Our Reach France / Paris

112 bis rue Cardinet
75017 Paris


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Pierre Lebrun

Director


SPECIALITIES

Environment and pollution, waste, water treatment


CONTACT

france@advantaglobal.com

Profile
Pierre has more than 13 years of experience as an Environmental Engineer Expert specializing in pollution, waste, asbestos-lead and water treatment claims. Pierre began his career at CPA Experts in close collaboration with Hervé Durand, Expert Specialist in Hydrogeology within the firm. In order to meet the needs of contracting authorities, Pierre founded Kaya SAS with Hervé Durand in 2011, to offer services ranging from decontamination project management to contracting authorities' support.

Professional Qualifications
— Engineer – Polytech’ Paris UPMC (Earth Sciences – Hydrosciences)

Languages
— French
— English

Samuel Chauvin

Director


SPECIALITIES

Business interruption, Consequential & Financial damage, Quantity Surveyor, Property & Liability


CONTACT

france@advantaglobal.com

Profile
Samuel Chauvin is an expert in financial and real estate claims management, with over 20 years' experience in real estate law, accounting and financial studies. He is also CPA Experts' Managing Director. He began his career with the certified public accountant firm CHATEAU - WANAVERBECQ - HAVENEL as Manager, external auditor and companies merger/transfer specialist. He then joined PARTECH SERVICES as supervisor in charge of decontamination and post-loss restoration, in addition to the administrative and technical management of worksites. He then became a loss adjuster in BI - Liability - Construction All Risks, Quantity surveyor and Branch Manager at CIBLEXPERTS, before pursuing his career as a loss adjuster / quantity surveyor at the firm TEXA GLOBAL SERVICES.

Professional Qualifications
— Fire origin and cause investigation (Cenolia organism)
— Real Estate & Property law modules (CNAM institute)
— Accounting and financial studies diploma (DECF)
— Diploma in Economic science (DEUG II)
— Preparatory diploma of accounting and financial studies (DPECF)

Languages
— French
— English
— German

Sherman Binko

Senior Loss Adjuster


SPECIALITIES

Business Interruption, Energy, Property, Marine


CONTACT

sbinko@advantaglobal.com
+33 618 50 31 62
+33 170 98 33 77

Profile
Sherman is a Senior Loss Adjuster and member of the International Organization of Experts (ORDINEX). He has over 10 years of experience managing technical claims in the property, commercial and energy sectors. Sherman specializes in handling major material damage, energy and business interruption claims from a cradle to grave basis and has worked on various international losses throughout Africa and the UAE.

Professional Qualifications
— BSc (Hons) in Information Technology and Business Information Systems (London Middlesex University)
— ORDINEX (International Organization of Experts)
— Cert CII Claims (Chartered Insurance Institute)
— CILA (Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters)

Languages
— English
— French
— Basic German

Anne Giudicelli

Loss Adjuster


SPECIALITIES

Terrorism, Political Risks, Crisis Management, Security Audit, Risk Assessment


CONTACT

agiudicelli@advantaglobal.com
+33 664 919 459

Profile
Anne is a renowned international expert on geopolitical and security issues, including terrorism, with over 20 years’ experience. As a MENA specialist, she founded Intelligence Cluster - Terr(o)Risc in 2005, an internationally recognized consulting organisation in global risks, strategic intelligence, threat assessment and crisis management. She provides operational consultancy to private sector firms governmental bodies in Europe and abroad, notably in the Arab countries and Africa. She also serves the insurance and reinsurance industry, focusing predominantly on claims involving political risks and terrorism. Anne has provided insightful analysis on political risks to global companies, think tanks, training centres, insurance sector and the media. She regularly contributes to strategic studies for specialized institutions and administrations.

Professional Qualifications
— International Relations
— Geopolitical Crisis Management and Global Risk Analysis – Continuous Professional Development Courses issued by Ministry of Foreign Affairs
— Arabic Language Advanced Course (Bourguiba School)

Languages
— French
— English
— Arabic

Lionel Fournier

Senior Loss Adjuster


SPECIALITIES

Industry, Chemistry and Chemical engineering, Materials and Materials engineering, Nuclear


CONTACT

france@advantaglobal.com

Profile
Lionel is a doctor in Materials Science and Engineering. He joined the industrial group of CPA Experts in 2018 and mainly deals with materials ageing issue (Metallurgy, Mechanics, Corrosion, other). He started his career as a research associate in the Nuclear Engineering Department of the University of Michigan (USA) and then joined the Materials Department of the Nuclear Energy Division of CEA Saclay as a Research Engineer. He then worked at AREVA's Reactor Division in Paris as a Materials Expert and then as Manager of the Chemistry, Corrosion and Radiation Protection group. Lionel has the particularity of carrying out an additional activity in beekeeping, which also allows him to respond to assignments' requests in this field.

Professional Qualifications
— PhD in Materials Science and Engineering (St Etienne / Institut National Polytechnique of Grenoble (France)
— MSc in corrosion (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UK))
— Master in Chemistry (University of Clermont-Ferrand – France)

Languages
— French
— English

José Manuel Martins

Senior Loss Adjuster


SPECIALITIES

Chemistry and Chemical engineering, Building envelope, Materials and Materials engineering


CONTACT

france@advantaglobal.com

Profile
José Manuel is a Doctor in Chemistry and Physical Chemistry of Polymers. He holds a PhD in Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry and a postgraduate degree in Chemistry and Physical Chemistry of Polymers. He started his career as an R&D Paints Engineer for HENKEL in Germany. He then became Laboratory Manager R&D at RHODIA SILICONES in Saint-Fons (France and later joined SEG Diélectriques in Montpellier in the Technical and Industrial Department. He held the position of Technical, Industrial and R&D Manager in the fields of formulation of resins, varnishes and composite materials for electrical insulation of products mainly for the electromechanical and automotive industry, before joining CPA Experts.

Professional Qualifications
— PhD in Physics and Chemistry of Polymers (University of Le Mans – France)
— Master’s Degree in Physics and Chemistry of Polymers (University of Paris VI – France)

Languages
— French
— English
— Portuguese

Dorothée Romain

Senior Loss Adjuster


SPECIALITIES

Environment and pollution, waste, water treatment


CONTACT

france@advantaglobal.com

Profile
Dorothée is a Dr Veterinary, with more than 20 years of experience. Dorothée joined C.C.P.A DELTAVIT as a laboratory manager and later technical manager, then worked for PFIZER Animal healthcare - Pharmaceutical laboratory as a Technical Manager and Product Manager for the Bovine range. She then joined the UN / FAO - Food and Agriculture Organisation where she was in charge of fundraising for laboratories in Africa.

Professional Qualifications
— Veterrinary Diploma (Lyon’Vet School)
— CES in avian pathology (Paris’ Vet School)
— MBA in business Management (IAE La Sorbonne University, Paris)

Languages
— French
— English
— Italian

Jean Damien Fonteneau

Senior Loss Adjuster


SPECIALITIES

Environment and pollution, Hydrogeology


CONTACT

france@advantaglobal.com

Profile
Jean-Damien is an engineer specialising in agronomy with more than 25 years of experience internationally in various fields (seeds, fertilisers, plant protection products and diseases) and agri-food (contamination, withdrawal/recall). With a Master's degree in Science and Technique in Plant Bio-physiology and an Engineering degree from the Dijon National Advanced Institute of Agronomy (Plant production and crops), Jean-Damien began his career as an Agro-Environmental Engineer for the Loire Atlantique Chamber of Agriculture. Afterwards, he joined Terrena where he was in charge of referencing plant protection products, seeds and fertilisers, and then continued at Cavac where he became head of agronomy and sector development.

Professional Qualifications
— Engineering from the Higher National Agronomy Institute of Dijon (ENESAD)
— Master’s Degree in Plant Biophysiology Sciences and Techniques

Languages
— French
— English

Hervé Durand

Senior Loss Adjuster


SPECIALITIES

Environment and pollution, Hydrogeology


CONTACT

france@advantaglobal.com

Profile
Hervé is an Engineer Specialist in Hydrogeology and Environmental Expert with more than 30 years of experience. Hervé started his career in various major project design offices. Geophysicist project manager for Géoconsult and subsequently design engineer at CEBTP, he joined Burgeap where he became Director of the industrial department. He later joined GRS Valtech and became a project manager in the field of decontamination. In addition to his work as a loss adjuster, Hervé handles assignments in assistance to contracting authorities (decontamination/waste/asbestos) with Kaya SAS.

Professional Qualifications
— Geological Engineering Degree (University of Montreal)
— Master’s Degree in Geology (Paris VI University)

Languages
— French
— English