Solène Hascoet was born and grew up in Lorient, in the south of Brittany, a working-class port town. After taking her Baccalaureate, she held various unskilled positions for a few years before going back to university at age 22, following a serious road accident. Upon completion of a master’s degree in financial management, she went on to work in audit, control and organisational management. A few years later, she decided to embark on an executive MBA at Audencia in Nantes (pictured above)