An innovative start-up, based in Chemistry Valley, on the IFPen site in Solaize, SEPARATIVE was created on 14th April 2014 by François Parmentier and Financière Florentine. It started out in the Crealys business incubator in Lyon, and then moved to the AxelOne Innovative Processes collaborative platform, within the framework of the AXELERA competitive cluster.

With the Novacité seal of approval and as an award-winner from the Entreprendre Rhone network, SEPARATIVE is a pure product of Lyon entrepreneurship. SEPARATIVE was distinguished at the Emergence competition 2014, and is accompanied by Bpifrance through support to innovation and entrepreneurship.

The first year was devoted to proof of concept and protection of industrial property. In April 2016, an exclusive pilot line led to the production of an initial prototype. In parallel, the company united a solid group of beta-testers chosen from opinion leaders in the pharmaceutical industry and its equipment suppliers.

In July 2016, Separative is awarded at the 18th edition of the I-Lab challenge for its project of commercialization of some high performance Flash chromatography cartridges.

We believe that Chemistry has a mission: improving people’s lives in balanced and protective harmony with Nature.

SEPARATIVE has a vocation to provide chemists with innovative technologies to broaden the scope of their investigations and innovation.

We are convinced that technological innovation can make the molecule industries eco-friendly.

François has more than 25 years’ experience in the chemicals industry as a chemist and process engineer (Rhône Poulenc, IFPEN). Half of this time was spent in operational roles, and the other half in processes and computer simulation. He holds 12 patents, half of which are for inventions he created on his own initiative. Five of those patents were developed by SEPARATIVE.

Cyril worked in Business Development for nearly four years as a Business Engineer and Strategic Marketing Consultant, before successfully handling the recovery of a struggling SME for three years. He joined our team in March 2015. Cyril is an engineering graduate from UTT and holds a Specialist Master’s diploma from EM Lyon.

Charles Schoen is a healthcare communication specialist who started in the pharma industry by managing the leading cardiovascular product from Boehringer Ingelheim and extending the French success to the rest of the world. He was then the initiator of what is now Havas Healthcare, and created and developed several specialized communication agencies. Charles is also an active Business Angle, member of Angels Santé organisation – the largest health network of business angels

Eric has more than 30 years of experience in Life Sciences and international industrial businesses. Especially, he worked at Pall/Danaher in sales and marketing and as Division Director and Regional Vice President in Europe and in Asia. Eric develops strategic partnerships for Separative thanks to his extensive knowledge of the field and his “can-do” attitude.

Graduated from ENSCBP, Anne Bouchaudy continued her studies with a PhD focusing on physico-chemistry of condensed matter. She has a strong expertise in the drying of complex fluids, as colloidal dispersions, in microfluidic geometries. Under the supervision of François and with the assistance of the technical team, she conducts research projects in Separative’s laboratory.

After a Professional license “Analytical Techniques” at University of Lyon and a Chemistry license, Busra spent two years specializing in quality control and HPLC. She takes part to SEPARATIVE’s venture with various tasks and especially in characterization and control.

Holding a license degree in Biochemistry, Anaïs carried out a work/study Master degree in Chemicophysical Analytics from the University of Lyon at SEPARATIVE. With a strong interest in sustainable development matters and the chemistry environmental impact, Anaïs takes part to the process development at SEPARATIVE.

After graduating in 2016 from ECPM Strasbourg, Francis pursued his studies with a PhD in Physical Chemistry at the University of Strasbourg. He worked on the development of colloidal suspensions of hybrid nanoparticles used for anticancer treatments. He joined SEPARATIVE’s team in July 2020 as an R&D engineer.

We are supported by a Scientific Advisory Board of world-renowned chromatography experts in both purification and analytical applications.