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Robert Picarel

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Robert Picarel is the founder of TNBT Capital and the president named in the French active-company registry. TNBT's own biography describes software-engineering training followed by marketing and consulting work, then the co-founding of Velvet Consulting in2004 with a focus on customer strategy, data and digital transformation. WPP's September4,2020 acquisition announcement independently names him and Fabienne Magot as Velvet's founders. TNBT reports that he remained Velvet's non-executive chairman until2025 and developed the family-office activity in2021. His own advisory-board host describes earlier work at Capgemini and Nielsen and an engineering degree fromCYTech; these are source-attributed career details without invented employment or graduation days. Only his verified TNBT founder/president role is recorded here. The published adviser-card portrait is explicitly bound to his name and TNBT chairman biography.