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Consulting services for the Telecommunications industry

Malmö, Se

Saintes, -- N/A --, Be

www.allocloud.comFounder and general management of the company.The ALLOcloud activity was founded (as an evolution of EYEPEA) to respond to the growing demand of organizations to move their telecoms to the Cloud.The ALLOcloud business grew from zero to a multi-million € business in a few years. In June 2021, ALLOcloud was acquired by Telavox, the leading Scandinavian UCaaS player.

Saintes, Be

www.eyepea.euFounder and general management of the company.EYEPEA is a leading Integrator of Telecom solutions based on Open Source software. EYEPEA is active globally. As ALLOcloud had grown so much, it was decided to stop the EYEPEA activity end 2020 and focus solely on Cloud services.

Saintes, N/A, Be

Founder and general management of the company. DMoon had two activities: web development and telecoms (under the name EYEPEA). In 2009, the web development activity was sold and the telecom activity was spun off as a telecom-dedicated new company (OpenS), keeping the EYEPEA commercial name.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

www.alcatel.comExecutive Director, EMEA Channel Mktg, Alcatel.EMEA Channel Marketing management of the voice and data activities. $820M turnover. Responsibilities include EMEA implementation of certification program, commercial programs, communications, events and e-Channel marketing. Reported to VP EMEA Marketing.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

www.alcatel.comExecutive Director, Corporate Data Channel Mktg, Alcatel.Corporate (WHQ) Channel Marketing management of the data activities. $400M worldwide turnover. Responsibilities included certification program, commercial programs, communications, events and e-Channel marketing. Reported to Corporate VP Marketing.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

www.alcatel.comExecutive Director, International Data Channel Sales, Alcatel.Extension of the territory to Asia Pacific and Latin America. Reported to the VP International. Region turnover was $240M.

www.alcatel.comDirector, EMEA Channel Sales, Xylan Corporation.Development and implementation of channel strategy (VAR, System Integrators, OEM, Distribution) for Xylan Corp, one of the top 5 LAN switching vendors. Territory included Europe, Middle East and Africa. EMEA business grew from $21M (1996) to $60M (1997), $94M (1998) and $120 (1999). Reported to the VP EMEA. Alcatel acquired Xylan Corp in March 1999 for $2B.

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www.ericsson.comDirector, EMEA Channel Sales, FORE Systems.Development and implementation of channel strategy (VAR, System Integrators and Distribution) for FORE Systems, the leader in ATM networking technology. Territory included Europe, Middle East and Africa. In FY97, EMEA business grew from $27M to $71M. Reported to the Sr. Director of Sales for EMEA. Marconi Communications acquired Fore Systems in 2000 for $4B. Marconi is now part of Ericsson.

www.hp.comGeneral Manager, Central, Southern Europe and Middle East, NetWorth.Extension of the territory to Southern Europe (France, Italy, Spain, Portugal). Grew the business from scratch to $12M in FY96. Compaq Computers acquired NetWorth in November 1996 for $300M. Compaq was later acquired by HP.

www.hp.comRegional Sales Manager, Central Europe and Middle East, NetWorth.Start up and operation of NetWorth Brussels, a subsidiary of Dallas-based NetWorth Inc., a company specialized in Local Area Network (LAN) hardware. Reported to the W-Wide VP Sales and Mktg. Job included channel selection (Distribution, VARs and OEMs), end-user sales & mktg. management, management of a team of Sales Reps, PMs and Marcom people, P&L and financial responsibility. Territory included: Benelux, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Middle East and Eastern Europe.

San Jose, Ca, Us

European Marketing Manager, Ungermann-Bass Started up and ran European product mktg. and Marcom team. Reported to the VP Europe. Ungermann-Bass morphed itself into UB Networks, then was acquired by Newbridge Networks in 1996. Alcatel acquired Newbridge in 2000.

San Jose, Ca, Us

European Product Manager, Ungermann-BassRan European product mktg. of UB, a company specialized in Local Area Network hardware. Reported to GM UB Europe.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

www.motorola.comEuropean Product Manager, Motorola Codex.Managed several product lines for Motorola-Codex Europe. Reported to the European Sales Director.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

www.motorola.comEuropean Network Consultant, Motorola Codex.Technically assisted Motorola-Codex (a company manufacturing Wide Area Network equipment) European subsidiaries on large ($1M+) projects. Reported to the European Sales Director.

Cepac Business School, Management School

Civil Engineer, Applied Sciences (Polytechnique)

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