Florent Piard

Florent Piard

Florent Piard

Florent Piard is the founder of the restaurant Les Résistants in Paris.

Les Résistants is at the forefront of the “fourche à l’assiette” movement in Paris. Before opening in early 2017, Florent spent 18 months on the French roads meeting with ultra-small local farmers in all spaces (gardening, dairy, fishing, breeding, arboriculture, wine, spirits etc.) in order to make them the one and only providers of the restaurant. Les Résistants is now working with more than 200 producers across France to offer an affordable “bistronomique” cuisine.

Les Résistants is actively promoting “paysanne” agriculture, organic food, biodiversity as well as the importance of taste and nutritive value of food and beverage products. In particular, the team is working with five gardeners across France to test thousands of ancient vegetable seeds.

Before that, Florent was an Investment Banking Associate at Credit Suisse in London and Paris advising large cap telecom and consumer companies on their M&A and financing strategies. Florent holds a Master in Management and an MSc in Corporate Finance from EDHEC Business School.