NEXUS

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WE ARE A HUB

AGILITY, CREATIVITY, AND RESPONSIVENESS:

OUR APPROACH

TO YOUR INTERNATIONAL AMBITIONS

Nexus benefits from a wide range of skills and an extended network that we use to serve our clients' projects. While being entrepreneurially-driven, our team's corporate experience and public-relations savvy help respond in an efficient and creative way to your challenges. We bring solutions that combine broad, strategic understanding and methodical implementation.

Here are some of the organizations we have been proud to serve.

Strategic advisory

Our advisory services cover a range of issues facing corporations vying for a broader or deeper international footprint.

Our strategic analyses decipher the institutional setting in which companies must evolve, the choice of their local partners and the definition of their communication with key authorities impacting their business development plans. Market entry approach and country risk analysis are supported by our network of experts and unconventional profiles.

Events & networking

Bringing together a variety of stakeholders in a friendly and intellectually stimulating setting is our way to build convergence.

Sharing viewpoints, discussing key issues and trends in a particular industry help elaborate a vision of coming challenges and how to address them.

Nexus has experience in seminars and brainstorming events, in working with international partners on broader events, and in conducting foreign delegations exploring policies related to the energy and digital transitions.

Strategic communications

Defining the right message, striking the right chord in a specific market or politcal environment, greatly influence the sustainability of a market position.

We assist our clients in developing a broader approach customised to the country they are targeting and help them navigate its administrative and political maize.

When operating abroad, companies and institutions are prone to cultural faux pas, thus overlooking important stakeholders. This is where we can help.

Our experience of international transactions and leading think tanks at the crossroads between business and government puts us in a position to strengthen our clients’ hand.

Negotiation & Conflict Resolution

Honing disagreements and extracting convergence among players and contenders require skills, chiefly the openmindedness and international exposure of the Nexus team and network.

Cultivating an extended network of professionals help find solutions between players with conflicting objectives and interests. We manage to turn around these obstacles in a muticultural environment and as we easily move across frontlines between diverse stakeholders. We assist our clients overcoming the widespread bend of corporations and organizations to work in silos, failing to optimise synergies.

OUR TEAM

Nexus operates with a network of individuals around the world with a strong international experience and an insider's knowledge of local ways and

codes that make us able to offer the right solutions.

YANNICK MIREUR

Yannick initially specialized in European gas and power as an analyst at Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), a US-based consulting company on global energy. In 2009 he founded Nexus forum, which used to hold seminars on energy issues in emerging markets such as Russia, Mexico, Azerbaijan, and Turkey, and on American infrastructure in Washington D.C. and Houston, bringing together corporate and policy players to discuss strategic issues and the energy industry. After working on the COP22 in Morocco in 2016, Yannick refocused Nexus on climate, smart cities and innovation. Nexus works with Global Futures Group on smart cities new york.

Yannick is also an author and a frequent media guest in France on international affairs. He has taught at the French Military Academy of Saint-Cyr and at Kedge Business School's executive MBA in southern France. He is a graduate of the Paris school of political studies SciencesPo. A Fulbright scholar, he studied at Harvard and Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy where he earned a Master's and a Ph.D.

NICOLAS de BOISGROLLIER

Nicolas is Managing Director of Dexter Strategic Advisory, a Hong Kong-based company that focuses on Southeast Asia. A former analyst with HSBC and corporate banking relationship manager with Natixis, Nicolas joined the global insurance group AXA as a Strategic Auditor (in-house senior strategic management consultant) working on behalf of the Group's top executives at AXA international headquarters in Paris. He later became EVP (2008 - 2013) and member of the Executive Committee of AXA Life Japan -- one of the Group's largest operational subsidiaries.

A seasoned international policy analyst, Nicolas was a Foreign Policy Studies

Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and an Adjunct Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris (Sciences Po). He holds an MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and an MBA from the London Business School. He is also a graduate of the Institut d'études politiques de Paris.