FAME: Find the Appropriate Mentor
and Non-Executive Director
FAME is a new support service for high-technology enterprises, resulting from close collaboration between
CICOM Organisation (France),
Focussed Development Alliance (FSDA) (Scotland, UK),
and high-technology start-up enterprises and service providers, throughout Europe, participating in the SUN & SUP networks.

Interested in becoming a Business Mentor?

Being a mentor is a very satisfying and rewarding experience. Your experience and expertise will help start-ups and young entrepreneurs to develop and grow their business.

From your point of view, you stand to develop new skills and deepen your experience by providing guidance and insights to help innovative enterprises navigate their way throough in a variety of real situations. You will also increase your personal network of business contacts.

To be a mentor, you must:

  • be an experienced business person from either large or small business environments.

  • have empathy for start-ups and young entrepreneurs and a strong desire to help

  • have first-class communication skills

  • be able to commit at least 4 hours per month of your time for mentoring assignments.

For an informal discussion on becoming a Business Mentor, please call:
Mrs. Alix de Bressy (CICOM, France) on +33 4 93 00 60 11
or send your enquiry by email to: fame@cicom.fr


Alternatively, we invite you to complete and submit an on-line Mentor Registration form
(this will automatically be forwarded to us. We will contact you as soon as we receive the form)

On-line Request for Registration as a Mentor


The work of SUN & SUP has been supported by the European Commission's PAXIS (Pilot Action of Excellence on Innovative Start-ups) programme.