39 Mentors

Paris Spring 2012

Le Founder Institute recrute environ 30 à 40 Mentors par Semestre, qui sont le plus souvent des CEOs ou fondateurs de startups ayant réussi. Les Mentors sont séléctionnés sur leur capacité à transmettre les leçons qu'ils ont tirées de leur expérience sur des sujets précis du curriculum et ils aident les Fondateurs participants en partageant ces expériences. Les Mentors sont à la disposition des Fondateurs durant les sessions ainsi que par email. Le partage des bénéfices à l'interieur de chaque semestre au sein du pool renforce la collaboration avec les Mentors. 

L'Institut recrute certains des Mentors après le début du semestre pour affiner les besoins des Fondateurs avec l'expérience des Mentors.

Adeo Ressi

CEO, TheFunded.com

Adeo Ressi is Founding Member of TheFunded.com, an online community of 17,000 CEOs to research, rate, and review funding sources worldwide. Adeo also runs the Founder Institute, a mentoring program that helps entrepreneurs launch hundreds of world-class companies each year. The Institute is the eighth start-up that Adeo has founded or built, four of which were acquired and three of which are still operating.

Alain Garnier

CEO, Jamespot

Alain Garnier est le co-fondateur et CEO du service Web de réseau social d'entreprise Jamespot. Auparavant il a été successivement co-fondateur d'ARISEM (éditeur de logiciel leader dans le domaine de l'analyse sémantique appliquée au Web) en 1996 revendu en 2003 à Thales et d'Evalimage (outil de monitoring du buzz des marques) revendu à TheCRMCompany en 2006. Par ailleurs, il est l'auteur de "L'information non structurée dans l'entreprise" et "Le réseau social d'entreprise", collection Hermès Lavoisier, et anime de nombreuses conférences sur le thème de l'Entreprise2.0 et des questions autour du numérique.

• Vision and Values on 04/17/2012

Alain Meller

Founder, NovaXone

Alain Meller founded NovaXone in 2009 a Management Consulting firm with a particular focus on Marketing Strategy: his clients are companies of all sizes using technology as a core asset of their offers in various sectors: IT and Internet pure players, B2B providers in Energy, Healthcare, Hospitality and Telecom. In his career, he held several positions in technology: he was part of the initial team of ILOG as member of the management board, led one of the major product then was instrumental in the industrialization of the company. Later, he was Managing Director for E-business at NCR-AT&T. In 2000, he cofounded Convergent Capital a VC fund investing in France and Israel. In 2004, he became CEO of Kalabie, a software vendor selling to the Pharma Industry and was acquired by Agilent Technologies Inc. in 2007. Alain is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, Ph.D. in Computer Science from Paris Orsay University and has obtained degrees in Business Administration from Institut Français de Gestion and Essec Paris.

• Startup Research on 04/24/2012

Alain Baritault

FI Mentor

• Naming and Branding on 05/02/2012
• Mentor Idea Review on 05/09/2012

Audrey Soussan

Analyst, Ventech

Audrey Soussan joined Ventech in 2011 where she is in charge of the deal-flow IT and manages more particularly the cross-section analysis within the framework of due diligences. She benefits from a first experience in venture capital at DN Capital in London. Audrey is also co-director of Girls in Tech Paris, a social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology.. She is graduated of Dauphine & ESSEC.

• Mentor Idea Review on 05/09/2012

Bernard Lorig

CEO

Dr Bernard LORIG is now CEO of Incubeo, a consulting company for coaching and advisoring of technological entrepreneurs. He had adviced the lauching of more than 100 start-up ( 4 and now Public) Gratuated from Telecom Paris, PH.D. in physics, bernard LORIG was the founder of the France telecom group spin off process. He is founder and Vice President of IT angels (business angels association) He is founder and President of CEFT (Cub des Entrepreneurs Français des Telecom)

• Mentor Idea Review on 05/09/2012

Bruno Levy

Partner/Co-founder, Value Logic SAS

Bruno is the partner and co-founder of Value Logic SAS, which helps companies carefully define and select their innovation investments in order to boost their grow and competitiveness in a target market. Bruno's previous positions include co-founder of SmartTrade, president and co-founder of Hypermind, worldwide product manager at ILOG, and CEO at Sobesol. He holds an engineering degree from Ecole Poytechnique, a master's degree in EE and MBA in entrepreneurship from Carnegie Melon University, and is a scholar of robotics from Tokyo University.

• Startup Research on 04/24/2012
• Mentor Idea Review on 05/09/2012

Christophe Cremer

President, MeilleurTaux.com

Christophe Crémer, administrateur de sociétés. Créateur de sybel-informatique, société de logiciel de gestion pour micro-ordinateurs (B to B) revendue en 1995 au groupe anglais Sage. Fondateur et président de meilleurtaux.com de 2000 à 2008. Avec 50 Millions de CA en 2007 48 agences et plus de 500 collaborateurs, meilleurtaux.com est leader en France dans le domaine du courtage en prêts immobiliers. Meilleurtaux.com a été mis en bourse en mai 2005 puis revendu à une holding principalement composée du groupe Caisse d'Epargne en septembre 2007. Christophe Crémer est parrain de l'incubateur HEC qui vise à aider des projets de création d'entreprises à réussir, il investit et s'implique dans des projets principalement sur internet.

Claude De Loupy

CEO, Syllabs

Claude is the founder and CEO of Syllabs and an expert in Semantic Analysis and Information Retrieval. During 5 years, Syllabs, a 12 persons company, has developped cutting edge technologies for text mining, automatic text generation and web crawling with only 30 k€ at the start and without raising money.

Claude Rameau

President , France Angels

Claude is the president of France Angels, which brings together 80 networks of seed capital professionals and business angels to form economic dynamism in facilitating the growth and business development leaders. He holds degrees from Ecole nationale supérieure des Télécommunications and INSEAD.

Cynthia Traeger

CEO, Pacific Siren International

Cynthia Traeger concurrently serves as CEO, Pacific Siren International LLC and President, VSI Pacific. Previously, CEO, Pacific, 2006 - Present; President, VSI Pacific, 2009 - Present; President & CEO, VSI, 1989 - 2009. An active business and community leader, Ms. Traeger donates time in a wide variety of philanthropic, artistic and entrepreneurial organizations including the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) and is a mentor to the George Washington University’s Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership Network. Ms. Traeger serves as an advisor to the board, Faulkner Information, was a participant and author with the American Bar Association's Digital Evidence Work Group, and has been a contributor to the Journal of the ACM Special Interest Group on Graphics. Her contributions to the Telecommunications Development Fund's Corporate Governance Project received the highest regards by the Emerging Business Forum and Washington Post. Ms. Traeger served as a Corporate Ambassador for Vital Voices’ Corporate Ambassadors Program (CAP) launched in cooperation with the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) at the U.S. Department of State.

• Startup Research on 04/24/2012

Eric Moret

Technologist, Palo Alto Networks

Eric is a seasoned manager and technologist in the networking security industry currently working at Palo Alto Networks. Through a series of acquisitions from Infosolv (4 employees), Onesecure Inc. (150 employees) and Netscreen Technologies (900 employees) to Juniper Networks (5800 employees), he spent the past 12 years in Silicon Valley where he lived the ups and downs of the american technology revolution. He is a US patent holder, the co-author of O'Reilly's "Security Power Tools" book and a Master's degree graduate of Epita.

Francois Lavaste

Francois Lavaste - BIO, NETASQ

Francois Lavaste is currently the CEO & President of NETASQ, a pioneer and the largest security software company in France. He began his career in technology in 1992 as a co-founder of Eneide, a CRM software company, publisher of CONSO+ (acquired by COHERIS); in 1996, he moved to Silicon Valley where he lived during 10 years and contributed to the success of several strat-ups, including BRIGHTMAIL the pioneer and leader in anti-spam technologies (acquired by SYMANTEC); CYANEA SYSTEMS specialized in application performance measurement software (acquired by IBM); and TRICIPHER a specialist in strong authentication (acquired by VMWare). François Lavaste graduated from ESCP Europe, a leading European graduate business school, and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

François Deltour

CEO, effiliation

• Mentor Idea Review on 05/09/2012

Guilhem Bertholet

FI Mentor

Jay Jamison

Founder & President, Moonshoot

Jay Jamison is the Co-Founder and President of Moonshoot, an early-stage online gaming company with the mission to spark English language learning in children everywhere. Prior to starting Moonshoot, Jay held leadership roles in product management and marketing for Microsoft in Redmond and Tokyo for over 9 years.

• Naming and Branding on 05/02/2012

Jean Marc Loingtier

Founder, Red Panda

Jean-Marc Loingtier, Founder Red Panda www.rdpnda.com Silicon Valley vétéran : 14 ans Entrepreneur: 3 startups dont l'une vendue pour 100M USD Lauréat 2002 du concours de la Silicon Valley Bank Blogger: Blog sur l'Open Source mené de 0 à 45 000 lectures / mois en seulement 3 mois Scientifique: Parmi les 10 chercheurs français en TIC les plus cités (top 0,03% mondialement) http://linkedin.com/in/jeanmarc

Jean Marie Chauvet

Managing Partner, LC Capital

Jean-Marie is Managing Partner at Paris-based, LC Capital, a VC firm which he cofounded in 2003 after investing with Dassault Développement, the VC arm of the Dassault family group, for six years.
In 1985, with Patrick Perez and Alain Rappaport, Jean-Marie co-founded Neuron Data, Palo Alto, CA, USA, and served as Chief Technology Officer. Mr Chauvet co-designed and co-authored NEXPERT, the leading Macintosh, PC and workstation-based Artificial Intelligence and expert system tool. The company went public in 2000 and was later acquired by FairIsaac (NYSE:FICO).
Mr Chauvet, is a Graduate of Ecole polytechnique, Corps des télécommunications, Paris, France.

• Mentor Idea Review on 05/09/2012

Jean-Michel Planche

President, WITBE

I’m an Internet entrepreneur and CEO of WITBE, a company which offers other service companies the ability to analyze the quality of service delivered by their information systems and IP applications. I’ve spent my life promoting the value model and the technology of the Internet: the user-centric revolution. First, with OLEANE, one of the first PROFESSIONNAL Internet operators in the world (AS2917 - we started operation in UUCP) that we have since sold to France-Télécom in 1998. And now with WITBE, (AS15436) representing a new generation of “end to end” monitoring technologies aimed for today challenges. Also, time permitting, I love to help spawn new businesses. I've created Tancred Venture, a venture capital firm dedicated to exploring new areas of innovation in IP world, from scratch or in partnership.

Jim Franklin

CEO, SendGrid

Jim is the CEO of SendGrid, the leader in email deliverability. Previously, James Franklin was the VP and General Manager of the Crystal Ball Global Business Unit and the VP for Enterprise Performance Management for Oracle Corporation. Previously Jim was the CEO of Decisioneering, Inc., CFO at Vericept Corporation and was a founder of webfamilies.com. Jim has a BBA in accounting and a JD/MBA all from the College of William and Mary. Jim is a past president and current board member of the Rockies Venture Club. Jim has also served as a mentor for Boulder Techstars and has invested in early stage startups.

Jonathan Benassaya

Owner , Milestone Factory

Jonathan is a serial entrepreneur, having founded and run 4 companies since he was 23. He started his first company, VIGAO, back in 2003. VIGAO became a leader in video game market research. Convinced of the massive shift of this industry towards online games, he founded Magicparty in 2005. Magicparty became a leading technology provider for in-game advertising. He moved the company to China in 2006 and eventually sold it to NGI Corporation in Beijing the same year. In 2007, he co-founded Deezer.com the French largest music service. When he left the company in November 2010, Deezer reached 7M monthly visitors and 500,000 subscribers to its paid service. At Deezer, Jonathan learned to manage relationships with the music industry, negotiate licensing deals, monetize the audience and position Deezer as the major music brand in France. In 2010, he founded Plizy, a video discovery Platform and moved to the Bay Area.

Laurent Prigent

CEO, Naomedia

Laurent is CEO at Naomedia Solutions, a smartphone based service which provides a Wifi connected platform for in-stadia services. Previously ha has developed ans led several sales organisation within Telco, Internet and Consumer electronics sectors. He today assists several innovativ start-up within cleantech, consumer electronics and M-commerce.

• Mentor Idea Review on 05/09/2012

Laurent Vieille

CTO, Jade-i

Laurent Vieille is CTO of Jade-i, which enables retailers to drive their business based on customer satisfaction collected at paiement time. In the smart card industry (Schlumberger, Gemalto), Laurent focused on strategic marketing and drove the growth of a Business Unit for network security. Prior to that, he developed an Artificial Intelligence/Database technology and co-founded Next Century Media Inc. Laurent holds a PhD in Computer Science and graduated from Ecole Polytechnique. He is passionate about the adequacy of product to customer needs and about lean management.

• Mentor Idea Review on 05/09/2012

Mark Bivens

Directeur Associé, Truffle Capital

Mark Bivens is passionate about reggae music, triathlons, and sumo wrestling. For his day job, Mark pretends to be a VC, investing in promising digital media, mobile, and software ventures with Truffle Capital based in Paris, France. Mark currently sits on the boards of BoosterMedia, Keyyo, LeadMediaGroup, MoMac, NetMediaEurope, PeopleCube, Scan&Target, Utel, and the AfricaTri Foundation.

Matthew Bromberg

CEO & Founder, ImOK.com

Matt is the former CEO of Major League Gaming and Founder of I'mOK. He spent 5 years at AOL as GM of Moviefone, Consumer Products, and Games. Prior to AOL, he was the GM of Techweb (IPO'd and sold to United News and Media) and Deputy Publisher of American Lawyer Media (Sold to Bruce Wasserstein). He holds a JD from Harvard Law School. Full bio is available here: http://corp.imok.com/about

Nico Perez

Co-Founder, mixcloud.com

Nico is Co-founder and Creative Director of Mixcloud - an Internet radio company based in London, UK. He graduated from Cambridge University with a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering before working as an analyst in the renewable energy sector. Nico used his technical background and visual orientation to design and build websites as a hobby, before founding Mixcloud in late 2008. At Mixcloud Nico is responsible for product development including graphic design, information architecture, branding, identity and HTML/CSS development. Nico has mentored several Founder Institute semesters including Paris, Singapore, Bogota and others. He also regularly speaks at conferences around the world. More info: http://www.nicoperez.com/speaking

• Revenues, Costs and Profits on 05/29/2012

Nicolas Roux

CEO, Aspectize

Nicolas is CEO and Co-Founder of Aspectize, a software Company, which's vision is to change the way web business applications and software are built. Passionate by the processus of creating value, especially in software field, Nicolas has been successively independant developper and consultant, manager of R&D team of former Leonard's Logic, and COO of Winwise, a service company specialized in development with Microsoft Technologies. Today, Aspectize has built a faster, simpler and more sustainable way of translating business changes into software applications, that helps entrepreneurs to implement the LeanStartup.

Olivier Ezratty

Consultant Freelance, Freelance

Olivier Ezratty is a freelance digital medias strategy consultant helping both startups and large organization shape their value, product and business strategies. He is involved in many startup and innovation communities: teaching, coaching and doing expertises for startups and investors, and also working with corporations in the telecom and industry space. He also shares a lot of in-depth industry analysis and creative common licenced reports on his blog "Opinions Libres" (free opinions, http://www.oezratty.net) including a Startup Guide in France (15th edition).

Patrick Perez

CEO, Neuron Data

Philippe Spruch

PDG, LaCie

Philippe Spruch, actuel PDG de LaCie SA, fonde Electronique d2 en 1989 en s'appuyant à la fois sur des designers de premier plan, tels que Philippe Starck . Son parcours professionnel a commencé en 1983, chez Usinor, où il avait la responsabilité de promouvoir l'acier français en Allemagne. Puis de 1986 à 1989, il était Responsable des Ventes chez Asystel, dans la région de Strasbourg. En 2001, il dope son équipe de R&D et fait appel à de nouveaux talents du design (sa passion): Karim Rashid, Ora-ïto, et Porsche design qui apporteront succès et notoriété à LaCie. Depuis 6ans maintenant, LaCie a repris un rythme de croissance notable, et vient de fêter ses 20ans de succès en sortant une nouvelle gamme de disques durs externes entièrement designée par Philippe Starck.

Philippe Kerignard

FI Mentor

Pierre Beyssac

Co-Founder, GANDI

Pierre Beyssac est un des cofondateurs de Gandi, principal registrar français, avec Valentin Lacambre, Laurent Chemla et David Nahmias. Il a aussi créé eu.org pour protester contre la mise en place au printemps 1995 de noms payants dans le domaine .fr (qui fut d’ailleurs suivie par la fin de la gratuité des .com, .net et .org en octobre de la même année). Pour cela, il a enregistré le domaine eu.org en août 1995 (à l’époque, il fallait plusieurs semaines de délai pour obtenir un nom de domaine) et redistribué depuis gratuitement plusieurs centaines de sous-domaines. Ce service gratuit est toujours en fonctionnement.

• Mentor Idea Review on 05/09/2012

Quentin Jonas

Managing Partner, Cole Street

Robin Chase

CEO, Buzzcar

Robin Chase is founder and CEO of Buzzcar, a peer to peer carsharing company. She is co-founder and former CEO of Zipcar (largest carsharing company in the world) and GoLoco (ridesharing site that combined social networks with nice mapping and search). And currently heads Meadow Networks (a transportation and technology consulting firm). Robin sits on two national advisory committees for the US government (Transportation & Technology; Innovation and Entrepreneurship). She's won many awards for entrepreneurship, design, environmental leadership, and most recently Time magazine 100 most Influential People. Interests: transportation, wireless technology, innovation, climate change, excess capacity, distributed systems.

• Vision and Values on 04/17/2012

Rodrigo Sepúlveda Schulz

Founder & CEO, vpod.tv

Rodrigo is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, and is also a board member at Allmyapps.com and EPITECH. Formerly, he was Founder & CEO vpod.tv, founder and MD RISC Partners, CEO glowria, Principal at Gemini Consulting, and Manager KPMG Consulting. He earned a master's in computer science from EPITA: Ingénierie Informatique, where he was captain of the rowing team, and a MBA from INSEAD in entrepreneurship, strategy, and private equity. More info on http://www.rodrigosepulveda.com.

Samantha Jerusalmy

Associate, Elaia Partners

Samantha Jerusalmy, Associate, ELAIA PARTNERS. She started her carreer at Eurogroup as consultant in organization and strategy for the Bank and Finance Department, then joined Clipperton Finance (Corporate Finance firm providing high level financial and strategy advisory services to growth companies in the Technology and Media sectors) as financial analyst. She has a Master’s degree from EDHEC business school (Lille) and accomplished two exchange programs: Schulich Business School, Toronto (Bachelor Program) and Loyola University of Chicago (MBA Program). She is co-director @GITParis, love tech, comics, puzzles and food.

Simone Brummelhuis

CEO, The Next Women

Stéphane Dieutre

Consultant et coach, stephane dieutre consulting

Consultant et coach, j'accompagne entrepreneurs et équipes dans des temps de création, réinvention ou d'innovation. Ma mission est d'amener les acteurs d'un projet ou d'une entreprise à se positionner et se donner une vision directrice, de libérer les énergies et les idées, d'animer l'intelligence collective dans les processus d'innovation ou de réinvention, et enfin de permettre la formulation d'un discours qui donne sens à l'action, mobilise et associe les parties prenantes. Les interventions portent le plus souvent sur l'identité et le projet d'entreprise, son positionnement, son offre, sa marque et sa communication. Diplômé de l'ESSEC et formé au coaching, j'interviens à la fois pour de grandes entreprises comme Orange ou le Crédit Agricole comme pour des PME ou des start-ups. J'accompagne également les entrepreneurs en coaching individuel. Au Celsa-Sorbonne, je suis en charge des cours d'Innovation et médias numériques. Ma première partie de carrière a été consacrée au marketing, à l'innovation et au management de marque au sein de grandes agences de communication puis comme fondateur de l'Agence Verte (communication et environnement) et du cabinet de conseil et d'études Think-Out

• Naming and Branding on 05/02/2012

Yann Lechelle

Co-founder, APPSFIRE

Yann Lechelle is a Paris-based entrepreneur with deep knowledge in software architecture, development and usage both in highly sophisticated fields (trading software in Wall Street or cartoon animation in Hollywood) or in scalable web platforms. He founded ETHERYL in 2001, a pioneer SaaS provider of networking and collaborative solutions for academic, association and enterprise markets. In 2009, he co-founded KickYourApp, a mobile app agency with a special focus on major consumer brands. In 2010, he co-founded Appsfire, a smartphone app discovery & promotion platform with global reach. Appsfire raised €2.5M from IDInvest Partners in April 2011 to pursue its global development. Yann holds a BS in Computer Science summa cum laude from the American University of Paris and an MBA from INSEAD.

• Vision and Values on 04/17/2012