Evaneos

Evaneos

SocialTech/GreenTech, Turismo

Paris

Graduated from Supélec then from HEC Paris, followed by a year at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm).

After two years as a strategy consultant, Eric, a seasoned globetrotter, decided to find a way to bring together this passion and his entrepreneurial skills. He left his job as a consultant and with his newly-found associate, Yvan Wibaux, they spent nine months coming up with a concept and breathing life into it. Finally, in June 2009, Evaneos.com emerged.

Eric La Bonnardière is a true Epicurean whose lifelong dream would be to venture to Uganda and come face-to-face with their legendary gorillas.

After his two degrees in environmental engineering, Maxime took eight months off to travel around Europe. During this trip, he had the idea to create a website to share and spread knowledge. This idea brought about a major change: he decided to relearn how to code from scratch and quickly became a real web developer.

Two years later, with two more degrees in web development and many lines of code written, Maxime met an engineering manager from Evaneos. He immediately embraced the idea of working for better (more ecological and ethical) travel. He had long wanted to work on a project that made sense. After 6 months at Evaneos, Maxime is still the only junior developer at Evaneos. He is surrounded by qualified colleagues and is happy to learn new things every day (TDD, DDD, and so on...).

Before becoming co-CEO in September 2023, Aurélie was Chief Marketing Officer at Evaneos since 2020, in charge of Marketing, Strategy, International Development, and Sustainability topics. Aurélie is passionate about travel, but a neophyte in the tourism industry, which enabled her to bring a fresh eye to the table, complementing the experts in the field.

Laurent first joined Evaneos as Chief Operating Officer in 2017. In charge of Customer Satisfaction and Offer Development, he was actively involved in developing the network of local partner agencies. Meeting the co-founders was fundamental in his decision to join Evaneos, as they put words - and an action plan! - on the need to transform the outdated tourism business model.

Today, as travel enthusiasts, both want to make travel a simple, authentic experience once again, all this with the help of Evaneossians and their network of partner agencies.

With a degree in computer engineering, Jocelyne completed all of her extended internships abroad during her studies. After two years of working overseas in a FinTech company as a front-end developer, Jocelyne decided to return to France.

Passionate about travel, she sought employment with a company that echoed this passion, which led her to join Evaneos.

She has been with Evaneos for nearly five years, starting as a front-end developer and recently transitioning to the position of engineering manager. In this new role, she has been offered opportunities to grow and learn, while benefiting from her team's support.

After almost 10 years in London working in digital marketing & e-commerce, Marion was driven to this young and dynamic start-up that was Evaneos back in 2015. She worked for 5 years in the marketing team, from Acquisition Manager to Head of Acquisition.

2020 marked her career change as she became Sustainability Manager and helped Evaneos reach the B Corp certification. She is now Head of Sustainability, working with her team on infusing Evaneos' sustainability strategy within the whole company, agency network, and traveler community.

Presentation

Better Trips for travelers. Better Trips for the world.

Since Evaneos was founded in 2009, we’ve been building a greener, fairer future for travel. By connecting travelers with the world’s best local experts, we provide trips that are better for them and better for the places they visit. For us, it’s all about quality and impact. That means fighting mass tourism and impersonal experiences at the expense of local communities and the environment. Instead, we offer tailor-made trips, lovingly crafted by those passionate about sharing and protecting the destinations they call home. Thanks to our network of more than 1000 local partners in more than 160 destinations, we’ve helped more than 500,000 travelers plan extraordinary trips around the world. The adventure doesn’t stop here. We invest a percentage of every trip we sell in our Better Trips Fund and have committed to spend at least 3 million € by 2025 on projects that reduce the negative impacts of travel and drive positive change within our industry. Think: certified carbon offsets, planting mangrove trees, collecting ocean bound plastics, guiding small businesses through sustainability training and certification, creating new opportunities for woman-owned businesses, and much more.

Our values are just as important within Evaneos. Our strength is in our diversity: our multitude of languages, backgrounds, and experiences. We believe in building the best teams by creating an environment where everyone can be authentic, trust each other and thrive.

We hope you’ll join us on our mission.

You can also follow our Glassdoor page and see the comments of our current employees and candidates.

What they are looking for

Thanks to our history, our culture, our values, all the people whom once crossed our path and joined the adventure, we’re really unique today, and we will remain unique for the next years.

Together, we are authentic, curious, trustful, iterative and collaborative, and want to welcome other people who share these key values for us.

With both current and future Evaneossians, we are building an authentic and international environment, open to everyone.

In one word, we’re not just looking for CVs that stand out, we’re looking for personalities who embody our spirit and our passion for better travel!

Good to know

The perks of being an Evaneossian include…

👋 2 days a month (Evaneos days) when everyone meets at "La Voyagerie" and shares formal and informal moments

🌍 A travel pot for everyone to use on the Evaneos platform

💻 An innovative and flexible remote policy including the possibility of working anywhere in the world for several weeks a year

🚆 An environmental RTT to encourage long-distance rail travel on vacation

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