History & Team

Three Expertises, One Vision

The team that makes your
organization autonomous

Michael, Valérie, and Adrien cover the three inseparable dimensions — people, organization, finance. Not a generalist firm: three expertises aligned around one single goal.

Michael Van Eck
Michael Van Eck
Strategist & Entrepreneurial Development

With an international background, Michael brings commercial rigor and strategic clarity. He structures complex situations, aligns teams around shared goals, and supports owners in developing their leadership — whether preparing a business transfer or scaling up.

Business Development Management Effectiveness Team Dynamics
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My career began at IBM, in a demanding environment focused on results and client relationships. As a sales engineer, I learned to combine rigor, commitment, and adaptability — qualities I bring to my work with business owners today.

With an international background — born in Venezuela, Dutch parents — I developed an ability to quickly read and understand cultural differences. I bring a structured perspective, a strategic ear, and the ability to simplify complex situations without ever losing sight of on-the-ground realities.

With calm, clarity, and pragmatism, I support leaders and their teams in building solid working relationships and achieving shared goals.

Valérie Peyrille
Valérie Peyrille
Leadership & Team Architect

With 25 years of experience in human leadership. Certified in DISC, WPMOT, and Five Behaviors, Valérie focuses on the most critical dimension: building autonomy in key managers and creating distributed leadership that no longer depends on a single person.

Profiling & HR Team Coaching Applied Neuroscience Mediation
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With over 25 years of experience, I began by managing complex interior architecture projects, specializing in professional spaces where well-being and quality are essential to performance. This experience taught me to navigate complexity with high standards and attention to detail, always placing people at the center.

Today, I channel that same passion into supporting managers and business owners. Trained in applied neuroscience and certified in DISC, WPMOT, PTSI, and Five Behaviors, I help them better understand themselves and others to develop human, effective, and lasting leadership.

My approach fosters the creation of professional environments and management postures that strengthen cohesion, well-being, and collective performance.

Adrien Lavergnat
Adrien Lavergnat
Finance & Controlling Expert

With 25 years in demanding environments — SMEs, international NGOs, public institutions — Adrien structures financial functions to make them legible and attractive: for a buyer in a transfer scenario, for investors or lenders in a growth context.

Finance & Controlling Administrative Transformation ERP & Digital
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With over 25 years of experience in complex and demanding environments — SMEs, international NGOs, public institutions, and large corporations — I support organizations in consolidating their financial and administrative functions to ensure viability, resilience, and agility.

I also work on modernizing digital infrastructure related to management and administration, integrating the right tools to strengthen organizational transparency, efficiency, and forward-planning capacity.

My added value lies in my ability to structure, analyze, and steer with rigor, while maintaining a human, pragmatic, and collaborative approach.

History & Origins

Born from a Shared Observation

We chose to unite our expertises in response to a shared observation: no organization can transform lastingly without addressing its people, its strategy, and its infrastructure together.

Despite very different backgrounds, we share common values: transparency, respect, the desire to pass on knowledge, and the will to build solid, autonomous, and resilient organizations.

In creating Humanae Partners, we wanted to build a unique ecosystem in French-speaking Switzerland: a firm capable of supporting SMEs across all the dimensions essential to their development or long-term sustainability — from people to back-office, from vision to execution.

Transparency

We say what we see, even when it’s uncomfortable.

Respect

For every owner, every team, every business story.

Transfer

Of skills, methods, and confidence at every stage.

Autonomy

Our success is measured by what you can do without us.

“A complementary team supported by a network of experienced partners — legal advisors, fiduciaries, M&A experts, and digital specialists.”

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