Nicolas Giard Email & Phone Number

Lille, Fr

Greater Lille Metropolitan Area

To support teams innovate by drafting successful products based on brilliant ideas.Ideas are often credited for 5 to 10% of the success of an innovative project.At IWEJI*, we believe that the team makes all the difference. The process, tools and funding are also important, but the quality of collaboration between team members is the cornerstone to achieving excellence. In Swahili (a language spoken primarily along the East African coast), iweji means “go.”It is indeed a powerful call to action, urging the team to transcend ideas through perfectly designed execution.*IWEJI stands for “Innovation Without Execution is Just Illusion” quoting Thomas Edison.

Remote

Leading a cross-functional team (legal, data governance, engineering, product management, data acquisition...) to create and develop a set of new geospatial services for digital advertising.

Greater Lille Metropolitan Area

Offer Lead for Data Platforms and Products, leading the development of Wunderman Thompson technology-based customer data solutions in EMEA: Customer Cloud Platform, Modelling-as-a-Service and Identity Resolution-as-a-Service products.Primarily focused on the development and rollout of these solutions in EMEA and supporting agencies engaging conversations with clients and with new business prospects to help them understand how to leverage data to engage their customers.

Greater Lille Metropolitan Area

Conexance MD has developed the first French BtoC cooperative database.Working in tandem with the CEO, we defined the strategy and I was in charge of the financial and commercial reporting for our investors' quarterly strategy meetings.The rapid growth of Conexance has been based on:> Its unique ML modeling factory> its 300+ first party data partners> 40+ talented employees, including data scientists and data engineersThese assets, enabled the company to deliver performing 1PD lookalike audiences for direct and digital campaigns by connecting its data to leading DSPs.2 SaaS products were released in the early 2000s:> A CRM dashboard platform helping brands to analyze the performance of their customer files based on their own data and from the cooperative database.> A modeling-as-a-service platform, allowing retailers to leverage cooperative insights to create ad-hoc ML models to profitably target their own customers based on their external purchasing behavior.We sold the company to WPP in 2016 and I decided to end my role as general manager to join Wunderman Thompson and then Choreograph and embrace an international mission.Creating and growing your own business is a great job!

ABACUS (former division of DoubleClick now part of Publicis-Epsilon) is the leading Cooperative Database in the United States and UK. After having performed a thorough French market analysis as a consultant for Doubleclick, I’ve joined, as Client s’ Services Director, the team that launched Abacus France.Introducting a disruptive proposition onto the French Market helped me develop strong business development and analytics skills

Master Of Science in Data Marketing and e.commerce (Skema Business School - France)As Director of this executive program I was in charge of setting up the content of the program and managing the recruitment campaigns.Developing strong digital expertise in the early ages of Digital Marketing and e.commerce.

Chief Editor of the first B to B French magazine dedicated to home shopping catalogues

Greater Lille Metropolitan Area

Communication Manager in charge of the Direct Marketing campaigns to promote the school and recruit candidats

Master (Former Dea), Management

Specialized Master, Direct Marketing & E.Commerce

Master, Management, Marketing