« François Devy, through his ascents in the Himalayas and his career as executive director in big companies, has identified golden rules common to both arenas. Graduated from EDHEC, François is a senior executive whose career has been built for 25 years mainly in the FMCG field, within five well-reputed multinationals (Cadbury, Unilever, Bel, Disney, Tesco).

He has held operational and functional roles as head of Marketing and Business Unit at French, European and Global levels.
François is at ease in international environments and at driving ambitious and complex projects.

He is also passionate about mountaineering for over 20 years (various 7000 & 8000m ascents in the Himalayas) in which he lived with his climbing partners experiences both dramatic but also very beautiful.

In parallel to his professional activity, he has gradually become organizer / conference leader showing common winning behaviors for high altitude mountaineering and for team/individuals companies’ performances.

François takes us through his story, his photos, his videos, his answers to our questions on the highest peaks of the world as in the intensity of human relationships »