The CYLAD Foundation is a corporate foundation created in 2012. The main objective of the Foundation is to promote social and professional integration, especially through support of entrepreneurial endeavors and training.
The firm’s partners created the Foundation to reflect the values of CYLAD. The Foundation embodies the partners’ willingness to contribute to equal opportunities and enable everyone to achieve their personal and professional ambitions.
To meet this objective, the CYLAD Foundation provides consulting time and financial help to non-profit associations supporting the development of businesses.
With the creation of its corporate foundation, CYLAD is committed to retain core values of solidarity of both its founders and its workforce.
The Foundation concretely operates through team involvement in both operating tasks and supported projects.
Rigor in methodology, in-depth problem analysis, project-specific recommendations: these are the distinguished standards of quality shared by each of our consultants.
The expertise and professionalism of the Foundation members is always available to supported associations and projects.
At CYLAD, entrepreneurship stands for the willingness and ability to innovate. It also includes developing the activities and competitiveness of its clients.
The Foundation believes that entrepreneurship is a means of social and professional integration which is its main purpose.
Associations supported by CYLAD Foundation should fulfill the following premises:
The Foundation provides financial and material support to the associations which it supports. Funds are validated by the Board once a year.
In addition to financial support, CYLAD Foundation aims to commit itself and be actively involved in Réseau Entreprendre activities. Foundation members take part in candidates’ selection processes.
The aim of Réseau Entreprendre is to target promising projects that could create employment.
CYLAD Foundation has signed the Corporate Patronage Charter written by ADMICAL (association of public utility for patronage in France for 35 years).
The Corporate Patronage Charter aims at gathering the actors of corporate patronage around ethics and values of the patronage including:
Adie is a non-profit organization helping people with financial difficulties to create their own business and therefore their own employment through microcredit.
Adie main actions are :
Le Cœur des Entreprises is a philanthropic fund launched in 2021 by a group of committed business leaders from the Toulouse region. Their mission: pool their resources, networks, and energy to make a meaningful local impact for people facing hardship.
The organization acts as a bridge between the business community and local nonprofits to address key social challenges in the Toulouse area, through three main initiatives:
Employee volunteering and community engagement
Temporary housing solutions
Professional reintegration programs
Entourage is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting social exclusion by rebuilding supportive networks for people experiencing isolation and marginalization. Its work focuses particularly on professional reintegration and access to sports activities.
The CYLAD Foundation partners with Entourage through initiatives such as:
Awareness workshops for consultants on issues related to social vulnerability
Participation in solidarity-based activities
The Board consists of 8 members, including among others, three CYLAD Consulting Partners and 3 external members who are competent in the Foundation’s areas of impact and share its values.
Bertrand Parmentier
Chairman of the Foundation
Bertrand Parmentier - Chairman of the Foundation
Bertrand Parmentier spent a significant portion of his career at the Pierre Fabre Group. Beginning his career at the pharmaceutical company as the CFO, he then temporarily spent a stint away at Latécoère, where he held the position of Managing Director & CFO and then Chairman of the Board. However, after the death of Mr. Fabre, Bertrand returned to the Pierre Fabre Group to take over as the General Manager of the company, as well as sit on the Board of Directors of Pierre Fabre Participations.
Paul Archer
Partner / France
Paul Archer - Responsible for the Foundation
Paul Archer founded Cylad Consulting S.A.S. together with Sébastien Chaussoy in 2007. He began his career at Astrium as R & D leader in composites for 5 years. He then moved on to Strategy & Management Consulting by joining A.T. Kearney and Capgemini Consulting.
Laurence Massat
Partner / France
Sébastien Chaussoy
Partner / France
Olivier Paget
Partner / France
Guillaume Levrey
Member of Foundation board
Marie Campagnole
Member of Foundation board
Camille Brial
Senior Consultant
Antoine Palacio
Experienced consultant
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