Senior Executive with entrepreunerial spirit and 20 years of sales and marketing experience in technology industry. True agile person, strong leadership and managerial skills into international and multi cultural environment.
• Proven track record – last 20 years in 4 countries (France, US, Switzerland, and now UK) – in the ICT industry; P&L Management, Building Teams across borders, Corporate Strategy and Sales and Marketing. • True agile person with strong leadership and managerial skills in international and multi cultural environment. • P&L responsibility up to $200USD million • Run operations for both large groups (like Hewlett-Packard, Logitech or PSA Peugeot Citroën), mid size businesses (Link & Data Mobile, Lookout or now Up'n BIZ) and start up (even creating, funding and selling my own company Dmailer after 8 years). • Sophisticated communication and presentation skills at Board and C-Level. • Great international contacts network of CEO/COO/CTO in the ICT and Automotive industry. • Excellent results over years in Customer Satisfaction and Employee Motivation and Satisfaction. • Fluent in: English and French. • Competitive and hard working team player, I love travelling around the world, and hold both an Master in International Business from Grenoble Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Laws. • Good Work / Life balance and high energy level, playing Rugby, running Half Marathons and practicing Snowboarding and Diving.
Located on the French Riviera, Dmailer is a privately held software company specializing in portable BACKUP & SYNCHRONIZATION solutions for mobile devices (USB Flash Drives, Memory Cards, external Hard Disk Drives, Audio & Video players, TV setup boxes etc.). Serving both consumers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), Dmailer designs, develops, manufactures and markets unique software & service solutions. Dmailer also licenses its patent pending synchronization engine technology to a number of industry-leading companies.
Achievements:
Grew from 5 employees “in a garage” to 30 people - including nine different nationalities - spread over 4 continents (France / USA / Eastern Europe (Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine) / China / Australia).
March 2004: first worldwide OEM deal signed with SanDisk
Dec 2006: BREAK EVEN reached & 1.3M€ (USD$ 1.8M) in revenue
Nov 2007: first round of VESTING = 2.5M€ (USD$3.5M) raised with BNP PE and ALTO Invest
Dec 2010: 3.5M€ in revenue EXIT = company sold to Gemalto S.A., the world leader in digital security gemalto.com
Company's historical product, Dmailer Sync, has been sold in over 130 countries worldwide with more than 70 million copies shipped to date with Western Digital, LaCie and Verbatim. Current flagship product, Dmailer Backup and its Online Storage Service supplied by Gemalto www.yuuwaa.com , is available in 19 languages and currently bundled with SanDisk, Lexar, Kingston and other leading manufacturer’s portable storage products worldwide.
In recognition to its ability to bring to market unique data synchronization and backup software solutions while maintaining a consecutive growth turnover for many years, Dmailer received Deloitte’s Technology Fast50 France and Fast500 EMEA award in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
