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Franca Messina
Vice President, Recruitment and Placement
Franca is the Vice President and leader of DRAKKAR Talent.
With more than 25 years of experience, she brings extensive expertise in talent acquisition for renowned companies in various industries, with a strong emphasis on enhancing employer branding.
She oversees talent acquisition projects designed to identify high-potential candidates to drive business growth. Her strategic vision and personalized approach enable her to recognize clients' unique needs and recommend optimal solutions, whether through turnkey mandates, outsourcing, or tailored options.
A mother of two and an outdoor enthusiast, she instills a culture of excellence and collaboration within her team.
Carole Saroufim
Senior Business Partner, Talent Acquisition
With over 10 years of experience in recruitment, Carole supports companies in their search for key team members and guides candidates through their professional journeys. Her ability to adapt her strategies keeps her at the forefront of recruitment trends while responding effectively to her clients' needs.
Always exploring new technologies, Carole optimizes her productivity and works creatively to achieve fast, high-quality results. She excels at recognizing transferable skills that bring real added value!
She applies the same perseverance and discipline to recruitment as she does to her passion for running.
Ardemis Mareshlian
Senior Business Partner, Talent Acquisition
With over 10 years of experience in recruiting and talent acquisition, Ardemis helps organizations identify key hires and guides candidates in advancing their careers. Passionate about business development, she builds lasting relationships and delivers an outstanding candidate experience to maximize the fit between needs and talent.
She leads end-to-end mandates, from needs analysis to tailored solutions. With strategic vision and a personalized approach, she aligns business objectives, capabilities, and growth potential.
On a personal note, she is passionate about fitness and healthy cooking: she loves cooking for others and recharging with her family, qualities of generosity, discipline, and team spirit that she brings to her practice every day.
Rosalie Côté
Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer
With over 15 years of experience in marketing and communications, Rosalie, Vice-President, Chief Marketing Officer, is a seasoned professional who guides her clients, partners and team towards positive and lasting results.
Her career path includes the retail, banking and public relations sectors. She has participated in several major projects regarding commercial marketing and human resources marketing, as well as brand image creation.
Rosalie stands out for her thoroughness, her unifying vision and the consistency she brings to complex mandates. Her vast expertise and undeniable passion enable companies to increase their visibility, clarify their positioning, and reinforce their B2B and B2C proposition.
Andy-Riwan Gernet
Director, Marketing Services
With more than 12 years of experience, Andy-Riwan has developed expertise in strategic planning, consumer behaviour analysis, brand positioning and digital marketing, offering insightful advice to prestigious and well-known companies.
He brings a wealth of knowledge to various industries such as aerospace, logistics, recruitment and manufacturing, thus developing and implementing communication and marketing plans based on strategic and operational thinking.
Whether it is for rebranding, launching advertising campaigns, building an employer brand or leading recruitment marketing strategies, Andy-Riwan acts as an extension of our clients, ensuring their vision is brought to life.