Eric Delalonde

Current

• "E-business" and "Intellectual property and heritage" professor at www.audencia.com Nantes School of Management
• B&B operator at www.chateauresidence.com in Nantes (Loire-Valley, France) (Sole Proprietorship)
• R&D European projects manager at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers

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Past

• co-founder, member of the board at Nantes-Renaissance
• Senior consultant in charge of EEC-funded projects at Cap Gemini Ernst&Young
• Co-founder & senior consultant at Protourisme

• MSN worldwide webmaster for French business services at Microsoft
• Manager at A.P.R. (Accès aux Programmes de Recherche Européens)
• Co-founder and CEO at Marketing Efficace
• Co-founder and consultant at Boutique de Gestion de Nantes (BG-Ouest)
• Marketing and Systems Dynamics professor at Audencia Nantes School of Management
• Free-lance writer and TV producer at Le Monde, Valeurs, Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR), Decision Micro
• Cultural pedagogical tours creator and manager at Office Franco-Québecois pour la Jeunesse
• "Danseur mondain" at Le Groupe de Paris

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Education

• Université d'Angers
• Université Paris Dauphine
• Albion College

• Institution Notre-Dame du Kreisker

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Recommended

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Connections

81 connections

Industry

Professional Training & Coaching

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• My Blog

Eric Delalonde’s Summary

EEC-funded R&D projects

Listed guide for French Minister of Culture

Because I was lucky enough to spend my childhood in beautiful landscapes (Paris, Normandy, Britanny Michigan), I dedicated the rest of my life to aesthetics. Because family houses were destroyed in June 1944, I oriented part of my professional activity towards historic houses refurbishing. For the same reason, I help other private historic mansions owners in the Scientific Comittee of www.demeure-historique.org magazine.
I started working at 19 for Office Franco Quebecois pour la Jeunesse while graduating from University of Paris (taking night courses). I am currently building a similar night courses scheme for young French Baccalaureat recipients (www.cnam-paysdelaloire.fr).
Because my father used to play/listen to Bach and Chopin music until late, each night, I became a sponsor for young artists, offering them a convenient place (www.orangeries.net) where to record CDs and meet with a public.

As a listed guide for French Minister of Culture, I focused on interpretation of World Heritage cultural landscapes.
As an official member of Commission Régionale de Protection des Sites et des Paysages for Région des Pays de la Loire and French Minister of Culture, I participated in the official selection of landscapes and monuments to become listed as "official" Historical Monument.

References:
Presidency of French Republic, Chiefs of State summit in La Baule - cultural program for Presidents spouses and families.
Unesco conferences, meetings and visits
European Community Commission, various missions as a listed expert.
www.sentiersmaritimes.com, Terre d'Aventure: designing and guiding tours in Venice, Mont-Saint-Michel, Loire Valley, Paris


B&B operator

Livre d'Or appraisals about our activity as a B&B operator can be read on www.orangeries.net and www.chambredhote.org

Eric Delalonde’s Specialties:

Listed guide for French Minister of Culture

World Heritage Unesco sites tours design and guiding
Cultural landscapes and historical monuments. Member of the Official Commission in charge of listing landscapes and monuments for French Minister of Culture.
Research & Development projects consortium building and managing.
Localization of websites and software.

Eric Delalonde’s Experience

• "E-business" and "Intellectual property and heritage" professor

  www.audencia.com Nantes School of Management

  (Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  September 2002 — Present (7 years 3 months)

  Creator and manager of the course "E-business": a pragmatic approach to learn by practice how to handle tools to build basic paradigms.
  Creator and manager of the course "Intangible world heritage": starting from a personal inventory of each student's own intellectual assets, we register these using private and public organizations like Sacem or Société des Gens de Lettres. Then we discover how the same inventory can be made for nations and become a basis for Cultural Diversity treaty (Unesco - 2006). Why and how culture can be protected and become a starting point for new business in developping countries.

• B&B operator

  www.chateauresidence.com in Nantes (Loire-Valley, France) (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  January 1997 — Present (12 years 11 months)

  With Mijo (spouse) and Marguerite (our youngest daughter) we run a B&B business in Nantes (France). A beautiful swimming pool, a park, an impressive concert room (previously, the castle orangerie), all-comfort suites and "studios" are just some of the reasons why executives from all the world choose to stay in our family-operated residence (www.chateauresidence.com).
  
  We organize various concerts and art exhibitions, violin master classes and lectures. We love people and consider as a pleasure to have them choosing our 600-years castle as their home for one night to three years (or more!). Some of our guests use bikes to come from Finland, Switzerland or, just, Paris. Others come to write a book. Some record, there, music CDs, taking advantage or our famous Bechstein grand piano in the castle orangerie. Others exhibit paintings, ceramics or sculptures. See and read our guest-book on www.orangeries.org or www.chambredhote.org and www.chateauresidence.com.

• R&D European projects manager

  Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers

  (Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  January 1987 — Present (22 years 11 months)

  Building consortium(s) for Research & Development projects linked to Unesco and European Commission. My favourite project is about training workers in factories using radio broadcasts. Topics relate to workers social protection. In project "E-tutors", we help organisations to improve the tutoring process in e-learning programs. Another project (built with Unesco intangible heritage team): how to teach entrepreneurs developping cultural entreprises. I occasionnaly work as an expert for European Commission. To maintain a strong contact with real students, I have been working as an e-tutor in charge of course "Social management" in the curiculum "Ingénieur du Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers". Some years ago, I negociated the transfer of TV-channel "Computer Channel" contents from France-Telecom to CNAM. This has licensed us broadcasting rights for hours of educational content linked to software engineering and computing.

• co-founder, member of the board

  Nantes-Renaissance

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Environmental Services industry)

  1985 — 2008 (23 years )

  In 1985, when we decided to create Nantes-Renaissance, Nantes was, already, a renowed city. However, façades were grey: smoke had rubbed away the immaculate white of the "tuffeau". Old people,often lived in nice flats without any comfort. Everybody felt the necessity of a collective reaction. We created Nantes Renaissance as a think-tank for the city policy makers. With the help of Institut Montaigne we invented financial schemes to guarantee to local bankers a market for credits and to flat owners a personal credit at the bank together with a financial help. We obliged owners to buy services from architects; we asked architects to lower their prices in order to be accessible to everyone. We obliged all land owners to restructure, not only the façades but also the living places behind them. Since 23 years, all political parties have taken the power at the City Hall. Nantes Renaissance, kept untouched; a recognition for independant social services to our community.

• Senior consultant in charge of EEC-funded projects

  Cap Gemini Ernst&Young

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1991 — May 2002 (10 years 9 months)

  Negociate funding with EEC project officers and partners decision makers.
  Create a consensus with partners about the scientific objectives and the program breakdown into workpackages.
  Partner with sister companies such as Cap Gemini Innovation (worlwide), Cap Volmac (Netherlands), Daimler (Germany), Cap Gemini Sweden, Cap Gemini Denmark, Cap Gemini Spain, Cap Gemini Usa, etc.
  Partnership with clients/prospects/suppliers and/or competitors such as Cern (Switzerland), Alcatel-Alenia (Italy), Biocoop (France), European Commission (Belgium), etc. Main technical and business solutions invented by these consortia dealt with "Multimedia Assets Management" (a series of projects with PIRA, Philips, BBC, etc.), "Intuitive interface" (projects including anti-terrorist spanish police, IBM, Ibermatica, ...), "Safety critical applications in transportation" (with Imperial College, Service Technique Navigation Aérienne, etc.).

• Co-founder & senior consultant

  Protourisme

  (Privately Held; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  January 1980 — January 2000 (20 years 1 month)

  When we decided to create Protourisme together with Jacques Wintrebert as CEO, we strongly believed in the future of consultancy in the field of Tourism. By that time, consultancy was not widely widspread as it is, to-day, especially, in the world of small independant companies (hotels, restaurants, amusement parks). Our main client, in the beginning, was Parc de Bagatelle, an amusement park near Le Touquet. Then I specialized in market surveys for hotels and châteaux-hotels. No surprise we decided, later on, to create our own château-residence (see www.chateau-residence.com). After our friend and founder Jacques Wintrebert decided to take a medical break, I became a partner in one of the 5 companies sharing the brand Protourisme. Michel d'Horrer is the manager and main share holder in this company located in Vannes.

• MSN worldwide webmaster for French business services

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1993 — June 1995 (2 years 6 months)

  Once upon a time... in a beautiful country called "USA" lived a very wealthy man. He was so wealthy that he owned almost all of the existing Operating Systems installed on Personal Computers, in the world. he decided that all these PCs could be networked through a proprietary network called MSN. By that time, the Internet was only one networking protocol among others. To say it briefly... while I was working as a senior consultant for Cap Gemini I was "hired" as a webmaster for world French-speaking business services by Microsoft Europe (whose headquarters were located in Paris-La Defense). I was in charge of building and moderating forums related to "Business and finances". These years were exciting but all this ended at Long Beach (California) that special day when "the boss" decided he would refer to the emerging Internet as its new technical reference for MSN.

• Manager

  A.P.R. (Accès aux Programmes de Recherche Européens)

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  January 1985 — August 1991 (6 years 8 months)

  To provide access for SMEs to EEC funded Research & Development programs was the mission of APR (Accès aux programmes de recherche). This small consultancy structure acted as a lobby and a "bureau d'étude" to help SMEs to gain access to Brussels money. One of our first clients was Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. Most clients were SMEs from Vendée. They include Energie Système (owner: Jean-Louis Gaborit), Groupe Marcel Albert, Horo-Quartz, etc. In that years, SMEs from Vendée were smart enough to sell their know-how and licences to Russia and Poland. But they needed tools to better train over the iron-curtain their buyers and expat'. Thanks to money brought through Comett program we could help our members companies to build distance learning systems. We used video, telephone and early network such as Compuserve to transfer know-how in domains such as clothes manufacturing or sophisticated access control systems.

• Co-founder and CEO

  Marketing Efficace

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1977 — August 1991 (14 years 2 months)

  In 1977, managers of some of the biggest shopping centers in Paris wanted to benefit from the innovative consumers panel poll I created for Beaulieu shopping center in Nantes, in 1976. During almost 15 years I have been lucky enough to work for the well-being of populations of all kinds: citizens (when I worked for politicians like René Monory, Minister of Finances, or the Mayor of the City of Nantes), consumers (when I was hired by shopping-centers owners and managers), industrialists, shop owners, bankers, entrepreneurs... When Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA) sent me one of their students for an internship, I sent him to USA to build a network of francophiles managers who could be helpful to our region in case USA/France relationships would get bad...or worse! Most impressive study was made for the Mayor of Nantes in 1982: "Why is Nantes a happy town? and why is it so attractive to the rest of France"?

• Co-founder and consultant

  Boutique de Gestion de Nantes (BG-Ouest)

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  January 1979 — January 1983 (4 years 1 month)

  While a young entrepreneur, many former students came back to me asking if I could help them to build companies where they could achieve their personal dreams without restraining others' dreams... In other words, they (like each of us), wanted to participate in real life competition without feeling oblige to "kill" or hurt anybody. No Chamber of Commerce was interested by this curious type of individuals! This is why, with a group of friends (newsmen, advertisers, legal advisors and militants) we decided to provide free advice to creators of child-care centers, bio-restaurants, etc. Soon, we gathered our strengths with innovators like publisher Henry Dougier (Editions Autrement). We organised a forum in Nantes that was the origin of Garrigue initiative. Then we called our organisations "Boutiques de Gestion".

• Marketing and Systems Dynamics professor

  Audencia Nantes School of Management

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  1975 — 1977 (2 years )

  Professor in charge of Systems Dynamics. Creation of this class in 1975. After learning System Dynamics from Dr Branch "labor economics" class in Albion College then from University of Paris-IX Dauphine classes, I created this System Dynamics class for the first time in France. Course assignments included MIT Professor Meadows ("Rapport du Club de Rome"). By that time, dedicated software did not exist. All assignments had to be made "by hand". This means that my students had to parameter systems, including feed-back loops, on paper. Most popular models were dedicated to warming climate change (more than 30 years ago!). I described the paradigm shifts between System Dynamics and the previous methods for predicting future: scenarios methods, prospective, game theory, etc.
  It has been an exciting momentum in my teacher career but I fear not much of all this remained engraved in the brains of my students. By the way, even as a teacher, I was the youngest in the class room....

• Free-lance writer and TV producer

  Le Monde, Valeurs, Association Française de Normalisation (AFNOR), Decision Micro

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Newspapers industry)

  March 1975 — March 1975 (1 month)

  When Joseph Wresinski (founder of ATD-Quart Monde) asked me for an article about "War of poverty" in USA (1970), it was the beginning of a series of collaborations to various newspapers, magazines, TV and book publishers.
  In 1972, Office-Franco-Quebecois pour la Jeunesse published interviewed I made of artists.
  In 1975, Le Monde published "Le tourisme des jeunes au Liban".
  In 1977, I became a permanent contributor for "Decision Micro" and "LSA".
  In 1981, I co-writed the "how-to-book": "Des outils pour créer" about how to manage a non-profit small company.
  In 1985, I co-writed "Des outils pour créer" AFNOR Editions about how to use ISO standards related to Value Analysis to specify furniture aesthetics.
  In 1984, for TV-5, I co-produced a series of 3 TV broadcasts "Fonction consultant" dedicated to businessmen best internal consulting practices.

• Cultural pedagogical tours creator and manager

  Office Franco-Québecois pour la Jeunesse

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  August 1972 — August 1974 (2 years 1 month)

  Responsible for the design and management of culture oriented three-weeks study tours. Main topics: "Music therapy" with Desmoutis, funder of the discipline; "Women at work" with Evelyne Sullerot, funder of "Retravailler"; "Theater festivals management" with Jack Lang as Festival de Nancy manager, "Truck drivers" with Max Meynier from Radio Luxemburg and the inventor of "Relais des Routiers", "Music cooperatives" with Pierre Barouh and Saravah, "Textile industry workers representation", "Teachers representation" with Denis Lheureux, etc.

• "Danseur mondain"

  Le Groupe de Paris

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Public Relations and Communications industry)

  1972 — 1973 (1 year )

  In XIXth century, "danseurs mondains" were handsome young men. They were hired to invite girls (young and old...) to dance in parties. Their specific role was to prevent any invitee to get bored or to suffer from the humiliation not to be invited. In the last part of the XXth century, modern "danseurs mondains" were hired for the same purpose. Even when dancing was not the main activity in the party. Of course, this role included side-effects and responsibilites of all kinds. In some cases I was asked to protect celebrities and to entertain them. Some of my most beautiful memories include Mrs Pompidou elegance at Opera de Paris (Gala de l'Unicef). I learned a lot while protecting and entertaining some "happy few" beautiful people in Paris of the beginning of the 70s!

Eric Delalonde’s Education

• Université d'Angers

  Master , Guide Interprète National + French Myths & litterature , 2002 — 2004

  During this specific training for guides, I worked at Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel as a guide for english-speaking visitors. The diploma of "Guide-interprète-National" is necessary to become a guide at Musée du Louvre, and other public museums in France. I used it to guide our guests from www.chateauresidence.com and www.chambredhote.org in the best monuments in France. It was, also, a hobby! Main courses: Kafka, the myth of labyrinth, the myth of Orfeo, "le roman d'initiation", mythocritics, etc. The theme of my end of term work was "Happyness myths in the work of Pierre Barouh".During this very special year, it was quite exciting to give some sense to songs I always considered as "guides" in my life. To achieve this I needed some theory and practice of myths explanation. This teaching was provided by interesting litterature and mythology teachers from University of Angers (including conferences by novelist Michel Tournier).

  Activities and Societies:

  During years 2002 & 2004, I took advantage of the relative freedom left to B&B operators to get the official certification for guides from Minister of Culture. I also took Master classes about mythology and litterature. This classes were called "Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies en Litterature Française". They contribute to the preparation to a Ph-D in litterature. I hope to take more time in the next future to be able to finish the work I started writing about Happiness myths.

• Université Paris Dauphine

  Master , Marketing , 1971 — 1975

  Classes at University of Paris were taken at night. During the same period I worked in various companies and took also ethnology classes: after discovering Mayan sites in Guatemala and Mexico, in 1970 and 1971, I took the opportunity to take lessons from one of the most famous French explorators in these countries: Georgette Soustelle who spent some years studying in these countries with her husband, famous Georges Soustelle (a politician with an exciting life). Georgette Soustelle gave ethnology lessons in Palais de Chaillot (facing the Eiffel Tower).Pendant la même période, service militaire au SIRPA (Service d'Information et de Relations Publiques des Armées) en tant que journaliste et secrétaire, chanteur dans le métro, au "Beautiful Girls" (Pigalle) et (en fin de semaine), "Chez Louisette" au Marché Vernaison avec un ami routier accordéoniste. Les patrons de "Chez Louisette" m'ont appris le destin tragique dans un sombre tripot du Caire de ce routier valseur, poète et nomade.

  Activities and Societies:

  As a member of the board of University of Paris-Dauphine Alumni I organised cultural visits of Unesco including meetings with Jean-Paul Guerlain (perfumes) and the managers of the World Heritage Department. As a member of the "Cultural Club", I organised cultural visits and a concert of Grame Allwright including (first part) the singers who begged and sung for a living in "Franklin Roosevelt" subway station.

• Albion College

  Sophomore , Speech , 1970 — 1971

  It was a time when winters were so rigorous that we could skate along rivers during hours on Sundays afternoons. It was a time when Mircea Elliade was so eager to make money that he gave conferences at private US colleges to pay for his non conventional carreer as a researcher in the field of religion history. Was it, also, for money? Duke Ellington was one of the entertainers hired by the Dean of Albion College to teach us what jazz was all about. Some of the frienships started there will never end.

  Activities and Societies:

  Albion College was funded in the XIXth century by a Methodist community. It soon became one of the best private colleges in USA. Thanks to a scholarship and a financial help from Mr Gerstacker, CEO of Dow Chemical Company, I could study Speech, Statistics, Labor Economics, Spanish and Religion History (with Mircea Elliade as a teacher). Labor Economics was my main motivation: because i believed in the virtues of social management that was not taught in France.

• Institution Notre-Dame du Kreisker

  1ère , 1962 — 1968

  By that time, boys and girls, left their boarding school once every three months for a one week break. Then we were authorised to visit our family every sunday morning (after mass) and to come back in the afternoon (after "complies"). Some people called it "old good times"... The best souvenir I keep from this period is the series of perfumes created by master perfumer Jean Kerleo (Jean Patou lead perfumer). He re-created the perfect smell of each different walk we did (every sunday or thursday afternoon): walk on the seashore, walk in forests, walk after the rain, etc... He, even, re-created the smell of the cheap perfumes of our first girl-friends...

  Activities and Societies:

  Scouts de France, boys band and sailing were our main activities. Because we lived in a fishermen village (Carantec), sailing was considered both as a Fine Art and a way of living. Some friends still are sailors on some of the most beautiful yachts in the world. Others are fishermen while others rent boats to the rest of us...

Additional Information

Eric Delalonde’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My Blog

Eric Delalonde’s Interests:

Private historic monuments valorisation, social promotion through LifeLongLearning, sharing high-life with Pierre Barouh, a teen-idol singer whose texts inspired unforgettable love-stories and young adult first successes before he became a friend, 35 years after, (the most exciting experience one can ever wish to end-up one's life), song-writing as an artistic relief to escape from everlasting love-affairs, professional guiding in World Heritage landmarks (www.officialguides.net) before being stopped from walking as a passion by a multiple myelomia.

Eric Delalonde’s Groups:

2008 - co-founder of "Association Française des Malades du Myelome Multiple".
1986- co-founder of Nantes-Renaissance - www.nantes-renaissance.org
2006- co-founder of Association des Amis des Parcs et Jardins de la Loire Atlantique
Member of Association pour le Droit de Mourir dans la Dignité - www.admd.net
1984- co-founder of Garrigue, the first non-profit fund in France - www.garrigue.net
1985- co-founder of Nantes-Marine-Tradition - www.maillebreze.com
2002- délégué régional adjoint pour les Pays de la Loire - La Demeure Historique - www.demeure-historique.org
1980 - co-founder of "La Boutique de Gestion" de Nantes
1970 - first article and internship for Joseph Wresinski (Aide à Toute Détresse - ATD Quart-Monde)

•    DAUPHINE Alumni - AAED Anciens de l' Universite Paris DAUPHINE

Eric Delalonde’s Honors:

1964-French Public Radio broadcast "Royaume de la Musique" - France Musique Award for guitar interpretation
2003-Official guide and interpret listed by French Minister of Culture
2003-Official delegate for private listed monuments owners at French Minister of Culture (Commission Régionale du Patrimoine et des Sites des Pays de la Loire),
1985-official delegate for Office Professionnel de Qualification des Organisme des Conseil en Management - www.opqcm.org
1999-National Award for best B&B building renovation,
1991-Former jury member for the Prize "Valeurs". www.afav.eu
2002-Member of the Ethical Commitee for TV-Nantes. www.telenantes.com

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