Agathe Blanchon

Agathe Blanchon-Ehrsam is Executive Director of Fifth Season, a key part of Vivaldi Partners Group. She develops brand strategies, runs innovation workshops, and has been pioneering new models for insight development for over a decade. Long-term engagements for Casa Cuervo Tequilas, Nestle, and Siemens have further developed her deep international understanding of industry dynamics and consumer behavior.

She spent a year on the management team of Hot Bread Kitchen, a non-profit organisation of which she was a founding board member and developed incubation program for start-up food entrepreneurs.

Previously in her career, Blanchon-Ehrsam was a consultant at marchFIRST in their strategy practice, where she designed Internet strategies and helped create e-ventures for her clients. She started her career working at Paribas Investment Bank and at NGOs in Peru and Chile. She has taught strategic management classes as an Adjunct Professor at Parsons The New School for Design and holds a Masters from ESSEC Business School in Paris, France.