Pascal Jourdan

Pascal Jourdan (born July 1961) is a French *expert-comptable* (chartered accountant) and *commissaire aux comptes* (statutory auditor) who serves as President of Novances, a multi-office professional-services group headquartered in the Lyon region (registered office in Limas, main operations around Saint-Didier-au-Mont-d'Or). After earning his diplomas in accounting expertise and statutory audit, he built a career advising small and mid-sized enterprises on financial matters, later specializing in structuring outsourced payroll for medium and large accounts and in developing the group's consulting and HR-services lines.

He joined the firm in 1994 as an associate alongside Guillemette Rey Lescure — described internally as "the beginning of a collective adventure founded on trust and complementarity" — and subsequently rose to lead the group, succeeding founder-era president Christian Dechant. Novances today describes itself as an "expert-conseil for engaged business owners," offering accounting, tax, audit, payroll, HR, legal services and digital transformation across roughly 15–17 offices and 220–350+ staff, including around 18–22 partner accountants.

Under Jourdan's leadership the group has pursued a "proximity" strategy — keeping smaller satellite offices around hubs such as Lyon, Villefranche, Grenoble, Annemasse and Nice — combined with active diversification and external growth. Reported initiatives include a dedicated recruitment department (2018), a training subsidiary launched in August 2019, a unified digital client/staff platform (early 2020), and services such as shared part-time HR directors and CFOs, corporate-law support and business valuations. At its 40th-anniversary milestone the group reported a record ~€18.5M in revenue with a target of ~€20M, roughly a third of it from diversified (non-traditional-accounting) activities.

Corporate registries show Jourdan holding a large number of executive mandates (reported as ~37) across the Novances network and related entities — including President of Novances Grand Lyon (since 2018), Novances Lyon Est and Novances Pays de l'Ain (2023), and managing/administrative roles in NRH, Novances Savoie Léman and Secagest — with his registered activity described as business consulting, management advisory and fund management.

• No publicly documented, individually stated startup-investment thesis was found for this Pascal Jourdan.
• His professional focus, per his own firm's description, is SME support: financial advisory, payroll structuring for larger accounts, and building out consulting and HR/talent services within Novances.
• Any "seed / angel" positioning in third-party databases appears to be a mis-merge with Arnaud Zilliox (Novencia/Witik) and should not be relied upon.
• The only investment-adjacent thread in the public record is that his registered activity codes include *"gestion de fonds"* (fund management) and administrator roles in group vehicles such as Secagest — consistent with an accounting-group executive, not a startup angel.