Yves CORNU

Managing Director at FACIL'iti

Yves Cornu is Managing Director of FACIL’iti and Vice-President of French Foreign Trade Advisors in New Aquitaine. With a literary university education (Sorbonne 1985-199), he resumed his studies at EM Lyon in 28 (MBA). After a first part of career in the large distribution (KIABI) he took the management of a historical silk weaving company in the Lyon region and made it evolve to restructure it, take it from the XIXth to the XXIth century , reposition it on innovative export markets (3% of turnover in China and Brazil) before reselling it. His functions as Vice-President of the French Trade Advisers made him meet Frédéric Sudraud during the design of FACIL'iti and he decided to join this adventure and use his network to position the start-up at the level worldwide and for example to open a subsidiary in Japan from the first year of existence. Yves Cornu is CEO of this subsidiary. Year of this biography: 2021