John (Jean-Eudes) Queffélec

John Q. Ventures

Seed investment and consulting practice dedicated to AI French American transatlantic opportunities and economic development of local AI ecosystem.
Latest work:
-Seed investments in Artificial Intelligence Startups
-Founding and co-organizing the AI Days, Brittany AI annual biggest conference
-Consulting program to help French VC backed mid sized companies to adopt AI faster

Founder & Managing Partner

Microsoft AI School Brest by Simplon

AI School developed by Microsoft and operated by Simplon in partnership with Brest top employers like Arkea Credit Mutuel, Credit Agricole Finistère, Thales, Alcatel, Eureden, CHU Brest Hospital, Verlingue Insurrance, Brest Metropole aimed to train jobless or handicapped students to become certified data and AI developper. Curriculum based on 8-month intense training followed by 12 months intership at company mixed with one week per month back to class training.

Co-Founder

Bpifrance

Expert Certifié AI Booster

BluePulse

Cofounder & VP Corporate Development

Frenchfounders

Member

big bang factory

US Market Access and Funding

The Refiners

Seed Investor

Nestadio Capital

Inside Nestadio Capital, an independent VC firm based in Brittany, France:

-Founder of Nestadio Techfunds, a seed fund designed in partnership with Microsoft to fill the financing gap in the early stage space in the French Tech ecosystem.

-Founder of Zgrage/ Nestadio Ventures: an international accelerator program designed in partnership with Microsoft to help French startups with global potential to enter the US Market. Developped a network of US VCs, accelerators, global players, business angels, attorneys and other service providers with a focus on Silicon Valley and Seattle hubs.

-Involvment in a portfolio of 40 early stage startups: sourcing, due diligence, termsheet and shareholder agreement negociation, board membership, series A followup and exit, international development, recruiting, business strategy (including pivoting), inside knowledge of french public aids for innovation (CIR, BPI loans, regional aids,..).

-Portfolio includes Akeneo, Willo/Prodontis, eOdyn, Antvoice, IT Trust, InWebo, Dynamixyz, Lalilo, Oath.io, Coding Game, Rozofs, Blacknut, Activeon, Targetfirst

-Development of a network of co-investors with business angels (Private angels from the net economy, Health angels, Finistere angels, Seed4Soft) early stage funds (Kima Venture, iSource), VC funds (Alven, Isai, Partech, Xange), private and public accelerators (Numa, The Family, Unitec).

Investment Director, Nestadio Capital

Microsoft Corp Redmond USA

Drove the development of  MS CRM business in 17 markets outside the US, development of local infrastructure, initial channel and of local team recruiting and training to support this new business. Part of  the global launch team of CRM 1.5  in 17 countries with a focus on partner and field readiness. After the initial 18 months of sales, the business grew to 2 500 customers in 52 countries supported by 1700 CRM certified partners and 500 ISVs.

CRM International Business Development Manager

Part of the initial incubation team of Microsoft CRM. Drive strategic planning , develop buy/partner/ build analysis; orchestrate customer quantitative and qualitative research, usability testing; work on product  vision and business planning review; support program management, development and testing through shipping  the initial 1.0 MSCRM Release; work on acquisition of start-ups  and its integration to Microsoft.

Microsot CRM Product Planner

Drove the first Microsoft companywide Localization planning process working for the Localization Leadership Team made of the heads of all Microsoft international products groups. 
Coordinate with all business groups, planning, communication and business case process with subsidiary for localization planning for deciding which products should be localized in which language.

Corporate Localization Planning Chief of Staff

-Manage a team of 13 Subsidiary Program Managers and 3 Business Planners for Office 2000. Restructure the team with new leads and set more focus on product planning activities and set stronger ties to Redmond Program Managers and planning teams. 
-Drive Business Planning activities for France, Southern Europe and Latam for Office 97 and Office 2000. Set Business Partnership with 17 key ERP vendors to develop filters for Office 97 Small Business Edition. Acquire content for vertical dictionaries; Excel add-on

Office International Business Planner and Lead Program Manager

MSN Marketing Manager
Responsible for the launch of MSN in France ; Analyst/Press Relationship ; consumer marketing ; recruitment and advertising campaigns ;participation in the editorial and publishing committee; building OEM channels and  drive business development and partnership with publishing houses for a local web city guide in Paris.

Microsoft MSN Marketing Manager

101 Online- San Francisco

Co-founder of the first French VC backed ventures for the US Market: 101 Online: a local online service based on the French "Minitel" system developed by France Telecom/Orange. 
Responsible for the business development and strategic alliance with information providers (Local newspapers, banks, shopping services, schools,..) and telcos operators (Pacific Bell-US West).
Head of marketing in charge of product launch, product management,..).

VP Sales and Marketing

25 years experience in tech within management positions in global companies, startups and venture
capital firms in France and North America.

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