Laurence Bret-Stern

MD, NED & Board Advisor | Bridging Scaling, Governance, and Resilient Leadership | LinkedIn Alumni | Former CRO of Pipedrive ($1.5B Unicorn) | Investor & Strategic Advisor to High-Growth Boards and Investment funds

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 18 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2023𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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SNÖ (Business) Angel
Apr 2019
Raphaëlle Monod is a World Champion & Olympic Silver medalist in Mogul skiing and Vice World Champion in Freeride skiing. During her competition years, her skin was constantly exposed to the cold, water, wind, in the most extremes weather conditions. She learned how protect it, using natural remedies from the mountains of the world she visited on her ski tours. She founded SNÖ eternelle to transmit this wellness experience, skincare knowledge and share the virtues of vegetal and essential oils. SNÖ vision is to prove that nature gives us all we need. Our skincare range is based on exceptional Nordic organic active ingredients and bans all synthetic and controversial molecules. Our bottles and packaging are eco-designed. Conscious of health and environmental issues, we committed to the highest possible level of organic certification.
Investor and CMO
Sep 2008
Silentale helps organizations apply data science, machine learning, predictive analysis, segmentation and scoring to simplify and automate customer data processing. Silentale Cloud is Silentale Software-as-a-Service customer data management platform. It leverages data science and the fragmented marketing tools already bought by individual teams by efficiently putting together, analyzing and moving every bit of customer data where it is needed. Making a modern customer data processing pipeline available to organizations that are looking to harness the power of big data.
Experience · 6 entries
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2023
Non Executive Board Member
Dec 2023
Kite InsightsTM is a research and strategic communications agency. We think businesses have an urgent responsibility to society and the power to effect global change. But when the debates on global issues are so noisy, it’s hard for them to adopt a credible stance and contribute meaningfully to progress. That’s why we’re here. We provide a 360 degree view of an issue, exposing the areas that require deep thinking and where your company’s voice is needed most. We help you articulate and amplify your stance across multiple audiences and platforms while incorporating social impact and responsibility into your broader business strategy. We deploy our content and curation expertise towards internal capacity-building for companies, helping them create new conditions for thriving in a green economy.
2020
Managing Partner
Dec 2020
Based in Chamonix, in the heart of the Mont-Blanc Valley, Mountain Path is a consulting firm founded in 2017 by Blaise Agresti (former mountain rescue commander), Carine Salvy (former MD of Poweo) and Thierry Malleret (economist and founder of the Monthly Barometer). Mountain Path supports organisations and employees in their transformation projects, offering them immersive and mobilising experiences, such as learning expeditions, training courses, advisory and coaching. Mountain Path has drawn on the experience and practices of mountain rescue and mountain guides to develop a unique and engaging pedagogy based on experiential learning. With Mountain Path and its unique ecosystem of experts from the corporate and mountain world, organisations, their leaders and their employees elevate themselves, approach transformation with confidence and create the conditions for sustainable performance, together. Since its inception, Mountain Path has supported around one hundred organisations and several thousand executives and managers, including Airbus, Allianz, April, Bouygues, EDF, Greenweez, Groupama, Pictet, Richemont, Société Générale, Total, Obiz, Greenweez and Emesys.
2019
SNÖ (Business) Angel
Apr 2019
Raphaëlle Monod is a World Champion & Olympic Silver medalist in Mogul skiing and Vice World Champion in Freeride skiing. During her competition years, her skin was constantly exposed to the cold, water, wind, in the most extremes weather conditions. She learned how protect it, using natural remedies from the mountains of the world she visited on her ski tours. She founded SNÖ eternelle to transmit this wellness experience, skincare knowledge and share the virtues of vegetal and essential oils. SNÖ vision is to prove that nature gives us all we need. Our skincare range is based on exceptional Nordic organic active ingredients and bans all synthetic and controversial molecules. Our bottles and packaging are eco-designed. Conscious of health and environmental issues, we committed to the highest possible level of organic certification.
2018
Founder
Nov 2018
We help startups scale and become strong businesses by infusing the right skills and building efficient growth models. We’ve learned from the best, and also from our mistakes. We know how it feels to manage hyper growth and deal with constant pressure from investors, leadership and teams. We have the brain and leg power to execute. We work in sprints, roll-up our sleeves and collaborate closely with our client teams. Our goal is to upskill your talent and then, leave! We don’t charge by the hour or the day but based on the outcome – you set the pace and the price. Our client portfolio includes VCs and B2C and B2B startups and spans from Seed to Series B : Sendinblue, GetAccept, Tessian, DigitalRecruiters, Starmind.ai, Leapwork, Agricool, Murfy, beendi, ftrack, SNO eternelle and Les3Chouettes.
2017
UK Director
Jan 2017
OneRagtime is a venture capital fund founded by Stéphanie Hospital and Jean-Marie Messier. Since 2017, OneRagtime has sourced, financed, and scaled +50 startups. Through its unique platform model, OneRagtime enables its community to invest in the most promising French and Europe-based startups, be it through its funds or via its dedicated club deals, simultaneously offering entrepreneurs an unparalleled network and business acceleration support.
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