Lucas Maillard
Looking to expand my freelancing activities
Professional Status
Open to opportunities
About Me
Howdy! My name is Lucas/Lucky, enthusiastic French boy passionate about music and its industry, business and finance, coaching and personal development. My mission on Earth is to be happy, healthy, and to reach all my goals while helping people to do the same. Much love! ♥
Experiences
Financial Advisor (Independent)
OVB Conseils en Patrimoine France Sàrl
Since April 2021
Freelancer
France
- Commercial development and representation of the company to customers and prospects
- Interviews and customer data acquisition
- Analysis, evaluation and creation of personalized financial concepts based on clients' needs and objectives
- Long-term monitoring of customers, optimization and adaptation of the solutions offered (savings and investment, insurance)
- Support for clients in signing contracts and associated administrative tasks
- Recruiting, training and leading a team of a few collaborators
Automobile Fleet Management (Back-Office)
Würth France
July 2020
to January 2021
Erstein
France
- Managing the ~3.000 vehicles of the company (and a subsidiary) regarding various aspects
- Monitoring, controlling, aggregating and reporting the fuel costs to the fleet manager and to the Chief Financial Officer
- Leading and animating re-invoicing commissions with Chief Financial Officer, automobile fleet manager, accountants and legal department director
- Ensure proper allocation of fuel costs
- Supervision of invoices and credit notes intended for company collaborators
- Be the first representative of the company in relation to fuel suppliers
Music Industry
Eonity, TrapStyle, Hot Steppers Recs, Bob's Music Box, Concrete Symphony, Amplify Emotions, The Lucky Network, NextLevelTunes, etc. (Record Labels, Music Services, Artists Accompaniment)
Since 2015
Worldwide
- Ownership, distribution and exploitation of a 200+ recordings catalog (250+ artists signed), historical focus on electronic music but recent diversification into non-electronic as well
- 9,3 millions of streams generated on Spotify (January 2020)
- 8,5 millions of streams generated on SoundCloud (January 2020)
- Millions of indirect YouTube streams on 3rd parties uploads
- Worked with top producers and artists (Quentin Mosimann, WildVibes, Adrien Toma, etc.)
- Recordings played at big festivals (ex: South Korea)
- 139K+ followers gained on Spotify (Eonity)
- 1M+ followers gained on SoundCloud
- Artists and Repertoire (A&R) Direction: supervising A&Rs, listening to demos, feedbacking artists until final products, decisions regarding releases
- Legal, contracts management and writing: recording contracts, remixes and covers, licences, DJ mixes contracts, partnerships contracts, co-releases deals, etc. and negotiations with hundreds of artists/managers and partners
- Data Management: managing artists and recordings data, catalog management, data organization, collection and forms management
- Distribution of signed recordings to Digital Sales Platforms (DSPs) and streaming services, experience with 6 different distributors
- Supervision of signed recordings promotion (music platforms, social media)
- Social Media: leading and supervising social media operations and strategies (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.)
- Website creation, management and optimization, digital marketing actions to increase sales and traffic
- 2 events organized in Strasbourg, France (place, online and offline marketing, line-up and artists management, sales and rewards, etc.)
- Created an address book of thousands of people related to the music industry and its subfields
- Recordings supported by top artists (Tiësto, Nicky Romero, Don Diablo, etc.)
- Supervising web development teams
- Leading and coordinating an international team of 15+ people, rewards, tasks and tools management
- Management and development of "Eonity Mixes", a podcast hosting DJ mixes
- Mailing campaigns and newsletters management
- Remix contests organization, remix EPs management
- IRL networking at events (Amsterdam Dance Event, local and foreign festivals and shows, etc.)
- Storytelling, marketing strategies, brands creations and developments, visual and artworks strategies
- Managing, correcting and fine-tuning dozens of writers' articles and interviews
- Finance: payments, accounting, royalties calculations
- Releases Tasks: uploads, descriptions, metadata management, credits management, lyrics management
- Advising artists regarding their music, marketing strategies and careers
Manager & Artistic Director
Baku, The Dreamcatchers (Trap / Future Bass Artist)
Since 2019
Worldwide
- Managing the work and creative relationships between the artist and collaborators
- Negotiating recording contracts with collaborators
- Social media animation
- Branding, storytelling, web and marketing strategy
- Spotify: 538K+ streams on 3 releases (January 2020)
- SoundCloud: 94K+ streams on 3 releases (January 2020)
- Distributing recordings to Digital Sales Platforms (DSPs) and streaming platforms
- Organizing and coordinating the promotion of the recordings released
- Creative and technical feedbacks on Work-In-Progress
Controlling Management (Finance Department)
Würth France
2017
to 2018
Erstein
France
- Controlling of the company transportation costs at a national scale (2nd expense item of the company, 240,000+ customers)
- Analysis and simulations to help the direction to take decisions regarding the national logistic strategy of the company
- Helped the company to save money by applying a more rigorous rebilling of transportation expenses to a sister company of the group
- Leading various accounting and controlling tasks and analysis
Analyst and Commercial Assistant
Alsacork Isolation (Ecological Material Distributor)
2015
Internship
Turckheim
France
- Commercial development, 5,000€ in direct sales generated
- Financial analysis and advising (balance sheet, income statement), creation of an Microsoft Excel tool to forecast the treasury, cash forecasting
- Customer service (phone, e-mail and live contact, in French and English)
- Management of the logistic with trucking companies
- Assisting meetings with the accounting, audit and consulting agency
- Paying suppliers and banking tasks
- Various administrative tasks
Commercial Assistant
Guy Hoquet l'Immobilier (Real Estate Industry)
2014
Internship
Sélestat
France
- Administrative tasks
- Commercial development
- Customer service (phone and live contact)
Analyst
Crédit Mutuel (Banking Industry)
August 2013
Full-time
Marckolsheim
France
- Financial analysis
- Elaboration of a strategic plan for the agency
- Customer service (phone and live contact)
- Converting customers from physical counter users to automated machines users
Commercial Assistant
Agence de l'Ill (Real Estate Industry)
2009
Internship
Sélestat
France
- Administrative tasks
- Commercial development
- Customer service (phone and live contact)
Human Resources Assistant
Jungbunzlauer (Chemical Industry)
2009
Internship
Marckolsheim
France
- Administrative tasks
Institut Supérieur de Gestion - ISG (Paris, France)
Master's degree, Business & Finance, Specialty in Wealth Management, Banking and Insurance
2016
to 2018
• 5th year mémoire: "How the blockchain technology applied to the music industry can revolutionize the way music rights owners get paid?"
• 4th year: class delegate
• Most of my teachers were professionals in business and in the finance industry
• 4th year: class delegate
• Most of my teachers were professionals in business and in the finance industry
ISEG Business & Finance School (Strasbourg, France)
Bachelor's degree, Business & Finance
2013
to 2015
1st year:
• Participation in a business game which consisted in managing a financial portfolio of company stocks
• 2nd semester: head of the class
2nd year:
• Class delegate
• Member of the theater association and participation in a theater show in front of 150 people
• Organized an event for the "finance week" of the school (with comrades: realized a short movie about finance and projected it in front of a public)
• Trade Project: consisted in the creation of a trading algorithm which has been used virtually for a High Frequency Trading (HFT) project (in collaboration with computer science students)
3rd year:
• Class delegate
Most of my teachers were professionals in business and in the finance industry.
• Participation in a business game which consisted in managing a financial portfolio of company stocks
• 2nd semester: head of the class
2nd year:
• Class delegate
• Member of the theater association and participation in a theater show in front of 150 people
• Organized an event for the "finance week" of the school (with comrades: realized a short movie about finance and projected it in front of a public)
• Trade Project: consisted in the creation of a trading algorithm which has been used virtually for a High Frequency Trading (HFT) project (in collaboration with computer science students)
3rd year:
• Class delegate
Most of my teachers were professionals in business and in the finance industry.
This excursion brought a solid increase of my English skills.
Courses I had:
• General English
• Intercambio (conversation & practice)
• Irish culture & society
• Business communications
• Cultural industry project
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Courses I had:
• General English
• Intercambio (conversation & practice)
• Irish culture & society
• Business communications
• Cultural industry project
Faculté des Sciences Économiques et de Gestion (FSEG), (Strasbourg, France)
Economy-Management's degree, 1st semester validated
2012
to 2013
Lycée Docteur Koeberlé (Sélestat, France)
High school diploma in Economics and Social, grade: B, option: Economic and Social Sciences
2009
to 2012
Skills
Languages
- French (native)
- English (full bilingual proficiency)
- Spanish (limited working proficiency)
Computer, Internet & Digital Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
- G Suite
- JotForm (forms building)
- SignNow (contract management system)
- Sendinblue (mailing platform)
- TeamViewer, GoToMyPC, etc.
- Social networks
- Dropbox, Sync, Google Drive, etc.
- Music distribution platforms (aggregators)
- Digital Sales Platforms (DSPs) & Streaming Platforms
- WordPress
- Google Analytics
- HTML / CSS
- Facebook & Instagram Ads
- Banking, Finance & Trading Platforms
- Ableton Live
- Traktor
- Qlik (data analytics and dashboard creation)
- Sage 30 Commercial Management
- Sage 30 Accounting
- Google AdWords
- SAP
- Virtual Private Server (VPS) Management
- VBA
- Linux Console
- JavaScript
Business Skills
- Storytelling
- Branding
- Business Plans Making
- Copyright & Intelectual Property
Certifications & Tests
-
AMF Certification (Autorité des marchés financiers) (May 2018)
French Financial Markets Regulator Certification
- Certificates: Compliance Basics, Fair Competition, Handling Information, Preventing Corruption (Würth Group) (April 2018)
- TOEIC: 825 (February 2015)
- Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI): ENFJ-A (The Protagonist)
Interests
Main Interests
- Music (especially electronic music)
- Personal development: meditation, writing, physical exercise, nutrition, reading, etc.
- Travels (France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Tunisia, Ireland, United-Kingdom, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica)
Biggest inspirations
- Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Matthieu Ricard, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Timothy Ferriss, Miguel Ruiz, Hal Elrod, Deepak Chopra, Marcus Aurelius, Friedrich Hayek, Robert Cialdini, Greg McKeown, Peter Lynch
