Laurence Ponchaut
President
governance
Gouvernance
Malik Zeniti
Vice-President
Malik Zeniti became Vice-president of Letzpact in 2024 to foster the organization’s growth.
His previous role as director of the Cluster for Logistics Luxembourg established him as a prominent advocate for Luxembourg’s logistics sector.
Malik is an independent member of the board for a major engineering office in Luxembourg since early 2023.
He also leads ZEN Innovation, a consulting firm founded in 2023, which offers expertise in innovation, logistics or transport policy and public relations.
He is an accomplished leader in logistics, transport policy and industrial strategy, with over 35 years of experience, taking-up strategic initiatives to foster organization’s growth with passion.
Malik holds a master’s degree (Dipl.- Ing.) in chemical engineering from the university of Karlsruhe (KIT) and is perfectly multi-lingual.
He began his career in aeronautical engineering and then joined DuPont, where he built a distinguished 25-year career across multiple continents.
He has had roles in business development, sales & marketing or technical support in different sectors of industry contributing to DuPont’s operational excellence and market expansion.
Mathilde Brasseur
Secretary General
Mathilde Brasseur is Secretary General of Letzpact since its inception in 2021.
Mathilde is Corporate Affairs Manager for JTI in Belgium and Luxembourg. In this role she conveys JTI’s voice in the major issues decided in Belgium and Luxembourg and represents the company within Belux political and decision-making bodies. Mathilde also manages JTI’s philanthropic portfolio for both countries.
Mathilde benefits from an experience as a consultant in European Affairs with a specialization in Techs and financial services. She created the Parisian club ‘Cercle Europe et Technologies du futur’ that brings together companies, entrepreneurs, investors and researchers with the EU ecosystem to create new synergies. Mathilde holds a double Master degree in European Affairs and Lobbying from ICP and European and International Law from KU Leuven, as well as a Certificate on EU law and politics from HEC Paris
Gerry Wagner
Member of the Board of Directors
Gerry is Vice-president of Letzpact since its creation in 2021.
He is Director of International Institutional Relationships at ARVAL, a 100% subsidiary of the BNP-Paribas Group. In his role, he represents Arval in international political and decision-making bodies and participates in the governance of the leasing and car rental industry associations. He also conveys Arval’s voice in the major issues decided at the European Union level (data, taxation, energy transition, etc.).
Gerry holds a degree in Computer Science and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the IAE in Nancy. He began his career in Luxembourg in the banking sector before moving on to the insurance sector. Prior of his appointment to his international role in 2020 he was General Manager of the Luxembourg subsidiary of Arval.
Next to these activities, he is board member of different professional associations. Among others, he is speaker of the Luxembourg House of Automobile.
Amaury De Saint Martin
Member of the Board of Directors
Amaury is Associate Partner at Dentons Global Advisors.
Graduated from Sciences Po Paris (Master’s degree in Political Sciences) and the University of Louvain (Master’s degree in Modern History), Amaury has 20 years of international experience mainly in France and Vietnam.
After 6 months internship at the Belgian Embassy in Washington DC, Amaury lived and worked 7 years in Paris in account management roles in different PR agencies. From 2007, Amaury lived in Ho Chi Minh City where he started his work experience as Account Director & Chief Representative of one of the leading PR firm in Vietnam. In 2009, he founded his own communication and public relations consulting company based in Ho Chi Minh City with branch offices in Hanoi & Phnom Penh.
Back in Belgium since 2013, he worked 4 years at the Presidency of the Mouvement Reformateur as political advisor and deputy director of the party’s Think Tank (Centre Jean Gol). At the same time, he worked as advisor at the infrastructure & public enterprises committee of the Belgian Parliament. From 2016 till April 2021, Amaury was also Board Director at the Brussels South Charleroi Airport. Since July 2018 till end of 2021, Amaury was General Inspector and member of the executive committee of the City of Charleroi managing 1200 public officers in his own department. Amaury is married and father of two daughters.
Pascale Kauffman
Member of the Board of Directors
Pascale Kauffman has a broad PR and PA experience in the public Luxembourg and private local and international sectors.
She began her career with the satellite operator SES, after obtaining her Master’s degree in Communication Sciences at ULB. At SES held various management positions in institutional communications, market development, marketing and sales.
In 2007 she set up and run the communications and press department of the City of Luxembourg.
Her entrepreneurial spirit led her to found Apollo Strategists in 2012, a public affairs and crisis communications consultancy firm. Pascale engages her expertise in boards of organisations which live their values daily.
Tayanne Schlesser
Office manager