Operating in France for many years, Lily-Perf understands the nuances and business practices in France and the EU.  Its raison d’être is to make companies stronger and more resilient, to meet future challenges, develop stakeholders’ trust and their teams’ commitment. Its mission is to advise French SMEs in their development strategy and international development and to assist international SMEs entering the French market.  Providing an end-to-end range of services, Lily-Perf relies on a network of rigorously selected senior consultants and has been a member of IBG Global since 2018.

In 2022, Lily-Perf was awarded the contract to design and operate the business development consulting program for the Cultur’Export USA project. A part of the French government’s France 2030 strategic plan, it advises 20+ innovative SMEs in the creative & cultural sectors to successfully enter the US market. Since 2020, Lily-Perf has represented the State of Maryland in Southern Europe.

Services to SMEs: Consulting in strategy. Analyze value chain and assess market potential, prioritize markets, define suitable go-to-market. Design a strategic roadmap together with the management team. Evaluate the readiness of the company in its internationalization journey, follow-up carefully the execution of the project, ease the company’s interaction with the project stakeholders. Assist the CEO with organizational change.

Business development in France: Qualify and contact potential partners, leads and acquisition targets, assist the company in the drafting and negotiation of agreements.

Service to Economic Development Organizations (EDOs): Contractor of development acceleration programs: design, organize and deliver suites of consulting services for groups of SMEs. Create matchmaking opportunities for companies in a targeted market.

PRINCIPAL BIOGRAPHY

Brigitte Le Borgne brings 35 years of experience in large, medium, and small companies, in C-suite roles, as a non-executive board member, as advisor to CEOs, and as consultant. Experienced in publicly listed multinationals, LBOs and fast-growing companies in multiple sectors as COO and group CFO, Brigitte founded Lily-Perf in 2017.

Brigitte is an accredited consultant in development acceleration programs initiated by major public and private EDOs for SMEs in France, including Bpifrance. Brigitte is also a Non-Executive Director of a listed multinational operating in PCBs and holds the INSEAD certificate ‘Leading in a Transforming World’, in strategy, leadership and digital transformation.