Quentin

Originally from Le Touquet in northern France, Quentin started playing field hockey at a young age, a sport he still plays, and became a French international player. He also explored music and other sports. At 18, he began serving as an army reservist, a commitment he would continue for around fifteen years. His educational path then wound through science, geography, urban planning, environmental engineering and business school. This dual expertise enables him to engage with industry by connecting environmental issues, management and economic realities. He does not follow a predetermined path: he tries, learns, changes environments and looks for what can help him progress.

After his studies, Quentin worked in several industrial sectors, including waste, chemicals, and oil, then spent around ten years in consulting. In 2018, he took part in the transition of French industrial sites located in overseas territories. He then joined OVHcloud, which offered him the opportunity to help create an industrial risk management department. For the past four years, he has worked mainly from Roubaix within the Industrial Risk Compliance teams. His role is to structure practices, improve compliance, and build a coherent view of risks across facilities. He identifies hazards, assesses scenarios, and coordinates the necessary expertise to put control measures in place.

Quentin does not see his non-linear path as a flaw, but as a strength. His experience in sport, the military, education, industry and consulting allows him to approach the same problem from different angles. This enables him to compare approaches, step back from a team's habits and propose new solutions.

His journey has nevertheless been marked by hardship. In particular, a serious accident kept him away from working life for a year. Today, Quentin walks with a leg prosthesis, without this diminishing his drive, his ambitions or his professional convictions. Determined, he keeps moving forward and looking for ways to bring his projects to life.

Quentin’s advice comes down to two ideas: trust yourself and dare to try. Making a decision always carries the possibility of being wrong, but mistakes can become a source of learning. He encourages young people to try, to adjust their direction, and not to let a negative answer decide for them. In his own path, he has often bounced back when the job, the management, or the working conditions no longer matched what mattered to him.