↑
Nathalie
Volevatch,
The Ambassador
She loves change and adopting challenges. She also appreciates values, tradition, excellence. As the sales director at Volevatch, she primarily emphasizes the aesthetics and high quality of the objects produced.
"As a child, I was very active and always driven by my passions". Nathalie Volevatch remembers having combined her school life with, judo, fencing and music lessons. "I wanted to become a schoolteacher. I could even have imagined having a career as a musician", she says, having just started to play the flute. But life turned out differently.
After graduating top of her class from business school in Limoges, she had the choice of several sectors in which to work as an apprentice: decoration, fashion, furniture etc. In the end she selected the automobile industry. During this first period of work experience: "At 22, I found myself part of a team where I was the only woman and the youngest member". Nathalie Volevatch loves challenges and prefers to always take the less conventional path. While at high school and needing to raise funds for a good cause, there was nothing she was not prepared to do: "I pumped gasoline at a fuel station! The job of persuading people has always appealed to me".
From generation to generation
Early in 2000 she left Limoges for Paris, wanting a change of atmosphere, profession, and outlook. Volevatch was at that time looking for someone just like her, to take over the company’s sales management division. She attended the interview and was immediately fascinated by Serge Volevatch's background and philosophy. She was convinced. Her personality also caught Serge’s attention. Nathalie Volevatch was therefore recruited by the man who would, some years later, become her father-in-law. "I wanted to join a company with values, ethics, artistry, and a work ethos which made sense. Volevatch met all these criteria". She also admires "the beauty of the parts made for our faucets", as well as the importance of passing such "enduring know-how from generation to generation. Her greatest pride? "When we received the EPV - Living Heritage Company - label, and our inclusion by Unesco on their list of fine craft traditions”.
"I wanted to join a company with values, ethics, artistry and a work ethos which made sense"
Nathalie Volevatch, commercial director of Volevatch
