Born In France.
Shaped Across Cultures.
I have lived most of my adult life elsewhere.
Three decades in operating roles across the U.S., Europe, and Asia—leading businesses, rebuilding organizations, managing transitions, and making decisions before certainty arrived. I have run global teams, led restructurings and turnarounds, and worked in markets where the familiar playbook does not translate and cultural fluency matters as much as strategic clarity.
But this site is not a corporate biography. It is where I am building a body of work about pressure, strength, identity, judgment, relationships, money, time, and what still holds when the structures that once carried a life begin to shift.
When the stakes are real
My professional life was built inside technology: strategy, execution, customers, employees, money, conflict, and consequence.
I know what it means to carry responsibility when the information is incomplete and the decision still has to be made.
Responsibility builds capacity. It also teaches you to distinguish authority, performance, stature, and the quieter forms of strength that remain when titles and roles no longer explain everything.
Between Worlds
America became my country. France remained part of my formation. I speak English and French, and conversational Mandarin. I never lost my accent, and I never entirely lost the European habits of thought that shaped me.
I spent many years living and working in Asia, especially Taiwan — long enough to operate beyond the expat bubble, which is a different thing from working internationally.
Living between cultures taught me to observe more carefully, listen for what is not being said, and rely less on easy belonging. The room changes. The language changes. The rules change. What matters is what remains continuous as you move through them.
Tempered by Iron
I have been strength training since age 17. Not as a productivity habit adopted later in life. Not as a midlife reinvention project. Not as a brand accessory.
It has been a foundational practice running parallel to everything else — through corporate moves, cross-continental relocations, fatherhood, divorce, illness, financial risk, rebuilding, and age.
The gym taught me something that later became central to the work: pressure reveals structure. Weak forms show themselves. Stronger ones are built slowly, through repetition, correction, humility, and time.
I have never let any single identity fully contain me. Not executive. Not immigrant. Not athlete. Not father. Not author. Not any one country, title, role, or room.
Now in my 60s, I am not interested in pretending to be young. I am interested in remaining structurally sound.
The Work
A few years ago, a scan found a malignant tumor on my kidney. Surgery was fast. Recovery did not move as fast as I wanted. That period clarified something I had already sensed: some structures in a life are actually load-bearing, and others only appear to be.
Around that same time, I began pursuing a Master of Architecture and found the discipline resonant in ways I had not anticipated: proportion, restraint, load, structure, foundations, failure points, and the difference between what supports and what decorates.
LOAD-BEARING LIFE: Strengthening the Parts of Yourself That Carry the Greatest Weight, forthcoming from Greenleaf Book Group in spring 2027, draws on all of it: operating under pressure, physical discipline, cultures and languages, illness, rebuilding, and the search for what remains solid when familiar measures of success begin to lose authority.
The book, the Notes, and the Plates are different forms of the same inquiry: what holds under pressure, and what does not.
Not as advice. Not as a system. As structural thinking applied to a life.