Beatrice Rivalier is the founder of Sud-Ouest intelligence économique. She is an engineer and holds also a Master’s degree of ECP, Ecole Centrale de Paris (may-be the best French engineering school) She began her career on the ECP consulting team where she specialised in strategy, marketing, and business intelligence for major industrial companies and high-tech SMEs (B to B). She also worked for different policies makers (EU, French State and agencies, Regional or Local structures) where she assessed and built their public policies (innovation, industrial research, economical development) Then she worked in an engineering company specialised in lumber industry as a Marketing Manager for an optimised scanner sawing system  Then as Business intelligence Manager at a regional development agency. In 2004 she launched her own consulting company. Beatrice Rivalier is a certified member of the French Federation of Business Intelligence Professionals (Fédération des Professionnels de l’Intelligence Economique) when attests to her confidentially, business ethics and consultancy quality.
 Her international culture as an expatriate in Africa and Germany as well business in approximately 15 countries throughout Europe, America and Japan have given her an extra edge on the French market.