Francois-Marie NEYCENSAS

Drives Brand Desirability and P&L Growth | General Manager · Chief Marketing Officer · VP Digital E-Commerce | Luxury · Watchmaking · Consumer | EMEA · US · Asia

📍 France🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019
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Jan 2017
Nous voulons tenter de faire advenir une joaillerie moderne, durable et engagée. Créer des bijoux avec bienveillance, dans le respect d’une mission et d’un progrès éthique. Porter un nouveau regard sur la joaillerie sans la priver de la poésie et de la grâce qui la composent. JEM est né de ce dessein de penser une nouvelle forme de joaillerie qui allierait à une conscience et un engagement éthiques, la simplicité et l’épure d’un bijou. Des pièces mêlant radicalité et simplicité, suffisamment intemporelles pour devenir des objets qui traversent le temps au même rythme que nos envies. Des pièces assez consistantes pour traverser nos vies en y laissant leur empreinte. Des pièces éthiques, qui préservent de la volatilité des désirs. De leur apparent minimalisme et de leur force singulière, s’exprime un peu de nous-mêmes ; une élégance simple, épurée, et franche, porteuse de symbole. _______ We want to bring about a sustainable way of making jewelry, both conscious and clearsighted. We want to create jewels with benevolence, by respecting a mission and an idea of ethical progress. We want to shine a new light on jewelry making without depriving it of the poetry and the grace that constitute it. JEM was born from the intent to bring about a new kind of jewellers craft that would pair ethical conscience and commitment with simplicity and refinement. Pieces mixing radicality and simplicity, timeless enough so they can become objects that move through time at the same pace as our wishes. Pieces consistent enough to cross our lives and leave a print. Ethical pieces, that protect us from the volatility of our desires. In their apparent minimalism and their singular strength, we express a part of ourselves: a simple elegance, uncluttered, pure, meaningful.
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Jan 2017
Founded in 2017 by start-up entrepreneurs Adrien Roose, Karim Slaoui and Tanguy Goretti, Cowboy is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. The world’s most connected electric bike for urban riders continues to transform the bike and mobility industries — from point of sale to point of service. Its mission is to build a better bike, create a better self and leave a better world. In 2022 Cowboy became the first e-bike maker to achieve B-corp status. Cowboy now has customers in more than 2,500 towns and cities across Europe and the US. Cowboy is the winner of the Eurobike 2017, the Red Dot Bicycle Design Award 2018, the Red Dot Best of the Best award for product design in 2019 and 2021, one of TIME Magazines "Best Inventions" of 2022, and the Wallpaper*Smart Space Award for Most Revolutionary Personal Transport in 2023.
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2024
Expert for startup incubation
Jan 2024
50 Partners is a leading startup accelerator in France. Cofounded by 50 successful Tech entrepreneurs (BlaBlaCar, Showroomprivee, Le Bon Coin, …), the program provides a few selected startups with high quality mentoring, financing, international connections, networking and office space in central Paris. 50 Partners is a dedicated ecosystem for innovative tech projects, where entrepreneurs, VCs, corporates and industry experts are committed to help startups succeed
2019
Active Board Member at Luxury & Creation Club
Jan 2019
Founded in 1883 and with a community of 68,000 @HEC Paris graduates worldwide, HEC Alumni has been named the most influential alumni association in the world by The Economist. It federates a network of nearly 1,200 volunteers, more than 100 Clubs, 75 Chapters and initiates 1,000 events each year. HEC Alumnis mission is to inspire and animate its alumni community to contribute to a more inclusive, prosperous and sustainable world. We SHARE. We share, grow and create memories together. We DARE. We dare with our vision and actions. We CARE. We care for our community and beyond. HEC Alumni conducts various activities: -The animation and support of a vast network of alumni clubs, managed by volunteers, which organize conferences and friendly meetings; -A range of professional and personal development services: HEC Life Project; -A solidarity program; -The production of editorial content (HEC Stories magazine in print and online, multimedia content): HEC Editions; -The organization of prestigious events, involving internationally renowned personalities; -An investment fund dedicated to supporting startups founded by alumni: HEC Ventures. #hecalumni www.hecalumni.fr
2017
Investor
Jan 2017
Nous voulons tenter de faire advenir une joaillerie moderne, durable et engagée. Créer des bijoux avec bienveillance, dans le respect d’une mission et d’un progrès éthique. Porter un nouveau regard sur la joaillerie sans la priver de la poésie et de la grâce qui la composent. JEM est né de ce dessein de penser une nouvelle forme de joaillerie qui allierait à une conscience et un engagement éthiques, la simplicité et l’épure d’un bijou. Des pièces mêlant radicalité et simplicité, suffisamment intemporelles pour devenir des objets qui traversent le temps au même rythme que nos envies. Des pièces assez consistantes pour traverser nos vies en y laissant leur empreinte. Des pièces éthiques, qui préservent de la volatilité des désirs. De leur apparent minimalisme et de leur force singulière, s’exprime un peu de nous-mêmes ; une élégance simple, épurée, et franche, porteuse de symbole. _______ We want to bring about a sustainable way of making jewelry, both conscious and clearsighted. We want to create jewels with benevolence, by respecting a mission and an idea of ethical progress. We want to shine a new light on jewelry making without depriving it of the poetry and the grace that constitute it. JEM was born from the intent to bring about a new kind of jewellers craft that would pair ethical conscience and commitment with simplicity and refinement. Pieces mixing radicality and simplicity, timeless enough so they can become objects that move through time at the same pace as our wishes. Pieces consistent enough to cross our lives and leave a print. Ethical pieces, that protect us from the volatility of our desires. In their apparent minimalism and their singular strength, we express a part of ourselves: a simple elegance, uncluttered, pure, meaningful.
Investor
Jan 2017
Founded in 2017 by start-up entrepreneurs Adrien Roose, Karim Slaoui and Tanguy Goretti, Cowboy is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. The world’s most connected electric bike for urban riders continues to transform the bike and mobility industries — from point of sale to point of service. Its mission is to build a better bike, create a better self and leave a better world. In 2022 Cowboy became the first e-bike maker to achieve B-corp status. Cowboy now has customers in more than 2,500 towns and cities across Europe and the US. Cowboy is the winner of the Eurobike 2017, the Red Dot Bicycle Design Award 2018, the Red Dot Best of the Best award for product design in 2019 and 2021, one of TIME Magazines "Best Inventions" of 2022, and the Wallpaper*Smart Space Award for Most Revolutionary Personal Transport in 2023.
2016
Chief Marketing Officer, Digital & Communication - Partner
Nov 2016
Unique design inspired by mechanical measuring instruments, RESERVOIR watches redefine boldness. The Swiss Made movement offers a radical way to read time – retrograde minute, jumping hour, power reserve. It transforms time into a precious resource, a faithful ally of adventure. Every 60 minutes, the single hand retrogrades and activates the next moment with the same intensity. To make every hour count. Fail or prevail but Make It Bold. RESERVOIR watches reflect the functionality and aesthetic appeal of counters or gauges primarily from cars, aeronautics and marine. An era in which precision instruments were at the service of mankind, when the adrenaline coursed through the driver’s or pilot’s veins as he embarked upon voyages that demanded courage and high performance. Twelve collections build the RESERVOIR assortment through four universes and one separated range: GT Tour, Supercharged, Longbridge, Battlefield, Kanister (Cars), Airfight (Aeronautic), Tiefenmesser, Hydrosphere (Marine), Sonomaster (Music) and Comics by RESRVOIR (Blake & Mortimer, Popeye). All models are equipped with a bespoke and patented horological module associated with a manufacture movement, assembled at La-Chaux-De-Fonds in Switzerland by a renowned watchmaker (calibers RSV-240 or RSV-Bi120). The collections are distributed globally among 20+ countries, including the United States, Japan, Europe and Middle East, on-line and through a network of 80+ luxury retailers, the core range being priced at 4’000 euros. Established in 2017, RESERVOIR is presenting its novelties annually at international watch fairs (e.g. Time To Watches / Baselworld (Switzerland), Couture (USA), SIAR (Mexico),…) receiving outstanding reviews from the world media. Collections were nominated four times for the Geneva Grand Prix de d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, selected at the 2021 Only Watch charity auction and received the Red Dot design award in 2022.
Investment activity
2017–2019 · 3 investments
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