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Global Approach Consulting
G.A.C. Group identifies sustainable benefits across the entire value chain of the innovation process, as well as social and financial performance levers to improve the competitiveness of companies and the attractiveness of regions.
300
employees
2000
clients
17
offices around the world
30M€
de chiffre d'affaires
25
years of expertise
Dans un contexte d’accélérations et de défis permanents, nous aidons des porteurs de projet, des entreprises de toutes tailles, des organisations publiques et l’ensemble de notre écosystème à trouver des solutions innovantes et performantes ayant un impact positif, inclusif et durable sur leurs organisations, notre société et notre environnement.
Un cabinet de conseil international en innovation et performance
Créé en 2002, G.A.C. Group est un cabinet de conseil international en innovation et performance dont l’expertise repose sur un accompagnement en conseil stratégique et opérationnel dans les domaines suivants :
- Stratégie et management de l’innovation
- Performance sociale
- Performance fiscale
- Performance énergétique et environnementale
Innovation & Performance for Impact
Our purpose Innovation & Performance for Impactis a daily commitment to contributing to the transformation and sustainable impact of businesses and regions.
Confiance, Engagement et Excellence
Trust, Commitment and Excellency are the values and foundations of our organization. This DNA defines the spirit of our company and governs all our day-to-day behavior and actions.
Building on this foundation, all our employees contribute to more inclusive growth and responsible progress in our society.
Trust
This value represents the key factor in our collective success in transforming challenges into opportunities. Trust is also the fundamental value we embody in our relationships with our customers, our ecosystem and all our stakeholders.
Commitment
The responsible investment of our employees is at the heart of our daily actions to meet the economic, social and environmental challenges facing our customers and local communities. As a committed player, we work to contribute to the responsible development and sustainable growth of our customers and local communities.
Excellence
We invest our energy and ambitions in our know-how, in the success and quality of our assignments, in the development of our employees' skills, in the quality of our relationships with our stakeholders and in the satisfaction of our customers. The quest for excellence and continuous improvement is a key success factor for sustainable performance.
De Grande Armée Conseil à G.A.C. Group
Création de la marque "Grande Armée Conseil" sur un nouveau concept "audit, conseil, formation" en fiscalité locale.
Launch of CIR offer
- Launch of the AT/MP offer
- Opening of offices in Lyon
- International development: Spain + 100 employees
- Launch of ACS offer
1st acquisition: DYNAVISION INC. in Canada
3 new acquisitions :
- Groupe RS&DE : Québec
- i9now : Sao Paulo
- Eidostech : Bilbao
3 new offices: Toulouse, Lille, Singapore
- Launch of Global Approach Consulting
- Launch of AS offer
- Deployment of InnoAdvance
- Ouverture de la filiale en Roumanie
- Launch of the umbrella brand
- Launch of AT/advance
Ouverture de bureaux à Strasbourg et Bordeaux & Création de la BU Innovation (ETI/PME - GC)
- Opening of offices in Montpellier
- Unique G.A.C. Group brand
- TAT space creation
- New offers + 30 employees
- New CEO: Christophe BOYTCHEV
- External growth program
- Launch of digitalization and energy tax offer
- New collaborations: Finamatic and increased D2BI shareholding
- New premises in Montpellier and Nantes
- New premises in Brazil
- Office openings in Munich
- Acquisition of Inno TSD, Diversification into innovation: IP BOX, AS, Innovation marketing
- Launch of MY G.A.C.
- New offices in Lille
- New website
- Signing of the Diversity Charter
- New offices in Toulouse
Lancement de MyCIR / MyCII & Nouvelle acquisition : ideXlab & Adhésion au Pacte des Nations-Unies (Global Compact) & Nouveaux bureaux à Sophia Antipolis
- New acquisition: Evoly Consulting
- New acquisition: RMG Marianne
- New acquisition: Axeco - Inventage
- 2 new offices in Brazil
New office in Morocco
- Nomination d'Hakim Saïdi au poste de Directeur Général France
- Rapprochement avec Didacthem, éditeur de la plateforme de prévention G2P
- Nouvelle acquisition : STFU, studio d'accélération de projets innovants
- Nouvelle acquisition : Kiosk, plateforme de reporting ESG, CSRD et bilan carbone
- Nouvelle acquisition : Schoolab, cabinet d'innovation, et sa plateforme de gestion de l'innovation Inject
Our management team and shareholders
In order to accelerate the scope of our activities and provide ever-better support to companies and local authorities in their social and environmental challenges, we have surrounded ourselves with trusted partners with aligned visions and shared values.
Alongside the management team, the firm's managers and the historic founder, Bpifrance and GENEO are shareholder members of G.A.C. Group.
Bpifrance supports companies in their development by financing their activities, innovations, ecological and energy transition projects and international expansion.
Thanks to Bpifrance and its 50 regional offices, entrepreneurs benefit from a close and efficient contact to support them in the sustainable growth of their business!
GENEO Capital Entrepreneur is an "Evergreen" investment company whose raison d'être is to provide SMEs and ETIs with the means to achieve their ambitions, in a sustainable and positive-impact approach.
Passionate about those who do, who create and who want to move the lines, the GENEO team's ambition is to take every entrepreneur's ambition to the highest level!
The management team is made up ofcomplementary experiences and a diverse horizons.
The whole team converges on one ambition for transformation and lasting impact at the service of its employees, customers and partners.
The congruence and alignment between our mission, our values, our strategy, our commitments and our day-to-day actions drive the members of our management team.
Christophe BOYTCHEV
Chairman, G.A.C. Group
Christophe Boytchev is President of G.A.C. Group, an international consulting firm dedicated to innovation, performance and competitiveness.
A graduate of the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA Lyon), INSEAD and the London Business School, Christophe began his career in 1992 as Head of Operations and Outsourcing at Matra Communications, then held positions as Operations Director, Business Unit Director, and Services Sales Director at Nortel Networks, Spie Communications for 9 years and SFR before joining G.A.C. Group in 2017.
Christophe's strategy is based on a vision of transformation and positive, lasting impact for the benefit of its customers, employees and partners.
Hakim SAIDI
Directeur Général France de G.A.C. Group
Hakim Saidi is Managing Director of G.A.C. Group. For many years, he has supported the firm's development by structuring its impact innovation offerings. An expert in the challenges of innovation, performance and the financing of strategic projects, he has played a key role in the Group's growth and the creation of sustainable value for its customers.
Hakim Saïdi, diplomé de l’école d’ingénieur ECE Paris et de l’ESCP, est un dirigeant reconnu pour sa capacité à structurer des organisations en forte croissance et à piloter des expertises à forte valeur ajoutée.
Before joining G.A.C. Group, he held sales management positions with leading groups, notably Telindus (SFR Group) and Orange, where he supported the transformation of business models, the roll-out of offers and strategic projects on a national and international scale.
Marie-Anne ROCHETEAU
Directrice Business
Units
Sofia DA SILVA
Marketing and Communications Director
Christophe PLISSIER
Administrative and financial director
Clémence JAGER
Human Resources Director
Our international presence
Our offices in France
Our offices in Brazil
Financement et management de l’innovation
Jacqueline CABRAL
CEO de G.A.C. Group au Brésil
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Implantée au Brésil depuis 2009, G.A.C. Group aide les entreprises à améliorer leur performance grâce à des services et des outils d’innovation.
"Lei do Bem" The Brazilian Research Tax Credit
In Brazil, companies benefit from the "Lei do Bem", a tax incentive similar to the French CIR, which allows investments in innovation to be deducted up to 34 % from corporate income tax and the social contribution on net profit. However, unlike the CIR, it is not limited to radical innovation, since any investment aimed at progressively improving a process, product or service is potentially eligible for the Lei do Bem.
At the same time, Brazil offers other sources of support for innovation, giving companies access to advantageous credit lines to carry out their research and development projects.
These include Finep, the equivalent of France's BPI, which plans to release 40 billion R$ (around 7 billion euros) for technology and innovation by 2026, including 7 billion R$ (around 1.2 billion euros) in 2023, and BNDES, in partnership with Embrapii, which has allocated 145 million R$ (around 26.6 million euros) to support Brazilian industrial innovation.
Innovation Management
Le siège de G.A.C. Group au Brésil propose une gamme de produits sur mesure, dans le but d’améliorer les performances de nos clients grâce à des services et des outils d’innovation.
Du diagnostic d’innovation à l’innovation ouverte, nous travaillons en collaboration avec nos clients pour aligner l’organisation sur leurs objectifs d’innovation.
Nos bureaux en Roumanie
Accelerate your development in Romania
Florin LUCA
BU Innovation Director Romania
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From Romania, GAC Innovation East Europea G.A.C. Group subsidiary operating in Eastern Europe, is accelerating its development thanks to Romania's innovative capabilities and business and academic environment.
Nowadays, we are the only one consulting company in Romania able to make the connexion between science, taxation and finance stakes, thanks to our international expertise in:
- Management and design of the entire value chain of innovation processes, from the launch of an idea to its development into a saleable, profitable product or service;
- Financing innovation and R&D projects (investment funds, European funds, state aid, tax deductions, etc.).
Our values and our corporate culture demand the highest levels of expertise from our employees: our teams are made up of world-class engineers and PhDs accustomed to working in multi-disciplinary environments, covering a wide range of scientific fields.
We thus provide our partners with our know-how anchored in all industrial sectors. With nearly 20 years of experience in tax credits for R&D, built and improved on the French market, we have been able to adapt to the legislative specificities of the countries where we operate.
GAC Innovation East Europe demonstrates technical expertise and a unique methodology on the Romanian market to allow its clients to benefit from tax measures intended for companies with R&D and innovation activities, in the strictest respect for the law, allowing companies to benefit from a deduction of their expenses of 50%.
Our approach is focused on efficiency and effectiveness:
- We share our knowledge to reduce our intervention time;
- translating the technical language of the engineers and researchers involved in Innovation / R&D projects into an administrative and financial language, necessary for the application of tax deductions defined in the Romanian legislation.
Our highly customizable services include :
- A technical audit allowing our engineers to identify projects carried out by our clients that may be subject to tax deduction;
- Precise, reliable, documented calculations the amount of expenditure that can be taken into account in the schemes identified and enable the fairest savings ;
- A supporting technical file bringing together all the information necessary to justify the approach to local administrations;
- A support throughout the validation process by experts representing public authorities;
- Contractual guarantees and support in case of authorities (ANAF) control.
Innovation Management
Le siège de G.A.C. Group au Brésil propose une gamme de produits sur mesure, dans le but d’améliorer les performances de nos clients grâce à des services et des outils d’innovation.
Du diagnostic d’innovation à l’innovation ouverte, nous travaillons en collaboration avec nos clients pour aligner l’organisation sur leurs objectifs d’innovation.
Nos bureaux en Allemagne
Gestion de la R&D, management du processus d’innovation et stratégie IP
Florin LUCA
BU Innovation Director Germany
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Depuis l’Allemagne, G.A.C. Group accélère son développement grâce aux capacités innovantes et à l’environnement commercial et académique local.
We are currently the only consultancy firm in Germany capable of bridging the gap between science, finance and tax.thanks to our expertise in :
- Management and design of the entire value chain of innovation processes, from the launch of an idea to its development into a saleable, profitable product or service;
- Financing innovation and R&D projects (investment funds, European funds, state aid, tax deductions, etc.).
Our values and our corporate culture demand the highest levels of expertise from our employees: our teams are made up of world-class engineers and PhDs accustomed to working in multi-disciplinary environments, covering a wide range of scientific fields.
We thus provide our partners with our know-how anchored in all industrial sectors. With nearly 20 years of experience in tax credits for R&D, built and improved on the French market, we have been able to adapt to the legislative specificities of the countries where we operate.
G.A.C. Group Allemagne fait preuve d’une expertise technique et d’une méthodologie unique sur le marché allemand pour permettre à ses clients de bénéficier des dispositifs fiscaux destinés aux entreprises ayant des activités de R&D et d’innovation, dans le plus strict respect de la loi.
Our approach is focused on efficiency and effectiveness:
- We share our knowledge to reduce our intervention time;
- translating the technical language of the engineers and researchers involved in Innovation / R&D projects into an administrative and financial language, necessary for the application of tax deductions defined in the Romanian legislation.
Our highly customizable services include :
- A technical audit allowing our engineers to identify projects carried out by our clients that may be subject to tax deduction;
- Precise, reliable, documented calculations the amount of expenditure that can be taken into account in the schemes identified and enable the fairest savings ;
- A supporting technical file bringing together all the information necessary to justify the approach to local administrations;
- A support throughout the validation process by experts representing public authorities;
- Des garanties contractuelles applicables en cas de contrôle par les autorités.
Innovation Management
Le siège de G.A.C. Group au Brésil propose une gamme de produits sur mesure, dans le but d’améliorer les performances de nos clients grâce à des services et des outils d’innovation.
Du diagnostic d’innovation à l’innovation ouverte, nous travaillons en collaboration avec nos clients pour aligner l’organisation sur leurs objectifs d’innovation.