My path to becoming your fiscal sparring partner
I didn’t grow up dreaming of tax codes. As a child I was quiet, always observing, always in my head. I loved books, wanted to be an archaeologist, and was fascinated by everything hidden beneath the surface.
In a family marked by separations and recompositions, I learned very young that money and structure could either protect or destabilise a life. My father encouraged me to choose a “serious” profession, something solid, rational, non emotional. I started with accounting, then moved into law with an equivalence, specialising in business law and tax. I thought: “if I work on money and structure, I can be useful without being swallowed by emotion”.
I built a double competence in law and accounting and joined a major American firm, then EY in transaction tax. The complexity, the deals, the intellectual challenge were there. But I was missing something essential: humanity. I moved to a niche tax firm with a small team and high end clients. The technical level was excellent, but the culture was still dominated by ego, power games and orders dropped from above.
The breaking point came when I was fired while pregnant. It was brutal, but clarifying. I realised I loved tax. I did not love the way it was practised around me. I did not want to spend my life in environments where power mattered more than substance and people.
So I gave myself two years and launched my own practice. It worked. I worked with former colleagues, with Swiss clients, and connected with founders, start ups and entrepreneurs with cross border lives. That’s when something important became clear:
What I truly loved was not just “doing tax”.
I loved seeing the whole landscape.
I loved showing the different paths ahead and the consequences of each.
I loved turning chaos into trajectory.
For a long time, I still tried to prove I was “at the level”: playing in the same arena as very established male counterparts, being the best, being in the right circles. Then I simply stopped caring. I did not need that game to know my value.
When that dropped, my way of working changed. The pure technical display moved to the background. Your projects, your fears, your family, your dreams came to the front. I stopped treating tax as a separate, sterile topic and started treating it as what it really is: the deep architecture behind the life you are trying to build.
Today, I am not here to impress you with jargon or to sell you aggressive optimisation. I am here to be the person who can hold your whole story – the numbers, the risks, the ambitions, the moral questions – and turn it into a fiscal architecture that is intelligent, calm and truly yours.