What Our Customers Say

Véronique Dumoulin, European HR Director for Sterling Commerce

Since 2001, I have engaged Jean-Pierre’s services at various companies. His enthusiasm has always impressed me. He works hard, has a positive attitude, and is detailed-oriented. His understanding of both companies and individuals means he is very business-minded and interacts successfully with people at all levels.

Through his help, I have secured multiple and successful hires. He truly understands the global enterprise and I consider him a business partner with high value-add. I appreciate how he always makes himself available and have rarely met a service provider as competent and dedicated.

Jean Pierre also assisted in recruiting my own team. He was diligent, considerate, intuitive and incisive when selecting prospective candidates. He successfully combined the need to sell the company and the role being offered while professionally challenging the candidates about their motivation and suitability.

Jean-Pierre makes the recruitment process smooth and straightforward for me and my business partners. Simply put, he is a pleasure to work with.

Jacques Bourgninaud, CEO Wyplay

I used Jean-Pierre Provot’s service when my company was in a need of Vice President of Sales. This kind of recruitment is often a delicate affair. Jean-Pierre is unique in this domain as he works alone (or with a very small team) in contrast to larger agencies that offer the same type of services. That is exactly why I chose him: a skilled craftsman. He is close to the details. He is quick to act. But above all and the most importantly, he has the ability to understand the need and match the best candidates to the company culture and personality of management already in place.

Forget about 20-page progress reports every week. Forget about the 500-question personality tests designed to academically and without fail provide the perfect match. No. Jean-Pierre is down-to-earth and hands-on. He has true intuition and recruits by virtue of instinctive understanding of the personality. It works!

Call him. Call often.

Pierre Cesarini, CEO d’Aonix

Several times over the last ten year, I have used the Executive Search services of Venturies / J-P Provot to fill top management positions.

Each time, I was impressed with the professionalism, the understanding of the IT sector, the flexibility, and the availability of Jean Pierre.

His qualities as a recruiter, whether it be his relationship with the candidates, his capacity to be “spot on” and incisive in his understanding of the profile needed, or his intuition of what constitutes a good candidate for the job, has allowed us hire quality team players who were capable of quickly becoming part of the company and delivering exactly what was expected of them. Not only does he have my trust, but very importantly, he also has the trust of the candidates.

Andrée Suzan, HR Director supporting the WW Sales & Marketing organization and EMEA Region for Logitech

I started working with Jean-Pierre when I was the Human Resources Director for Southern Europe at Storagetek. At that time I wanted to build a strong relationship with an executive search agency that would help me drive the transformation needed at the company in terms of new skills and a new leadership style. In working with him, I was very quickly able to close some key business critical positions in sales, at the management level both in France but also in other European countries.

Jean-Pierre has proven to be key recruitment support for me during all my years in that company and still today in my position at Logitech. I know I can always count on him for any support I need.

I was impressed with his knowledge of the market, his sensitivity in finding the candidate who best matches the company's environment, and his extensive network. He always builds an incredible relationship with the candidates who never forget him and keep working with him.

I can always rely on Jean-Pierre to give me a solution to any issue I share with him. Today he is a business partner I strongly trust. Based on my experience, I recommend him without reserve to any business leader or Human Resources professional looking for an executive search consultant.

Patricia Murphy : Sr Director, WW Professional Services - Sales & Marketing for Hewlett Packard

Jean-Pierre Provot is an outstanding professional that partners with his clients to provide quality and excellence in the end-to-end search process that companies need to run in a very efficient and effective manner. Especially in today’s economic climate – recruiting and changing key positions in any organization is mission critical and can be costly if they “get it wrong”. I truly have recruited some of the best people in my career with Jean-Pierre and know that when I ask him to engage – the results will always be there.

Jean-Pierre has helped me with recruiting Professional Services people with HP Software and Solutions and has consistently found excellent people that are still in the organization and making a real difference.

What differentiates Jean-Pierre is his laser-focus on understanding all aspects of what the client is looking for as well as understanding the detail behind the entire organization and how it functions. This allows him to ensure a perfect match from a profile/experience perspective, as well as from a company culture perspective.

I am very fortunate to collaborate with Jean-Pierre and do intend to continue to leverage his services in the future.