Mickael Maindron founded the firm in 2015. As former COOs, CIOs, and CTOs, we ourselves have used consulting services, with their undeniable benefits… and their limitations, their sometimes painful drawbacks… So, we wanted to create a resolutely different, highly pragmatic consulting offering, free from the all-too-frequent pitfalls of the profession.
And it’s popular.
AKVIZE is a contraction of “Hack Advise.” Doing consulting differently. Radically. With the idea of offering a new IT consulting service; strategic, technological, and pragmatic, particularly suited to SMEs, investment funds, and entrepreneurs. It was a success, and the firm quickly grew based on this promise.
Today, 25 experienced, tech-savvy akvizers are at your service, with enthusiasm, and a deep understanding of your business challenges.
collaborators
tech experts
in our “hub”
missions/year
of our new customers come by recommendation
Give it (back) the ability to support you in your innovations and your growth.
High-level consulting, with highly experienced profiles, tech experts…
…But with a very operational and pragmatic culture!
Our partners are CTOs, CIOs, and executives with over 20 years of experience, often with dual experience in consulting, who are adept at working with entrepreneurs, executives, and investment funds, and who know how to “simplify IT” for them, enabling them to make the right decisions.
Our recruitment is highly selective, and 70% of our hiring is done through referrals.
Our experience in SMEs has forged a true culture of seeking solutions adapted to the company’s resources and capabilities.
Our approach often begins with a fixed price and over a deliberately very short period to deliver maximum value in the shortest possible time, in order to provide visibility as early as possible and at the lowest cost. It is the experience and expertise of our consultants that allows us to implement such an approach.
We never seek to continue.
We’re not looking to multiply our clients. We always prioritize client satisfaction when faced with a new opportunity, and in our view, referrals are the best of all sales tools.
Proof of this: 90% of our clients came to us following a referral! And the vast majority of our clients return to us, even if it’s sometimes long after the first project.
Our consultants are all highly experienced, each with strong technical and business expertise, and we strive to diversify our skills.
And to go further when we need specific, in-depth expertise, we activate our “Hub”: a pool of 120 partners with specific expertise (deeptech, AI, social marketing, etc.) and with whom we are accustomed to working.
All our consultants have worked in operational roles, and once our recommendations are made, we are able to propose and implement them.
A culture of “DOers”: In an SME/ETI, you have to be able to do everything, and our consultants are never afraid of any task. If it needs to be done, we do it!
It’s a culture of results above all!
We ourselves have an entrepreneurial culture, we understand them and know very well how to support them as closely as possible with their challenges.
They represent who we are deep down, and serve as a compass in our development to ensure that we remain true to them and therefore to ourselves…
Interpersonal skills, kindness, and humility are fundamental to us, both for the development of our consultants and for our integration with our clients. Simplicity in our work: We are fervent promoters of simplicity and the “just necessary” in terms of technologies.
And achieving results requires total commitment from our partners and consultants. We are committed to achieving customer satisfaction, which is the alpha and omega of our business. Our reason for being.
Our clients can have complete confidence in our confidentiality, our integrity, and the sincerity of our findings and recommendations. And we select our consultants based on these values.
Excellence of our profiles, excellence of our expertise, excellence of our productions.
Mickaël Maindron
Founding Partner
With 25 years of experience, Mickaël has developed strong skills in IT architecture and the deployment of critical projects and disruptive solutions, as a developer, architect, and then CIO/CTO. He founded AKVIZE in 2016 with the aim of effectively supporting entrepreneurs and investment funds in their digital transformation.
Olivier Ricart
Partner
Olivier has built his expertise as an IT manager through his 20 years of experience at Thales, Cap Gemini, the retail software publisher SymphonyAI, and as CIO of an ETI. He then completed his expertise as an executive manager in C-level positions within private equity fund investments, focusing on digital transformation and marketing.
Eric Ceyral
Associate Director
Over 25 years of experience, Eric has built a solid understanding of the challenges faced by the various stakeholders in the P&C insurance industry (clients, brokers, wholesalers, insurers, etc.). Passionate about new technologies, he has had the opportunity to develop (and even code…) and deploy digital solutions for these various stakeholders as an insurance broker and with software publishers.
Richard Haupais
Sales Director
With 30 years of experience, Richard has collaborated with publishers, integrators, and consulting firms working with major accounts, mid-sized companies, and startups. Passionate about new technologies, new processes, and new uses, Richard now understands the key success factors for a digital transformation and knows the best practices and the right people to engage, depending on the challenges and maturity of his clients.
Launch with 3 offers
Strategic IT consulting.
Transition management and adaptation.
Support for startups and spin-offs.
First PE support
Support for Private Equity players
Build-up with Smart-Capital
Olivier Ricart joins CloudixIO as a partner
Acceleration of growth
Major team strengthening and top line growth.
Eric Ceyral joins CloudixIO as Associate Director
CloudixIO becomes Akvize
Launch of the CRM/ERP offer
The initial activity is an IT consulting offer aimed at SMEs and mid-cap companies, often investment funds (Private Equity) which own them.
Since 2020 and the acquisition of Smart-Capital, CloudixIO has experienced strong growth and diversified its offers. In 2023, CloudixIO changes its name to become… Akvize
