Photo Adrienne GENTIL

Adrienne Gentil

Director, Europe & International

My responsibilities

  • Development of the Valorial Europe and international network (Hub, EEIG, MOU, etc.)
  • Leveraging international partnerships (missions, trade shows, delegations, B2B, etc.)
  • Sources of funding through European projects (information and networking for members, setting up and monitoring partnerships)

My passions in life

  • Curiosity and openness
  • I’m not an expert in anything, but I love understanding the whys and wherefores.

If I were…

  • A dish: Bibimbap, a healthy meal that’s spicy and crunchy.
  • A kitchen utensil: a vegetable peeler, so I wouldn’t have to look for it all the time.
  • A sports item: a Quechua 2-second tent, and proud to be so practical… (except when it comes to folding it up, nobody’s perfect).
  • An innovator: I’d be rich, wouldn’t I?
  • A country: Japan, beautiful and welcoming!
  • An artist: a trapeze artist, for their grace
  • A cocktail: any one, as long as it has a little umbrella!
  • A song: the extract from ‘Gran Vals’, I’m sure you know it
  • An item I would take to a desert island: a beach towel

My motto

‘Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.’
Forest Gump

My Proustian madeleine

A far breton, well buttered