In his own words, in our voice

From building inside industries to building between them.

Twenty-five years building technology companies across the United States and Europe. Five ventures founded, three exits. Sectors operated: luxury, banking, finance, aerospace, industrial, media. French-born, Austin-based.

Franck operates today at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the legacy industries that run the real economy. He invests and he builds, never one without the other.

His conviction is direct: the gap between companies that adapt to AI and those that do not is no longer a technology question. It is a leadership question. The advantage now goes to operators who can hold corporate strategy, financial engineering and AI governance in the same conversation · in front of the same board, in the same week.

Inside Hikari Blue, Franck carries the Strategy Practice and signs the executive accountability on every engagement that reaches a board agenda. He is the named partner clients escalate to when the question stops being technical and becomes structural.

The gap between companies that adapt and those that don't is no longer a question of technology. It is a question of leadership.

Franck Ohrel · Founder & CEO

Inside Hikari Blue

What Franck carries.

The Strategy Practice is the layer where corporate ambition meets technical and regulatory reality. Franck designs the engagements that touch board agendas, structures the financial and operational case, and remains the single accountable partner from diagnostic through delivery.

  • Executive accountability on every engagement that reaches a board or COMEX.
  • Corporate strategy, M&A and financial engineering tied to AI roadmaps.
  • AI governance design · kill switch, audit trail, EU AI Act readiness.
  • Operating standards on cross-border programs between the United States and Europe.

Direct contact

Bring a board-level problem.
Leave with a structured next step.

Thirty minutes with Franck. No slides, no pitch. The decision after the call is yours · and it can be no.