Axel Tombereau

Axel founded Odyssey in 2020 and led its pivot in 2025 toward exclusive AI strategy advisory. Twenty years advising CEOs, boards, and private equity sponsors on high-stakes strategic, capital, and M&A decisions across technology, healthcare software, and industrial services. Previously at Atos, Segula, Alten, and KPMG. Led or played an instrumental role in 40+ cross-border M&A transactions, for over $4 billion in aggregate deal value, across five continents and 20+ countries. His conviction: AI doesn't transform companies — it reprices them. The companies that compound, rather than catch up, are those that treat the question with the same rigor they bring to capital allocation. Recent engagements include AI pricing strategy for a leading French healthcare software editor, and AI strategy design for growth-stage AI-native companies. Methods distilled into the Odyssey Signatures. Axel also writes AI Strategies for CEOs, a personal newsletter on Substack. He works selectively — preferring fewer engagements delivered with depth over volume — and expects the same deliberateness from his clients.