About us.
Julien Vergély provides expert and external perspectives essential for companies navigating significant transitions or growth phases, offering part-time operational leadership tailored for organizations that require executive-level management without the commitment to a full-time COO.
Julien helps define and refine the company’s strategy, aligning operations with long-term business goals. Applying human-centered service design principles, he optimizes systems and processes, enhances customer experiences, and cultivates collaborative workplace environments.
Julien’s extensive global experience, including his role as COO for a renowned San Francisco startup accelerator combined with his background as a litigation attorney, enables him to provide decisive leadership and effective crisis management for clients navigating complex challenges.
At the core of his approach is a commitment to genuine collaboration and tailored solutions, to delivering measurable improvements, ensuring that our interventions lead to tangible enhancements in efficiency so each client achieves meaningful and lasting improvements in their operational practices.
what they say
Gioia D. | CEO – Swissnex
With a philosopher’s inquisitive mind and a working man’s hands-on attitude, Julien combines the best of all worlds. As the COO of Swissnex in San Francisco, he steered the complex Pier17-ship steadily and reliably, through rain and shine. Thanks to his diligent, thoughtful nature, we could always trust that his decisions and actions, big and small, were well thought through. Julien’s helpfulness, his penchant for hospitality and strive for excellence set a service quality standard that Swissnex clients, partners and staff came to appreciate – and will sorely miss. Julien handles complexity and stress with grace and his calm, open-minded, reliable personality became the backbone of our organization.
Julien’s humbleness and curiosity, his hunger for continuous learning and growth, as well as his creativity and solution-orientation make him an outstanding, trusted and inspiring leader. He will be an invaluable asset to any organization that requires a leader who can juggle multiple priorities at the same time, who can deal with strategic and logistic complexity, who listens deeply and contributes unexpected solutions to the table.
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Yannick H. | Acting CEO – Swissnex
Thanks to his experience in different industries, Julien masters the art of connecting the dots between disparate parts of an organisation. As Deputy CEO and Acting CEO of Swissnex in San Francisco, I have been lucky to count on his insights, his 360 vision and humanity to lead an organisation in a period of intense change.
Julien finds his roots in his deep convictions and values, which makes him a colleague you can trust and count on. Having him as a team member in turbulent times was surely a blessing. As a creative mind, he is also able to find innovative action points and opportunities to move key strategic priorities forward. This is once again the result of his wide range of unique experiences and enabling mindset. I would highly recommend him as a colleague to any organization.
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Matt C. | CEO – Off the Grid
It’s been my pleasure to work and directly manage Julien Vergely during his time at my organization, Off the Grid. Julien’s skills as a leader, manager and operational owner; willing and engaged in working to drive excellent outcomes for our customers truly set him apart. During Julien’s time with our company, he was responsible for the execution of our public and private events including production, staffing, onsite management, financial management, customer engagement and experience design. He was someone who was motivated by creating great experiences for both our staff and our customers through organization, teamwork and clear goals. He takes ownership of outcomes and is committed to supporting his team to accomplish those goals.
One of Julien’s biggest assets is his ability and interest in understanding bigger picture ideas and applying design thinking to improve our approach and execute.
He was very organized and structured in a way that made those who reported to him comfortable and secure, while being able to be a senior business partner to understand larger business objectives and translate them to his team.
Clark S. | CEO – Energy Innovators Network
I worked with Julien Vergely from December of 2023 through the first two quarters of 2024 founding and developing a new venture. Julien was an extraordinary help in these early stages. I ascribe this both to his extensive experience (in particular his five years at Swissnex SF), but also to his diverse skill set and work ethic.
Julien is beyond diligent. I have been happily surprised on multiple occasions to find Julien has been thinking in depth about elements of my business which he finds lacking in some way. His habit is to do more than point these out. More often he shows up with a worked-out solution. I believe he would be a boon to any company, and I cannot recommend him highly enough.
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Chroma.
Our approach to OpEx
Connect
| C |
Establish strong
connections.
This involves building robust communication channels with the team
and with external stakeholders, fostering relationships, and
ensuring everyone is aligned with the
business goals.
Harmonize
| H |
Align all aspects of collaboration.
This step focuses on integrating meetings, processes, systems,
and teams to create a unified and efficient operational environment.
Refine
| R |
Continuously improve processes.
Evaluate existing workflows, identify inefficiencies, and implement refinements
to enhance productivity and quality.
Optimize
| O |
Maximize resources efficiency .
Focus on streamlining operations, reducing
costs, and leveraging resources allocation to ensure the best possible use of time, money, and manpower.
Monitor
| M |
Track performance & outcomes.
Set clear metrics and
KPIs, use data analytics and technologies to monitor progress, and adjust strategies based
on performance insights
to ensure continuous improvement.
Adapt
| A |
Be agile & responsive to change.
Encourage a culture of flexibility and innovation, allowing the business to quickly adapt to market changes, customer needs, and new opportunities.