Nunzia Passacantando.
Nunzia Passacantando, marketing, communication and events director

Brand, marketing, communication, events, academic direction. I build brands, their reputation and their growth, in France and internationally — from strategy through to delivery, in companies and in business schools.

You are hiring for:

An external right hand for your strategic challenges.

I work alongside executive and marketing leadership to reinforce their teams on high-stakes assignments: positioning, launch, transformation, brand or events.

Senior expertise, operational from day one, from the thinking through to the delivery.

Firstpaid conference launched for a media group
4 yearsof independent practice
3working languages, fluent

Roles targeted Fractional CMO · Brand and Marketing Consultant · Interim Marketing Director · Senior Advisor · Transition management

What I get brought in for

  • Brand diagnosis

    An honest assessment, and a list of what to stop doing.

  • Marketing and communication plan

    Aligned to company ambition, costed, sequenced.

  • Building an event format

    Business model, positioning, acquisition, partnerships.

  • Sports sponsorship

    Design and delivery for brands and agencies.

  • Tenders

    Response construction, from strategic framing to the submitted file.

  • Handover

    Training internal teams so the work holds without me.

Three proofs in advisory work

  • La Tribunesince 2022

    Launch of Impact Santé

    The group's first paid conference: moving a free fixture to a monetised premium offer. Positioning, then the online and offline marketing plan built to target and convert a paying audience — acquisition, CRM, partnerships and press relations.

  • Alstom2020 – 2021

    Brand Director, alongside group management

    Strategic brand review after the Bombardier acquisition, vision presented to the executive committee, corporate materials produced in seven languages. Steered the strategic agency and press relations.

  • EFAPsince 2020

    Director of the MBA in communication and event management

    Design and steering of the entire programme: content architecture, module sequencing, learning outcomes, annual review of the curriculum against market developments. Recruitment and briefing of practising contributors, chairing of juries, framing of dissertations and defences.

The path

  • 2022 – present
    Independent consultant
    Large groups and mid-caps
  • 2020 – present
    EFAP and business schools
    Director of the MBA in communication and event management, and teaching at Master's and MBA level
  • 2021 – 2022
    Coface
    Marketing & communication director, Western Europe
  • 2020 – 2021
    Alstom
    Brand Director
  • 2017 – 2020
    MICE Partner
    Founder and managing director
  • 2015 – 2017
    American Express / Amex GBT
    Brand, communication and PR — head of the MICE & Event department
  • 2012 – 2015
    MCI Group / Ovation DMC
    Director, international clients
  • 2010 – 2012
    Metropolis DMC
    Senior director, event communication
  • 2006 – 2008
    Kuoni Group
    Director, Europe and US markets
  • 2000 – 2003
    Ring Tours IFB
    Senior events director

Teaching

I direct the EFAP MBA in communication and event management. I teach brand strategy, marketing and communication in several business schools, at both Master's and MBA level, to future executives and senior managers.

  • EFAP
  • Neoma
  • Excelia
  • Audencia
  • Ascencia
  • Icart

Education

  • Doctorate, management scienceParis-Panthéon-Assas, in progress
  • Executive MBACELSA, 2017-2019
  • Master's, marketing & communicationBrest Business School, 2015
  • Data Sciences certificateESCP Business School
  • Growth Hacker · DMCPcertifications

Languages

  • Italiannative
  • Frenchfluent
  • Englishfluent
  • Spanishintermediate

Available for a permanent role and for advisory assignments

nunziapassacantando@gmail.com

Based in Paris, mobile across Europe. I reply within 48 hours and would rather have one direct conversation than a long email thread.

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