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Experienced General Manager and Sales leader in tech scale-ups, passionate about the open web, I led small to large global teams for 20+ years through hyper growth, restructuring, scaling and transformation plans (up to 3000 people and $700M revenue under management). Senior Advisor at McKinsey and Cambon Partners, I act as an Operating Partner to CEOs, entrepreneurs and investors at Sixt5 Partners and various accelerators to help leaders take better decisions on critical strategic and operational business priorities such as: - governance - how to scale - costs cutting and reorg - going global - sales operations efficiency and go to market - financing and fund raising - executing m&a and pmi - board and Exec team management Contact: [email protected] Independant Board Member @Jolimoi (beauty tech social selling), @Fondation Voir et Entendre (leading opthalmology research center) @Glopal (e-commerce solution) and Strategic Advisor @Equativ Former : • COO@Ogury (mobile ad scale-up, IPO preparation) • CRO@Solocal leading a 3000 people team (Yellow Pages, 3rd largest digital player in France with $640M revenue, $210M Ebitda in 2019) • COO@Teads (video ad unicorn, acquired by Altice for 300 M$) • MD & VP EMEA@Yahoo ($700M revenue) • VP South Europe@Overture Search Mkg (inventor of adwords search advertising, acquired by Yahoo) • Co-founder@LibertySurf (European free ISP unicorn IPOed in 2000 for 4 B$) • bus dev & financial/investment roles @Lagardère, @Bertelsmann, @LVMH and Europ@web PE fund Key business achievements : • Solocal turnaround & transformation (stabilized digital sales in 2019 after -13% in 2018 and 10+ year decline, ebitda profitability up 7 pts to 33%, reduced sales force by -30%, sales management renewal by 50% and increased sales productivity by 30%) • structured & scaled Teads internationally from 2014 until its sale to Altice in 2017 • led Yahoo EMEA (2012-14) and its turned around • launched Overture in Southern Europe (2002-05) • co-founded LibertySurf free ISP in 1997 (incl. closing 16 acquisitions) & led its $4B IPO process raising $625M in 2000 Deeply connected to start-up ecosystems in London & Paris. Investor at Equativ (secondary, 2024), Paradigm (BA, 2023), Ogury (secondary, 2021), Teads (secondary, 2015, sold to Altice in 2017), Jolimoi (Seed and Series A, 2017/22) and Cedexis (Seed, 2010, sold to Citrix in 2018 for 100 M$).