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Joseph Nahed is an entrepreneur, chairman of NHD, a holding company that takes minority stakes in small and mid-sized businesses, and of eBrigade Technologies, publisher of a management software used by over 1,500 rescue and civil protection organisations.
An engineer (ESME Sudria) with an MBA from ISG, Joseph Nahed was managing director of Groupe Namco, a retail group with 9 stores and €5M in revenue, from 2013 to 2020. Since 2020 he has chaired eBrigade Technologies, whose management software is used by over 1,500 rescue and civil protection organisations. In 2025 he founded NHD, a holding company based in Noisy-le-Roi, near Versailles, that takes minority stakes in small and mid-sized businesses in exchange for hands-on operating support.
Joseph Nahed holds an engineering degree from ESME Sudria and an MBA from Institut supérieur de gestion (ISG).
From 2013 to 2020 he was managing director of Groupe Namco, a retail group founded in 1996 that includes the brands À vous de plaire (now Blinky), Gaeco and Olfactivity: 9 stores and €5M in revenue. Alongside this, in 2015 he bought into Symbiose Organisation, a sound, lighting and video company for live events based in Feucherolles, west of Paris; he worked on its turnaround with its managing director until 2019, then sold his stake.
In 2020 he partnered with Nicolas Marche, the volunteer firefighter behind eBrigade, a management software created in 2004 for fire stations, and became chairman of eBrigade Technologies. The software is used by over 1,500 rescue, civil protection and non-profit organisations and has over a million users. The same year he founded Blue Helper, a marketplace for medical, rescue and training assignments, which ran until 2023.
In 2025 he founded NHD, a holding company based in Noisy-le-Roi, near Versailles, which takes minority stakes of 10 to 30% in small and mid-sized businesses with €300k to €5M in revenue, in exchange for hands-on operating support. He currently runs eight companies in real estate, software and media, including RentaPlus, Léa.immo, BodyTrack and Château de Ravenel (Oise).
Minority stakes in exchange for expertise in small businesses: how the deal is struck, how the stake vests in tranches, what it changes compared with consulting.
Costs, suppliers, pricing, collections: what an owner can win back without selling more, drawn from first-hand cases in retail and logistics.
AI and automation from the operations side: what holds up in production, what does not, and what it costs.
eBrigade, from a tool built in 2004 by a volunteer firefighter to a software used by over a million people.
Buying into an existing company, bringing it back to break-even alongside its owner, planning the exit.
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