Cyril Reinhard — CEO

I work at the intersection of AI, business, and execution. I come from an engineering background, with early hands-on experience in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, and have spent my career building, scaling, and leading go-to-market and partner organizations in complex B2B and enterprise environments. Over the years, I have helped technology companies operating in product-led and data-intensive contexts turn strong products into credible commercial traction: structuring sales and partner motions, defining go-to-market strategies, and engaging C-level stakeholders across long and complex sales cycles. I have launched and scaled regional operations, built high-performing teams, and driven sustained pipeline and revenue growth in environments where markets are still forming and clarity is part of the journey. Alongside corporate leadership roles, I have also been a founder with multiple exits and a startup coach within the digital and AI ecosystem. These experiences shaped a pragmatic leadership style, grounded in responsibility, transmission, and long-term value creation. Today, I focus on AI-native companies facing a familiar challenge: powerful technology, a market that needs education, and the need to scale revenue without overselling or diluting the product vision. I bring a calm, structured, and execution-focused approach, bridging product, sales, partners, and executives, with one objective: turning complexity into momentum.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI expert with a focus on B2B sales and partnerships.

Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Experience: 14 yrs 6 mos

Skills

Start-up Leadership
Strategic Partnerships
Ai
Conversational Ai
Go-to-market Strategy
Sales Management
Gtm Strategy
Partnership Development
Sales Strategy

Career Highlights

Expert in AI-driven go-to-market strategies.
Proven track record in building high-performing teams.
Successful founder with multiple exits.

Work Experience

Zelinqa

Co-Founder & CEO (0 mo)

MAXAIKI

Independent Sales & GTM Advisor (1 yr 4 mos)

Sitecore

Vice President France (3 yrs 7 mos)

Contentful

Head of Partner Sales France and BeNeLux (1 yr)

Adobe

Senior Partner Sales Manager (2 yrs 7 mos)

Hootsuite

EMEA Partners & Alliances, Director (1 yr)

Acquia

Southwest Senior Regional Sales Director (2 yrs 11 mos)

Adobe

Senior Strategic Account Manager (5 yrs 8 mos)

Education

M.S. at University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne

Engineer - Artificial Intelligence at Graduate School of Computer Science and Advanced Technologies - EPITA

Management at Business and Management trainings

Etudes Doctorales at University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne

Cyril Reinhard

CEO

Paris, Île-de-France, France14 yrs 6 mos experience

AI Enabled

Key Highlights

Expert in AI-driven go-to-market strategies.
Proven track record in building high-performing teams.
Successful founder with multiple exits.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI expert with a focus on B2B sales and partnerships.

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Skills

Core Skills

Start-up LeadershipStrategic PartnershipsAiConversational AiGo-to-market StrategySales ManagementGtm StrategyPartnership DevelopmentSales Strategy

Other Skills

ManagementAPI IntegrationStratégie d'IAIntelligence artificielle (IA)StratégieEntrepreneuriatManagement force de ventesLeadership commercial et marketingLogiciel d’entrepriseDiversité et inclusionManagement de la directionAlliances stratégiquesPartenariats stratégiquesStratégie Go-to-MarketVentes complexes

About

Experience

14 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 4 mos

Current Experience

Zelinqa

Co-Founder & CEO

May 2026 – Present · 0 mo · Grenoble · Hybrid

Conversational AI agents generate plenty of answers and plenty of mistakes, because they often miss the context and don't fully understand complex business situations.
At Zelinqa, we build NBQ (Next Best Question): a "Questioning Intelligence" layer that helps conversational AI ask the right questions, at the right moment, before answering. The way a doctor, a coach, an advisor, or an expert naturally would.
NBQ connects via API to any existing conversational agent and stays independent from the underlying LLM (GPT, Claude, Mistral, local models). This independence protects our clients' technological sovereignty and helps them stay compliant with European regulations.
At the core of NBQ: understanding a need and asking the right questions before giving any answer.
Priority use cases: pre-diagnosis and patient guidance in healthcare, learning support in education, diagnostics and maintenance in industry, augmented customer support. And more broadly, wherever a conversation needs to understand a need before addressing it.
My role: to lead the product vision, build the company, and bring the team and partners together around one conviction. As Massih-Reza Amini, our scientific founder, puts it: "a conversational AI only becomes truly useful once it learns to recognize what it doesn't know and to ask."

Start-up LeadershipStrategic PartnershipsManagement

Maxaiki

Independent Sales & GTM Advisor

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Paris et périphérie · Remote

Personal advisory holding used for interim sales leadership, go-to-market strategy, and business development missions.
Acting as a hands-on sales leader alongside executive teams to structure sales organizations, define GTM priorities, and drive execution across complex B2B environments.

AIStratégie d'IAIntelligence artificielle (IA)StratégieEntrepreneuriatManagement force de ventes+2

Sitecore

Vice President France

May 2021 – Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

Built and scaled Sitecore France from the ground up: launched local operations, built and led the enterprise sales team, and structured the partner ecosystem.
Defined GTM strategy with key partners (Accenture, CGI, Valtech, EPAM) and strategic alliances with Microsoft and Salesforce.
Drove enterprise growth through C-level engagement, complex deal structuring, and partner-led sales.

AILogiciel d’entrepriseDiversité et inclusionManagement de la directionAlliances stratégiquesPartenariats stratégiques+5

Contentful

Head of Partner Sales France and BeNeLux

May 2020 – May 2021 · 1 yr · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Built and executed the partner strategy for France & Benelux, establishing key alliances with Accenture, Publicis, Emakina, and EPAM.
Accelerated pipeline growth for Contentful’s headless CMS and API-driven platform through partner-led GTM

Logiciel d’entrepriseDiversité et inclusionManagement de la directionAlliances stratégiquesPartenariats stratégiquesStratégie Go-to-Market+4

Adobe

Senior Partner Sales Manager

Oct 2017 – May 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Région de Paris, France

Led strategic partnerships (Accenture, CGI, EY) for Adobe Experience Cloud, driving joint GTM execution and pipeline acceleration.
Contributed to vertical solutions and secured a major e-commerce deal in 2019.

Logiciel d’entrepriseDiversité et inclusionManagement de la directionAlliances stratégiquesPartenariats stratégiquesStratégie Go-to-Market+4

Hootsuite

EMEA Partners & Alliances, Director

Oct 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr · Paris

Defined and executed EMEA partner strategy, driving pipeline and revenue growth across agency and consulting ecosystems.
Worked with global partners including Publicis Group, TBWA, Havas, Accenture, and Deloitte.

Logiciel d’entrepriseDiversité et inclusionManagement de la directionPartenariats stratégiquesStratégieVentes complexes+2

Acquia

Southwest Senior Regional Sales Director

Feb 2012 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Paris

Built and scaled the Southern EMEA region, doubling revenues year over year.
Recruited and led the sales team, structured strategic partnerships, and opened new regional operations.

Logiciel d’entrepriseDiversité et inclusionPartenariats stratégiquesStratégieVentes complexesPartnership Development+1

Adobe

Senior Strategic Account Manager

Jun 2006 – Feb 2012 · 5 yrs 8 mos · PARIS

Enterprise strategic account and partner sales in complex public-sector and large enterprise environments.
Built early expertise in long sales cycles, partner-led GTM, and C-level engagement.

Logiciel d’entreprisePartenariats stratégiquesStratégieSales ManagementPartnership Development