Nicolas Tommasini

Nicolas Tommasini (born in 1971) is a French business executive and entrepreneur.

He is the founder and president of both Domaines & Événements, the first French franchise and hospitality management company operating event venues in peri-urban countryside, and D&é Invest, which owns a number of event venue estates in France. , the collection includes Domaine de la Thibaudière, Domaine de Vaujoly, Domaine des Barrenques, Domaine d’Aveny and Domaine du Grand Morin.

Education Tommasini earned a degree in Economics & Finance from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris in 1992 and a MSc in International Economics & Finance from Lancaster University in 1993.

Then, in 1997, he joined Jean-Francois Ott at Orco Property Group in Prague and was responsible for the international development of the company.

In 2000 he developed and headed Orco Budapest and participated in the listing of Orco Property Group in Paris.

In the following years Tommasini and Ott founded the hotel group MaMaison Hotels & Residences which was developed across Central and Eastern Europe. This process spearheaded Orco's international development most notably in Warsaw (2002), Bratislava (2003), and Moscow (2006). and founded O&T Partners with Jean-Francois Ott, investors in both real estate and venture capital.

In 2018, he bought the estate Domaine de la Thibaudière west of Paris region which he refurbished and with partner Geoffroy Perdon, opened as an event venue in 2019. Its initial commercial success and the COVID crisis, convinced Tommasini to focus time and investments on this under-structured segment of countryside event venues for both private and corporate events through the creation of the company Domaines & événements.