Citigate Dewe Rogerson Paris announces new management team
Driven by an accelerating development, the French corporate communications and influence agency Citigate shows strengthened ambitions and changes its management team.
Over the past few months, Citigate has actively developed in strategic communications and today ranks among the big names on the French market in this area. Traditionally known for its excellence in financial communications, the agency today has numerous missions in reputation management and sensitive situations.
The implementation of a new management team including Aliénor Miens, Yoann Besse and Antoine Denry matches a new stage and aligns the way the agency is working with its new ambitions.
The new management team’s strategy aims to strengthen the development of a three-part offering including financial communications, corporate communications and sensitive or crisis communications, to meet leading companies’ expectations.
Composed of three experienced professionals with complementary careers, who have been closely working together for several years, the new management team knows the agency’s clients perfectly and covers their different expertise. The new managing directors will keep their operative functions, including advising and supporting the clients on a daily basis.
The agency strengthened in 2016 and gained about twenty major clients in corporate, financial and strategic communications, on a wide spectrum of companies from the CAC 40 to Fintech and Biotech startups but also SMEs. Last year was marked by numerous market operations including IPOs (NextStage, Française de l’Energie), major M&As and topical issues (Eurosic, Médipole Partenaires, Medivation) or sensitive issues.
Nicolas Castex, who had been the Managing Director of Citigate in Paris until now, stepped down to devote himself to another project.
Biographies
Alienor Miens has more than 12 years of experience in strategic communications consulting and corporate image issues. She also accompanied/advised leaders in their speeches. Aliénor began her career in the United States and joined Publicis Consultants in 2004 where she was a Deputy Client Services Director. She joined Citigate in 2010, accompanying/advising companies from various sectors, including in real estate, private equity, both in corporate terms and through their shareholdings, or in strategy and M&A consulting. Aliénor regularly intervenes on financial transactions or in sensitive situations.
Aliénor holds a master’s degree in business law and international law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.
Yoann Besse has more than 10 years of experience in communications consulting. He is involved in corporate, financial and institutional communications for clients in various sectors: banking, private equity, asset management, insurance, but also industry, real estate and distribution. Prior to joining Citigate in 2009, Yoann was a consultant at Ogilvy PR.
Yoann holds a degree in political economy and international relations from Sciences-Po Paris and the London School of Economics.
Antoine Denry has nearly 15 years of experience delivering strategic communications programs to major French and international companies. He began his career in 1997 at Natixis Capital as an Equity Sales in Paris then London. After several years, he joined Havas Group to strengthen the IR consulting department.
In 2005, Antoine joined Publicis Consultants where he became a Partner and managed numerous high profile financial transactions (IPOs and cross-border M&As). He particularly counselled CEOs and CFOs on their positioning and IR/PR programs.
Between 2012 and 2015, he relocated in Hong Kong to suport the growth of MSLGroup (Publicis Group) financial communications practice in Asia. Antoine has been part of Citigate Paris’ team since the end of 2015.
Antoine graduated in Political Science, Public Law and Communications.