Michaël Montoya

CEO

France15 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Grew a $1M portfolio to $37M at Cargill.
  • Led Koin to 20M downloads per month.
  • Expert in AI-driven mobile development.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on B2B growth and product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Start-ups ManagementBusiness-to-business (b2b)

Other Skills

koinInbound MarketingFinancial ReportingInternational SalesHuman Resources (HR)KotlinManagementIT StrategyOpen-Source Softwaredev platformNegotiationSales ManagementB2BWater TreatmentIndustrial Process

About

Engineer turned international negotiator turned startup CEO. I spent my early career at Cargill, the world's largest food supply company, where I grew a $1M portfolio to $37M across 30+ countries and became the youngest KAM in Cargill Europe. As an Officer in the French Army, I led soldiers through complex military simulations. Both taught me the same thing: decisions under pressure require structure and clarity. I co-founded Kotzilla with Arnaud Giuliani, my childhood friend and the creator of Koin. When Koin reached 2M monthly downloads, we saw an opportunity no one else was pursuing. Since then, Koin has grown 10x to 20M downloads per month and now powers 25% of all Android applications worldwide. Traditional observability captures symptoms. We use the dependency graph to understand the structure. That's a fundamentally different approach - symbolic approach - and a necessary one: AI is rewriting how mobile apps are built, and the volume of generated code demands an observability layer that reasons about architecture, not just metrics, flat logs and raw stack traces. That's what we're building at Kotzilla.

Experience

15 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
7 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

The galion project

Community Member

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France · Remote

  • Enjoying the best community for CEOs / Start-Up

Kotzilla

CEO & Co-Founder

Oct 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · Paris · Hybrid

  • Building the Next Generation of Observability for AI-Driven Mobile Development
koinBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Start-ups ManagementInbound MarketingFinancial ReportingInternational Sales+6

Ministère de la défense

Army Officer

Feb 2019Feb 2024 · 5 yrs · France

  • French land army officer

Cargill

Key Account Manager - Europe + Russia

Oct 2010Sep 2022 · 11 yrs 11 mos · Europe

  • Starting as Account Manager in charge of non-food customers in France, I am now Key Account Manager on Industrial, Alcohol and Food markets.
  • I am pleased to manage European and Global Key Accounts with complex structures and challenges.
  • B2B, negociation, portfolio management (budget, forecast, results), Benchmarks, technical advices, market follow-up ...
  • Biomaterials technologies follow-up - bioeconomy market analyst
  • USIPA (professional starch producers association) - ACDV (Association Chimie du Végétal - Green chemistry association) membership

Kemira

Sales Engineer

Jun 2007Sep 2010 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Sales in B2B - paper industry - Home Office
  • From prospection to application follow-up, including lab and machine trial, technical expertise, commercial discussion up to global Bid negociations.

Tembec

Environnemental and process engineer

Feb 2007Jun 2007 · 4 mos

  • 5 months trainee, working on optimization of the waste water treatment plant and on REACH regulation implementation.
  • Tutor : M. Didier Ott

Education

Grenoble INP - UGA

Engineer — Engineering - water treatment - chemistry - paper production

Jan 2004Jan 2007

Ecole de Guerre Economique – EGE

Executive Master of Business Administration — Stratégie et Intelligence Economique

Oct 2025Present

EFPG - French Papermaking, Printing and Biomaterials school

Engineer — Papermaking - environmental processes - biomaterials

Jan 2004Jan 2007

Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III

bachelor in science — chemical engineering

Jan 2002Jan 2004

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