François Perret currently serves as Managing Director of Pacte PME, a position
he was appointed for in 2015. The Government of France has simultaneously
entrusted him a mission aiming to incite large and small compagnies to develop
a value sharing approach. Before joining Pacte PME, François served as
Ministerial Advisor to the French Minister in charge of Small and Medium-sized
Enterprises, Innovation and Digital Economy from 2012 to 2014. 
He has authored many publications in economics, such as « Non, votre salaire
n’est pas l’ennemi de l’emploi ! » (Editions Dunod, 2022) and « Pour en finir
avec la stagnation économique française » (Editions L’Harmattan, 2017). He is
also a regular contributor to La Revue politique et Parlementaire, Les
Echos, Forbes.fr, etc. 
 
François Perret graduated from Ecole Nationale d’Administration
(E.N.A) and Sciences Po Paris. He is member of the Société d’Economie
Politique.

Hervé LECAT, a graduate of Ecole Centrale Paris, is the CEO of the Epiktet Group, which specializes in the personal services sector.
In 1984, while he was still a student, he began his career as an entrepreneur in the tutoring industry. The business quickly grew and took off in 2000 with the launch of a new home-based tutoring service, under the “Complétude” brand.
In 2010, he created “Kinougarde”, a company specializing in home childcare. Since 2020, the Kinougarde company has taken the top spot in the home childcare sector.
The Epiktet Group, with a network of agencies covering Paris and its region and more than 35 major cities in France, realized a turnover of more than € 80 million in 2022-23 and aims at more than € 110 million in 2023-24, through organic growth and acquisitions.

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