Founder

Academic Background 1998 – 2024

• 1998-2000 French Lycée in Alicante in 1998, then Lycée Renoir in Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1999 and 2000. French Baccalauréat L with honours.
• 2001–2003 Business School – BTS in Commercial Action, with honours. Specialisation in Negotiation.
• 2003 Passerelle competitive exam – admission to Sup de Co Montpellier. Top 10 French business schools. Top 3 in International Business, Entrepreneurship option.
• 2004 International exchange year – Undergraduate / Bachelor in International Business – John Molson Business School, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• 2005 Bachelor in Honours in Science of Management - Sup de Co Montpellier.
• 2006Courses taken alongside internships – see Professional Background.
• 2007 State Master's degree in Management / Bachelor of Science in Management, Entrepreneurship / Start-Up option.
• 2014 Self-training - Makeover activity.
• 2020 Joined EFC, French School of Accounting, Lyon. Distance learning in Business Law.
• 2021 Qualified as an In-House lawyer at EFC (equivalent to Licence in Law).
• 2022 Admitted to Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, EDS, Sorbonne Law School. Licence in Law.
• 2023-2024 Master 1 in European Law, International Law department. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Over these 25 years, from 2000 to 2025, numerous philosophical, economic and politic, social and cultural works and followed major national news daily, as well as international news regularly through the press, magazines, and TV.

Professional Background 1998 – 2025

• 1998–2001From 1998 to 2001, after getting my first job at the age of 15 during the Christmas season in a perfumery, I worked as a seasonal sales assistant in the fashion sector for highly recognised brands. Born in Marseille and later becoming a resident of the Nice Côte d'Azur area, I developed my first professional experience in retail.
  Represented by modelling agencies, I became an extra in a movie on the Croisette and then worked as a fashion model on private beaches along the Croisette in Cannes for two consecutive seasons from the new millennium onwards.
• 2001–2007 From 2001 to 2007, I pursued a business-school academic path while gaining professional experience in the private sector: an IT company, two French banks, a Canadian insurance company serving an American customer base, a coffee import-export company in Brazil, and then a hygiene group and pet-food laboratory, joining its subsidiary in southern France. At 24, I was already a graduate with a strong career focus.
• 2007–2009 From 2007 to 2009, I became an area manager and executive within a leading French laboratory specialized in personal hygiene products and innovative slimming products. I regularly ranked among the national leaders in the Paris and Hauts-de-Seine area, managing more than 450 pharmacy and parapharmacy clients. I left the company after two years, having already been considering a move into international fashion since 2008.
• 2008–2010 From 2008 to 2010, convinced that I should become an entrepreneur and pursue an international path consistent with my studies, I launched my first project as the manager of a showroom in Marseille in 2009, sourcing from Southern Europe and organising fashion showrooms, then expanding to Aix-en-Provence and Saint-Tropez, with a presence during the Cannes Festival. With a selection of luxury and designer brands, a partner network, a trained team, professional model shoots and social media, United for Fashion became a leading showroom in the South, quickly attracting investors, journalists and a highly selective clientele.
• 2010–2013 From 2010 to 2013, after returning to Hauts-de-Seine, I set out to take private sales international. With a strong background as a luxury buyer and expertise in collections, I launched an International Purchasing Office serving major global e-commerce players, leaders and challengers, first called VP and later Golden Trading. I expanded my historical fashion suppliers to selected home design and gastronomy brands. With more than 300 brands and 1,500 organised flash-sale events, I built a network and travelled to major fashion trade shows in Milan, London, Berlin, Basel, Brussels, Las Vegas and Guangzhou, as well as Tel Aviv for specialised sourcing and throught Southern Europe.
  I managed a team of five internal employees and 30 external collaborators trained in the relevant standards. Golden became a leading French operator in international purchasing for flash private sales. Golden was offered for acquisition at €1 million.
• 2012–2014 Following an accident caused by a medical mistake, my company was transferred and my career was put on hold. I went through a challenging personal period, driven by a strong determination to regain control of my life and prioritise my well-being.
• 2014–2020 During my recovery, after self-training in image consulting and extensive reading, I founded Futur Style with the help of a software engineer. It is an online image consulting website, initially developed with a friend who ultimately preferred not to join the project due to a career change. The project took six years to be built. Structuring the information and online advice for women into an algorithm required engineering support, including the implementation of the 30 multiple-choice questions.
• 2017–2023 From 2017 to 2023, I also carried out assignments in southern France as a sales advisor in specialist stores and at a top-five French business school, supervising examinations in French and English for Bachelor's, Master's and MBA programs.
• 2021–2022 From 2021 to 2022, as the e-commerce market became more fragile, and having trained and qualified as an in-house lawyer, I chose a career transition rather than immediately registering a company. I became a Business Law Legal Counsel within an international group in Hauts-de-Seine, working from September 2021 to December 2022 under two six-month contracts. After leaving one month early due to a professional relationship conflict, I resumed the project I had put on hold in 2021 with a view to incorporating the company.
• 2024 Until 2024, I continued to devote time to completing my Law studies at Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, up to Master 1 level in European and International Law. I had joined the third year of the programme in 2022 remotely and studied the weekends.
• 2025 In 2025, in my forties, after nearly 25 years devoted to studying, holding professional positions and founding projects — including one self-employed business, two start-ups and one project placed on hold — I decided to establish A.J.R Esteve, which I now lead as the fourth company of my career.”