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During 15+ years career in tech I gained experience across all growth stages of the innovation life cycle: from conception to maturity and exits - spanning corporate, investor and startup sides.

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Introduction

I am a proponent of interpreting the big picture of tech trends and market forces to optimize success factors and timing for individual companies and products.
My experience taught me that alignment between business model and product strategy is foundational for business development as well as VC fundraising.

Below are key interest areas and experiences that shaped my career direction:

Innovation Management

My key motivation changing from corporate to strategic VC to startups was to gain a broader perspective on innovation management across growth stages. I am fascinated by product and business model innovation, and opportunities this intersection presents for growth and scalability.

M&A Strategy | non-organic growth |

HEC M&A certificate: finance, strategy, legal aspects - sell and buy side.
Intel business unit post-merger integration.
VC: project managing an exit | modeling exit scenarios on investment targets.
Startups: growth strategies and exit scenarios.

Product Strategy | organic growth |

Classic PM training: requirements engineering, design thinking, agile, waterfall.
Product Management methodologies: product led growth, continuous discovery. Product vision, strategy and roadmap alignment with the business model, OKRs.
Challenges and success factors underlying diversification strategy.

Technologies & Sectors

Computer vision and adjacent technologies.
Big Data, AI, data privacy, deep tech.
System simulation technologies, middleware, managed runtimes.
SaaS, B2B, enterprise AI | industry digital transformation, health tech | impact.

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Corporate Development

Oct 2023 - Present

Dassault Systèmes, GEOVIA
Strategy Planning Director

Short, mid, long term strategy
Brand transition, value creation opportunities
Organic growth, partnerships, M&A

Mission: as the GEOVIA brand is in transition, work closely with the CEO and the GEOVIA management team to define opportunities for expansion in the markets served and in new markets.
* Promote an environment of innovation and expansion through organic and inorganic growth opportunities.
* Work with other Brand, Industry, Sales and R&D teams to maximize value creation opportunities.
* Lead GEOVIA strategy team, organizing and supporting team members on:
- market analyses, strategic investigations in new fields
- evaluations of technological partnerships
- evaluations of targets of mergers and acquisitions
- creation of profitability analyses

Jul 2018 - Feb 2020

Intel Capital EMEA
Investment Professional

Sourcing deals | Evaluating investment targets: investment thesis fit, technological innovation, path to growth, exit scenarios.
Transactions: three VC deals | M&A exit.
Ecosystem: NOAH 2019 | investor events Paris - Berlin.

Intel Capital is one of the most active and oldest strategic corporate VC funds, uniquely positioned for building great companies. The investment thesis is centered around disruptive innovation, data technologies across verticals. There are over 300 companies in the portfolio, some of the investments are: Broadcom (AVGO), VMware (VMW), Citrix Systems (CTXS), Cloudera (CLDR), DocuSign (DOCU), Marvell Technology (MRVL), MongoDB (MDB), RedHat, Volocopter.

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Startups

Mar 2020 - Jun 2023

After Intel Capital I chose to stay in France to pursue naturalization, a decision which coincided with the onset of covid pandemic and job market uncertainty.

However, that step quickly turned into opportunities: to gain hands-on experience with early stage startups, develop my own entrepreneurial project and focus on technologies and use cases I was passionate about: computer vision applications across verticals.

* Joined Soter Analytics board with the mission to structure series A fundraising: USD 12M transaction closed in Apr'2022.

* Consulted a number of high quality founders: Udini, OMN, Ansur, SKU science and a handful of HEC incubator startups.

Soter Analytics

Preventing muskular-skeleton workplace injuries

help ambitious organizations reduce workplace ergonomic injuries, drive-down claims costs and improve retention using wearable & AI-driven technologies

Non Executive Director

Alteia

(Intel capital portfolio company)

Visual intelligence for industry digital transformation

Lead Product Manager

Raise & Scale
Product Centric Fundraising

Founder / Consultant

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Corporate

2005 - 2018

Intel Software & Solutions R&D
Project/Program Management

M&A post-integration operations.
R&D and Finance alignment.
Cross-border risks and controls.

Software program management.
Industry partnerships.
IP management.

Nov 2004 - Jul 2018

Paul Otellini achieved unprecedented financial growth for Intel during his tenure 2005-2013, increasing annual sales from USD 34B to USD 53B. Revenue generated during Otellini's leadership was higher than in the previous 45 years of Intel history combined. Software acquisitions strategy was one of the key pillars fueling that growth.

I joined Intel for Elbrus/Unipro acquisition and transferred to Intel Paris in 2013, working for a global division comprised of three former European acquisitions: Simics, CoFluent and Docea.