Rodolphe Carle is the father of 5 children. In 1999, after completing his MBA at ESSEC business school in France, he began a career in investment funds at Net Partners in Milan, followed by Morgan Stanley and Global Retail Partners in London.

In 2003, to respond to the lack of childcare solutions for under-threes in France when birthrates and women in employment were among the highest in Europe, Rodolphe Carle founded Babilou with his brother Edouard Carle.

In 2014, he moved to Munich, Germany to lead the European development of Babilou and stayed for four years. Since returning to France and until January 2021, Rodolphe Carle has acted as president of Babilou Family and managed the Group Executive Committee with his brother Edouard. He is one of the founding members of the FFEC, the French Federation of Day-Care Businesses, an elected representative of the Growth Management Committee.

Edouard Carle is the father of 4 children.  He qualified at the ICOGES business school in Paris with a specialty in marketing.

In 2003, Edouard Carle decided to found Babilou with his brother Rodolphe Carle. As Director of Development and Director of Human Resources, Edouard Carle took charge of the commercial development of Babilou with local municipalities, the recruitment of childcare professionals and the guarantee of the Babilou Family image. As General Manager of the Group, he continued to develop and managed partnerships with local municipalities and businesses around the world.

As president of the Babilou Foundation he continues his engagement for future generations. 

After successful international experiences with global groups (including 9 years with Fnac), Christophe created and became Managing Director of the group now known as Grandvision in Latin America in 2008.

When he left in 2016, this represented over 1,200 optical centers, 6,000 people and covered a geographical area of 8 different countries in Latin America.

In 2017, Christophe joined the Sonova Group for which he became Executive President in charge of the audiology division. Christophe oversaw a fast-growing scope, now comprising nearly 4,000 centers, 9,000 people and operating in some 20 countries.

He joined the Babilou Family teams in July 2024. 

Damien Martin holds a dual degree in Arts and Crafts engineering and a master's degree from ESSEC. He began his career at KPMG. He audited major industrial groups such as Siemens, Eurotunnel and Philips.

He then moved to KPMG's transaction services department where he was able to support numerous acquisitions. In 2011, he joined a project to merge 3 companies in the online travel industry (Go Voyages, Opodo and eDreams), which became Odigeo. Damien Martin was involved in this merger, in particular by creating and structuring a joint finance function.

In 2015, he joined Babilou to support the group's growth, particularly internationally.

A graduate of Kedge Business School, Benoit Lamézec began his career in the field of e-Marketing and e-Commerce at Milonga, and then turned to the hotel sector by joining the B&B Hotels group.

After having been in charge of the development of online sales in France, he took up the position of Marketing & Distribution Director in 2014 to develop the performance of the sales channels and the brand's visibility. In 2016, he was appointed Director of the B&B Hotels Group's digital activities to launch new digital services and optimize acquisition and loyalty strategies in a context of strong internationalization and competition.

Benoit Lamézec joined the Babilou group in April 2018 as Marketing, Digital & Technologies Director.

Amelio was launched in 2008, when Sridevi moved back to India after graduating from Harvard Business School where she incubated the idea of creating daycare centers within corporates during her MBA.

She regularly speaks at industry conferences and on entrepreneurship panels, and mentors college students in their career choices.  Sridevi also loves travelling and reading.

Caroline, trained in Business Education, is deeply passionate about human relations, with a curiosity and keenness to learning different human approaches. She started her career in the Industry to co-construct an HR Department and accelerate the momentum of HR development before joining Babilou France in 2011.

At Babilou, Caroline has driven the creation of high-impact local HRBP positions in each region in France before taking over HR responsibility for the HQ, and supported the first phase of Babilou's growing organizational transformation. Caroline joined Group team in 2018 to create the People & Culture Department. Through her initiatives and convictions, Caroline supports our Group & Country Leaders with realigning their organisations, placing People and the Babilou Family DNA at the core, taking care of our multi-cultural pan-geographic teams, and implementing a cohesive HR Strategy and Policy.

Rémi Freon holds a LL.M. from Columbia Law School and a Master 2 Juriste d'affaires - DJCE from University of Toulouse Capitole.

Prior to joining Babilou Family, Rémi has first practiced law within the Sydney office of the international law firm Jones Day, and then in the Paris office of the firm where he was part of the private equity team, advising high-growth companies in the context of M&A transactions, venture capital financing rounds, IPOs and other capital market transactions, particularly in the Internet, software and biotech/medtech sectors.

Rémi then moved in 2016 to Deezer - the second largest independent music streaming company in the world with leading positions in France, Brazil, Germany (Euronext: DEEZER) - where he oversaw the legal function as General Counsel & Corporate Secretary and, in particular, had a central role in taking the company public on Euronext Paris in July 2022.

In June 2023, Rémi Freon joined Babilou Family as General Counsel. Rémi's focus is to uphold the highest ethical standards within the Group, as well as to maintain a culture of compliance and integrity, throughout the organization.

Graduated from the French Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Vincent started his career in various pediatric intensive care units before becoming a nursery school Director, then an Early Childhood Coordinator, to ultimately join Babilou Group in 2014 as a nursery administrative Manager.
In almost six years, Vincent came to show all the strength of his talent: first as nursery administrative Manager, then as District Manager, Territory Director and Executive Director for the Eastern Ile-de-France region.

Vincent is an exemplary manager whose qualities are unanimously recognized by his peers. Passionate about the early childhood profession , he has ensured the educational blossoming and the performance reinforcement of our nurseries.

Konstantin Bosch joined Babilou Family in 2020 as Head of Digitalization & IT. He have served as Vice President with responsibilities for Sales, Marketing, Digital and Business Development to te Executive Board in Germany. 

He holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering & Management and he was part of the first cycle of Babilou Family's L.E.A.D program in 2021. Apart from focusing on the strategic development of Babilou Family in Germany, his priority is to further develop the transperent information exchange through efficient communication channels and to lead a modern and innovative work philosophy by offering to employees a wide range of development opportunities. 

After obtaining his engineering degree in Business and over 15 years experience in the industrial field as Region Director, Fabrice has partnered with a friend who ran nurseries in Luxembourg.

It was a real opportunity for him to reorient his career towards the early childhood and he developed the activity to reach 23 daycares. Thanks to the successive purchases of networks of nurseries, Babilou Family becomes the 1st network of nurseries in Luxembourg.

After 3 years at Elior (a French company specializing in contract catering and services for businesses and local authorities) and 4 years at Sodexo (a leading international company in Facility Management, Food and Multi-technical Maintenance services for all types of organizations) as regional Director and key accounts manager, Pierre-Jean Harlaux joind Babilou Family Switzerland in March 2024. 

He used to manage subsidiaries. He can handle multi-site operations, sales development and customer loyalty. He has an extensive experience in BtoB and BtoC service activities and an expertise in all economic cycles: business launch, business development, sustainable growth, transformation, restructuring and turnaround. 

Katrien started her career in 2011 at BNP Paribas Fortis in Belgium, with a traineeship where she could explore all the different sides of retail, private and corporate banking. Afterwards, she decided to specialise in corporate banking and advised SME’s on different core fields.

Now Katrien is responsible of the Babilou nurseries in Belgium where she started as development manager in 2015 and became country manager in 2017.

She restructured the Belgian group after two big acquisitions, by changing the business model into subsidised nurseries.

Catalina Londono Amaya is an anthropologist from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, with a master's degree and doctorate in urbanism from the University Paris XII, Val de Marne. With over 16 years of experience in the educational sector, she has served as an advisor to the Ministry of Education of Colombia and has worked with various social foundations. 

Since 2015, she has been involved with Origami, holding various management positions. In 2022 and 2023, she participated in the Babilou Family leadership program. Currently, she serves as the Country Manager for Origami, where she promotes and develops early chirlhood programs.

Mother of 2 beautiful girls, Lama left the corporate world to help found Babilou in Dubai.

A true professional, she has an "anything can be done" approach to leadership. She drives the continual improvement of our organization by implementing efficient management techniques, new pedagogical approaches and cultivating an environment for top-quality early years education daily.

Benjamin, 39 years old and happy father of two children, holds a dual degree in AgroParisTech engineering and a master's degree from ESSEC. He started his career at Sodexo Group where he developed expertise in management & business development through different B2B & B2C activities, and in the Early Childhood sector at Creche Attitude company. 

He joined Babilou Family in 2020 in order to scale the local organization and support the growth in Singapore and Asia.