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Mathias ABRAMOVICZ
HEC Paris
Partner - Head of Corporate programs
Description
Mathias Abramovicz is a leading innovation specialist with over 15 years of experience in architecting high-impact entrepreneurial ecosystems and open innovation initiatives for global corporations, sovereign entities, and international development organizations.
As the Pedagogical Director of the Incubation & Acceleration Center at HEC Paris—Europe’s top-ranked business school—, Mr. Abramovicz has structural oversight over one of the region's largest enterprise-creation hub. Over the course of his career, he has personally evaluated, equipped and accelerated thousands of founders and built over fifty innovation programs.
//Corporate Open Innovation & Strategic KPI Steering
At the corporate level, Mr. Abramovicz specializes in designing bespoke startup acceleration architectures and intrapreneurship frameworks for global market leaders, including Meta, L’Oréal, PwC, Veolia, Société Générale and TotalEnergies. His strategic methodology focuses on deploying analytical tools and market-driven metrics that enable C-suite executives to systematically de-risk and monitor investments across three rigorous development phases:
- Market Opportunity Validation: Objective data-triangulation to confirm true market needs.
- Use cases Experiment & Performance Measurement: Operationalizing key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the pilots.
- Scalability & Systemic Growth: Designing the governance structures and distribution models required for commercial expansion.
His current corporate advisory footprint spans highly strategic technological corridors across France, the SAPMENA zone (South Asia, Pacific, Middle East, North Africa), and Africa.
// Sovereign Advisory & Large-Scale Government Programs
Recognized for his track record, Mr. Abramovicz acts as a trusted advisor to sovereign governments and multilateral financial institutions, engineering large-scale national entrepreneurship programs designed to drive macroeconomic growth, industrial modernization, and youth employment.
His prominent institutional track record includes a landmark partnership with the World Bank and the Caisse des Dépôts de Côte d'Ivoire, where he orchestrated a multi-tiered national development pipeline:
- Human Capital Capacity Building: Structured an advanced academic curriculum that trained over 1 000 selected students in technology-driven entrepreneurship.
- Investment Readiness Program: Designed and led an intensive acceleration track for 200 Ivorian startups, optimizing their financial engineering and capital-raising capabilities.
- Sovereign Diplomatic Bridges: Programmed an exclusive high-level learning expedition to Station F (Paris) to foster strategic cross-border venture capital linkages.
- Mass-Media Advocacy: Co-created a nationwide educational television broadcast to catalyze a culture of national innovation.
// Governance, Investment & Board Advisory
Complementing his corporate and state-level advisory work, Mr. Abramovicz is an active venture investor with an equity portfolio spanning over thirty startups. He sits on multiple boards and strategic committees, providing continuous oversight on financial structuring, corporate governance, cross-border fundraising strategy, and commercial execution.
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