Claire de Montaigu joined Leaders Trust in 1996, where she conducts executive search consulting, executive team assessments (CEOs, Management Committees, key positions) and board assessments for companies in the industrial and service sectors. She also advises professional associations in the recruitment of their executives. She also conducts human resources studies on behalf of groups. Since the beginning, she has developed a career as a generalist manager in industrial and financial services companies in particular and has acquired specific African experience as a Project Manager for the General Manager of Etablissements Petersen (oil mills, soap factories, canning factories), then in the administrative and financial responsibility of a Franco-Ivorian architectural firm on projects in Côte d'Ivoire. Back in Europe, Claire de Montaigu extended her management experience to the financial sector as Secretary General of the Banque de la Mutuelle Industrielle (FIMALAC Group). Within the Crédit Lyonnais Group, she then successively held the positions of General Secretary of Financière des Manufactures de France (an investment fund specializing in the luxury goods sector) and Special Affairs Officer for the Management Board of the Consortium de Réalisation (CDR). Claire de Montaigu was a member of the Directoire since 2005 and President since 2008.