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New York, NY, US

New York, United States

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Greater New York City Area

• Full P&L responsibility of a Business Division dedicated to Enterprise Communication solutions, Contact Centers, Public Safety, NG9-1-1 across North America.
• Hired to turnaround a fast declining division and returned it to growth and profitability within 12 months.
• Grew division quickly through restructuring in declining areas and focusing on growth areas.
• Acquired a $400M contract with the state of California to deploy the largest 9-1-1 system of a Next Generation Public Safety Solution nationwide and recruited a team of experts to deliver the project.
• Refocused the business from legacy premise-based solutions to innovative cloud-based solutions with UCaaS and CCaas partners

New York, New York

• SaaS technology adopted by Fortune 50 companies that provided live video chat, live video product demos, co-browsing, and document sharing to engage consumers and personalize the purchase path.
• Developed a SaaS (software-as-a-service) customer engagement platform by raising $10M in funding and growing the team to 50 professionals across offices in New York City, Paris, and London.
• Selected by Microsoft as the best video customer engagement solution. Initially deployed to support online sales of Surface tablets, then expanded for all Microsoft products in US, Canada, and UK.
• Deployed by IBM and Arrow Electronics, deployed and distributed by SoftBank, and acquired hundreds of ecommerce customers worldwide including large banks and online car dealers in the US, Japan and Europe.

Paris, France

• Excom SecretaryLed strategic wireless operations initiatives on behalf of the firm’s innovation and transformation agenda.
• Restructured the WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) wireless broadband activities.
• Negotiated and established an alliance on public safety wireless activities in North America.

Paris, France

• An internal venture that created a new solution to deliver TV channels directly to 3G mobile phones and cars.
• Raised $120M to develop satellite / terrestrial mobile TV technologies with a team of 400 engineers and world-class partners including Samsung, Delphi, and Nokia.
• Secured $500M in orders in Europe with Eutelstat, SES, and Inmarsat, and conducted a pilot in India.
• Built relationship and signed contracts with EchoStar Dish and with ICO Global Communications.
• Set innovative new video standards and successfully lobbied for approvals of new spectrum regulations.

Paris, France

• Alcatel Alenia Space (now Thales Alenia Space) is a top $2B European satellite manufacturer established by the Alcatel Space and Alenia Spazio merger; initially owned by Alcatel-Lucent and Finmeccanica.
• Generated $1.5B of sales, partnerships, and marketing of satellites to space agencies and DODs.
• Negotiated and secured 2/3 of company revenues by selling Public Sector programs to Galileo (European GPS) in Brussels, Airbus Defense Public Private Partnership, and French and Italian DODs.
• Expanded ventures and offerings of Broadband by Satellite, Satellite Radio Broadcasting, Mobile Video.

Paris, France

• Directed $400M business unit towards profitability through intensive restructuring and divestments.
• Improved profitability of 1,500-person manufacturing team across Italy, Spain, France and Belgium and then positioned the assets for attractive sale to potential acquirers.
• Sourced, developed, and negotiated 6 divestments to various SMBs and local European factories.

Paris, France

• Head of Sales and Marketing of 50-person, $120M division serving SMB and European telecom operators.
• Sold and marketed to Orange, France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, and Telecom Italia.
• Introduced a new B2B product generation that delivered converged Voice, IP, and e-mail technologies.

Paris, France

In charge of Industrial matters:o creation of EADS Airbus ($24 bn) by merging Dasa (Daimler), Aerospatiale & Matrao nuclear policy: security of power plants, nuclear waste, creation of Areva ($9 bn)o introduction of competition in electricity, gas and telecom sectors in Franceo privatization of France Telecom ($25 bn), Thomson ($7 bn)o restructuring of.

Brussels, Belgium

• Advisor to Commissioner Y. de Siguy to support the intra-Commission work during the formation of the Euro.
• Prepared for the transformation into a Economic and Monetary Union and to a single currency
• Analyzed and briefed Commissioner on economic statistics such as GDP, public deficits, and inflation.
• Advised on Commission’s competition rules and state aids for energy, telecom, and transport sectors.

Brussels, Belgium

• Competition Policy encourages companies to offer goods and services on the most favorable terms.
• Applied antitrust laws to microeconomics in the transportation, media, and telecom sectors.
• Drafted legal decisions prohibiting cartels and certain mergers which became immediately effective.

B.S., Physics And Economics,, Mathematics, Physics, Economy

The Most Prestigious and Selective Science and Engineering University of France Trained as Military Officer of Engineering and Graduated.

Business Administration And Management, General, M.B.A.

The top 15 engineering graduates from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Normale Supérieure train for executive management positions within.