Denis Bernaert Email & Phone Number

Dubai, Ae

Founder & CEOVerticloud is The MEA Advisory Services emerging leader focusing mainly in 3 vertical industries: Telecommunications & Media,Energy & Utilities,Financial Services.Verticloud leverages the Salesforce AI CRM 360 platform, and specializes in AI-driven digital business transformation.Verticloud operates mainly across the MEA region; it serves clients from its UAE base for the Gulf countries (GCC market), and from France for Africa and France.Our mission is to help businesses successfully transform by leveraging the full power of Salesforce’s industry-specific clouds, while integrating advanced Agent Force Gen AI solutions to enhance sales processes and customer experiences. Our team, mostly ex Salesforce or Vlocity experts, all industry veterans, collaborate closely with client teams to design tailored digital transformation roadmaps, establish internal centers of excellence, and provide strategic program governance. Our services include running discoveries and assessments, supporting RFPs, crafting functional, technical and integration architectures, setting up design authorities, and creating comprehensive training plans. This holistic approach ensures clients maximize the impact of their digital initiatives, with measurable AI driving efficiencies and innovation.As a trusted Salesforce advisory partner, our teams work hand by hand with Salesforce account executives, and fosters close collaboration with carefully selected implementation partners, ensuring seamless and effective delivery across all stages of digital transformation.In addition to its Salesforce industry expertise, Verticloud offers advisory and board-level services to SaaS and IT services companies seeking to expand into the GCC region. We provide tailored guidance and operational support, including building regional sales teams, to help companies successfully enter and scale in these high-growth markets.

Fr

Member of French Parliament - Député de la 4ème circonscription des Yvelines à l'Assemblée Nationale.Member of Defense and Armed Forces Commission.Member of Study groups :1- Économie, sécurité et souveraineté numérique/Economy, cybersecurity and digital sovereignty2- Attractivité économique et export/France Economic attractiveness and export 3- Travail : emploi des seniors/work: employment of senior peopleVice-President of France & United Arab Emirates Friendship groupI replaced Marie Lebec in February 2024 after she was appointed French Government Minister (minister of relations with parliament); i was elected as her suppletive since June 2022 (Yvelines 4th district)The French Parliament was dissolved in June 2024 by the French President;After re election on July 7th 2024, i took back the role of suppletive of Marie Lebec

San Francisco, California, Us

Based 50% in Dubai and Gulf Countries, Denis works across South Europe, Middle East & Africa, with Strategic Account teams and Customers to develop and ensure successful long-term engagements and increasingly strategic relationships, focusing on large and impactful transformations (multicloud licenses and professional services deals) primarly in the Telecommunication & Media industries, and with a strong focus on Middle East GCC geography

San Francisco, California, Us

Vlocity was acquired in February 2020 by Salesforce, and operates since June 2020 within "Salesforce Industries"Denis leads Professional Services Sales & Delivery, ensuring our Communications, Energy and Insurance customers achieve success in their digital transformations.

San Francisco, California, Us

Vlocity, a Forbes 100 cloud company and strategic Salesforce ISV, delivers industry-specific cloud and mobile software that embed digital, omnichannel processes for customer-centric industries. Built in partnership with Salesforce, the world's #1 CRM company, Vlocity is one of Salesforce's fastest growing partners. Vlocity Industry Cloud Apps embed industry-specific functionality, best practices and business processes for the Communications & Media, Insurance & Financial Services, Energy, Health Insurance and Public Sector industries. Vlocity enables companies to achieve faster business agility and time to value from the cloud across digital and traditional channels. To learn more, visit www.vlocity.com and follow us @vlocity.Vlocity was acquired by Salesforce in February 2020 and operates since June 2020 as Salesforce Industries.Professional Services & Customer Success Sales and Delivery - 100% growth in 12month

Chesterfield, Mo, Us

Head of Amdocs France, and P&L End to End for French Clients, Orange Group worldwide, Altice Europe including SFR, and specific geographies within the EMEA region, including Middle-East Gulf.My special focus lately is on sales growth engines for Amdocs such as NFV (ONAP), IOT smart Home, smart Security, Digital CRM and BSS, Native & Hybrid Cloud, Saas, OSS, Enterprise B2B.Initially focused on Post Merger Integration, after completion of Comverse BSS Business Unit acquisition by Amdocs in July 2015;Member of Idate (Digital European Think Tank)Amdocs is ranked in top 3 IT services companies for telecoms by Ovum. Amdocs’ customer base includes over 300 services providers in more than 90 countries, who serve over 3 billion subscribers, with a global workforce of more than 25,000 professionals.Amdocs is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol DOX. Revenue for fiscal year 2015 was $3.6 billion.

Richardson, Texas, Us

Member of Comverse Global Executive Committee, reporting to President & CEO.President & CEO Comverse France.Managing Director, President, or member of the board of 10+ legal entities across EMEA.Accountable for Comverse BSS business worldwide for Telecommunications Providers.Full 200M$ P&L responsibility. 1200+ Headcount across 20+ countries.Oversees Sales, Pre-Sales, Product Marketing & Management, Software Product R&D and Customizations, Professional Services (Delivery & Support).Heavily involved in M&A activities, as well as part of the leadership team in Comverse BSS assets sale to Amdocs during Spring 2015 (detailed due diligence with Amdocs and Goldman Sachs ...)Member of Syntec NumériquePublications/Press-releases (extract) :http://www.comverse.com/news_media/press-releases/comverse-announces-new-release-of-comverse-one-for-cutting-edge-digital-services-monetization/http://www.comverse.com/news_media/press-releases/comverse-announces-new-release-of-comverse-one-for-cutting-edge-digital-services-monetization/

Richardson, Texas, Us

Member of Comverse Executive Committee reporting to Comverse President & CEO.Accountable for Comverse overall business 200M$ P&L across EMEA. 80 people in Sales, Business Development & Pre-SalesVAS & BSS Software and Solutions, Professional Services.President & CEO Comverse FrancePublications/Press releases (extract) :http://www.comverse.com/news_media/press-releases/comverse-expands-relationship-with-telecom-italia-group-for-enterprise-billing,-business-transformation/http;//www.comverse.com/news_media/press-releases/play-poland-(p4)-selects-comverse-one-converged-bss-to-power-real-time-service-capabilities,-new-lte-functionalities/http://www.comverse.com/news_media/press-releases/african-csp-inks-long-term-partnership-with-comverse-to-accelerate-lte-multi-play-success-/http://www.comverse.com/news_media/press-releases/comverse-one-real-time-billing-solution-goes-live-at-vimpelcom-beeline/http://www.comverse.com/news_media/press-releases/comverse-at-middle-east-com-in-dubai-seize-the-4g-all-ip-opportunity-/http://www.comverse.com/news_media/press-releases/comverse-converged-bss-solution-goes-live-in-benelux-to-speed-time-to-market,-drive-up-revenues,-drive-down-costs-/http://www.comverse.com/news_media/press-releases/comverse-at-tm-forum-management-world-in-nice,-france-transition-effectively-to-the-world-of-data,-ip-and-4g-/

Waltham, Ma, Us

Responsible for Sales & Account ManagementBSS & OSS Software and SolutionsTelecommunications & Utilities sectorsEurope & Africa

2009-2011 Vice President & General Manager France, Middle East & Africa, & Global Account Executive Orange Group.- Responsible for Sales, Client Mgt, Operations, P&L, Business Development & Client satisfaction;- BSS Software, System Integration Services & Consulting.- Sales & Client Mgt Teams spread accross Paris, Dubai, Cairo, Doha, Riyadh, & Johannesburg.Key Clients include : Orange group, Francaise des Jeux, Bouyguestelecom, TelecomEgypt, SaudiTelecom, Qtel, Zain, Vodacom, Nawras, ...Publications/Press releases (extract)http://www.convergys.com/company/news-events/downloads/194_misc.pdf?TRID=1http://www.ameinfo.com/178673.htmlhttp://www.euroinvestor.co.uk/news/story.aspx?id=9978245&bw=20080929005099http://www.convergys.com/company/news-events/newsroom/news_release.php?newsid=4798http://www.convergys.com/company/news-events/newsroom/news_release.php?newsid=4782http://www.convergys.com/company/news-events/newsroom/news_release.php?newsid=47492008 Vice President & General Manager- France, Middle East, and Orange group globalOverall responsibility for clients, whose headquarters are based in France or in the Middle East, P&L, Relationships and Business Development, both for Contact Centre outsourcing and Customer Care & Billing solutions 2007 down to 2001 from last to first:- Senior Client Executive in charge of overall Client relationships (Sales & Delivery) & P&L for large Corporate European accounts such as France Telecom-Orange, Portugal Telecom, BouygesTelecom ... for Customer Care & Billing solutions. - Senior Director, Head of Business Development EMEA- Director, in charge of the Romtelecom Key Account in Romania (60 consultants from 11 nationalities, leading a large system BSS replacement- Director, Head of Professional Services EMEA (400 staff from 5 acquired companies accross 8 european locations, 100M$ revenue)- Director, General Manager of French Business Unit

Paris, Île-De-France, Fr

Member of CEGETEL/SFR Information Systems board of DirectorsReporting to CEGETEL/SFR group CIOSeveral successive Senior Management positions first in Wireline at Cegetel, then in Wireless at SFR, from last to first :- Director, commercial (BSS) systems for SFR (11 million subscribers) 225 staff- Director Customer Care and Billing systems Competence centre at SFR/CEGETEL for residential and corporate customers- Director Billing and Loyalty systems for SFR/CEGETEL for residential customers- Senior Manager Customer Care and Billing Systems, senior member of CEGETEL launch team

Dublin 2, Ie

Sales & Delivery of Busines consulting, System integration and Outsourcing services to clients in various sectors such as Utilities, Banking, Insurance, Retail, Distribution, Pharmaceuticals

France, France, Fr

Indian Ocean and Persic Gulf based"Chef de Quart"Ormuz Opex

Amp, Advanced Management Program

Engineer, Electronics - Computer Science

Baccalaureat, C (Maths, Physics)

Elementary School