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NOESISÉLITE

Groupe NOESISLyon45.755 N · 4.832 E

A group of executives, a technology born in the field.

Groupe NOESIS brings together a sales acceleration platform, executive advisory, international development and executive search. One single purpose: growing B2B SMEs and mid-caps.

01Our roots

Twenty-two years spent opening markets.

We built the tool we wished we had.

We come from running companies. Targets to meet, teams to grow, clients to keep and markets to win.

Before designing NOESIS Élite, we lived that reality every day.

“Over 22 years, I worked with more than 6,000 French client companies and established their sales presence in more than 50 countries.

SMEs, mid-caps, chief executives, subsidiary directors and their sales teams.

In France and abroad, the same question kept coming back: how do you keep your clients, grow their spend (upsell) and win new ones, without spreading your teams too thin?”

Johann SPONARCEO

We know this job.

Selling takes time. You have to search, check, prepare, reach out, follow up. Accept the silences, the refusals, the postponed meetings. It is sometimes a thankless job, often a hard one, even for the best.

We have felt the same frustrations as our clients: a team that works hard but spends too little time selling. A great opportunity spotted too late. A distributor who could do more but lacks concrete leads. A capable salesperson wearing themselves out looking for the right door.

We wanted to make their job easier, and to give them what it takes to open that door.

First, for our own companies.

With Groupe NOESIS, we have built an ecosystem that brings industry, services and technology together for business leaders.

A very concrete ambition: giving our long-standing portfolio companies the means to accelerate their growth.

We were missing one tool. One that would do the research and the preparation, find the right companies, identify the right people and give teams a real reason to contact them. In France and abroad. Without adding yet another tool or upending the way they work.

So we built it.

For us. And for you.

NOESIS Élite is the product we wished we had as executives. A tool designed to help our companies retain clients, win new ones and give more means to the people who drive their growth.

We built it for our teams and our portfolio companies. We have opened it to companies that share the same ambition.

Because we know what a good salesperson is worth. And their time deserves to go to their clients, not to working out where to start.

  1. Export consulting

    An international development consultancy for French SMEs and mid-caps, built and run by Johann SPONAR.

    22years

    50+countries

    • Export
    • Subsidiary directors
    • Sales teams
  2. Exit

    The consultancy changes hands. The question its clients kept asking remains.

    2022

  3. Groupe NOESIS

    Software, advisory, executive search and equity stakes.

    Today

  4. NOESIS Élite

    The tool we wished we had, built to answer that question.

    Born in the field

02Our ecosystem

NOESIS Élite is a Groupe NOESIS business.

One single objective: supporting and boosting the growth of B2B companies.
  1. NOESIS Élite

    Software

    The first sales exoskeleton: business events, targets, decision-makers, contact details, recommended actions, managed prospecting.

  2. NOESIS Advisory

    Consulting

    Governance, independent director, adviser to the CEO. Sales management, team training and leadership, international development, build-ups. The chief executive’s sparring partner.

  3. NOESIS Executive

    Executive search

    Executive search in France and abroad, on a monthly retainer plus a success fee, for sales teams, executive committees, chief executives, export roles, subsidiary heads…

  4. NOESIS Investments

    Equity stakes

    Minority stakes in industrial SMEs, as a participative shareholder rather than a business angel.

03The team

Sales practitioners, not theorists.

Each in their own lane, fully complementary and aligned on one ambition: getting sales teams to sell.

  1. 01CEO

    Portrait of Johann SPONAR

    JohannSPONAR

    Founder. 22 years as chief executive of a French consultancy helping SMEs and mid-caps set up abroad, established in more than 50 countries and sold in 2022. He has spent his life facing the growth challenges of more than 6,000 clients in France and abroad. Entrepreneur, board member, adviser to CEOs, investor in more than 40 SMEs.

  2. 02COO

    Portrait of Evan VIOLLET

    EvanVIOLLET

    Partner. Has been rolling out NOESIS Élite since its launch. Runs production and owns the deliverables: set-ups, software onboarding, weekly follow-ups, oversight of client KPIs. Evan is in direct contact with every one of our clients. Manages the Operations team.

  3. 03CTO

    Portrait of Guillaume CANCALON

    GuillaumeCANCALON

    Partner. Architect of the proprietary NOESIS Engine: large-scale collection, vector search, business event matching and the industrialisation of the platform. Cybersecurity. Drives the delivery of the technical roadmap. Manages the development team.

The NOESIS team

  • Portrait of Lucas

    Lucas

    NOESIS Élite

    SME growth

  • Portrait of Yann

    Yann

    NOESIS Scale

    CRM enrichment

  • Portrait of Théo

    Théo

    NOESIS Scale

    CRM enrichment

  • Portrait of Julien

    Julien

    NOESIS Élite

    Software developer

  • Portrait of Matthias

    Matthias

    NOESIS Élite

    Software developer

  • AI agent

    Victoria

    NOESIS Suite

    Client prospecting

  • AI agent

    Claudia

    NOESIS Suite

    Client prospecting

  • Portrait of Éric

    Éric

    NOESIS Advisory

    President, Africa

  • Portrait of Fabienne

    Fabienne

    NOESIS Executive

    Recruitment Director

  • Portrait of VaillantMascot

    Vaillant

    NOESIS Good Vibe

    Senior Croquettes Advisor

04Our values

We don’t theorise about creating value: we make it.

  1. Ambition

    Aim high, think big, and claim a leading place in B2B sales relationships.

  2. Mentorship

    Share experience, and help our clients’ teams grow as much as our own.

  3. Courage

    Act, decide, and dare to tell the chief executive what they would rather not hear.

  4. Curiosity

    Observe, understand, anticipate. It is the very craft of detecting business events.

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