Discover Romain DUTRNOIS' profession of faith

When someone says TBS Alumni, what are the first words that come to mind?

When I was living in London, I regularly attended alumni meetings, where I was able to meet a wide variety of profiles and outstanding personalities. However, the most decisive experience for me was when TBS Alumni organized a trade fair to promote Toulouse, at the French Ambassador's residence in the United Kingdom.

The scale of the event impressed me: hundreds of participants, an extraordinary setting, top-flight speakers...I realized at that moment the power of a network and what it could achieve. Just after the Brexit vote, this wasn't just a business event or simple networking, it was the most flamboyant response imaginable: union in the face of dissension, collaboration in the face of isolation, construction in the face of collapse.

Years later, I still remember that evening. It was an essential milestone in shaping my vision of professional, personal and organizational relationships.

What are your current volunteer activities, and/or those you would like to pursue with TBS Alumni?

Any activity practiced with sincerity and commitment will find an audience to benefit from it. However, to maximize impact, I believe it's important to be active both individually and collectively. Offering mentoring, advice and support to alumni and students is a very effective way of contributing to the network, on an individual scale.

But it's also essential to get involved collectively, so that actions have a wider impact. Organizing meetings and events, animating local networks, structuring long-term initiatives... these are all ways of ensuring that the alumni community lives and thrives.

What motivated you to run for the association's Board of Directors?

My career took a new turn last year, when I returned to France to launch my entrepreneurial activity. I was lucky enough to participate in an extraordinary start-up incubator - Antler - which confirmed what I had seen within TBS Alumni: on our own, we can do very little. Since then, I've tried to take as active a part as possible in collective events, either in the service of engineering or law students, or with other participants from the entrepreneurial world, but also individually by giving my support to entrepreneurs who approach me.

I've been delighted by this activity, to see concrete results taking shape, career paths transformed by collective energy. Today, I want to seize the opportunity to act in a broader, more structured, more profound way, by joining the Board of Directors of TBS Alumni. I want to be able to give what I've learned and received over the course of my career, to contribute my energy, determination and experience, to continue building on the work already accomplished.

How do you see the future of TBS Alumni?

TBS Education is a big school, in size and reputation, and an old school. Its alumni are spread across the globe, and represent an unsuspected force. The diversity of backgrounds, experiences and experiences makes this network an incredible lever for supporting the development of the school, its students and its alumni.

In my opinion, in an era of inward-looking attitudes, TBS Alumni is a window on the world and a springboard to the future. For all those who aspire to build bridges, not walls, it's a powerful means of fulfillment.

What is your area of professional expertise?

After studying mathematics and finance at TBS, where I was lucky enough to follow the AFP course structured by the late Nicolas Nalpas, I moved to London where I built up my expertise in market finance. I had fantastic opportunities thanks to the course I followed at school, in French, English and Australian banks and in financial engineering professions that are rarely open to business school graduates, however reputable they may be. I thus spent over ten years in finance: in the trading room as a structurer, and in quantitative analysis, always at the service of financial innovation.

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