About us
CDS Groupe offers a wide range of hotel booking tool solutions
and services within business travel.
Our strategy
This is one of the key factors of our success.
It ensures our financial independence, our constant adaptability to the market and our durability.
CDS Groupe is a human scale company that highlights the talents of a multidisciplinary team with specific know-how.
Our market vision combined with our agility is one of the key factors of our specificity. It ensures a service that meets the ambitions of our customers.
CHAIRMAN
FRANÇOIS MACHENAUD
Being an employee for thirty years at Unilever, François worked in marketing & sales where he had the opportunity to promote many types of products (food, ice cream, home maintenance, personal care etc…).
François has a real vision of management and business strategy. For twenty years, he held the position of Managing Director in France and abroad. Throughout his experience and relations
over the continents, he opened up to other methodologies and enriched himself with the specificities of other markets, which gave him international stature and expertise.
Since 2008, with his experience in organizational management, he has provided advice and investment in small and medium-sized companies.
GENERAL MANAGER
ZIAD MINKARA
A graduate of the Higher Institute of Management in the multinational cycle, Ziad is the co-founder of CDS Groupe.
A convinced entrepreneur, Ziad positions his company at the heart of the concerns of travel buyers and travel managers.
With a wealth of international experience, he brings to the team a vision of the world and global issues within a French structure.
A man of conviction and passion, Ziad is strongly personally committed to the Francophonie and multiculturalism.
OUR VALUES
Each of the employees of CDS Groupe carries the fundamental values which are the real keys to the relationship of trust between CDS Groupe, its customers and its partners.
White papers, position papers and thematic events support this approach in order to ensure the transmission of the true pillars and values of CDS Groupe.
For its customers as for its products, CDS Groupe adopts the agile method which allows it to be immediately productive, responsive and operational.
CDS Groupe places itself in a strong ethical approach both in the management of its teams and in the trust based relationships with customers and partners.
Always at the forefront of innovations and trends shaping the market, CDS Groupe’s R&D department ensures immediate operational functionality for all its customers and partners.
CDS Groupe offers a price comparator in real time on all the content of its partners and hotel suppliers. Customers are thus assured of immediate visibility of rates compared to leisure consumption habits.
Since its creation, CDS Groupe has gained the trust of historical partners. The resulting sales cycles and long term collaborations reinforce this loyalty.
By promising to provide solutions to the cross-problems of its customers, CDS Groupe provides a cross-functional solution that meets everyone’s needs to support the mobility of employees in their business trips.
Thanks to its significant technological investment and compliance with standards, CDS Groupe is able to integrate the majority of systems and software in order to comply with the expectations of the client and its ecosystem.
CDS Groupe is 100% compatible with the new European GDPR & PCI DSS standards
OUR TEAM
MACHENAUD
FRANÇOIS
Chairman
MINKARA
ZIAD
CEO
DE LABACA
ALAIN
Associate Director
CUZUEL
SYLVAIN
Director of finance department
ZALDIVAR
VINCENT
Director of development
XERRI
REBECCA
Director of digital transformation
FRANCOUAL
KARINE
Director of commercial departement
MAIRAVILLE
JEAN-BAPTISTE
Directeur of Support & Quality departement
PARTENSKY
OLIVIER
R&D director
DIALHO
MAMADOU
Development engineer
ETHEVE
MAEVA
Executive Assistant
HUE
FLORIAN
Support department
BOGLIONE
ALEXIA
Supplier relationship manager
MORCEAU
TIPHANIE
Key Account Manager in charge of agencies
RAKOTONDRABE
MIRANA
Support department
REDISSI
WALID
Support department
VANDECASTEELE
CLOTAIRE
Lead Developer
MAHMDI
AHMED
Implementation project manager
MICHEL
ELODIE
Accounting Department
LOUZI
FATIMA
Accounting Department
BERNARD
AURORE
Support department
JAMBON
MAXIME
Mid-Market Acquisition Sales Manager
BENNAI
NOURREDINE
Strategic Account Manager
OUR TEAM
MACHENAUD FRANÇOIS
Chairman
MINKARA ZIAD
General manager
DE LABACA ALAIN
Associate Director
CUZUEL SYLVAIN
Director of finance department
ZALDIVAR VINCENT
Director of development
XERRI REBECCA
Director of digital transformation
FRANCOUAL KARINE
Director of commercial department
MAIRAVILLE JEAN-BAPTISTE
Director of Support & Quality Department
PARTENSKY OLIVIER
Director of R&D department
DIALHO MAMADOU
Development engineer
ETHEVE MAEVA
Executive Assistant
HUE FLORIAN
Support department
BOGLIONE ALEXIA
Supplier relationship manager
MORCEAU TIPHANIE
Key Account Manager in charge of agencies
RAKOTONDRABE MIRANA
Support department
LALAMI SAMIR
Corporate Account Manager
REDISSI WALID
Support department
VANDECASTEELE CLOTAIRE
Lead Developer
MAHMDI AHMED
Implementation project manager
MICHEL ELODIE
Accounting Department
LOUZI FATIMA
Accounting Department
BERNARD AURORE
Support department
JAMBON MAXIME
Mid-Market Acquisition Sales Manager
BENNAI NOURREDINE
Strategic Account Manager
