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:

Five areas, one craft: making a brand exist and making it grow.

Brand Director

A coherent brand, from strategic vision through to the field.

Brand platform, identity, image and reputation, employer brand, customer experience, the articulation between the corporate brand and its offerings: I have led all of these dimensions across four European markets at Coface, in launching a brand at American Express, and through an industrial integration at Alstom.

My approach connects strategy, rollout and performance measurement: awareness, engagement and recommendation, but equally the effectiveness of the materials placed in the hands of sales teams facing clients.

Because a brand is not reducible to a visual identity: it is built in the consistency between what a company claims, what it delivers, and what its audiences experience.

Platform and positioning · Identity and architecture · Image and reputation · Employer brand · Customer experience · Measurement · Agencies · Turning points

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Marketing and Communication Director

Marketing & communication leadership that produces results.

Brand, marketing, communication, digital, press and employer brand: I led this full scope across four European markets, with a team of 15 and a constant demand for performance — awareness, engagement, business impact.

Multi-country plans · Offering launches · Every channel · Sales support · Digital strategy · Team

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Head of Events

Events, from the field to the leadership seat.

Design, production, partnerships, major events and brand strategy: a career built across agencies, brand owners and international programmes.

Recognised expertise, extended by a published reference handbook and the direction of the top-ranked event MBA in France.

Event policy · Event communication strategy · Event design · Content and programme · Tenders and teams · Procurement and framework agreements · Delivery and steering · Review and sustainability

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Brand, Marketing and Communication Consultant

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.

Brand diagnosis · Marketing and communication plan · Building an event format · Sports sponsorship · Tenders · Handover

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Academic Director, Master's and MBA

Designing, building and directing Master's and MBA programmes.

I design and build academic programmes at Master's and MBA level: content architecture, learning outcomes, module sequencing, contributor recruitment, assessment and annual review of the curriculum.

I teach brand strategy, marketing and communication in several business schools, to future executives and senior managers. In that capacity I direct the EFAP MBA in communication and event management, ranked first in France in its category.

Alongside this I am running doctoral research in management science. Practitioner, teacher and researcher: I teach what I still practise.

Programme design · Contributor recruitment · Juries and assessment · Industry relations · Attractiveness and ranking · Teaching

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Author of La boîte à outils de l'événementiel

Eleven sections, sixty-five tools and two matrices: reading the client, designing the customer journey, running the tender, building the budget and MICE procurement policy, recruiting teams, delivering, reviewing. A full section on sustainability — impact mapping, carbon footprint, offsetting.

Dunod, « BàO La Boîte à Outils » series, March 2026 · 192 pages · EAN 978-2-10-088793-4

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Cover of La boîte à outils de l'événementiel, Dunod
Written for project managers, heads of events and strategic planners. Used as a teaching text.

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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