Apr 2023 – Sep 2023 · 5 mos · Saclay, Île-de-France, France · Hybrid

• From Scaleway to Saclay, on a mission to distribute data science and common machine learning globally. This mission lead to the creation of the mission driven startup :probabl. above.

Feb 2020 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

• Dusted off and put Scaleway on the map as The Cloud of Choice, a credible regional and sustainable cloud hyperscaler alternative to the big 3. Grew the team 3x to more than 600 Scalers during the COVID pandemic, implemented full-remote policies, while maintaining high employee satisfaction & 4.6+ glassdoor ratings, and gender ratio well over 20%. Last but not least, improved Public Cloud sales in the high double digits beating the market, 3 years in a row. Grew top line ARR by 50% over the period to 9 digits in €.

May 2015 – Nov 2019 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Paris

• Raised and managed over 25m€ in financing across an array of instruments (subsidies, equity, debt, R&D tax credits), led and grew HR from 8 to 80 people, steered the efforts from initial B2C ambitions to B2B opportunities, spearheaded and led the development of the B2B offering and sales team, managed ops and business development in the US and Japan. Snips was ranked by LinkedIn as the 2nd best start-up to work at in France in 2018. Snips built embedded voice recognition technology, allowing edge devices to understand natural language queries completely offline, fulfilling an ever increasing demand for privacy.
• Snips was acquired by Sonos and is now retroactively enabling all voice-enabled Sonos speakers.

Apr 2013 – Oct 2016 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Paris

• SonetIN: your private social network (for work or other purpose driven communities). Comes with built-in Community Agent (semantic summarization, gamification, Influence and network graphs...).
• SonetIn was acquired by Jamespot.

Jun 2009 – Present · 17 yrs · Fontainebleau, France

• Sharing a few nuggets of wisdom with MBA students aspiring to become entrepreneurs ...
• Note: "residence" only means visiting the campus for a whole day once or twice a year.

Jun 2009 – Feb 2015 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Paris, France

• Initial model (2009): B2C. App recommendation engine. 12M downloads, 2M DAU worldwide, 13 languages.
• Post pivot model (2014): B2B. Full fledged mobile native ad network: user acquisition, engagement, retargeting, and monetization for app publishers. 3000 publishers, 150M end-users.
• Appsfire was acquired by MNG Group.

Oct 2008 – Jun 2014 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Paris, France

• Operational role until late 2009, iOS app architecture and coding. Advisory role after that.
• KickYourApp: mobile marketing through "apps". We take your brand and bring it to the iPhone: creative consulting, graphic & user flow design, touch & gesture based interaction, web service integration... Our service spans the entire process, from ideation, design, development to store publication, iOS & Android.
• KickYourApp was acquired by digital design agency Change.

Jul 2007 – Present · 18 yrs 11 mos · Paris, France

• Ad hoc software projects, R&D lab. High Tech Consulting. Speaking Engagements. Technical due diligence. Angel investments in Conception.dev, Blok, Lysk, RBlox, Startup Sesame, Murena, Aive, Scalingo, Jogl, Cenareo, Kiln, Foundation Ki, Sqreen (acquired by Datadog), Ledger, Groq, Livstick, Voxist, Osol, Anyshift, Sena. LP in Daphni Yellow, Fly, Diaspora.vc and Drysdale Ventures.

Sep 2003 – Dec 2003 · 3 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

• Created course from scratch. Taught 3 classes per week during Fall 2003.

Jul 2001 – Mar 2009 · 7 yrs 8 mos

• ETHERYL was boostrapped out of a personal need-based idea, grown from a prototype piece of code, to a recognized and internationally used B2B online community management engine, and used by business schools such as INSEAD, Manchester Business School, HEC Paris, Oxford, as well as professional entities such as Manpower, Alstom, Procter & Gamble Alumni of France, European Professional Women's Network and many others.
• My approach to business development (expanding along the customer life-cycle most notably) lead the INSEAD Entrepreneurship Department to write a case study on ETHERYL.
• Sold the company to private investors in June 2007. Stepped down from the CEO position and took on the CTO role for another 18 months, helping maintain, improve and transition our suite of products from academia-only to a general purpose "closed community & network centric management" platform, to address our 3 core markets: academia, professional associations & corporations.

Feb 2000 – Jul 2000 · 5 mos · New York City, USA

• Facilitated integration of the SPNC (below) dev team & associated assets (see acquired company below). Successfully transferred working knowledge to colleagues, subordinates and new recruits. Drove continuous improvement and production of legacy market data software.
• Left NYC to undertake an MBA at INSEAD in the heart of the Fontainebleau forest.

Dec 1996 – Jan 2000 · 3 yrs 1 mo · New York City, USA

• Provided software and consulting services to New York’s top 15 banks (trading desks & back-office). Sustained strategic redistribution relationship with Reuters Canada while competing against Reuters US. Led management and development efforts on cutting edge financial market data and Internet software. Handled all aspects of SPNC’s Internet presence (web site and email communication system). Designed complete visual corporate identity.
• Contributed to the sale of SPNC to IXNet/GlobalCrossing, as partner and key holder of IP and know-how, up to final negotiations.

Jan 1996 – Jan 1996 · 0 mo · Hollywood, USA

• Envoyé from Cambridge Animation System (Cambridge UK) to Dreamworks SKG and Warner Bros. in Los Angeles - integrating digital asset management platforms.

Jan 1995 – Jan 1996 · 1 yr · Greater Cambridge Area

• Designed the first version of a generic Asset Management system + API to help integrate the Animo Animation Software suite with client's own Asset Repositories (Dreamworks & Warner Brothers namely).

Aug 1993 – Oct 1995 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

• As lead graphical user interface designer, I helped build the foundation of a front-office technology platform used by trading desks all over the world for over 2 decades.
• My pride on this project is to have helped bring object-oriented and visual programming to the trading floor seeking inspiration from NeXTstep's Interface Builder. My eternal gratitude to Jean-Marie Hullot for his life work at Apple and NeXT.

Oct 1991 – Oct 1991 · 0 mo · Paris

• On staff interpreter to Magic Johnson’s Lakers during the Mac Donald's Open tournament in Paris, 18-19 October 1991

Jan 1987 – Aug 1989 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Co-developed an online social network (at the time called a BBS or Bulletin Board System) complete with individual accounts, groups, walls, and casual games on Atari ST. We used the subsidized French Minitel as server modem using a pretty cool hack! We eventually sold several hundred licences of "Halley & Ellipse".