Executive Assistance · Paris
Your executive assistant
on the ground in Paris.
Book & Smile provides executive assistant services in Paris for CEOs, founders, executives and investors: meeting arrangements, travel coordination, business logistics, guest management and local representation — bilingual, discreet, accountable in writing.
You run your business from elsewhere. Paris is a market, a partner, a board seat, a client — something that requires presence a few days a month.
Your team is excellent, and absent: nobody to confirm the meeting in French, receive the delegation, prepare the room, or simply be there when presence is the point.
Who represents you in Paris when you cannot be there?
What we handle for executives
- Meeting arrangements — scheduled, confirmed, prepared, minuted
- Travel coordination — flights, cars, hotels, restaurants, contingencies
- Business logistics — documents, signatures, couriers, printing, venues
- Event organisation — dinners, boards, product moments
- Guest management — your clients and partners received properly
- Local representation — a professional presence at appointments in your name
An executive assistant on the ground, not on a screen
Remote executive assistants are excellent at calendars and inboxes. They cannot sign for a delivery at your Paris office, sit with a notary, receive a client at Charles-de-Gaulle, test the room before the board dinner or walk a file into a French administration that does not answer email. An executive assistant in Paris is the physical, bilingual extension of your office in a city where presence still decides outcomes.
We work alongside your existing team — your EA at headquarters, your chief of staff, your family office — and take the Paris-specific part: French correspondence, local vendors, institutional appointments, on-site coordination.
Typical scope
Calendar and travel for Paris stays; preparation and follow-up of meetings with French counterparts; liaison with accountants, lawyers and banks; executive visits and client hospitality; the executive's personal life in Paris — household, drivers, family logistics — when it is inseparable from the professional one. Confidentiality is contractual: NDA by default, one named assistant, no sub-contracting of sensitive matters.
Retainer, not recruitment
Most clients retain us monthly rather than hiring: no employment contract under French labour law, no idle capacity, immediate start, and the same assistant across the year. Companies that need France-wide support beyond Paris can read about our executive assistant service across France; founders setting up should read our note on the administrative sequence for a business in France.
Who retains us
CEOs and founders with recurring business in Paris
Investors managing French interests from abroad
International companies without a Paris office
FAQ
Do you work with our existing EA?
Seamlessly. Your assistant keeps ownership; we execute the Paris layer and report back in writing.
Can you attend meetings on our behalf?
Yes — with a written brief and mandate, we attend, represent and report.
What does it cost?
Executive membership covers regular needs; one-off missions are quoted per request. Terms defined in a private consultation.
Consider it handled.
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