, more than any method: I design the product, the brand, the message and the approach for the culture that will buy it, because I have lived and sold in those cultures myself.
I do the work rather than advise on it. You get one senior partner from first idea to first clients, at home or in a new market, and you always know exactly what you are getting and when.
Where
Lisbon · Paris. Clients in ten markets across Europe, the Gulf and North America.
Writing
The International Expansion Manual, a newsletter on how firms in our industries grow into new markets: the Anchor vs Slipstream model, the Freezer / Panicker / Restructurer archetypes, the 5-column pipeline. Subscribe on LinkedIn →
How I work
Every engagement starts with the strategy step, sized to the job: an hour for a profile, a two-session workshop for a launch or a new market. It is the only way to tell you which modules you need, and the one step I never skip.
Every module has a defined scope, a fixed price and two revision rounds. Invoiced on kick-off and on delivery. You see work, not status reports.
Brands and content are built from your work and your words. I do not generate images or video with AI unless you cannot provide the material and we agree to it first.
Start something
Book a call. No deck, no pitch. An honest read on what you need next and whether I am the right person to do it.
info@fearlesshorizons.com