Two budding entrepreneurs within the glove

As all Corsica self-respecting, Christian Mons couldn't admire Bonaparte (his feelings are a little more mixed with respect to Napoleon I). General to twenty-four years, such a fate could make that dream's CEO and Panhard offeror, it also has its way, conquered its stripes to forced March. A nearly sixty-four years, this rich industrial peers have recently elected President of Gicat (Groupement of French land defence industries) is never disposed of this trust in him stainless which once had the winner of Arcole and Rivoli. The fate of the glorious son of Ajaccio had to master word "conquest". the genial and jovial Cape-Corsin is certainly "entrepreneurship". What is less bloody, but not necessarily less bellicose. Her first weapons to him are Sogitec. We are in 1964. Christian Mons is nineteen years old and, for all Sesame in working life, a lean right licence. But the energy and ideas to resell. After a contract of sale of Mirages 3 at the Australia, an engineer of Dassault's support, he and his friend Jacques Game, translated into English and put to good standard a series of technical documentation. Two budding entrepreneurs within the glove. And will subsequently take good turns: technical documentation they will spend in turn to the films of maintenance, simulators, synthetic image generators. The success is such that Dassault feels in 1983 the need to put their hands on this subcontractor if strategic.

Entrepreneurial fibre

Christian Mons, his cheque in hand, will benefit to lead the French subsidiary of the American manufacturer of Control Data supercomputers. In the meantime, he had achieved a dream of kid becoming pilot professional and Director of the école de pilotage Winfield at Magny-Cours. A passion he assouvira for three or four years, in the 1970s, before back in business. "I myself didn't become a garage or car salesman, as so many other former pilot", he recalled. After Control Data, the adventure continues with Thomson-CSF, where the recruits in 1989 Alain Gomez. "The pattern that I most admired." "A true"warrior".Entrepreneurial fiber does not leaving it, it will create a first subsidiary, Thomainfor (now Osiatys), then a second Syseca (now Thales IS), prior to launch, at the request of Denis Ranque, the function of Vice-President in charge of outsourcing and privatization projects. An interesting post, but a little too "corporate" for his taste: this General is more like on the battlefield in the headquarters. It was then that he joined in Transiciel where he became Executive Vice-President, a born entrepreneur, Georges Cohen. In 2000, the two men bought the bar of the Court society Auverland, which will absorb Panhard after winning PVP contract. They are now partners in two cases: Panhard, which Christian Mons has 10 and Georges Cohen 75 (this large SMEs de350 employees is worth more than 100 million euros), and Europe Aero Service. When will sound the time to go into exile to St. Helena, the former pilot will go find his boat, his olive trees and its vineyards to the Corsica Cape. To avoid losing the hand, he there created a small farm which produces olive oil and perhaps tomorrow of wine. It gets not...