• What triggered the creation of Prefix?

I’ve always wanted to set up my own business, mainly to have the freedom and challenge of making all the strategic decisions. It’s sometimes daunting, but incredibly stimulating and always exciting.

After 8 years working for Solar Impulse on behalf of my employer Altran, I found myself physically and mentally exhausted. To avoid exhaustion, I was given the opportunity to reduce my working hours to 70%, which gave me time to rest and do other projects. It was during this period that I decided to set up my own business to put my project management experience to good use. For 2 years, I was lucky enough to be able to run both activities in parallel, before finally devoting myself entirely to Prefix in 2014.

• How did you choose your company’s sector of activity?

It was only natural for me to continue my work in project management, motivated by the different experiences I had gained in my previous jobs and mandates.

• How did you go about creating your network and getting yourself known in the first place?

I started with the contacts I’d developed up to that point and began taking part in networking activities in my region.

Then I quickly decided to take an active, voluntary role in events such as the Auvernier Jazz Festival and organising stages of the Tour de Romandie in Neuchâtel. This gave me the chance to gain new experience while taking part in projects I was enthusiastic about, and at the same time to make new contacts and raise Prefix’s profile in the Neuchâtel region.

• What products or services are you most proud of?

I’m particularly proud of the fact that I’ve been able to find a way of marrying the initial approaches to project management, known as predictive, with more recent methods, known as agile. This marriage gave birth to a method that I have christened Circular Project Management.

Since then, I’ve been training and certifying my clients in this method and applying it to all the different situations I encounter in the course of my assignments.

• What does the future hold for your company?

My current aim is to consolidate my range of services so that I can meet all the demands associated with the project management profession and extend my offering beyond French-speaking Switzerland.

I’m also keen to offer a platform that will enable anyone to propose and carry out projects on a private basis.