Mindquest and its parent company Club Freelance are welcoming Melchior du Boullay as the new group General Manager. This entrepreneur, IT specialist, and business development expert is now back in his native France after 14 years in the United States. His mission: to lead the group’s fast-evolving organisational structure and propel its international expansion.
A new structure for new needs
Above all, the appointment of Melchior du Boullay comes as the recruitment group embarks on an acceleration phase, driven by the strong vision of its founders and materialized by the launch of Mindquest at the start of the year.
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An agile approach to IT recruitment
By providing both freelancer sourcing services and recruitment on permanent contracts, Mindquest offers an agile approach to IT recruitment that is unique in its sector. This approach meets both the needs of companies to build mixed teams (freelancers and permanent employees) and the desire of talent to break the linearity of their careers based on their evolving life plans.
Profitable since day one, the Mindquest / Club Freelance group hopes to reach 70 million euros in turnover and 100 employees by 2025, compared to 21 million and 35 employees at present. The ambitious plans include the deployment of the group’s services in several European countries: an expansion that will now be supported and spearheaded by du Boullay as new General Manager.
A hypergrowth management specialist at the helm
A graduate of the EPITA, the first Engineering and Computer Science school in France, and endowed with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, Melchior du Boullay has spent his entire career at oXya, a provider of technical services and cloud solutions for SAP customers, now part of the Hitachi group.
Du Boullay held various positions there: IT consultant deployed at customers, SMBs and large enterprises, then project manager and development manager. His international career took him to Congo, Canada and various other countries. He then settled in the United States, where he has led the American subsidiary of oXya for 14 years and achieved double-digit growth year after year. Nearly 20 years of continued challenges and successful conquest have enabled him to acquire very strong expertise in management, process optimization, and corporate governance.
The importance of inclusion and diversity
Close to the field, to his teams, and to his clients, du Boullay has made inclusion and diversity his guiding principles and will be keen to put his passion for people at the service of Mindquest. His transatlantic experience will also be an asset in the context of the group’s international ambitions.
Mindquest new General Manager Melchior du Boullay will work to take the excellent quality of service that characterises the company into a context of hypergrowth. A phase always difficult to manage.
“My role will be to structure the organisation in order to realise the vision of its leaders. It’s about bringing together and engaging our entire ecosystem. It is especially important for me to preserve the values of goodwill and high standards that permeate the group and made me want to join this adventure. Coming from the IT world myself and having already had to manage complex phases of strong growth, I want to support Mindquest in its development while keeping its values intact. My goal is to make it grow from a recognised player to an undisputed leader both in its original French market and internationally, “assures du Boullay.
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