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Paris, FR

Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, FR

- Member of Octopia’s executive committee- Leading, reorganizing based on team topology and managing a 40+ people team of product people- Defining the product vision, strategy and OKR- Onboarding 20+ additional marketplace customers and presenting roadmap and product strategy - Handling a 20M€ budget to achieve company’s objectives

Paris, FR

Paris La Défense, FR

- Heading the KPMG digital platform for the SME market: defined the long term strategy, managed the 50+ team- Part of the COMEX- Managed the product engineering, the product manager, the product designer and the customer success teams- Rebuilt the team to make them work from a project organisation to a product organisation- Recruited most of the product.

Amsterdam, NL

Backbase is a Dutch fintech scale-up and a global leader in banking digital enablement platform- Lead the Identity & Open Banking value stream of the Backbase Digital Banking Enablement Platform used by more than 20 customers across the world- Control the budget and drive the growth of the Identity Value Stream from 4 teams to 7 agile teams with more than.

Austin, TX, US

• HID Global is a global leader in trusted digital identities solutions
• Lead the product management, marketing and sales and defined the global strategy for the Financial Institutions’ market, leading in 3x the revenues in 2 years
• Transformed the standard authentication offering to a holistic trusted digital identity platform including identification, authentication and risk management capabilities, resulting in a value growth of the solution.
• Built expertise in digital identity, identity verification, authentication, biometry, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, fraud management and cloud
• Identified and engaged with strategic partners to grow our market shares and expand our offering for a better market fit
• Analysed existing product and markets in terms of the ability to compete, gain market share and grow revenue allowing the definition and execution of an expansion plan in APAC which brought the doubling of revenues in.

Beaverton, OR, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

• VASCO (now OneSpan) is the world leader in providing Two-factor authentication and ElectronicSignature solutions to financial institutions
• Built and launched two new cloud offerings o Strong authentication for enterprises o Fraud management for Financial institutions and for PSP (Payment Service Providers)
• Takeover of a B2C cloud authentication service o Redefined product strategy and positioning o Restored relationship with the engineering team o Steered the European and US sales team
• Defined 3 years strategic plan of the cloud offering with the creation of a business plan. The plan was partially accepted by the executive management and start to be implemented.
• Outsourced the enterprise strong authentication service hosting and management.
• Defined and executed VASCO strategy in a new strong authentication consortium. Represented VASCO in this consortium. Setup a business partnership with tier one online service provider with millions of hardware units.

• Founded the company and steered it for 2 years. The Rezoto service, a C2C and B2C events marketplace, has been launched in 5 cities in France and gathered more than 10,000 users in 6 months.
• Raised 100K€ in loans and subvention. Prepared and steered a 500K€ round A fund raising campaign.
• Concluded business partnership with media and entertainment companies (Telerama, Marché privé (online marketplace), some bars and restaurants)
• Recruited and managed the team that raises up to 6 persons
• Defined and conducted a marketing plan: Facebook and Google ad campaigns, events organization, emailing campaigns and ambassador plan. This marketing plan allowed us to recruit the 10,000 users with a minimal budget.

Courbevoie, Ile De France, FR

• Concluded and managed partnerships with Todos (Sweden), a strong authentication hardware devices manufacturer and Modirum (Finland) a payment scheme server provider. Thanks to those partnerships, we built a 3D-Secure.
• Built the business proposal for Carrefour with a business plan for management validation
• Negotiated a new partnership with VASCO Data Security following Todos acquisition and rebuilt a full strong authentication offer.
• Trained and supported the worldwide sales team (Americas, Europe-Africa and Asia): on-site training once a year.

• Software telecommunication protocol provider - acquired in 2006 by NXP semiconductors for $7 million, 15 employees - Total revenue: $4m
• Member of the board: Started the company and defined the shareholders agreement. Took part in the preparation of the $5 millions fund raising campaign. Reviewed the acquisition proposal
• Participated in the strategic decisions of the company: customers business strategy, budget planning and competitors market analysis
• Led our Chinese customer and its partner in the design and the development of its product to reduce the time-to-market and the BOM of the platform by half. Met regularly the customer on site (Beijing).
• Analysed the low cost Chinese handset market (75 million pieces per annum). Negotiated with the customer the required adaptation of the product to compete on this market.
• Team and project management on 4 different sites and geography (USA, France and China)

Fontainebleau, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, San Francisco, OO

President of the INSEAD High-Tech club

• US Wavecom subsidary - 25 employees
• Promoted CTO to adapt the software to the EDGE generation
• Scheduled the software deliveries to synchronize and to realize the product integration
• Designed and implemented GSM/GPRS/EDGE telecommunication software for mobile handset

Cenon, France, FR

• Pioneer company in the gaming mobile experience - 16 employees growing to 50
• Led a 10 members team to launch the first downloadable game engine on mobile with Orange, Vodafone, Telefonica, China Mobile in 2001. The product doubled the ARPU, it has generated 70% of the company revenues during.
• Steered the platform integration and negotiated the opening of the phone manufacturers platform. The product has been deployed on more than ten million mobile phones.
• Designed the architecture of the product and integrated the complete solution

Richmond, British Columbia, CA

• World leader wireless module provider - 100 employees growing to 1000
• Analysed and completed the porting of the GSM software for the next generation chip

Mba, Business And Administration

Master, Electronics, Informatics

Bac, Math And Physics