Embracing Unconventional Thinking
To Create Lasting impact

Marianne Abib-Pech - Leadership

Marianne inspires and empowers audiences with keynote speeches that blend visionary leadership with the courage to take unconventional paths.

You can expect stories, insights, and honest lessons from her journey across corporate leadership, entrepreneurship, and venture capital.

She enriches these with warm, personal reflections on reinvention, purpose, and women’s leadership.

Marianne will motivate and equip you to embrace uncertainty, unlock your creativity, and lead for lasting impact in your organisation and in your life!


Leadership - How to build trust and get results
Marianne Abib-Pech - Leader

About Marianne

Marianne Abib-Pech

After a successful corporate career in Finance that led her to become CFO of Shell Aviation—one of Shell Petroleum Inc.’s global businesses—in her mid-thirties, Marianne chose to dedicate her expertise, experience, and international network to serving a greater purpose.

In 2014, she launched her own M&A advisory practice focused on frontier markets, while also investing in and supporting ambitious deep-tech ventures aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

In 2022, Marianne co-founded and now runs Transitions First, one of the few international industrial venture funds dedicated to the underserved segment of scalable industrial start-ups (re)building local, modular and resources-efficient supply chains.

Widely recognized for her leadership, visionary thinking, and ability to act as a powerful bridge between deep-tech entrepreneurs and investment ecosystems, Marianne received the Women’s Business Initiative International Ambition Award in 2014. She firmly believes that value creation stems from the ability to think differently, communicate authentically, and drive transformation.

Throughout both her corporate and entrepreneurial journeys, she has witnessed the best—and the worst—of leadership and is deeply committed to sharing her insights and experience to support others in their own paths.

Keynote themes

Women Courage &
Non-Conventional Leadership

  • What it takes to lead in maledominated sectors like Oil & Gas
    and emerging markets.
  • How to carve your own path as an
    unconventional leader

Transformative Leadership &
Altruistic Ambition

  • In a fast-changing world, why
    multidimensionality is the real accelerator in leadership.
  • How leaders can use
    neurosciences, artificial
    intelligence and communication tools to build trust and get results.
  • Altruistic Ambition: Why contribution, not accumulation, is the new leadership metric.

Industrial Venture Capital &
Strategy & Geopolitics

  • Why traditional VC models are failing industrial innovation. what a new funding architecture looks
    like.
  • How capital, innovation, and geopolitics are converging to reshape global industry, what investors should pay attention to.
  • Key strategic lessons from leading a $20B aviation business and doing M&A in frontier
    markets.

Testimonials

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