Before joining ICM, Charles worked six years for the advertising agency Idéodis in Paris, acquiring considerable experience in corporate communications as "Directeur de Création".

Charles helps international companies bridge corporate cultures in post-merger / acquisition situtations. He has facilitated major culture change processes, including using client and employee surveys and communications to generate better understanding and acceptance of change. Charles also conducts cultural audits with ICM's Culture Bridging Fundamentals© diagnostic tool. He works with executive teams to finalize decisions for implementing new strategies and accompanies their implementation.

Charles also helps executives and managers working in decentralized, remote and matrix organizations to develop innovative, clear and consistent management processes.

Charles has worked with companies in Europe, North America and Asia. His clients include sanofi aventis, EADS, Chronopost, Union Chimique Belge, Hennessy and Faurecia. He has published numerous articles in the the field of post-merger integration and presented to various groups in these areas. Along with the two other ICM partners, he published Successful Mergers, Acquisitions and Strategic Alliances - Strategies for Culture Bridging, (McGraw Hill, London, May 2002,Beijing 2005).

Charles works in French and English.