
Official Partners
of the French Pavilion
Meet Business France’s official partners at BIO USA 2026.
Our trusted network of carefully selected organizations supporting the French Pavilion.
OUR PARTNERS

A major player in regional economic financing, supporting 1 in 5 SME and 1 in 3 mid-sized companies through its 110 Business Centers located across all regions of France and its
overseas territories (over $15 billion in financing by 2024). Caisse d’Epargne, a local cooperative banking network, supports businesses in their growth and transition projects. More than 38,000 businesses (SMEs, startups, mid-sized companies, and large corporate clients) are supported by our local experts, regardless of their size or industry.
Discover their dedicated sales teams: 400 relationship managers working closely with regional ecosystems to support your projects with responsiveness and expertise. A local support system reinforced by experts in cash management, international business, or innovation, for example. Being of service to you also means supporting you on your transformation journey and fully understanding your transition challenges, whether environmental, social, or governance-related.
Audrey Dubois
Head of the Public and Private Healthcare Division

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking (part of Groupe BPCE the second largest banking group in France) is a global financial institution offering advisory, financing, and capital
markets services. Within Its Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) division, the Healthcare Sector’team supports pharma, MedTech, and healthcare services with deep sector and scientific expertise.
Active across Europe, Natixis aims to be the go-to bank for healthcare clients. They focus on three specific areas: pharmaceuticals (big and midcap pharma, biotech), healthcare infrastructure and services (clinics, hospitals, nursing homes, laboratories, CDMO/CMO) and MedTech.
Antonin Rigaudière
Managing Director, Global Head of Healthcare Sector

Ipsen is a global biopharmaceutical company with a focus on bringing transformative medicines to patients in three therapeutic areas: Oncology, Rare Disease and Neuroscience. Its
pipeline is fueled by internal and external innovation and supported by nearly 100 years of development experience and global hubs in the U.S., France and the U.K. Ipsen has teams in more than 40 countries and their partnerships around the world allow medicines to be brought to patients in more than 100 countries.
Ipsen is listed in Paris (Euronext: IPN) and in the U.S. through a Sponsored Level I American Depositary Receipt program (ADR: IPSEY).
Philippe Lopes Fernandes
Executive Vice President, Chief Business Officer

DLA Piper is a global law firm with a presence in over 40 countries and more than 90 offices across Europe, the United States, and Asia, and is widely recognized as a leader in Life
Sciences and Healthcare.
DLA Piper advises pharmaceutical and medical device groups, biotech and medtech companies, and investment funds (VC/PE) on strategic transactions and high‑stakes matters, including M&A, financings, licensing and collaborations, clinical development, IP strategy and protection, regulatory compliance, and commercialization across the full product lifecycle, through fully integrated, multidisciplinary teams.
Sonia de Kondserovsky
Partner

JobsOhio is a private nonprofit corporation wholly funded by an independent private source –the profits from the JobsOhio Beverage System (JOBS) liquor enterprise –that JobsOhio
purchased in 2013 and manages today.
JOBS liquor profits provide a stable funding source which allows JobsOhio to utilize a longer-term horizon for funding economic development activities. No public or taxpayer dollars are used
Justin Kocher
Senior Director, International Business Development

Efor Group is a global leader in quality and regulatory compliance consulting for the Life Sciences industry. Founded in 2013, the company supports pharmaceutical, biotechnology,
and medical device organizations in securing their manufacturing operations and accelerating the delivery of innovative therapies to patients.
With more than 3,000 experts across 18 countries, Efor provides end-to-end solutions covering Commissioning, Qualification and Validation (CQV), Quality Management, and Engineering Compliance. Its approach combines deep technical expertise with a strong understanding of regulatory requirements, enabling clients to ensure the reliability, safety, and compliance of their production systems throughout the entire product lifecycle.
Mickael Pretot
Executive Director

Founded in 2009 by Caroline de Mareuil-Villette and Claire Verschelde, ICOSA is a European intellectual property firm dedicated to health.
As a human size company which gathers 80 professionals, ICOSA is agile and responsive.Its teams are composed of 30 European IP attorneys (EPO and EUIPO) and 24 French IP attorneys (INPI) holding doctorates and/or engineering or law degrees from top French or European schools and universities.
Leveraging their scientific expertise and technical and legal skills, ICOSA’s experts master the specific challenges of intellectual property for each innovation or creation. Their attentive and highly available approach enables them to support their clients on a daily basis in decision-making and business growth.
Caroline De Mareuil Villette
Founding Partner

ORCOM US is a US based accounting and tax services firm with American Certified Public Accountants (CPAs), ACCA and French licensees.
ORCOM US world-class global team brings together the art of accounting and international taxation with the science of technology to help its clients achieve their personal or business goals. They drive their mission through a culture of excellence: constantly improving and learning, supporting performance, and succeeding with integrity.
Frédéric Blanchard
Partner

Shahin Gharakhanian Consulting LLC provides clinical and medical expertise for patient-focused drug and vaccine development, approval and launch programs. It is is a
consulting company represented by Dr. Shahin Gharakhanian – a biotech executive with global experience across 30+ companies, 4 drug approvals, and leadership in Clinical Development & Medical Affairs. Dr. Gharakhanian has built pharma/CRO/academic units, advises CEOs, and chairs SABs and boards.
Shahin Gharakhanian
Principal & Founder

AIS is the flagship measure of the “Healthcare Innovation” program, and its role is to manage the implementation of the health component of France 2030 in conjunction with the relevant ministries and operators.
Clémentine Body
Director of Cross-Functional and International Projects

Atlanpole Biotherapies is a leading health competitiveness cluster for Western France (Brittany, Pays-de-la-Loire, Centre Val-de-Loire), accredited by the French Ministry of Industry in July 2005. The cluster brings together 200 members
representing a diverse ecosystem of industrial players, major groups, SMEs, start-ups, research laboratories, university teaching hospitals, universities, and specialized educational institutions. Together, they create a dynamic, competitive ecosystem for healthcare innovations, spanning biomedicine, MedTech, digital health, and disease prevention, with a focus on advancing cutting-edge solutions across these sectors.
Atlanpole Biotherapies leverages its strong regional presence, global ambitions, and collaborative approach to support a wide range of healthcare innovations, from the initial concept and development of new products to their application, scaling, and global commercialization. Through its international strategy, Atlanpole is building partnerships with other healthcare clusters to drive growth, foster collaborative R&D, and increase global influence in the service of a high-quality healthcare sector.
Elodie Girardet
Head of the Europe Unit

BOOST positions itself as a Global Health and DeepTech Campus for Sciences and Industry addressing the OneHealth concept without focusing on any specific pathology « disease-agnostic ».
This approach aims to stimulate innovation at the intersection of disciplines such as Pharma/Biotech, TechBio & AI, Quantum as enabling techno to serve the following sub sectors as well as MedTech & Diagnostics, Robotics and Medical Equipment, Food & Agri6Tech and Cosmetics.
Jean-Marc BOUREZ
Executive Director

CCI INTERNATIONAL GRAND EST is the international business development operator for companies in the Grand Est region, in France.
As a one-stop shop bringing together all the services offered by
Team France Export – the French public initiative supporting the internationalization of French companies – , CCI International Grand Est provides tailored solutions to meet the needs of companies seeking to expand internationally.
Its team of advisors, in collaboration with Business France, supports companies at every stage of their international development.
Valérie Mottl
Trade Advisor

Choose Paris Region is Paris Region’s international attractiveness agency, which promotes the region’s influence on the international stage, and provides a high-quality welcome and services to investors, visitors and talent from all over the
world, while ensuring the Region’s sustainable and balanced development.
Yann Masson
HealthTech & Sport Expert @ Choose Paris Region

Eurobiomed is the Health Technologies cluster in Southern France, bringing together 400+ members, including over 70% startups and SMEs representing most of the regional entrepreneurial fabric. Eurobiomed’s network also includes
research institutes, hospitals, and expert organisations supporting innovators across the full innovation lifecycle.
Eurobiomed bridges clinical and digital health strengths across two complementary regions: Région Sud (immunotherapies, dermatology, AI in health) and Occitanie (biotherapies, diagnostics, biomanufacturing). These ecosystems rely on strong collaboration between academia, healthcare providers, industry, and public authorities, supported by leading universities, hospitals, research infrastructures, and accelerators.
As a partner, Eurobiomed brings critical mass, strong deal flow, EU and France 2030 funding expertise, and hands-on support in regulatory, clinical, industrialisation, investment readiness, and health-sector specialised support for EU and global entrepreneurs and partners. Eurobiomed anchors projects in regional innovation ecosystems to ensure strong European impact, scalability, and long-term sustainability.
Cécile Rousselot
Head of Strategic Projects

France Biotech was founded in 1997 as an independent association, uniting the country’s leading innovative health companies and their expert partners. As a key facilitator of the health innovation ecosystem and a privileged point-of-contact
for public authorities in France and Europe, France Biotech helps address the major challenges facing the HealthTech sector (including company financing, innovation taxation, regulatory and market access issues, etc.). Its committees and working groups strive to identify viable solutions to create the necessary conditions for a competitive and attractive industry.
Its objective is to support HealthTech startups and SMEs in becoming successful international companies capable of designing and developing innovative products and solutions rapidly and ultimately making them accessible to patients.
Chloé Evans
Deputy Director General, Head of market research and international relations

France Deeptech is the biggest french deep tech hubs, driven by 2 missions. France Deeptech connect continuously our member through more than 40 initiatives per year, and develop business opportunities between its members, start-up,
investors, laboratories, and corporates.
Romain Roullois
General Manager

French Healthcare is an innovative public-private initiative aimed at bringing together under a single banner all the players in the French healthcare ecosystem (businesses, researchers, healthcare professionals, key public stakeholders, etc.)
to jointly promote their activities, expertise, technologies and innovations internationally. It helps to trigger a collective approach dynamic that stimulates international cooperation in the field of health and to promote the vision that health, a vector of social progress, must be improved for everyone everywhere in the world.
Julien Compiegne
French Healthcare Brand Manager

FACC San Diego/So-Cal’s mission is to enable and empower businesses by providing them with crucial resources, including but not limited to an extensive network, advice on best business practices, market studies, potential client prospection and
outreach, recruitment, implantation and more
Sylvie Almeri
Managing Director

Genopole has one of France’s main incubators for biotech start-ups working in the fields of health, the environment or industry. Conceived and organized so that researchers and entrepreneurs can work and live together, Genopole attracts
talent from around the globe.
Laurence Lacroix
Partnerships and Business Development Director

GenoTher is the first European biocluster exclusively dedicated to genetic medicine. It brings together key players from innovation, clinical research, and industry to accelerate the emergence and development of breakthrough therapeutic
and technological solutions. Certified by the French government under the France 2030 plan, GenoTher provides access to cutting-edge platforms, contributes to training the next generation of talent, and supports the growth of high-potential companies.
Mélodie Dupré
Marketing and Partnerships

La French Tech is a global movement uniting startups, investors, and policymakers to make France a premier hub for impactful innovation. Boasting a vast network worldwide, it stimulates local ecosystems to drive tech growth.
The Southern California French American Chamber of Commerce is proud to establish La French Tech San Diego. This milestone reinforces the entrepreneurial bond between France and San Diego, fostering innovation, creating opportunities, and shaping a remarkable future for startups and tech companies in our vibrant city.
Sylvie Almeri
Community Manager

Lyonbiopole Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is a French biocluster that connects and promotes healthcare innovation in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Its mission is to support the development of innovative technologies, products, and services to address
global healthcare challenges. With over 250 members, including world-class leaders, innovative SMEs, and research centers, Lyonbiopole fosters collaboration and development of breakthrough healthTech innovations to the benefit of patients.
Simon Gudin
Head of international affairs

MabDesign is a unique membership organization that supports the development of the French industrial sector in the field of biotherapies with business and scientific expertise. MabDesign provides strategic leverage and development
opportunities for its 300, and growing, members. All and every action from MabDesign is based on their expertise in the biotherapy and bioproduction field.
Elsa Kress
Head of business development

WhiteLab Genomics, a pioneer in the accelerated development of genomic medicines, sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence and biology. Founded in 2019 and supported by Y Combinator, the company is establishing itself
as a key player in genomic medicine innovation. Its proprietary AI technology enables the analysis of complex biological data and the in silico design of optimized therapeutic candidates, thus reducing development time, costs, and associated risks.
Nathan Lee
Head of Partnerships