Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

• My team of engineers and researchers is responsible for artificial intelligence and data engineering, ethics, public cloud and sovereign / internal data center / on-premise data and AI infrastructure, applied research, and overall AI technical and partner strategy for Orange Group across our 26 countries. I am also the Chief Data Officer of Orange Group.
• Our mission is to enrich the daily lives of Orange’s customers and employees by using AI to build smarter networks, re-invent our customer experience, improve the overall operating efficiency, and generate and maintain new AI-native revenue streams for the Group.
• My team leads our “Data Democracy” cultural and technical transformation of the company. I lead the selection of key partners such as Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, Hugging Face, Amazon, Mistral, and Microsoft. I also identify potential acquisitions and contribute to other strategic decisions of the executive committee and our board of administrators / directors.

Sep 2019 – Dec 2023 · 4 yrs 3 mos

• I helped build and lead a team of engineers and researchers who were responsible for artificial intelligence and data engineering, ethics, cloud and on-premise infrastructure, applied research, and Generative AI and LLM strategy and development including ‘LLMOps’ lifecycle for Orange Group across our 26 countries.
• I was hired as the Senior VP, Data and AI in the Orange Innovation division of my manager, the Group CTIO of Orange. I was promoted after four years to my current position as Chief AI Officer of Orange Group in December, 2023.

Feb 2019 – Aug 2019 · 6 mos · London, United Kingdom

• DICE allows fans of live music and cultural events in cities like London, Paris, and LA to stay on top of what’s happening and to buy tickets in seconds.
• My team was responsible for engineering, data science, growth, product design, and product management for the company. I was also a board observer. We built iOS and Android apps, offered self-service tools for our venue partners, and ran state-of-the-art AI for fan recommendations and for internal data-driven decision making.

Jan 2016 – Sep 2024 · 8 yrs 8 mos

• Pure Watercraft transformed the world of boating. Their electric outboard motor changed watercraft in the same way that Tesla did for cars. I was an advisor to the CEO through many challenging phases of the company.

Aug 2013 – Jan 2019 · 5 yrs 5 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• In 2013, I founded the Actionable Insights product team. The service provided anonymized analysis and prediction of the mobile usage and network quality of over one billion Facebook users around the world. It was one of the first strategic AI and machine learning programs at Facebook.
• My team and I led Facebook's technical and business strategy for connecting people in Africa to the Internet including backhaul connectivity, rural cellular solutions, subsea cable including 2Africa, and satellite connectivity. I was a primary contributor to our involvement in TIP (Telecom Infra Project) and helped create Open RAN.
• Earlier in my tenure at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, I led the company’s US and European mobile business development team and all CEO-level negotiations including with AT&T, Vodafone, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile, Sprint, Rogers, Verizon, Orange, TeliaSonera, 3/Hutchinson, and Telecom Italia.

May 2009 – Jan 2013 · 3 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco and London, UK

• MePlease was on the cutting edge of machine analysis of social media data, including the first-ever mobile Facebook Login integration in 2009.
• MePlease’s cloud-hosted 'Social Loyalty' platform drove new high-value customer acquisition and retention for Starbucks, PizzaExpress, Cineworld, Strada, and Barclays. We integrated our technology with many point of sale (POS) and payment systems, including working on-site in Mountain View with the Google Commerce team.
• We built a diverse team of 12 people in San Francisco and London, raised over $3MM in early stage financing, and drove >300% year-on-year revenue growth over three years into profitability. In 2012 I was named one of the 100 CEOs most likely to build a new £100mm+ business in the UK.

Mar 2007 – Aug 2008 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco and London, UK

• In 2008, ShoZu was the first mobile app in the world that connected to Facebook and the only app that supported video uploads to YouTube. ShoZu was also the leading mobile uploader to Flickr.
• ShoZu for iPhone was one of Apple’s ten "Featured Apps" in the first week of the iTunes App Store and was the most downloaded free app on the day the App Store launched. Our app was also pre-installed in millions of mobile phones from Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and Samsung in 15 countries. The company was acquired by Critical Path.

Apr 2006 – Mar 2007 · 11 mos · Mountain View, CA

• I was the technical lead responsible for all mobile apps and strategy for Microsoft's IPTV fixed-line product. In partnership with Microsoft engineering and marketing teams, I defined the product and led all technical discussions with Microsoft's IPTV licensees.

Apr 2002 – Apr 2006 · 4 yrs · Emeryville, CA

• I was hired by the Ofoto management team in 2002 to define their mobile strategy. We then built an engineering team and launched the Ofoto Mobile Service, the first mobile online photo service in the world outside of Japan. Ofoto Mobile supported mobile photo browsing, upload, sharing, and print ordering.
• The service was available in ten languages and licensed to AT&T, China Mobile, O2 UK, T-Mobile UK and SFR. It was also preloaded by on tens of millions of phones from Nokia, SonyEricsson and Motorola.
• Ofoto was acquired by Kodak for $300MM and rebranded KODAK Gallery.

Aug 2001 – Nov 2003 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Cupertino, CA

• Tony Fadell at Apple hired me and my engineering team to add Windows connectivity to the iPod. Before the iPod launch in October 2001, the secret team was referred to only as ‘Special Hardware Projects’.
• In addition to Windows connectivity for the iPod, my team was responsible for a number of other early iPod software projects, some of which were later incorporated into the first iPhone.
• According to the ‘History of iPod’ section of Wikipedia, “Though the iPod was released in 2001, its price and Mac-only compatibility caused sales to be relatively slow until 2004.” See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod#History

Jul 1997 – Aug 2001 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• As a consultant to the CTO of Audible, I conceived of, defined the feature set, designed the user interface, and managed the development of the AudiblePlayer, which was the world’s first mobile audio app.
• Audible was acquired by Amazon for $300MM.
• As told to Lex Fridman in a June 2022 interview, the Audible app helped inspire Tony Fadell to build the iPod.

Apr 1996 – Jul 1997 · 1 yr 3 mos

• I was hired to Philips Electronics by the late Blake Krikorian (later CEO of Slingbox) and Tony Fadell (later VP of iPod and CEO of Nest) to run software product management on the award-winning, Windows CE-based Velo 1 and Nino.
• While at Phiips, I invented and launched the world's first commercial app store in May 1997. Branded Philips MobileSoft, the service was available in 50 countries and was the first example of mobile app DRM as well as one-time purchase and paid subscription models. Many of these features later informed the design of the Apple iTunes store.
• At the time, Chris Shipley of DemoLetter hailed it in her newsletter as ‘genius’ and ‘is exactly what is needed to kick start the smartphone market.’

Feb 1993 – Apr 1996 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Mountain View, CA

• As the Internet product manager at General Magic, my team built the world's first mobile web browser. I gave the first demonstration of mobile web browsing over a cellular network with Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale and General Magic CEO Marc Porat during the CTIA keynote in March, 1996.
• Earlier in my tenure, as the youngest and highest-grossing business development executive, I generated over $15MM in licensing and equity investment revenue from our Japanese partners.
• I was also a member of the original Magic Cap Evangelism team, encouraging software companies to write apps for our mobile platform.